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Michael Frei 🪰

@michaelfrei.io
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Makes games and animated films with his finger michaelfrei.io Made a video game called Time Flies timeflies.buzz

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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 01/04/2026
Introducing 🎨 Time Flies COLOR!
Game screenshot in color. A fly is sitting on someone’s naked foot.Game screenshot in color. A fly is unrolling toilet paper by walking on it.Game screenshot in color. A fly is clearing foliage off a statue‘s crotch.Game screenshot in color. A fly is flying into the open mouth of a crocodile.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 09/12/2025
I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…
I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies. Guess how many! Eleven! 11 different fonts. One for the title (I made this one for a Playdate project originally), also in a bold variant.Then one for normal text (we used this the most) with a fat variant. After that, a font for small text and one for even smaller text. All these also include Кириллица (Cyrillic). So these are, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 type-faces. 7 more to go: Number 7 is a font used for text in a book that the fly could reveal by walking over. Number 8 is the variant before it is revealed: This one you can't really read, dorry. Number 8 is not really readable by design. Font faces nine, ten and eleven we have not used in the final game. I created them for ideas during prototyping that we eventually abandonded. ;-(  Number nine was for small dynamic text in a newspaper lying on the floor. Number ten is called Teacher.It was designed for collectable life-affirming quotes we eventually replaced with puzzle pieces. And number eleven, called Student, is a second version of number ten that looks less neat. That's it! Eleven fucking typefaces made over the course of 5 years.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 27/11/2025
Behind the scenes
Photograph of a contraption made with boxes and a board to film the screen on a Steamdeck with a phone.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 30/09/2025
Many flies died at Tokyo Game Show last week. Thanks for all the help and support. 🖤
A total of 632 flies lived a short life at Tokyo Game Show 2025 over 4 day period. The pile of dead flies grew a little bigger with each day, as more and more people came to play and ultimately die as a fly.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 23/09/2025
You can’t have a physical copy of @timeflies.buzz because there is only one. 🥺
Front of a Time Flies game case depicting the title, a fly, surrounded by some clockwork and an M rating in the lower left corner.Backside of the game case with different screenshots of the game.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 22/09/2025
Exhibiting @timeflies.buzz at Tokyo Game Show this week! Hall 10 2F Booth E-35 Come say hi and I‘ll offer you a business card.
Extremely overloaded and practically unreadable map of the Tokyo Game Show floors with a fly placed where our booth will be located.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 05/09/2025
David‘s junk, pixelated
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 05/08/2025
Just noticed: I have had problems with FLIES 🪰 in my work for the past 12 years. Here is a trailer I made for Lago Film Fest in 2013.
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 02/08/2025
How it started How it's going
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 31/07/2025
Time Flies has landed! Now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Mac/PC. timeflies.buzz 🪰
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 08/07/2025
We'll think about it!
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 08/07/2025
We have a Release Date! 🤍
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 14/06/2025
I have finally updated my website! It's coming in an all-new stunning design! michaelfrei.io
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 07/11/2024
My new animated short “Long Distance” about flying just won its first award called “Hokkaido Airport Terminal Award” at an airport film festival!
Still image of the film “Long Distance” with “Hokkaido Airport Terminal Award” laurel
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