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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 18/09/2026
🦵🙂🦵 experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bounce/
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026
new format: interactive png (IPNG)
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 31/08/2026
physics testing
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 10/09/2026
bird 🦜 play here: experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bird
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 09/09/2026
new apple just dropped experiments.mariov.ch/draw/apple/
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 08/09/2026
Try it here. Can you juggle? experiments.mariov.ch/draw/football/ 🦵⚽️
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 08/09/2026
accidental qwoplike
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 08/09/2026
one button football
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 02/09/2026
Our pointer webtoy from almost 10 years ago is now on the cover of this new book! Critical Web Design by xtine burrough and Owen Mundy, published by MIT press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205316... criticalwebdesign.github.io/wiki/ criticalwebdesign.github.io/index/ Pointer: pointer.playables.net
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 01/09/2026
my new exercise: soft collisions
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 29/08/2026
prototyping a little app for creating interactive drawings. how should i call it?
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 28/08/2026
At Gamescom? Check out the @amazefest.bsky.social Digital Playground. You‘ll find this beautiful Pocket Boss installation (huge thanks to Sebastiaan and team for making it happen!) and many other great games.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 01/07/2026
Pocket Boss installation. Employee of the day @michaelfrei.io is hard at work.
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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 30/06/2026
all classics, all should be in your possession
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George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
peak collection
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Playables @playables.net · 30/06/2026
ENTIRE Playables Collection. $20. Cheap. Buy now! store.steampowered.com/bundle/60739...
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 29/06/2026
Buy game. Is cheap now. Good value. Worth. Time. store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...
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Save 50% on Time Flies on Steam
Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.
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Panic @panic.com · 25/06/2026
⛱️ The Steam Summer Sale is ON! ☀️ Grab a game or ten—ours are discounted up to 80% through July 9th! 🔥🦆🍩🌼🌵⚽🪰🏔️📺👾 🛒 store.steampowered.com/franchise/p...
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Steam Franchise: Panic
Panic publishes amazing video games.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 26/06/2026
Want to play with 50 friends? Now you can! The new Rakete local co-op mode supports unlimited* players. Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3814090/... *The number of players is limited by the number of buttons you have available.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 24/06/2026
Rakete is out now on Steam! Every button is a thruster, the rest is physics. The 2012 game remastered, now with 60 levels plus local co-op where any* number of friends share one rocket. 🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/3814090/... *as many as you have buttons
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 22/06/2026
"Pocket Boss is cleverly paired with a real treadmill. It immediately captivated the majority of the children’s jury members and continued to occupy their minds long after the decision-making process had ended.
 An arrangement that works so well that it becomes addictive [...]"
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 22/06/2026
Pocket Boss also received the Kids award at last week's Swiss Design Awards Exhibition! The best of all awards, thank you so much! 🫶
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Playables @playables.net · 18/06/2026
New interview (in Chinese): Playables co-founder Michael Frei on developing Time Flies, pixel art, short games and publishing. indienova.com/indie-game-n...
Screenshot of the article.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 16/06/2026
I'm very grateful to have received a Swiss Design Award for Pocket Boss yesterday! It's really nice to see a game recognized in this environment. www.schweizerkulturpreise.ch/en/schweizer...
banner of "Swiss Art+Design Awards" outside a buildingPhoto of a book with a page of screenshots of Pocket Boss, a game showing data visualizations
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 16/06/2026
The Swiss Design Awards exhibition is running until the end of this week in Basel. Play Pocket Boss in a brand new setup resembling a very productive home office environment. More info: swissdesignawards.ch/en/about Thanks everyone who did some real work there yesterday at the opening! 📈
exhibition setup with a treadmill, a table with phone, and a screen
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GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · 20/04/2026
Games have to be playable, but do @playables.net have to be games? With Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei, creativity is everything. We talked to the makers of KIDS, Time Flies and Pocket Boss about Switzerland, game feel and working with Panic. www.gamesmarket.global/playables-ga...
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Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · 04/04/2026
Best Nintendo Switch Short Games.
nintendolife.com
Best Nintendo Switch Short Games
Blast through these games in a single sitting
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Playables @playables.net · 01/04/2026
🚨SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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BrainBlockGamer @brainblockgamer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🪰 Time Flies 🪰 by @playables.net is a beautiful, funny, short game about life and death. @panic.com #timefliesgame #Timeflies #indiegames #steamgames #steamgame
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 15/01/2026
playables.itch.io/time-flies-f...
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Time Flies Fonts by Playables
A collection of hand-drawn pixel fonts.
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Christophe De bont 🔜 UNWRAP / AdventureX @cdebont.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Time Flies Simple in concept, flawless in execution. The amount of interactions @playables.net squeeze out of one (1) mechanic game design genius. That it’s also a meditation on the fleetingness of life, featuring comedy as well as social critique is just enough to make your jaw drop.
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 26/12/2025
I waited for some downtime to play Time Flies (timeflies.buzz) and I'm glad I did. It's a quietly amazing thing—charming, clever, tender, and funny, and that's all before the final act hits you unexpectedly in the gut. A game that makes me want to make games, and my favorite in a long time.
timeflies.buzz
Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
Available now for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Mac App Store. A game by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, produced by Playables.
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Time Flies ⏳🪰🎮 @timeflies.buzz · 19/12/2025
We won an award! 🤍🏆🤍
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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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Playables @playables.net · 27/11/2025
BUY. FLY. DIE.
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Time Flies ⏳🪰🎮 @timeflies.buzz · 14/11/2025
Time Flies is joining Out of Index — an international festival for bold, experimental games, Dec 5–7 at DDP Seoul! #OutOfIndex #indiegames
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Panic @panic.com · 13/11/2025
Time Flies has been nominated at the Indie Game Awards for the Best Bite-Sized Game… which is appropriate, as the game teaches us that our lives are bite-sized. 🪰 Be the fly at timeflies.buzz 🏆 See all the nominees at indiegameawards.gg 🍿 Tune in for the ceremony stream on December 18th!
black and white pixel art showing a dark underground space with brick walls, a lamp illuminating a spot on the floor where a skull and a pair of glasses rest. A fly hovers above.
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Playables @playables.net · 11/11/2025
Get fit for cheap! My Exercise is now on sale in the Steam Animal Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/1004330/...
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 11/11/2025
6-year-old: I want to play that kids game with the people again. Me: ...with people? What were they doing? 6-year-old: You... click the little white people to complete things! Me: ...complete things? That's lots of games... 6-year-old: NO!! THEY JUMP IN HOLES! Me: Ohhhh, you want the game KIDS!
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Playables @playables.net · 11/11/2025
Get fit for cheap! My Exercise is now on sale in the Steam Animal Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/1004330/...
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Museum of Digital Art @handle.invalid · 04/11/2025
Time flies! Our incredible @dirkkoy.bsky.social exhibition in Bellinzona comes already to an end this weekend! 😢 But we're lot leaving without a bang. On Saturday we'll celebrate with a presentation of @timeflies.buzz maker @michaelfrei.io (amongst other crazy things). Check muda.co/events
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Museum of Digital Art @handle.invalid · 06/11/2025
Also this Saturday at the @dirkkoy.bsky.social finissage: the wonderful @mariov.ch will give a keynote about the development of his newly released game #PocketBoss! Expect nerdy takes in how to manipulate your bosses digits. More at muda.co/events
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 31/10/2025
New from the makers of KIDS & CARS: EGGS
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Rainer Sigl @rainersigl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Schrieb dies fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
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Chefsachen - fm4.ORF.at
Mario von Rickenbachs „Pocket Boss“ ist eine Business-Satire für die Hosentasche.
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George Batchelor @georgebatch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
this is the best thing you could be doing right now with your phone
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Gianni Mancini @vitagiocata.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I never 100% games but Time Flies deserved it. You can decide how you want to spend your time in your life, but dedicate 2-3 hours to it and you will not regret. @playables.net @panic.com
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 20/10/2025
what the slop
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 20/10/2025
They're still doing SEO nowadays!
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 20/10/2025
finally somebody made a sequel! For Windows 10 AND Windows 11!
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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
what a delightful little nightmare, 10/10 was absolutely dataviz triggered
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