Mario von Rickenbach

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW! pocketboss.ch 📊 💬 A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.​io.

what have i done

🦵🙂🦵 experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bounce/

bird 🦜 play here: experiments.mariov.ch/draw/bird

new apple just dropped experiments.mariov.ch/draw/apple/

Try it here. Can you juggle? experiments.mariov.ch/draw/football/ 🦵⚽️

accidental qwoplike

one button football

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

new format: interactive png (IPNG)

I'm at the point where I'm embedding a full interactive scene including some scene specific js code in a png, so i can drop a png in the browser and it runs my scene.. what could go wrong

design by Y.

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

my new exercise: soft collisions

physics testing

prototyping a little app for creating interactive drawings. how should i call it?

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.

Pocket Boss installation. Employee of the day @michaelfrei.io is hard at work.

peak collection

all classics, all should be in your possession

Buy game. Is cheap now. Good value. Worth. Time. store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...

ENTIRE Playables Collection. $20. Cheap. Buy now! store.steampowered.com/bundle/60739...

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.

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

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! 📈

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...

All ready for campsite holiday next week, with my lovely little Thinkpad which runs linux and doesn't have a gpu:

SURVIVAL HORROR IN THE ALPS FFS! No AI slop in my game... For your consideration: Mundaun - a lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale. It's at 93% positive on Steam. It's on a steep sale right now. All human made. Sound. Voice acting in a language I don't even speak! BUY IT -> SUPPORT HUMAN (me)

playables.itch.io/time-flies-f...

Made a little (de-)glitch toy with quadtrees: Quadraw: experiments.mariov.ch/quadraw/

And I am awed & delighted by Pocket Boss (pocketboss.ch), also from Playables. So much wit and care packed into this. Every "puzzle" is a finely-crafted joke, and one in particular made me blush when I realized what was I doing.

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

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!

Get fit for cheap! My Exercise is now on sale in the Steam Animal Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/1004330/...

What a wonderful night we had last night! Thanks @futureofmaterials.bsky.social @mariov.ch @michaelfrei.io and #OscilloscopeMusic for this wonderful send off for our @dirkkoy.bsky.social exhibition in #Bellinzona <3

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

New from the makers of KIDS & CARS: EGGS

still my favorite egg!

haha, i found a video of plug & play with 100M views. how is that even possible. no idea what he's doing there... just plugging in and out?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Dt...

We regularly get support requests that the sound of the game doesn't work on iOS without headphones. Turns out everyone who has this problem has the physical side switch set to "slient mode" and isn't aware of that, since many apps just ignore it. Are we supposed to *also* ignore it?

this is the best thing you could be doing right now with your phone