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For the first time, the Zürcher Filmpreis will honour #games and #XR experiences. An interview with Oliver Miescher of the Zürcher Filmstiftung, plus an overview of the nominees. www.games.ch/features/art... #gamedev #VR @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social @playables.net @lululu.games @swissgamehub.com

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

new format: interactive png (IPNG)

physics testing

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

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

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.

all classics, all should be in your possession

peak collection

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

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

⛱️ 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...

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

"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 [...]"

Pocket Boss also received the Kids award at last week's Swiss Design Awards Exhibition! The best of all awards, thank you so much! 🫶

New interview (in Chinese): Playables co-founder Michael Frei on developing Time Flies, pixel art, short games and publishing. indienova.com/indie-game-n...

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...

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! 📈

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...

Best Nintendo Switch Short Games.

🚨SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

🪰 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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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.

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.

We won an award! 🤍🏆🤍

I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…

BUY. FLY. DIE.

Time Flies is joining Out of Index — an international festival for bold, experimental games, Dec 5–7 at DDP Seoul! #OutOfIndex #indiegames

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!

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

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/...

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

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

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

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

what the slop

They're still doing SEO nowadays!

finally somebody made a sequel! For Windows 10 AND Windows 11!