Michael Frei 🪰

🪰 Time Flies 🪰 by @playables.net is a beautiful, funny, short game about life and death.

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Egg (2005) by Vectorpark All is change

Seemed like a good day to finally port this to desktop: vectorpark.itch.io/egg

Apple really should sharpen their carrots.

Time Flies Fonts by Playables A collection of hand-drawn pixel fonts.

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Made a little (de-)glitch toy with quadtrees:

Quadraw:
experiments.mariov.ch/quadraw/

Happy new year.

I think we released a cheeky game in 2025.

9️⃣Time Flies
Such a simple game, but brilliant in its presentation and execution. As a mayfly you have seconds to live before you die and try to complete a bucket list. Great to play alongside a partner especially to see how much mayhem you can cause. The Untitled Goose Game of 2025! @timeflies.buzz

Patrick's games were the most magical things on the internet I had ever seen back in the day – and they still are. They inspired me to make interactive things on the internet – and they still do. Reading these words from him really means a lot to me!

The video games you may have missed in 2025 Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year

"Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year…" 🥲
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We won an award! 🤍🏆🤍

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.

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

Great trailer. Great game.

I don’t wanna know!

Photograph of a contraption made with boxes and a board to film the screen on a Steamdeck with a phone.

Behind the scenes

Kinda enjoy filming pixels on screens with my phone.

Time Flies has been nominated for Best Bite-Sized Game @indiegameawards.gg! 🖤

Needs balls and hurts.

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!

Beat the New Year’s resolution rush and start NOW!

Really excited to take part in this legendary exhibition next Saturday!

This can’t be real. Or is it?!

NEW @playables.net GAME ALERT! 🚨 Play with data! It’s unexpectedly sexy.

Uh oh. Pocket Boss will be out THIS WEDNESDAY (October 8)!
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Really looking forward to share this with the world. Finally I've done something to please the shareholders.

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Save 20% on Time Flies on Steam Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

Our Life Sim "Time Flies" is now 20% cheaper. Buy it and experience the autumn of your life!
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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.

Many flies died at Tokyo Game Show last week.

Thanks for all the help and support. 🖤

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.

You can’t have a physical copy of @timeflies.buzz because there is only one. 🥺

Extremely overloaded and practically unreadable map of the Tokyo Game Show floors with a fly placed where our booth will be located.

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.

Oh nice! Hope to see you there!