Pocket Boss installation. Employee of the day @michaelfrei.io is hard at work.
Mario von Rickenbach
@mariov.ch
Designer making games and other playable things at @playables.net. Pocket Boss (out now! pocketboss.ch), KIDS, Plug & Play, Rakete, Drei and more: mariov.ch
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 also received the Kids award at last week's Swiss Design Awards Exhibition! The best of all awards, thank you so much! 🫶
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)
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.
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Who says that work and play don’t mix? Not us! Play Pocket Boss, the game where you handle lots of fun data and one not-so-fun boss.
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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
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...
KISAH PERSELINGKUHAN ANTARA COLOKAN ( Plug and Play ) #bokuregi #shorts
YouTube video by BokuRegi
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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?
🚨 🚧 Maintenance alert! Finally got around to fixing our trusted Review Reader. 👍 iOS reviews should now work again 👍 Icons now appear when searching 👍 Links show previews when sharing reviewreader.playables.net ★★★★★
Review Reader
Listen and enjoy.
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this is the best thing you could be doing right now with your phone
Mario von Rickenbach@mariov.ch · 10mo agoNeed 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.
finally somebody made a sequel! For Windows 10 AND Windows 11!
📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
It's refreshing to know that this is the icon of an officially distributed Apple application in 2025. I really hope it will outlive the Liquid Glass era without any changes.
