Michael Frei 🪰

@michaelfrei.io

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Makes games and animated films with his finger https://michaelfrei.io Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz

Game screenshot in color. A fly is sitting on someone’s naked foot.
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.
Photograph of a contraption made with boxes and a board to film the screen on a Steamdeck with a phone.
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.
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.
Extremely overloaded and practically unreadable map of the Tokyo Game Show floors with a fly placed where our booth will be located.
Video of a frog with a finger growing out of it's mouth, pushing a button a fly landed on.
“You’ve come a long way, baby”
Still image of the film “Long Distance” with “Hokkaido Airport Terminal Award” laurel