#timefcuk

[imkooz]

"The Box"

[yearningwitherrors]

This globally-knownness might be the case, but there was the youthful feeling that you somehow discovered this game through esoteric means unknown to the hoi polloi. I remember that how I got into that type of indie game was through an alternative group blog that had posts like "Love. God. Communism. Part 2" and linocut art and short stories about a youth counterculture that hated beauty, and in that blog there was a column called "Obscuria of the Video Game" and there one of the bloggers talked about some of his favourite indie games and there I found out about Small Worlds and Braid and timefcuk. I do not remember whether the blog itself told me about Loved or whether Kongregate had it related to games I had played before (I think e.g Redder I found out myself through the you-might-like-process). But sort of stumbling upon these games certainly made me feel very special, very in-the-know, although, in hindsight, they were probably not that obscure. Braid is like awarded and famous and everything. I am still not sure how famous each of those games was. Maybe some of them was indeed a rare secret indie gem but another was practically known to everyone, kind of difficult to tell in hindsight.

(Oh, btw, the alternative blog was named ZA/UM and apparently they got internationally famous a bit later, with the whole Disco Elysium thing and all)

It's a rough world out there for people who were teenagers during the exact slice of gaming history where indie video games had become feasible to develop and distribute globally, but the definition of "indie" didn't yet encompass corporate studios and million-dollar budgets. They'll tell you their favourite game when they were a kid was, like, a point-and-click visual novel whose protagonist dreams they're a vast formless sea monster that learns about the concept of colours after finding a discarded helium balloon, or a hypertext fiction/precision platformer hybrid exploring gender as a mechanism of social control, and you think they're either being pretentious or deliberately fucking with you, but no, that's just what the indie gaming scene was like for a couple of years there. The sea monster thing got a front-page feature on the same site that made Bloons Tower Defense a household name – it was literally played by millions of people.

[prrobo]

F c u k T h e T i m e !

[nurse-log]

KSNFOANGOWNTJKAMR TIMEFCUK AND ISOLATEDSHOWERS ARE HOARDED I HATE EVERYTHING

[zeltricstudio]

DAY 23 - Steven TIME FCUK "I'm you.. from the future" Time travel, paradoxes, dimensional shifting and some of the most synthwavey music to grace a static filled haze. Steven is about to learn just how much he hates his future self

[cantsleepcrew]

A short scribble for #timefuck #timefcuk #doodle #scribble #drawing #biro #indie

[danielleorama]

An Isaac and Lil Stevey ready to be shipped ^__^ edplusdanielle.bigcartel.com #bindingofisaac #timefuck #timefcuk

[mira-nora]

Listening to the best soundtrack while falling asleep. <3 #basementcollection #timefcuk #music

[imkooz]

The Box, Concealed

A continuation of The Box! I think I'm going to turn it into a 3+ fanart project!