Release countdown for A Thousand Bees, my first game! This little poster marks day 6 today! We see Sibylle relaxing in the hammock with a book at late afternoon

#Countdown for my #wholesome #puzzle game #AThousandBees!

The entire palette is yellows.
Okay, except for lavender.
And wisteria.
And borage.
...
You get the idea.

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#miat #cozygames #hammock #aprilrelease #indiegames #indiedev #art #illustration

Release countdown for A Thousand Bees, my first game! This little poster marks day 6 today! We see golden retriever Anush, tortie cat Katya, and shiba dog Yasmine sitting for the family picture

Yesterday was April Fools. Sorry, guys, no spaceships in this one...

But #AThousandBees offers a perfect #summer day on beautiful Earth!
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#miat #cozygames #wholesomegames #dogs #cats #garden #happiness #indiegames #indiedev

Release countdown for A Thousand Bees, my first game! This little poster marks day 7 today! This ad is a totally serious promise that ALIENS are part of the game!

Did you know my upcoming game #AThousandBees is set on an #alien planet? Prepare for epic battles with bee-shaped #spaceships and a crunchy grand #strategy core loop for your beestar #empire!

Wishlist on #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#miat #games #aprilfools #indiegames #indiedev

Release countdown for A Thousand Bees, my first game! This little poster counts marks day 8 today! A screenshot of the game characters shows shoba dog Yasmine flying after her favourite frisbee

YOU CAN FLY??!
🐕 🪽

The #dogs I chose for my #wholesome game #AThousandBees are a #Shiba and a #GoldenRetriever. having the time of their lives in the garden!
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#miat #cozygames #yellow #summer #playtime #illustration #petportrait #frisbee

Release countdown for A Thousand Bees, my first game! This little poster counts marks day 9 today! A screenshot of the game characters shows Aria prepping the farm shop sign

Countdown for #AThousandBees' release!

👩‍💻 Programmed in #Defold.
I've only been coding for 2 years(ish). Luckily, it turned out to be fun! But those problems can keep one up...

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#miat #gamerelease #steamgame #coding #learning #education #lua

When is the idael time to start the next #game? Ten days prior to release of the previous game! Slowly daring to look at the tasks left for #TMMD. #Rigging PNGs in #Blender.

#solodev #indiedev #animation #miat #fantasycreature #development #indiegames

Wat'cha looking at?
Watching the #pets cuddle up in any way they can in my #cozygame #AThousandBees.
🐈 🐕 🐈 🐕
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#cottagecore #indiegames #cats #tortie #illustration #miat #hiddenobjects #steamgames

📖 🎨 The #artbook for my first #game #AThousandBees comes as a small DLC together with the game. I always loved HAVING game artbook, and now I can MAKE them! 🎉

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#miat #indiegames #indiedev #releaseannouncement #steamgames #pdf #selfpublishing

#AThousandBees is now on the #Defold website, defold.com/showcase/ which feels supercool!

#miat #madewithdefold #showcase #hiddenobjects #indiegames #indiedev #cozygames #wholesomegames

itch.io/s/160500/mia...
⬆️ go there for all my tiny RPGs of postcard or smaller size on sale!

#miat #rpgs #indiettrpg #bookmark #closedmondays #solorpg #solojournaling #roleplaying #itchio

It's official: #AThousandBees will release with an #artbook #DLC! Sketches, easter-eggs, and processes explained.
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#miat #indiegames #indiedev #cozygames #hiddenobjects #illustration

#ArtDump for #ScreenshotSaturday! The last #levels of #AThousandBees are done and final adjustments are being made.

If you are interested in #playtesting, message me!

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#miat #hiddenobjects #indiedev #indiegames #blueskydevs

The cover of the mini fanzine Penguins Of Madagascar. It's an orange paper college with a handdrawn title resembling that of the tv show, with tiny stylised penguin stickers. The subtitle reads "just a bunch of my favourite quotes"

New #zine:

"Skipper, you don't think...?"
"I don't think - I ACT!"

ranarh.itch.io/penguin-quotes

#penguinsofmadagascar #skipper #kowalski #quote #fanzine #zinester #minizine #miat #tv #animation

My upcoming #cozy #hiddenobjects #game #AThousandBees has 6 characters. Your vote can decide their names! Join the Make it a Triple #Discord server to join the polls: discord.gg/gQgmYMM9A9
#Wishlist on #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#miat #indiedev #solodev #announcement

To keep things orderly, I made a new studio account on itch.io. It will hold all full releases:
make-it-a-triple.itch.io

My personal works, jam games, zines, trinkets, remain on ranarh.itch.io

#makeitatriple #miat #gamestudio #solodev #itchio #indiedev #textadventure #gamerelease

I made a new pro account! After some debate and advice, the sane path seems to be that I make a professional account, like a store page, and a personal account I can clutter with all the experiments I conduct, jam games, micro...

I made a new pro account on #itch.io! itch.io/blog/1449583...

To keep my experiments and "serious" work apart. You don't need to see all my... eh... effort? into #gamejams and #zines and #TTRPG tools and #bookmarks if you jsut wanted to get a cool game.

#miat #indiedev #indiegames #storepage

A cutout of a video game character who kneels in gardening clothes, and shows grass to a cat sitting on an upturned bucket besides her. From A Thousand Bees

Is it really work if you love what you do? We need fewer jobs that people only do because they have to. Like the folks in my #upcoming #cozy #game #AThousandBees!
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#miat #nextfest #snf #demo #wholesome #cottagecore #cat #gardening #summer

An ingame menu for A Thousand Bees, showing the difficulty levels and cursor modes

I thought I could leave the #hiddenobjects in, but so many comments wanted them gone, that there is at least the option for that now. And use the system cursor.

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#difficultymode #nextfest #snf #accessibilityingames #hardmode #indiedev #miat #menu

An ingame image of a picknick scene from A Thousand Bees showing two people eating and laughing while a cat sits in the sun near them.

#AThousandBees: The total game has thirteen #levels, but if you look closely you may find some #secrets, too!
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#wholesomegames #miat #nextfest #snf #demo #picknick #summer #cozy cat

A Steam Next Fest image for Feb '26, showing a topdown view of a golden retriever and tortie cat on a picknick blanket

It's high time I give a shoutout to my fantastic #composer #CormalvaMusic for the excellent #music work on #AThousandBees (and all #SFX).

His work: soundcloud.com/cormalvamusic
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#miat #demo #nextfest #snf #relaxing #wholesome #cozy #audio

A cutout of a smiling black woman with dreadlocks feeding a cat milk on a saucer. She wears loose honeycore clothes and sits on an ornate chair. Cats are lactose intolerant. Only feed them the tiniest amounts of milk!

You want #cozy #wholesome games, why not try #AThousandBees? It will release on April 8th. Play the #demo now on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#miat #nextfest #snf #indiedev #solodev #spiele #zocken #gemütlich #hygge #freedemo #womeningames

A relaxed and happy blonde woman wearing a loose dress and wide cardigan sitting in a comfy rattan chair. She is dripping honey into her teacup.

Ready, set, go, #NextFest!
My first #gamedemo in my first #SNF. Honk if you love #bees!🐝 🐝 🐝

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#steam #hiddenobjects #findall #wimmelbild #whereswaldo #miat #cozy #wholesome #cute #summer #relaxing #cottagecore #indiegames #indiedev
🍯 🍯

Added a smidgeon of #accessibility to #AThousandBees 🐝 custom cursor is now a player's choice.
It's going well! Levels are get finished and music added left and right.
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#indiegames #miat #hiddenobjects #findall #optionsmenu #gamedev #indiedev

New level art for A Thousand Bees 🐝 🐝 🐝
This time we dress up. For what? The afternoon. Why? Because we want to. For whom? For us.

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Demo out now!

#miat #cozy #hiddenobjects #cute #fashion #games #indiegames #yellow #summer

Play the #demo for my upcoming #cozy #hiddenobjects #game #AThousandBees 🐝 on #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#indiedev #indiegames #cosy #summer #findall #freegame #itchio #wishlist #screenshot #miat

Too many hashtags?

#Gameplay #trailer for #AThousandBees. Relaxed #soundtrack, beautiful backgrounds, it's like a summer afternoon. Even relaxes me to do the dev work 😊

#Wishlist on #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#indiegame #indiedev #hiddenobjects #miat #solostudio #womeningaming #screenshotsaturday

An in-game screenshot of A Thousand Bees, showing two women in a farm shop. One is on a ladder and arranging the shop sign, the other stocking shelves.

I promised more level art for #AThousandBees and here we are, stocking the #farmshop. You can see how many #bees there are per screen, too!

#indiegames #indiedev #miat #gameart #illustration #screenshotsaturday #hiddenobjects

Title card for the game A Thousand Bees witha call to action for wishlisting it on steam. The image is a rich yellow background with irregular hexagonal shapes. At teh bottom is a dish painted with flowers on which sit two pieces of honeycomb. On them, a large stylised bee looks at the viewer.

#demo for #AThousandBees was approved by #Steam! Now just the demo *page* and we're good to go. Play the demo now on @itch.io:
ranarh.itch.io/a-thousand-b...
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#indiegames #indiedev #miat #hiddenobjects #cozy #snf #puzzle #solodev #madewithdefold

A cozy summery illustration of black woman holding a waterhose so that a golden retriever can play in the spray, while her tortie cat rubs along her leg. The backdrop is a garden wiht high grass full of pinwheel. From the upcoming game A Thousand Bees by Make it a Triple

A cozy summer yillustration of a woman gardening, holding grasses to a cat beside her that it chews it. On ther other side a shiba dog carries a stick to her. The backdrop is a garden wiht high grass full of pinwheel. From the upcoming game A Thousand Bees by Make it a Triple

New level art from my #cozy #hiddenobjectsgame - a #screenshot double feature! My favourite in this one is the #dog playing with the #waterhose - adorable 🐕
Wishlist A Thousand Bees: store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/...

#miat #athousandbees #levelart #gameart #summer #cat #gardening #waterhose

Game cover for the True Treasure micro RPG. A big, decoratviely blocky title in gold sits on a black and white background of hands running a golden necklace between them.

True Treasure: A #bookmark RPG for #48WordRPGJam
My final, 5th entry has a table for the finest treasure in the hoard. Might not be what you thought.
ranarh.itch.io/true-treasure

#indiegames #itchio #ttrpg #indierpg #microRPG #miat