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A little nap in the afternoon sun ☀️🐈

A lovely little toy. I love the density of the growth. The camera centering on the growth made me dizzy after a while, but I still greatly enjoyed this!

Talking through the door is a cool mechanic. And this game's idea is cruel. Good job!

Congrats! It's so cool to get some response from the void we scream into. Happy to hear you got mostly praise and otherwise constructive criticism!

It has a landshark. I must read this.

Jokes aside, this looks phenomenal and I was taken immediately by the premise of zombies being defined by lack of free will as that always struck me as more important in its roots. The art is amazing, the world is interesting, I love exploration anyway. I will give thema  more thorough look!

Thanks! I watched and re-watched this series so often it's ridiculous. And I can hoesntly spend almost a day speaking only in quotes of it to people around me. The cover penguins are pen and marker drawings on white papers I pasted on - so, I guess, non-self-adhesive stickers? I was delighted that I could match their shapes well enough :)

Got it , thanks!

I was wondering how the process is going? I haven't been sent any approval links and cannot join the Discord via your profile page.

A little snack in the afternoon. 

A screenshot from the left-hand half of this level. I really want these dungarees!

Thank you for hosting it!

It was my pleasure!

This time we dress up. For what? The afternoon. Why? Because we want to. For whom? For us.

Thanks so much! I am considering to make it a full game. Having a pro composer liek Cormalva definitely has a huge impact, too.

We love that you love this! Yes, more timing events would be cool.

The following level is the absolutely necessary Family Picture. There are more flowers than ever in this one and I had a blast with the hairdos here. I still don't quite get how two-strand braids work but they do so I will defer to physics.

You missed "Sanitize". That could've been the pandemic's RPG. We'll get another chance for sure so I wanted to leave this here. 

I will recommend this to friends, thanks for making it :)

Level 4 is at the farmshop. I dread making shelves full of wares and to date this one took the longest. In the end I am very happy with it, especially the pets came out great (and you have to believe me because I chose a screenshot without them in it :) ) But this time we have bees on screen so you can get a feeling for them.

Level 3 double feature! It's a wide image with a great many hidden objects.

So cool to do this as a poem. Beautifully presented, too.

Made it just before the next draw ;) This week's 9 of spades is the first monster: the nine-headed cat

This is such a cool idea. i was just thinking about paper dolls the other day. And DIY miniatures are the best idea - finding a fitting one for my PC is virtually impossible so this is the obvious and fun solution! Great job!

Fantastic presentation, and the root idea is also so nice.  Feels like a bit of Ghibli, a bit of folklore.  I will try this out!

A Thousand Bees will be released on April 8, 2026, at 18:00 UTC.

Wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4281370/A_Thousand_Bees/

(there will be Steam keys along with purchases on itch.io once released)

You can follow its development more closely on Discord: https://discord.gg/gQgmYMM9A9

I post on Reddit as MiaT_Studio: https://www.reddit.com/user/MiaT_Studio/

And if you're more for very quick updates, you can follow along on Instagram, Bluesky, or Mastodon. 

Supporters on either (doesn't have to be both!) Ko-Fi or Patreon get forever discounts on all Make it a Triple games, as well as merch and stuff. (Itch.io doesn't allow Patreon links here so follow through my https://linktr.ee/ranarh )

Level one! Complete background for your enjoyment.

A Thousand Bees is a hidden objects game leaning heavily into the honeycore aesthetic. A massive amount of to-find objects are strewn over a dozen levels. This thread is for new level art updates.

Third card, ace of diamonds - an equipment card with a  holy handgrenade type of loot. The base book is also (probably) done.

Second card was the king of diamonds. I illustrated the two cards so far and left a lot of blank space in the manual so players can get used to where the cards will be placed during the year. Still only printing the DPF as far as there is content, which right now means that both hearts and spades suits are not even in there. I also want to make diagrams for the dice system, and create a  card back.

I used this for the cover art of a card-based dungeon project that will run for a year following a series of jams. I greatly enjoy this thing even though I normally get fed up with pixel art quickly, just watching it move it so sool.

https://ranarh.itch.io/the-year-long-monday

I will update my single project rather then uploading one thingy to each of the 52 sub-jams. Today I managed to publish the first card, two of clubs!

Haha, thanks, just a quickly scribbled diagram because 48 words are very little to get point across.

Thanks, let me know how it went! I had to eventually shut up about this one at home because the fairytle horror was too horrific... I hope it's okay!

Cool presentation, and so much in just 48 words, amazing!

I love this. Thank you so much. I agree with almost every point of this - what so many people in out moden convince-oriented world (not that it's bad to want things to be easy) neglect is that if the system does not provide, you have to make it up yourself. That means a) stopping the game until this rule is found, or worse b) arbitrary decisions on the fly that cannot possibly hold up later, making everyone unhappy. Whereas a big hefty system likely provides many solutions to many problems. Perhaps there is an issue in some groups believing in a right and wrong in a free-form creative endeavour as well. 

I am a crunch player myself. I love the detailed minutae of there being a rule how I attack this one specific point or how many modifiers to stack to get the most out of this obscure project. I think very cinematically, too - any film I've seen that had this cool move or an epic moment, I want to be able to reproduce. If the system says "well, just do it", it's not quite enough. I want there to be an obstacle of blind fate in form of dice - I also do not believe that rolling less is a solution at all. If people's immersion is immediately destroyed by mention of numbers, maybe the immersion wasn't great to begin with. So I would add that rolling more is better than rolling less. If you roll fifteen times per session instead of three, it doesn't matter that two rolls didn't work out (also, there are ways to ensure this one all-important roll not going awry). Finally - many system already do this - I find we must stop seeing rolls as binary results.

Thanks! I wanted to start this year with making more art again, after spending last year doing a measurable third of my usual illustrations.

I understand :) Solano are awesome. And useful, who can say no to a twofer!

Thanks a lot! I have been working on Genius Loci for ages, and didn't really know what do with it until I picked up game dev. I look very much forward to presenting more of it.

Which character did you choose?

This is fantastic. Honey badgers are so cool! I remember seeing a documentary where young jackals got on a badger's nerve, and the narration was: "The young ones don't know yet that jackals do not hunt badgers." I am lokking forward to being one!

Thank you! They're not all that stringent, but I hope to present the missing links between some points that any good beginner tut will bring up. Kind of like... Snape's alchemy book, you know? A few comments on best practices.