Bee 🐝 | Lunchroom Lies 🕵🏻‍♀️

Huge special thanks to Mathew Mozzoni for doing the music for the game, and @flyinghawkbutt.bsky.social for voicing the main character, Maggie Magpie!

Hello new friends! For anyone unfamiliar with me, my name is Bee and I'm a solo developer making a cute point and click puzzle game where you get to be nosy AF. It's called Lunchroom Lies and you can learn more about it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

I'm still steadily plugging away at the demo, but I wanted to share what my layer names look like as I'm drawing. In case anyone was wondering, the functions in my code are named similarly. It all makes sense in my head, I promise. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Are any of you fans of The Painscreek Killings? I never had the chance to finish the game, but I think my design philosophy is really similar to EQ Studios.

Happy Friday! I've been working on a different style for cut scenes in my game. I think this is the direction I'm going to take it! Maybe with some filters to make it feel a little more noir and detective-y 🤔 #gamedev #indiedev #art #handdrawn #detective store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

Our characters in Lunchroom Lies are well educated. Their college diplomas are parodies of real colleges. Here are a couple of the University Seals. Any guesses which Universities they are parodying? #gamedev #indiedev #handdrawn #art #puzzlegame #mystery

Hey BlueSky, do you wanna meet one of our Demo Exclusive characters? He is a dapper young lad. If you wanna see this handsome young man in the demo when its ready, you can wishlist the game here! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/... #handdrawn #art #indiegame #gamedev #wip

I was listening to Christopher Larkin's "Greenpath" song today and felt particularly inspired in my game development work. There's something about this song that just fills me with creativity and determination. What are your go-to inspiration songs when working on your projects? #gamedev #indiedev

I wanted to show the games that are the biggest inspiration for Lunchroom Lies! I obviously really like Mystery games 😅 if you're a fan of any of these games, you might like Lunchroom Lies too 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Although its still a ways out, an official Lunchroom Lies demo WILL be coming your way in the future! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/... #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #detective #handdrawn #mystery

DID YOU KNOW Lunchroom Lies takes place within an office? I honestly wish my coworkers were cute animals in suits. If you relate to Miles the Monkey, you can find the game here! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/... #gamedev #indiegame #theoffice #handdrawn

Lunchroom Lies takes place in an Office, so I have been carefully preparing memes based around The Office TV show for you all.

I heard its #TrailerTuesday ! Lunchroom Lies is a hand-drawn #pointandclick #detective Game where you need to figure out which objects are or are not important to figure out who stole your lunch! If that sounds interesting to you, you can wishlist it below! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

In case you missed it from the mini game I posted last week, the Steam Store page for my project is live TODAY! You can wishlist it here! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

In case you missed it from the mini game I posted last week, the Steam Store page for my project is live TODAY! You can wishlist it here! store.steampowered.com/app/4705640/...

This little game I'm making was intended to be a half-assed test for bigger goals I had in mind but here I am with my full ass out instead 😅😭

This is a little game I made with a big announcement, for anyone interested! It's playable on mobile and browser! #indiegame #handdrawn #mystery #pointandclick #detective

Maggie is hiding something! If you poke around her room you might be able to figure out what it is... www.studiobrainswarm.com/MaggiesMyste... #indiegame #handdrawn #mystery #pointandclick #detective

Sorry to interrupt your scrolling but I wanted to let you know we have BIG THINGS dropping tomorrow morning 👀 I hope you all are ready to see what we've been cooking up over here!

Happy #Pride Month! To celebrate, I'd like to introduce you to our main character and her partner, Maggie and Maddie Magpie! Aren't they cute? #gamedev #indiegame

Hello to all my new BlueSky followers! Happy to have you all here! I'm Bee, and I'm the solo developer of Studio BrainSwarm. I'm currently working on a small hand-drawn game, and I'm going to be dropping some more concrete details about the project soon!

Hilarious typo aside, I thought this was a good opportunity to share these photos as an example.

Hi Bluesky! I wanted to let everyone know Im alive and still VERY ACTIVELY working on the project. Here is a sneak peak of the #gamedev stuff I've been working on. If you haven't heard, Im making a small hand-drawn #puzzle game. And a little birdy told me a trailer might be dropping soonish? 👀

An update on my slow but steady progress with my test game! I apologize for never posting; classes are crazy! I'm doing well in school though. Anyway, have some before and after shots of me adding shading to the environments!

Want a sneak peak of my test game? Please excuse the shitty linework on this WIP, I swear I'm making this to test a mechanic, NOT my mediocre art skills 😅 #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #gameart

I'm pivoting away from my main project for a bit to make a mini test game for a gameplay mechanic I want to implement. It will be entirely unrelated to my main project. Wish me luck!

Drop a bad guy you actually love Shogo Makishima My man's got PRINCIPLES.

I originally had the idea for the game I'm currently working on 8 years ago, but at the time was convinced someone would make it soon. No one ever did, so here I am. And I SWEAR TO GOD if someone does it now that I'm finally doing it myself I'm gonna flip a table lol

*collects all the character profiles here like I'm showing you pictures of my children*

Last night I dreamed some code for my game. It's actually functional and everything. Thank you, dream me. #indiedev #gamedev

Post a pic of you that's not actually you.

I wanna follow more #indiedev and #gamedev people on here! Show me what you're working on if you're doing any projects in the following genres! 😰 #horror 🧩 #puzzlegame 📚 #visualnovel 🖱️ #pointandclick 📖 #interactivefiction Starterpacks are also welcome 👀

🚨 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 I’m excited to announce Mindbreak! Mindbreak is an exploration driven tile-based puzzle adventure about the escape from a corrupted insane asylum. It will be available in 2026, with a demo coming later this year. store.steampowered.com/app/3470490/... #gamedev #indiegame

Game dev friends! What are your preferred Dev Log methods and why? #gamedev #devlog #indiedev

🎯 It's #WishlistWednesday and we're this close to 200 wishlists! 💥 Can a surreal train mystery make it that far in just a week? 🚇 Help us get there with just 1 click: store.steampowered.com/app/3795470/... #indiegame #visualnovel #インディーゲーム #madewithunity #gamedev #ComicArt

Is it a good sign when you keep getting jumpscared by your own game? 😅 I *know* the monster is there and is following me but every time I turn a corner and see it I jump! #IndieGame #GameDev #DarkRooms

We're getting over our fear of cursors today. #wip #indiedev #gamedev #hobbydev #handdrawn

I'm so intimidated by cursors. I have most of my UI drawn out or planned but CURSORS??? ?????

How was everyone's Next Fest? Who is leaving their demos up after the event? What are your post mortem assessments? #indiedev #gamedev #nextfest

Hey! Where my indie Visual Novel adjacent developers at? I wanna see your text heavy projects! #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel

I'm digitally hand-drawing every scene of my game. Here's a sneak peak of one of them 👀 #indiedev #hobbydev #dog