Only a few days left to join the playtest! Come try living the microbe life while you can 🦠 #gamedev #indiegames #steamplaytest #mocrobiology

So lovely to see the night sky again. Didn’t expect auroras already! They are strong enough to see without a camera tonight 😍 #auroras #october #norway

I’m a big fan of whoever invented anti hair wrap vacuum brushes. #thankyou

First playtest for Cellscape is now open! Come try it out and let me know what you think 😍 store.steampowered.com/app/3650410/... #indiegames #unitygames #cellscape #gamedev #microbes

What is it about this stuff? I get all excited whenever I get to use it #sosatisfying #parafilm #microbiology

I’ve often wondered about this as we hear a lot about how important a healthy microbiome is in the gut, on skin etc, but then with the mouth it’s still just “kill everything all the time” 🤔 #microbiology #microbiome

I’m dying to show you what I’m working on in Cellscape right now, but every time I say ok NOW I’ll stop and make some videos I go back and keep working on the game instead 😅 I’ll show you more soon I promise!! Here’s a pic for a sneak peek at least! #gamedev #indiegames #unitygames #cellscape

Congratulations @drogos.bsky.social !!! 👏🥳🤩

Wooo!! So excited to see Cellscape featured on a Norwegian gaming site 😍😍 English version here: spillhistorie.no/2025/08/28/e... #indiegames #unitygames #gamedev

My husband’s game Freight Manager is coming out in early access on Steam next week! Our house is officially a game studio 😜 #gamedev #unitygames #indiegames

Video games aren’t just a hobby or a form of entertainment for some folk. They help people through some hard times. It’s sad that some people will never understand that.

The most surprising thing about #gamedev to me is that I can have SO much fun playing my own game. As an artist I never get to enjoy my own work, I only see flaws and I thought this would be the same. But DAMN I love my game 😁 Is that allowed or am I supposed to be humble? 😅 #indiedev #unitygames

In this episode of the Microscopic Odyssey, we are diving into the brilliant strategy (and geometry) Lacrymaria olor uses to catch its prey.

Just shared a post over on Substack with lots of art and game news, including a very special commission featuring the most majestic rotifer there is 😍 mikroliv.substack.com/p/august-2025 #artist #microbes #indiegamedev

You can tell I’m working on my game’s settings menu right now because my kitchen is SPOTLESS. #procrastination #gamedev #indiegames

Increased bacteria spawn rate, ended up with predator swarms. Introduced a pathogen to control the predator swarms. Dying cells dissolve into a nutrient cloud which creates a feeding frenzy for bacteria.. creates total chaos and crashes the game 🤣 #gamedev #ecology #microbes #indiegames #unitygames

I’ve been working on an absolutely enormous, multi-layered painting to create a parallax background for my game. I just tested it for the first time and it works!! Thank goodness, because this was a LOT of work to paint 😅 #soillife #gamedev #indiegame #cellscape #gameart

My Steam page is live!! 🥳🥳 You can now wishlist Cellscape and be notified when it launches 🤩 #indiegame #unitygames #gamedev #steamgames store.steampowered.com/app/3650410/...

Just got approved to publish my store page on Steam!! I’m absolutely BURSTING with excitement to share it 😁😁😁 It’s still a long way from release of course, but this is a huge milestone! Just need to add a few finishing touches, so expect the big announcement any day now!! #indiegames #gamedev

I didn’t realize colliders should be on the bones so they can follow along with animation movements. This poor rotifer was jumping out of its skin! 🤣 #gamedev #indiegame #unitygames #newbiegamedev

I finally understand weight painting!!! 🥹🥳🎉 In retrospect it’s pretty obvious and straightforward, but for whatever reason it just wasn’t making sense to me for the LONGEST time. Feels SO freaking good when things suddenly click 😁😁 #gamedev #indiegame #unitygames

New Substack post with lots of updates about my game, and a new microbe painting! Well, it’s sort of new. I finished it in December and forgot to share it 🤭 #gamedev #indiegame #protozoa #microbiology mikroliv.substack.com/p/march-2025

Finally finished painting all the soil clumps and built the border around the game scene. That was a lot of work! Next I want to work on the camera a bit and then maybe develop the background a bit more before continuing on game mechanics. Lots to do!! #gamedev #indiegame #unity2D

I’ve decided to use a fixed world size for my game instead of trying to make it limitless. Since the landscape is always changing, it should still feel like exploring new areas even if you're technically moving around the same space. Working on tile art now! 🎨 #gameart #indiegame #gamedev

Accurate summary of the micro world

Just added a new, more aggressive predator that will actively chase you, and a heliozoan that floats around minding it’s own business… just don’t touch it! #microbiology #indiegame #gamedev

Whoops! Added a spawner to produce new flagellate npcs in response to the bacteria population but forgot to add a time interval so there was a bit of an invasion 😆 #gamedev #indiegame

I've just discovered that tardigrades are also known as moss piglets and it's the best name for any animal. Ever.

The new guy is having some issues 🤣 #gamedev #indiegame

For years I've heard advice against making an MMORPG, but making anything else is just not interesting to me. I tried, and failed many times. Finally I decided to not listen anymore and just go for it, and I am so happy I did! www.flypso.com #indiegame #mmorpg #game

Here’s my latest Substack post outlining my upcoming microbe game and what I have planned for it! mikroliv.substack.com/p/more-detai...

I spent a whole day making this 💩 animation. I’m finding that I have a love-hate relationship with animating. I find it incredibly tedious and often frustrating, but at the same time it’s wildly entertaining to see my little creations come to life! #animation #indiegame

Here’s a little preview of the gameplay so far. I’ve been working on some new bacteria types with different effects, and today I’m getting ready to add a new, more active predator to shake things up a bit. #gamedev

What I don’t understand about my new obsession is how everything is breaking literally all the time, I mean it’s 99% troubleshooting, and somehow I’m still having so much fun with it! #gamedev

I’ve always loved playing games, but it turns out making them is even more fun 🤩 Here’s a sneak peek of the microbe game I’m working on. My very first game dev project! I’m primarily an artist so this is all new to me but I’m having a BLAST. More details about the project to come soon! #gamedev

I’m making my first video game! And yes, of course it’s about microbes 🦠💕 Here’s the first announcement, more to come soon! I’m so excited!! mikroliv.substack.com/p/im-making-...

Here’s my current work in progress, a turtle rotifer in ink on stone paper. I love stippling and don’t get to do it enough, so this is a personal project just for fun and practice. #inkdrawing #art #artwip #stippling #scienceart #biology #microbiology #drawing #rotifer #microscopy #natureart

Hi, I'm Kate! I'm an artist inspired by microscopic life. I imagine how microbes might look if we could shrink down and view them in their natural habitats without a microscope. I draw and paint by hand using both digital and physical materials. See my portfolio and more at mikroliv.no