To celebrate 🗺️ #WorldBearDay 🐻, I'll share some lore from my #otome Ice Cream For Love. Did you know that the MC is based off the sun bear? Researchers think highly of their ability to mimic faces of other sun bears, so this is why Ranni has such dramatic visual displays of emotions.

Happy Tuesday! Which of Ranni's faces are you feeling today? 🐻🍨

Bear MC and Dian are family, and both have clearly picked up on each other's mannerisms. Here is their "sparkles" expression. ✨

Bear MC currently has 37 unique faces. Here's a small sample of the delightful emotions she has!

also: indie artists, stop with the self-pity for attention. if i have to see another video that's like. "i'm a SMALL ARTIST. i haven't gotten any orders/views this week :( spare some for me please, your grace?" i'm gonna blow my balls off. you are legitimate. you have dignity. remember that.

One of the biggest changes to come to the eventual full release of Ice Cream For Love is the fact that the MC will now have a sprite! Introducing Ranaiha aka Ranni, your gremlin voice to view the game through! 🐻👑

Here's a screenshot of my current progress for my submission to Otome Jam. Working title is Veilcap Bride, and this project is my contribution to appreciators of (goofy) older love interests. We'll see if I can complete it all by the deadline. 💪🐻

What's this, it's Sunday? That means it's time for a bear pic.

And the trailer is out! youtu.be/hZJKfMbpNCU

Yo, I participated in the 2025 Dialogue Jam and created a mini-spinoff game for the "Ice Cream For Love" storyline. Check it out if you like fake dating scenarios and unhinged dialogue. atelierursine.itch.io/ice-cream-for-love-gone-phishing

Nearly delirious with sleepinessbut I got it finished! 💗 tuffmallow.itch.io/a-simple-twi...

I saw a potential for a meme template, so I took it. This is for my game "Ice Cream for Love", featuring a ferald wildchild bearfolk FMC, and her LI, a yandere dietitian.

Manifesting sleep for my insomnia.

Valentine's Day is real important for the #otome industry, but as for me, I see this as yet another opportunity to post more bear pictures. All aboard the swan boat!

One of the most enjoyable parts about writing yandere is that they always have them savage af one-liners. Here's one of Ekam's. Check out the game here. atelierursine.itch.io/penetrate-th...

I fully admit that this is probably not a good sentence, but Microsoft Word's suggestion is utterly outrageous.

I haven't shared a cute bear image in a while, so it's time to address the problem.

It's so cold...productivity is hard. There's always a wintertime debuff when my inner bear just wants to hibernate until March. Still gotta work like a mad lass though to make sure I can submit Ice Cream For Love to the Yandere Jam. 💪🐻

Continuing the trend of Bear MC noticing things that are oddly violent. First food, now love?! 🤔

Scrolling through the Ice Cream For Love script is always an experience because Bear MC says all sorts of outrageous things. Maybe these things just make sense because she's a 🐻 ...or perhaps she's trolling again.

👥 Bluesky users, we've got one more update for you today: You can now use your itchio subdomain as your Bluesky username. Learn more about it here: itch.io/t/4291217/us... NOTE: to prevent any funny business, this feature is only available for accounts that have spent at least 10 bucks on itchio

Here is a small sample of stickers I designed for Bear MC's business and general uses. What do you think of them? Would you buy them if I were to have a sticker shop some day?

Ice Cream For Love is a very chaotic #otome romcom project featuring a yandere LI, and I have lots of fun writing and creating assets for it. I was designing stickers for Bear MC's business, and then I realized I had far too much power. Now having stickers for every occasion is Bear MC's thing.

I'm currently coding in the script of Ice Cream For Love in the engine, and have been using Ekam's sprite as the default because I don't want to export all the actual LI's expressions yet. It got me this hilarious screenshot. Bear MC, I don't think you'll convince him to open his wallet. 👛

Hi hi! Haliora here. ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ A formal introduction is long overdue, so I made my own "Meet The Dev" sheet. My one true love is bears of the ursine variety. I'm looking forward to sharing my games and chatting with everyone who has similar interests. 📌 #MeetTheDev #PINNED

Okay, I made a starter pack for visual novel developers on Bluesky! Let's find each other and share our games. If you want to be added reply below and I'll get you in =) go.bsky.app/PPrAvXo #gamedev #visualnovel #VNDev #indiedev

I said Ice Cream For Love is unhinged, so having some very feral choices is appropriate. This is one of my favorites. "I want to milk him for tears and dunk my cookie into it." - Ranaiha aka Bear MC, 2024. 🐻🍪🥛 #indieotome #otome

I've been very hush-hush about my current project, but with two weeks until Josei After Dark and Monstrous Desire's deadline, it's good time as any to share my game page. 🍨 Ice Cream For Love is my take on an unhinged and unserious romantic comedy with a yandere love interest.

Although Ice Cream For Love is 'only' a jam project, I am fond of it since Dian the Moon Bear exists. Every time I look at his ursine face, he gives me great joy.

My goal is to finish my Ice Cream For Love script for Josei After Dark Jam by the end of this month so I can have the entirety of October to code in the game. The deadline is coming up, and I'm freaking out, but first...a snack for the brain. 🥭

Now, for some actual game content...a meme of my game Soul Shattering Star, featuring the orange peel test. 🍊 It's so several months ago, but I think it's still funny.

I heard there was a dearth of bear content on Bluesky, so I've come over here to fix the issue. Haliora here, solo dev of Ursine Vision Atelier. I love bears, and I make otome games about monster boyfriends and devoted men.