Month Beginning Post: 2023 Goals + January Plans

[The beautiful guest art piece is by allie_ozS on Twitter]

Welcome to another year everybody ✨!!!

We’ve got Baxter, Tamarack, and Qiu to celebrate with us. It is their year, after all. 2022 is over, somehow, and so today I'm posting what I hope to get done specifically in January, as well as our goals for all of 2023.

You can read the December wrap-up/2022 year in review HERE. 

2023 Goals:

You know, it's always an exciting time thinking about everything that could happen over the course of a new year. Our Life: Beginnings & Always will at long last get its final DLC and Our Life: Now & Forever will be the major project in development. That's amazing. 

Speaking of, there are two major launches planned for 2023 at GB Patch Games.

Our Life: Beginnings & Always – Baxter’s Story DLC

Second Quarter (April-June)

Our Life: Now & Forever Demo Expansion + Crowdfunding Launch

Third Quarter (July-September)

And those happen to be all the goals I’m setting for 2023. We're keeping it simple, haha. I usually love to plan out as many milestones as I can, and it never works out as intended. Because of that I'm sticking to only the most central production points for the official goals.

But that’s not to say there won’t be anything else to look forward to over these next twelve months, it’ll just be a surprise for you, and me, what ends up actually happening.

For one example, it was mentioned in the year review post that right now the Google Playstore releases are on hold until an error is fixed in the engine we use. There is a chance we’ll be able to start putting games on that storefront in 2023, but it can’t be guaranteed or given a specific date.

And another consideration is that with Our Life: Now & Forever coming to the forefront of development, I'll want to have something else on the backburner. As excited as I am for the game, I couldn't only work on OL2 until it's complete. At least part of my efforts this year will be going into creating another piece of content. But I don't know exactly which, or if it'll only be one thing. There are multiple options. One of these days there might be some interesting previews appearing on the Patreon, and then later on the public social media as well.

Monthly Content Plans:

Honestly, it's gonna be mainly Baxter drafting. What's exciting is that the entire Step 4 draft could be finished! That's the goal and the focus. I want it all set as soon as possible into the new year. A decent amount of editing should happen too, and there will be a bit of programming. The Baxter beta will update with a new Moment to play, as usual.

Our Life: Now & Forever probably won't have anything noteworthy happen in terms of my contributions to it. You can look forward to more art previews, at least. 

So, that's about it. I'll be in the drafting hole for the next few weeks, and we'll have to wait until that's over to see what happens next.

Important Links From December:

• Baxter Beta Build

Viewable at Tier 3 or higher

• Our Life: Now & Forever Prologue Beta

Viewable at Tier 2 or higher

• December Patreon Q&A

Viewable at Tier 1 or higher

• Our Life: Now & Forever Demo Expansion

Public post

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And with the updating done, I wanna give all my appreciation to our players! I'm able to go into 2023 knowing with total certainty that I can spend this year working on developing our projects. GB Patch Games has gotten so much support from people who love the Our Life series, and our older games too. It's absolutely wonderful, and I never want to take it for granted. For however many more years I'm around to do this, I'll do my best to make all your kindness and encouragement worth the while.

Thank you again for coming here to see how things are going! I hope we'll all have a wonderful 2023 💕.

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