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Our Life: Now & Forever Beta Build 1.3.2 🏪 (PC, Mac, Android)

And here's the actual beta build! We're finally past the prologue and into Step 1 for real. Woo! This beta build shows off the Linked Moments feature by including the opening scenes shared between Walks and Wheels. It also has part one of Walks, but not the entire Moment. The first part (and the second part too) is ridiculously more complicated than the scenes in OL1, so it takes longer to implement th...

Our Life 2: Mr. Baumann PJs (Step 1)

Opa is getting comfy, cozy too 😄.

Patreon Q&A: July 2023

[Text transcript]

Hello! It's that time, the Patreon Q&A for July is done. And it's another longer one, haha. I hope it's fun to listen to/read. Thank you to everyone who submitted a question 😄

Overall FAQ

Our Life 2: Walks Screenshot Tamarack

A special place with a special girl 😊

Our Life 2: Golden Grove Park Sunset BG

The lovely local park is extra atmospheric at sunset 💖. A Golden Grove indeed.

Our Life: Patreon Bonus Moment Screenshot

Quality Cove time 🥺️. You get to help him take care of his hair after bathing.

Our Life 2: Mrs. Baumann PJs (Step 1)

Granny jammies! Mrs. Baumann is ready for the sleepover, too.

Our Life 2: Elementary Classroom Concept Art Sketches

Here's another look at the design sketch process that happened earlier in development. This time it's for the classroom BG in Step 1. A is the one that made it into the game.

Our Life 2: Walks Screenshot

Baxter and Ren dote on their friends too, even if they don't realize it, haha.

Our Life: Now & Forever Pronoun System Now Available!

Shawna has released the entire custom pronoun system for anyone to use in their own Ren'Py projects! 

I know having this kind of set-up was too complicated for me to do in the first Our Life, even though it would've been ideal. It's been wonderful having it in the second OL after Shawna put it together. Hopefully having the framework out there will help make it possible for even more stories to include such an in-depth system.

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Our Life: Patreon Bonus Moment Screenshots

Wow, he's ready for anything. What brave husband you have, haha.

GB Back To Work!

Hello everyone 👋

I've made it back to my house in one piece. Though one day later because the original flight was cancelled and with my suitcase still stuck at the airport because they didn't send it on the same new flight as me, aha. It could've been a lot worse at least.

I hope you've all been well. I had an adventurous time away these past couple weeks. There were a lot of pretty si...

Our Life 2: Tamarack's Living Room Alt Version (Step 1)

The cul-de-sac kids are having a sleepover at Tam's place! Omi busted out the fold-away mattress for this occasion. Tamarack hadn't even known it could do that, haha.

Our Life: Hotel Hallway Screenshots (Patreon Bonus Moment)

The last background needed for the wedding night bonus Moment is done! And now we know why we needed it 🥰️.

[This scene is already in the little beta build, just without the proper background image.]

Our Life 2: Baumann Hallway Dark BG (Step 1)

Suddenly it's very dark in Tamarack's house 🤨

GB Patch Discord Emote Poll: July 2023

It's emote voting time! We got a powerful Derek emote from June's poll-

I'm thinking this month, we'll add in an emote holding up a "Yes" sign. So, it'll be up to all of you to decide which character is so agreeable, haha.

I'll use the poll, comments, and my own discretion to decide the winner!

Our Life: Cove White Lingerie (NSFW)

Well, we couldn't have a wedding night themed event without some lacy lingerie, haha. Though, there is a second option he can wear if this is too on the nose. Or he can stick with the usual polka-dot boxers. 

The MC can wear their own fancy underwear with various options as well, if they want to.

Our Life 2: Qiu's Backyard Concept Art Sketches

These were the different options the background artist conceptualized for Qiu's yard. They're all super similar since it's always a fort and forest, but it's still neat to see. 

The version that was used in the game is A. B and C are just unused sketch concepts that won't ever become finished BGs.

Our Life 1: Hotel Hallway BG (Sketch)

The Cove Wedding Night Bonus Moment has one scene in the hallway of the hotel, so there's gotta be a background for that. Here's the sketch for that. It's not an exciting location technically, but it's a cute moment in the story. I deemed it worthy of this entire backdrop being made just for that, haha.

Our Life 2: Tamarack Step 1 CG

Tamarack's first non-prologue CG is finished! And it is absolutely gorgeuos. Bonding time with Tamarack is truly the best. Look at her precious face 😭💘

Question Thread: July 2023 [CLOSED]

Hi everyone!

I've got the usual question thread for this month. I'm currently on vacation, this post was scheduled in advanced, but I'll be answering all the questions near the end of the month when I get back. It'll be done in a voice recording with a text transcript to go along with that. Feel free to submit whatever you're wondering about, as long as it follows the guidelines 💕

Small disclaimer and guidelines:

1. Please don't reply to other people's qu...

Our Life 1: Cove Step 4 Bonus Moment Screenshot 2

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This Bonus Moment works a little bit differently than the Step 3 one did. In that event, Cove and the MC had never done anything intimate before and had to progress at a set rate to arrive at the scene. In this Step 4 Bonus Moment, Cove and the MC are already past being new to sexual encounters. Because of that, you'll be able to get romantic at any pace you want, including as soon as you walk through the door, haha. 

And doing the intimate scene first won't cut the even...

August 2023 Guest Art: Cove Outfit Poll

And here's the second poll! We've once again got four lovely possibilities. Cove sure has variety, haha.

The poll will close on July 8th.

August 2023 Guest Art: Cove Hairstyle Poll

Hey there, I've prepared a couple polls for people to vote in as usual for the upcoming guest art. Because August should be the month the new Patreon Bonus Moment goes live (either as a beta or fully completed build), let's have that be the theme! That means we're doing Step 4 Cove.

In this poll you can vote on which hairstyle you want for him. You can also leave a comment if you have a preferred body type and if you think he should have a tattoo or not. 

A second poll will g...

Month Beginning Post: July 2023 Plans

[Adorable guest piece by BeWmOnNy on Twitter]

Hello again,

I continue to be away on vacation, but that's not gonna stop me from doing the July plans post!

Though, normally I include a link to yesterday's post, but I had to prepare this before the month end post was live and wasn't around to add a link yesterday. You can find the month end wrap-up here on the Patreon by look...

Month End Post: June 2023 Wrap-Up

I'm on vacation!

Hi everybody, this is a post I wrote a few days in advance and scheduled to go live at the normal time. Currently I'm on a trip that's going from June 29th-July 14th. It's something I planned to do once Our Life: Beginnings & Always was finally done.

But speaking of, let's get into the progress we made in June-

Monthly Content Summary:

I...

Our Life: Patreon Bonus Partial Beta 0.1 Build 💐

Hello again already!

What a surprise, haha. This month almost didn't have a new beta build, but it came together in the end. Hooray! Everybody on the team worked hard to make this happen before I left on my trip. But I also have to release this the same day I'm leaving, and that means there's a double post today.

It's not a massive update like we've had with the Baxter DLC, but it reached the threshold for what I think is worth putting out as a beta (10,000 words or more).

A...

Vacation Time! (June 29th-July 14th)

Hey everyone,

Today is the day I leave on my two week vacation ✨. Things are going up early since I'm leaving later in the afternoon and I wanted today's posts to be live before I'm gone. I've scheduled more posts to go up here on the Patreon while I'm away, so that'll continue as normal.

But I won't be able to answer messages in a timely manner and little to no game development will be happening during my trip. This is the first time I've planned to be away to this degree for t...

Our Life 2: Special Place Perspective 2 BG

And here's the second part of this extra-special location! It's just as delightful 💞

Part 1 was posted HERE 

Patreon Q&A: June 2023

[Text transcript]

Hi everyone! I have this month's Q&A session recorded. This is the longest one we've had so far. I don't think it's ever cracked over an hour before, haha. But I hope it'll be fun to listen/read through.

Thanks for all the fun questions! I'm sorry if I wasn't able to answer one ...