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Our Life 2: Tamarack Step 1 CG (Lineart)

The piece is coming together! And only getting more precious 🥰️

Our Life: Hotel BG Alteration (Step 4, Patreon Bonus)

Cove packed a bunch of battery powered candles for the wedding night because he is a true casanova, haha. If you don't like them, he's okay leaving the candles in the suitcase, though.

Our Life 2: MC Living Room Concept Art Sketches

When the MC's living room was first conceptualized, it got two potential versions. The one in the game is "B"! "A" was very cool too, but it won't be turned into a background in the actual game. I'm just sharing this as a deeper look into the overall development OL2 has gone through.

Our Life: Beginnings & Always - The Last Major Update

Today Our Life version 1.7.1 went live! It fixed the errors reported for Baxter's DLC and added a handful of improvements throughout the entire game. If there are any updates beyond this, they will only be to make minor typo fixes. Our Life has reached a definitive state of completion after almost three years!

To celebrate finally reaching this point, we had one last promo image made 💚

Thank you all once more for the kind messages and feedback over the dozens of months of devel...

Our Life 1: Cove Step 4 Bonus Moment Screenshots

Yep, he's still cute 🥺️💗

Our Life 2: Tamarack Step 1 CG (Sketch)

Angel baby 😊 💓. What is she up to?

This is Tamarack's first CG from a Step 1 Moment. You can probably guess where this is set even in sketch form, haha. Of course that's a spot where she'd have a key scene.

Our Life: Hotel Bathroom BG (Step 4, Patreon Bonus)

How fancy. The robe/towel clothing layers I shared earlier weren't there to skip past  cleaning up after the wedding. The process of unwinding in a nice big tub is part of the story! And it's a large enough bath for two 💕

But because this is an 18+ bonus story, I'll include the disclaimer that you can't have sex in the bathtub, haha. It's too slippery and solid for Cove to make that venture. You can joke about it, though. 

Our Life 2: Walks Screenshots

Buying snacks is serious business with the boy's club 😳. Are you gonna risk it all? You are allowed to join this high rolling game, if you brought enough money. Not winning means you get a free snack and still have your money, "winning" means the little snack money you have will only cover buying their snacks so you can't pick anything for yourself!

You might be able to guess what game these kiddos play to solve their problems is, if you know one of them well enough, haha.

And ...

Our Life: Cove Hotel Garbs (Step 4, Patreon Bonus)

Our Life: Beginnings & Always is back on the regular sneak peek rotation! I'll be switching back and forth between OL2 and this upcoming Bonus Moment until it has released.

After an incredible, yet exhausting wedding day, you and Cove can get very comfy in your hotel room 💖

Our Life 2: Special Place Perspective 1 BG

This is the fully colored version of the top level for that special place 😌. I was glad to see people enjoyed the reveal when I shared the sketches before.

Our Life 1: Cove Step 4 Bonus Moment Screenshots

Welcome back ocean man, haha. You've been missed 💚💍

You can read the full announcement post on this brand-new, in-development story HERE!

It answers a lot of general questions people are probably gonna have about it.

Cove Wedding Night Patreon Bonus Moment Announcement!

Yeah, you got me 😌. I've been hedging people's hopes on this for a long time, but it was always my goal to make it happen as long as an interest remained after the last of the proper DLCs released. And now I can finally say that we are actually making one more story with Cove Holden, or whatever last name you went with for your married life. That's because an 18+ Wedding Night Bonus Moment is currently in development! 🎉🎉🎉

I've completed the draft, the script is in-progress, ...

Our Life 2: Qiu Step 1 CG

The CG is done! This is the first CG that's been created for scenes outside of the prologue. Our Life: Now & Forever is coming along.

And I can also show the expression sheet now. It's adorable 💕

Our Life 2: Story Summary Image

Character bios aren't the only neat assets that are being made to promote OL2. We've also got this charming story summary image ✨

If I ever get around to doing physical merch, I'd love to make fake post cards from Sunset Bird and Golden Grove, haha.

In other news, I've narrowed the launch window down for the Our Life: Now & Forever Kickstater. Rather than generally happening this fall, I can say it'll be going live in late September or early October!

Our Life 2: Walks & Wheels Screenshots

These screenshots show the difference between the first and second time you, Qiu, the club, and Tamarack join up to go on an adventure together 💖.

It ties into the Linked Moment concept. I made a post explaining that recently! You can read it HERE.

Our Life 2: Special Place (Sketches)

For those who have been waiting to figure out what Qiu was talking about while walking to school, this is it! The special thing that's only in the woods. I think it's a pretty nice place 😊. It's so special it gets two background perspectives, haha.

Our Life: Now & Forever Feature - Linked Moments

Hey everyone!

Today I'm making a post to share information on a neat new element of Our Life 2. It's always been the case where the game remembers the scenes you've already done and those experiences can impact the Moments you do next. However, in Our Life: Now & Forever there will be a small bunch of Moments that are more directly connected. I'm calling them "Linked Moments"!

Linked Moments will share scenes between each other and which one is done first and which comes secon...

GB Patch Discord Emote Poll: June 2023

Heya, we have the monthly emote vote today. This was what we got from May's poll-

Haha, poor Vianca. Now I'm thinking we could use another Derek emote in the mix, so for June he's the only option! You can vote on which age you'd like to see and leave comments to let me know what emotion you'd like him to express.

He already has sweet, shy, sleepy, and confident expressions so ...

Our Life 2: Forest Path Concept Art Sketches

These are the initial design options for the forest BG that's in the game! All of them were nice, but the version that ended up being used is my favorite for sure.

Finished BG for comparison-

Our Life 2: Diner Exterior BG

Here's The Diner Table in all its glory! Such a nice place to find on the outskirts of civilization, haha. Past this, the road just goes into the mountains.

Our Life 2: Moment Screenshots

Having two leads who can always bounce off each other has been a lot of fun, haha.

And it's nice to have new screenshots to share. It's been a little while, but there will be a lot more coming. I've been knocking scenes out since Baxter's DLC released!

Our Life 2: Qiu Step 1 CG (Lineart)

Qiu's coming down the road as the CG is coming along. It continues to be very cute 🥰️

Question Thread: June 2023 [CLOSED]

Hello!

Today's the day that the monthly question thread goes live. Things asked here will get an answer near the end of June in a recorded Q&A session (with a text transcript). You're welcome to ask about past, present, and future GB Patch projects, as well as the company itself.

Small disclaimer and guidelines:

1. Please don't reply to other people's questions even if you know the answer. The fun of joining a Q&A is that the developer can give a dir...

Our Life: Missing Baxter DLC BG

Wow, here's the last BG for Baxter's DLC! But of course Mr. Monochrome's guest room is black, white, and gray, haha.

July 2023 Guest Art: Location/Premise Poll

Okay, it's time for another bonus piece poll. Since we're gonna be in the thick of summer and in the heat of Our Life: Now & Forever's development when this shows up, we should have a summer themed OL2 guest art!

Tamarack was fairly recently featured, so Qiu can have a turn now. I'm also thinking it'd be super cute to see Step 1 Qiu in summer digs. That means the poll is about the location/general premise. 

The poll will close on June 8th.

Have fun ...

Month Beginning Post: June 2023 Plans

[Beautiful guest piece by __neptu on Twitter]

Aw, what a sight for sore eyes. It's been a while since we've seen our ocean man around here. That's just not right, especially now. This is his time, it's his season. We cannot start summer off without at least a bonus piece of Cove Holden. So, there he is.

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Month End Post: May 2023 Wrap-Up

Hi everyone 👋

This month had a lot of progress and huge happenings, though very little of it had to do with the normal game development work I usually mention in these posts.

Here's a breakdown of what's gone on lately-

Monthly Content Summary:

After working non-stop on the Baxter DLC in April, I took a mini-break at the start of May and then I moved acro...

Patreon Tier Updates Coming in June ✨

Hey everyone!

Thanks as always for following us here on Patreon. To keep you all in the loop, I wanna announce that there's some changes coming to the reward tiers next month. Starting in June, some updates need to be made to work with the fact that the OL1 DLCs are done and OL2 is the main game in development.

The biggest thing is that the current Our Life: Now & Forever beta build will remain on Tier 2 as a bonus extended demo, however every other build that comes out from t...

Our Life: Now & Forever Pre-Launch Kickstarter Page!

The Kickstarter for Our Life: Now & Forever will go live in fall of 2023! Whether it'll end up being in September, October, or November I'm not entirely sure yet. But it could be happening in as little as three months, so I've gotta start promoting this already, haha. I just didn't want to do it until the last of the OL1 DLCs was actually out. Since it is, here we are.

Our Life: Now & Forever Pre-Launch Pag...

2023-05-29 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Our Life 2: Neighborhood Design Option Sketch

This is an old design option sketch. With Our Life: Now & Forever, most of the backgrounds start with multiple options for the perspective/content of the location. I pick the one that fits best or sometimes aspects of multiple BGs are combined together to form a new composition.

I've shared a few of the design sketches in the past, but since OL2 is the main project in development I think now's a good time to start making that a more regular thing. It's an extra part of the developme...