If you let people speak at your wedding the last one to talk will be the first person you met in the game. I can't believe this is the last full Cove DLC in the works. Thanks for everything Clifford, you're a nice dad 😢 .
2022-01-17 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tamarack is in the school band during Step 2 and she'll get to be a part of a fun little recital. You can too or you can be there to cheer her on ✨
2022-01-16 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We showed Derek's Step 4 place in his story already, and now we've got Baxter's pad from his own DLC. Very snazzy.
2022-01-14 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang is out to dinner at the local diner 💞! You can invite both, one, the other, or neither.
2022-01-13 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
🥺️🥺️🥺️
We're almost there.
2022-01-12 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to get ready for 5th grade, haha. Unlike the first game, Our Life: Now & Forever does have scenes that take place within school. That's gonna be interesting, and the room is so cute!
2022-01-11 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks Lee 💞
The reason they're both in purple is because they're in the wedding party and the party color is purple. The color would've been different if some other wedding color was chosen or if they weren't in the party. The setting shown is also there because the country club was the chosen reception venue. It took a while to get all that working, haha.
2022-01-10 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Ever since the beta launched we've been adding extra polish and quality of life improvements to the build. I really appreciate all the kind words and feedback. Before the public launch we wanted to give you the chance to access the new and improved version.
There aren't any major additional scenes, it still ends in the same spot as before, but it is a smoother OL2 experience. If you intended to play the beta again to try new options or haven't had a chance to tr...
2022-01-09 20:37:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hanging out with the pals 🥺️
The content in the demo beta isn't the full prologue, it'll go on for quite a bit longer once I've had the chance to write more scenes, haha.
2022-01-08 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
He's so precious 😭. Here's the full colored sprite for Pran Taylor in Step 1. If you've played our older game, XOXO Droplets, you know his general backstory because his BFF Jeremy (the same Jeremy from OL1) would talk about it sometimes. Pran would not talk about it. But there are things that even Jeremy didn't know, they met at thirteen and Pran is only eleven in his appearance here. The main deep lore of Pran that you get from this game is that as quiet as he is as a teen, that's him put...
2022-01-07 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Picking out wedding clothes with Cove! Very precious. But these reactions aren't the only ones. As the MC you'll obviously get to choose, and for Cove there are six "feels" the outfit can end up with based on what you pick for it and he'll have a different response based on which feel it is (all positive, of course), so that's pretty neat.
The MC can get their clothes at the suit shop too if they want. The dress BG was just used to show off both places. And of course, you can go s...
2022-01-06 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Same as the normal Step 4, Derek's back around the Sunset Bird area to help his dad and see the rest of his family too. He's gotta have a place to stay and this is it! Very nice. He'll be happy to invite you over sometime.
2022-01-04 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo, with the Our Life: Now & Forever beta out for most tiers on the Patreon, let's talk about those sticker options you get to use for your play throughs! We included a first batch in the initial demo, but definitely want more. If you've got suggestions, feel free to leave them below. We'll try to include the ones players most want to have, but we likely won't be able to add everything that's brought up. I imagine we'll have 15-20 sticker options in total.
For a few guidelines, it c...
2022-01-03 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I bet some of you can tell who this kid is already, haha. If you're unsure, well, remember that Jeremy guy from the first OL1 and how he'd talk about that mysterious bestie of his whom you never get to see? Here he is now! Jamie and Cove don't get the pleasure of meeting him, but Franky, Tamarack, and Qiu do. This is Pran Taylor at eleven-years-old.
He's meek and fearful and unfortunately will not be your friend no matter what you do. At least not as a kid, and he's even more not ...
2022-01-02 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🌟
Or almost new year, depending on where you are in the world. 2021 was GB Patch’s most successful year by far and I want to seriously thank everyone for the support. Thanks to that we were able to expand each new part of Our Life: Beginnings & Always past what we had originally imagined, and we've been able to improve Our Life: Now & Forever in so many ways from th...
2022-01-01 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. Somehow we've arrived at the end of the year already! We'll be sharing a full 2021 breakdown tomorrow, but for now let's get into the usual month wrap-up.
Between Our Life 1 and Our Life 2, 41,350 words written/drafted! And plenty of proofreading/editing was done...
2021-12-31 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Haha, wow Cove, that's so true it hurts. Here's the latest Cove Wedding DLC beta build! Nearly all the scripts for the DLC are written (only three scenes are left), but we did run out of time to fully program/test a lot of them so it's not the 100% complete experience. There's still plenty to do in this beta, though, and I hope you'll have fun if you give it a try.
Save files from the main game should work with this beta build, but save files from older beta builds likely won't. 2021-12-29 18:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Haha, Baxter and his monochrome color schemes.
2021-12-27 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
And it's the final baby brother of the Suarez family! While Derek and Jorge went through some big changes, Nicolas is still very much like his younger self, haha.
2021-12-26 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays! Here it is! It's now possible to get a feel for what OL2 is actually like, and officially meet the new leads. We've been kicking around ideas for this project for two years and now there's actually a playable build. That's crazy.
The demo has about 25,000 words, though a lot of that content is seen by making different choices in additional playthroughs rather than that being the length from start to finish.
There's a lot of polish to this demo, but it's not 100% co...
2021-12-25 00:57:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The save screen in Our Life: Now & Forever is rather nifty. We've tried to come up with ways to make it easier to recognize which save is which and give ways to better organize multiple playthroughs.
Save files include details like the MC's name and appearance, what time of day the save was taken, and at which part of the game it's from. There's also a little sticker icon in the upper left corners of save. You get to pick what that sticker is and can change it at any time during the...
2021-12-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
There's been a lot of really nice updates to the MC creation section since we first showed it off! Here's a few screenshots going through the process.
Elements might change as the game develops further and more options for the MC's design will be added, but this is how it'll be for the initial beta build.
2021-12-22 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We've released public "Coming Soon" pages for the Cove Wedding Story DLC on Steam and Itch! And we'll be able to announce the release date in not too long 💞
Today we have another music sample 🎶. This is a really lovely track from Our Life: Now & Forever. Warm but reflective and tends to play when the fun moments are beginning to wind down- at least for the day.
2021-12-20 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the last image in the game that shows the MC on screen with Cove, and it's really nice 💞
2021-12-19 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy holidays! Ho, ho, ho. It's very fitting for the current season, but doesn't exactly scream "Halloween". However, Tamarack dresses for the job she wants, and when she grows up she wants to be Santa Clause 🎅
2021-12-18 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Qiu goes out for the holiday as the cutest little grim reaper around. He'll come to harvest your soul very considerately 🥺️
And, as you may recall, his mom dresses as an angel, his dad is a devil, and now Qiu is their little undertaker. It's a full family costume set!
2021-12-17 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We've written and implemented the traditions discussion! They'll be included in the upcoming beta build so there's no longer that awkward scene jump, haha. But here's one of the things you can discuss 💞
Darren also gets a costume! She's technically Robin Hood because that's what was an option, but truthfully she wanted to be Link from Twilight Princess.
2021-12-15 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I love that my boys are back, haha. I'm amazed there are people out there who wanted these punks to be able to attend their wedding for some reason, but I'm not complaining.
And, since it might not be clear from the context, Shiloh's invitation isn't very friendly or flirty. He's just being his usual difficult, ulterior-motive-having self.
2021-12-14 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post