Our Life: Jorge "Junior" Suarez (Step 4)
This is the finished sprite! Such a lovely guy. And here's the age comparison:
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Our Life 2: Thank You Image
And here it is! The "thank you for playing" image from the end of the demo. We're also using it as the "Thank you for joining" card Patreon sends you because it's really cute, so you might've already seen this, haha.
But it won't be much longer until the OL2 demo beta is out!!
2021-12-12 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Venue Selection (Wedding DLC)
Picking out your ceremony and reception venue with Cove, there's so many good choices 😩.
[The context is that they're looking over pictures and commenting on them together. They aren't somehow teleporting to different places, haha]
2021-12-11 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Road Backgrounds
So quaint! The main road out of the neighborhood and into the town. There's two perspectives of the same location, which is nice. You'll be going down this path a lot because you have to take it to get to school.
And that yellowy house one with the brown fence is Darren's home 💕
2021-12-10 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Beginnings & Always - Mini-Clip 7
Congratulations on your wedding 🥺️
[This video is currently unlisted on Youtube, it'll be set to public in one or two weeks]
2021-12-09 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Qiu Tunic (Step 1)
Qiu's got his own fancy outfit in Step 1 too! It's a costume for a ballet recital 🥰️
Our Life 2: Tamarack Dress (Step 1)
Tamarack wears a cute dress in one of the Moments! 🥺️🥺️🥺️
2021-12-07 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Final Meeting Screenshot (Cove Wedding DLC)
Wow, dreams do come true. I find it very funny that the person who makes Cove the most uncomfortable is one of the only people in the world who never actually makes fun of him for being a clingy-baby.
2021-12-06 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Opal Screenshots
More Opal content. Your mom doesn't mess around, haha.
2021-12-05 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Demo End Image (Sketch)
The little angels 💖! The demo is so close to being fully playable. Almost there ;v;
2021-12-04 19:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Jorge "Junior" Suarez (Step 4, Sketch)
Returning for Step 4 in Derek's DLC is the middle Suarez son, Jorge "Junior"! This is his Step 2 version, if you need a refresher. He's all grown up and now another handsome face you can't romance, haha.
2021-12-03 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Cove Wedding Vow Discussion
Hi again!
Last month we got an idea of what kinds of traditions you wanted to see included as options in the wedding, and thank you again for all of the feedback on that. Now this month we're opening up a discussion on what you'd want to say in personalized vows to Cove during the ceremony. Do you want to describe what he means in your life, or reference back to a particular moment together, or some such thing? We've got options we think would be nice, and there are certain things that ...
2021-12-02 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMonth Beginning Post: December 2021
Hello!
It's almost the end of the year and I'm already beginning to reflect on 2021. But it's not time to look back yet, there's still a few weeks ahead to get more done. Here's what we've got in the works-
Monthly Content Plans:
This time for sure, the OL2 demo beta is going to come out in December. We're so close. The Our Life: Now & Forever demo bet...
2021-12-01 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMonth End Post: November 2021
November is already over! Geeze, there's just not enough time in a month. I honestly almost didn't post this today but I was entirely convinced November wasn't ending yet. Well, we tried and did get plenty finished these past weeks, even if it's always hard not to wish you did more. Let's get into the break down of it all-
Monthly Content Summary:
Between work on OL1 and OL2 34,000 words were drafted/scripted and 40,000 words
Our Life 2: Intro Screenshots
Qiu can give you all the fun facts about the area. It's neat having a love interest who is the local this time around. And it's forever and always super cute how Qiu has a little ponytail you can only see in the side perspective.
2021-11-29 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Wedding DLC- Morning Of
Cove is still a master of the art of text 😭
And this is just one version of the scene. You don't have to be apart before the wedding if you don't want to.
2021-11-28 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Wedding DLC Assets
Confetti, cake, and fancy plates are just a few of the little extra touches we're having made for certain scenes of the upcoming Wedding DLC ✨
2021-11-27 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Opal Design Screen
At the start of the game you'll get to determine some details about your mom to make it match your story better, and we've got this lovely little screen all set up to let you do it 💖.
At the start of each new Step you'll get to change what you call her, or keep it the same, but her skin tone and hair texture remains as it always has been for the whole game.
2021-11-26 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Mr. and Mrs. Murray (Step 2)
Here's the teacher couple for Step 2! At that age the MC doesn't have either of them as their own teacher, but they're still familiar with them because of Ren.
Family 💞
2021-11-24 19:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Side Display (Prologue Screenshot)
Like the first Our Life, sometimes a character will be too far away to have their sprite be right up in front of the screen. In those cases we put their faces in a box in the corner. But this time we've made a super cute bookmark-style display image that tabs the screen. You can see how it works with the two styles of textbox positioning and it's very neat either way 💞
Also, Qiu and Tamarack both have unique bookmarks made specially to match their color schemes. All the side characte...
2021-11-23 18:49:51 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Beta Build 0.97 (Cove Wedding DLC Planning Section! PC, Mac, & Android)
Hello! We've got November's beta build for you all today. It's still in the planning stage of the Wedding DLC content, but there's plenty of new content to see.
Save files from the main game should work with this beta build, but save files from older beta builds likely won't.
Our Life: Wedding Party Screenshots
Everyone has a lot of fun when invitations to join the wedding parties go out, haha. There's differences to the conversations based on whether they're in the MC's party, Cove's party, a regular member or the lead, and in some cases changes based on whether someone else is in the same party or not.
And here's a bonus extra screenshot, too-
Our Life: Wedding DLC Extra Asset 2
And we've now got the finished sprite! From left to right is the Shiloh who gets a dog and seems exactly the same as he always has, then the asshole vlogger version of him, the version who's gone into accounting and seems at least somewhat more honest, and finally the "Shiloh" who doesn't even want to be called Shiloh anymore (he goes by his middle name Leon).
The version you get in your story is entirely random. Shiloh is one thing that doesn't get impacted by your choices. He's an ent...
2021-11-20 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Prologue Screenshot
It was simple times in the first Our Life with just Cove because basically all roads led to him, unless you'd chosen to be on Indifference. With two major characters to get to know in Our Life: Now & Forever there's gonna be more metaphorical/literal crossroads you'll have to choose between in a playthrough. None are bad, of course, it'll only make things even better for replays, but which way are you gonna go first?
Also, the first scenes of the game are actually programmed! It's s...
2021-11-19 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Cove Wedding Tradition Discussion (CLOSED!)
Hello!
The Cove Wedding DLC is coming right along, but before it gets further along I wanted to gauge our players on the kinds of traditions they'd like to see as options in the ceremony/reception. In the DLC you'll be able to pick if you, for example, want to walk down the aisle or not, do the cake smashing thing or not, have parent/child dances (with your own parents and/or your spouse's parents), and such.
If there's something you'd want to see, go ahead and leave it in t...
2021-11-18 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life: Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉
It's really been a full year since Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched. I've had a long time to write a message for this occasion, but I'm doing it not many hours before it has to go up, aha. I could never figure out exactly what to say. A lot of Our Life itself came about the same way. I had things I knew I wanted to express and it was hard to know how, so I just started writing what I could and would see what happened.
When developing the project, I wasn't confident that O...
2021-11-16 18:57:34 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Another MC Doll Batch
New scars, bandage options, and more hairstyles! Here's another little preview at some of the stuff we're adding to the MC Doll.
2021-11-15 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Baxter Ward (Step 2)
The Baxter Step 2 sprite is done! He's working towards that rather distinct sense of style seen in the first game by this point in his life. He's dyed his hair a darker shade of black and started wearing black/white shades only, though the specific pieces are not that unusual just yet, haha.
You can really see the difference, and the similarities, in a Step 1-2 side by side comparison.
Our Life: Wedding DLC Extra Asset 2 (Sketch)
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He's here. Our favorite spotted snake can indeed be at your wedding, if you want that for some reason. There are different versions of his look, and personality, based on the future you happened to get in your playthrough.
2021-11-13 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOur Life 2: Relationship Dynamic System!
We've talked about it here and there, but it's time to fully break down the way Our Life: Now & Forever creates customizable connections between the MC and LIs.
As you can probably see from the screenshot, the Interest/Comfort system from the first OL isn't here. The Warm/Moderate/Cold-Sporty/Mixed/Studious system Cove used is gone as well. We, hopefully, made the elements less confusing by putting it all together in one combo feature instead of fully separate ones.
It's calle...
2021-11-12 18:52:42 +0000 UTC View Post