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Our Life: RV Background

Another background is done! It's super nice. Who knows what adventures you'll on.

Our Life 2: Background Style Test

We recently announced the results of the Our Life 2 surveys.  After that ended, we contacted a talented background artist to make a couple concept pieces we could use as style references. They were able to finish them in a jiffy and so we already have something OL2 related  to share!

Both looks are extremely pretty, we think. The greener one has a whimsically nostalgic feel and the soft lines would mean the character sprites would  pop when laid over it. The more ora...

Our Life Step 3 Intro CG

Here's the CG that'll give you your first look at Young Adult Cove when Step 3 begins. He's such a charming boy.

And since he's got the different clothes layers, there's always a base version of the body without the layers. Here's that, just for fun, haha.

Sadly, there isn't a way to get the shirtless version of the image in the actual game.

Our Life: Step 2 CG Sketch

More CGs for later in the game are coming along! Cove is always a real cutie.

Our Life: Beta Build 0.40!

Hey everyone!

It's beta time. The Our Life build has gotten another update and it's pretty exciting. Step 1 now has all 10 Moments available! It isn't 100% complete, Step 1 needs more voice acting, updates on how choices impact Cove in the future, more text alterations based on the MC's appearance, and such. 

With that said, though, it's still super cool that you can play ...

Our Life: Side LI Alt Outfits

Derek and Baxter will have various alternate outfits, too. Most of which will only appear in their own routes, but it's still quite snazzy.

Our Life: Step 1 CG

Another very precious CG for our life was completed! It's wonderful to see Cove feeling so at ease.

Our Life: Now & Forever Survey Results!

Hey everyone!

The surveying process for Our Life: Now & Forever is over. There  were votes in the Kickstarter Survey and through various Patreon polls.  We’ve combined those votes together and will break it all down in this  post.

There’s also something we want to say to you all. After going through  this process, we came to see that we could’ve arranged the survey in  more effective ways to account for people’s view on repeating/not  repe...

Patreon Goal #4 Reached!

We reached the 4th goal on Patreon! Thank you guys so much :D. This goal was to hire another programmer for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. This should make the beta builds bigger from now on, which will be fun.

And OL is a large game, as you might have noticed, aha. Being able to have some help getting it all together will ease a lot of the stress that the project causes. We've reached out to a super talented programmer we know and we'll keep you guys informed if they'll be availabl...

Our Life: Step 3 Screenshot

Just a nice little screenshot from Step 3 for us all to enjoy.

Secret Project (R): CG Sketch

Bae and JB are very cute together <3. Though he's still annoying, haha. This is a CG from early in his route.

Our Life: Dock Background

That new dock background is all finished! It's really pretty. It's also nice that the gang will be getting out and about after spending so much time in the old neighborhood, haha.

Our Life PAX Demo!

Hey everyone! We've made it back from PAX. Getting to attend was a pretty unbelievable experience. We can still hardly believe it did happen, haha. 

This was definitely motivating. We're excited to be home and back to work! At the top of the list is sharing the special PAX demo with all our supporters. It includes the prologue that's available in the public demo as well as snipp...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Feature Expansion 3)

And this is it! The final Our Life 2 Special Poll. After this we can actually start coming up with some concepts/sample art for the project. This final question is one more 1-5 scale and what we're wondering is-

What should the emphasis be in terms of how the romantic leads work; the fact that their personalities/appearances will change playthrough-to-playthrough or the fact that you can create a custom relationship/dynamic with the LI?

1 means "I want as much focus on the persona...

Our Life - Really Important Info Updates!

To get right to the point, we’re going to have to partially push back the release of Our Life. By partial, we mean that Steps 1-3 will release in Summer 2020, only Step 4 is being delayed.

We know how disappointing that news must be to people who have been  following the project. One of the worst things a project can do is not  do what it said it would. We seriously apologize for being unable to  make things work with the original timeline planned. ...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Feature Expansion 2.5)

This poll ties into that last one directly, which is why we're putting them out on the same day.

For the non-mutual feelings feature that was described before, what type of arrangement for that sounds best to you? 

(Non-Mutual feelings would only apply to Crush-Friendship situations, where one party is crushing and the other just views the person as a friend. Feelings of Disinterest and Love would still always be mutual.)

If you choose to have non-mutual feelings with L...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Feature Expansion 2)

Got another feature expansion poll that's similar to the first one. Like with that one,  this is mainly just opinion gathering, the choice that wins here may not end up in OL2. So here's the question!

We may be able to add a new element to how the relationship system works, depending on how well the first game goes and how interested people are in seeing more content in the relationship feature. Which possibility sounds best so far? (This is mainly just opinion gathering, the choi...

Our Life: Docks Background (Sketch)

Got another cool location to visit in Our Life coming along! Who knows what adventures will await.  

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Feature Expansion 1)

We've got some longer topics to talk about for Our Life 2 now.  It's mainly just opinion gathering, the choice that wins here may not end up in OL2. We'll have to think more about the logistics before finalizing anything. But we're considering some brand new things for the second Our Life and want to know what people might be interested in. So here's the question-

We may be able to add a new element to how the LI personality/appearance system works, depending on how well the first...

The Our Life: Beginnings & Always demo was updated!

Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android ☀

Demo Download Page

All the content was expanded and improved from the previous demo. 2020-02-15 21:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (MC's Family)

The special Our Life 2 poll of the day is-

How important is the MC's family connection compared to personal background customization? The more prominent a role the MC's parents/possible siblings have, the less flexible the game can be about the MC's backstory.

It's another 1-5 scale. 1 means "I want the MC's family to be a major part of the story, even if that means the MC has one default family/living situation.", 3 means you want a balance between both types, 5 means "I want th...

Tier Goal Update!

Hey everyone!

We decided to go ahead and switch the way tier goals are decided; from amount earned to the amount of Patrons we have. It still works out to be about the same, but this way people can more easily see where we are progress-wise.

Also, we sort of combined two of the older goals that we've long since surpassed (spending more time posting on the Patreon and doing more Patreon polls) and we added a brand new one! The next goal we're working towards is being able to hire a...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Light Animations)

Today's Our Life 2 question is this:

How important is it for the game to have animated elements? Blinking eyes, mouths that open/close, rays of sunshine, falling leaves, etc. If animation is added that'll take away time/resources from other things, such as extra background alterations and additional facial expressions.

We're gonna vote on a scale of 1-5 again. 1 means "I don't want any animated elements. Focus on adding other types of visual assets.", 3 means you want some but no...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (MC Color Method)

Poll time! We're wondering if we should use a different method when it comes to coloring the MC, since you'll still be able to design the look of your character in a little dress-up doll system.

Would you like the colored sections of the MC's appearance to have specific options or be a shade slider?

A color shade slider. Pro: there will be a massive amount of possible colors you can use on your MC doll. Con: the MC's color-based appearance won't be mentioned in the script because ...

PAX East Indie MEGABOOTH Appearance (Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2020)!

Hello everyone!

We’ve got some unbelievable news today, haha.

Our Life: Beginnings & Always is going to be at PAX East from February 27th to March 1st, 2020! We’re  a part of the Indie MEGABOOTH, specifically as a member of the Visual  Novel Reading Room. It’s a special spot that’s there to showcase a group  of VNs where they might not have been...

Our Life: Beta Build 0.39!

The monthly Our Life beta update is live! Now, this is a lot earlier than usual and, unlike other betas, this one doesn't have a brand new Moment or expand further past where the last one left off. This beta is exclusively improving/expanding on the content that was already there.

The amount of changes is large, but that is still strange. If we had until the end of February we could've added an...

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Release Style)

We've got another OL2 poll! Our question this time is- how should the game come out?

OL2 may end up being released episodically, with the four Steps coming out one at a time. The free base version would by released Step by Step, and if we did decide to make DLCs they would each come out at the same time as their Step. What are your thoughts on this?

 Poll ends February 22nd

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Ages)

Hello! Today's special promo poll question is the start of a new topic. The style, location, and aspects like that are done! From now on we're gonna be talking about more gameplay/system related things. The first question in that vein is-

How long should the transitions between Steps be and what ages should the characters be at the start of the game?  

The OG arrangement was 8, 13, 18, 23, which is something of a middle ground. The gang starts very young then ages five years ...

XOXO Droplets: Jeremy End CG (Sketch)

What a couple of happy campers.

XOXO Droplets the Visual Novel is still slowly being put together. This time the game will have a few CGs in the normal sprite style, instead of just simple chibis.

Our Life 2: Special Promo Poll (Side Romances)

We're gonna be having a bunch of polls from now until early March. If there's anything you don't care about, feel free to skip voting on a subject. Now let's get into today's question!

Would you be interested in Side Romance Options, similar to Derek and Baxter in the original Our Life?

Poll ends February 18th!