Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Our Life: Derek DLC Coming Soon Page!
Derek DLC Page
Our Life Version 1.5.4
We've got another small bug fixing patch today. It corrected some additional typos and such, but the main fix was to resolve an error pop up that appeared when calling Derek in the Step 2 Moment "Soiree". Thanks for the reports!
Cove Plushie Now Available (Limited Time Only)!
Cove James Holden from “Our Life: Beginnings & Always” is now available as a plush for a limited time only! The design featured is his Step 3 “young adult” stage. Cove’s grown up and is ready to move from Sunset Bird right to your house. Though, he’ll come through the door this time instead of the window.
It'll only be on sale for 21 days and after that this Step 3 Cove plushie won't be available again. Thank you to everyone who gets the little ocean guy!!
Cove Plushie Campaign Page ☀
Our Life: Version 1.5.3
Our Life: Cove Wedding DLC Launch! 💖
Congratulations on your wedding, everyone 🥰️! This DLC is in the running for the longest expansion word-count-wise, added way more new art assets than prior DLCs, and is very alteration heavy with tons of ways to impact the script. We went pretty all out, haha. I hope you have a nice time during this special moment in your Our Life story.
Features:
-Begin the experience by planning each element of your wedding: selecting the venues, deciding on traditions to include or exclude, picking out your clothes, and so on
-End the novel by playing through your crafted wedding day
-Includes new character sprite art, background locations, and more
-Increases the overall playtime by multiple hours
There's a little discount during launch week (the other DLCs are also on sale). Sale ends on February 14th!
Plus, if you download the Voice Name DLC, you'll finally be able to hear Step 4 Cove say your name chosen off the voiced name screen! It's really sweet.
We've also released an update to all the prior DLCs and the base game to fix/improve the builds. If you don't have automatic updates on you may want to check to see if you've got the latest version. It's 1.5!
A lot has come together for this release, it's been great to really make it happen. And this is the final major DLC we had in the original plans for our beloved Cove Holden. I can't believe it. Maybe somehow, someday he'll be back, but no matter what you'll be able to relive the lovely moments we have with him now. As always, thank you for playing 💕
Wedding DLC Release Date & Plushie Poll!
It's official, the Wedding DLC is done and we're creating the build to launch! But there were also other things that came together around this time that we'll be releasing as well. So, here's everything that'll be available on February 7th-
▴The Cove Wedding DLC itself
▴The voiced lines for Step 4 Cove saying the name options on the Voiced Name Screen, in both the base game and the wedding DLC
▴Fixes for some of the lingering errors in the main game, including the problem Linux users have had getting the game to launch
▴Updates to how the DLCs are managed/implemented to make it better overall
Along with that wonderful news, there's another special thing happening. You see, just in case it becomes relevant, I was wondering what kind of Cove plushie people might be interested in getting for themselves if those were to exist. For the next few days we'll be running a poll on Twitter where you can let me know if you'd prefer a child, teen, young adult, or fully grown Cove companion in your real life.
You can vote in the plushie poll on Twitter HERE!
Our 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 Our Life would mean what it did for me to anyone else. But over this past year the story reached so many more people than I ever would've thought, and it was an experience that meant something to a lot them.
Me and everyone on the team were able to make our players feel welcomed, reassure them when they were worried, calm them when they were stressed, and cheer them up when they were sad. The kind messages, thoughtful feedback, and lovely fanworks that have been sent are more than I could've asked for.
I'll always appreciate that we were given the support to release Our Life on a scale that let the concept of growing up together and being yourself shine the way I hoped it would.
Thank you to everyone who gave it a chance. Our Life wouldn't be what it is without its players and I'm so glad for that. And thanks Cove, for being such a great guy to send out the message that people are valuable just for being who they are.
But of course, it's not over yet! There are still the extra DLC scenes coming, and the voiced name collection for Step 4 is being compiled for release soon. We'll keep doing our best here at GB Patch for as many more years as we can 💕
The wonderful art is by Sakuradonuts on Twitter!
Our Life 1.4.1 Patch!
• The errors on the character/Cove creation screens are gone
• The game skipping to the wrong Step is resolved
• Part of the ending CG not being able to appear for some MCs was fixed
• Some typo/continuity errors in the script were updated
• A few wrongly set flags were switched
• And other miscellaneous small tweaks
Older save files might not work this this updated build.
If you already have the game, it should update automatically.
Thank you very much for all of the feedback. If you’re still running into issues, let us know!