I'vee been playing this for a few minutes now and everyone keeps trying to refer to me as a girl. even though I'm pretty sure I made it so I was a boy. (because I am one.)
maybe it's because I look like a girl, but I don't think the coding is that... word. good? complex? something like that.
Interesting game already. I don't really understand it though
I come from Twitter and friends, I discovered that the game is not coming out this fall as we thought... and probably not even this year! Everyone, cry with me! TT
I've literally been counting the days since there's been a development log, lmao. It's been pain, and my friends have gotten so annoyed at me going: "Ugggghhhh, it's been 43 days since this game got a development update (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻" Tl;Dr: I love the game and cannot wait for it lol
Gb-patch actually post a lot of content that you don't see here on tumblr! It's mostly just little sneak peaks about future features / scenes but they post very often!
I loved Our Life: Beginning and Always so much and I still do, but Now and Always floored me with how much improvement happened between the two games, from the art style to the game mechanics (especially the character creator <3)
Both games give me such warm, happy feelings, thank you so much for your hard work!
I fell in love with Our Life: Beginnings and Always, the first game with Cove, over and over again every time I played. There were so many reasons for it, but the first was the incredible queer representation. Not only do you get to decide your sexuality in this visual novel, but you get to decide if you want your character to be transgender. BUT, on top of binary transgender representation, you also get the chance to be nonbinary! And the implementation of that in the story is so perfect, as young kids may politely question what that means and you just explain it and they accept it and move on. You also have the opportunity to transition later in life, if you prefer to have a character that doesn't know they're trans as an 8/10 year old. And the characters are all supportive and use your pronouns and preferred titles and terms, and the story also occasionally references that you're queer when it's relevant, which adds so much realism for an entire community of people who are almost never represented in visual novels. And I cannot tell you how excited I was to see that not only included in Our Life: Now and Forever, but that it was IMPROVED. There's even more nonbinary representation and customization, with the option for multiple pronouns (which you can customize the frequency of usage for), assigned sex at birth, gender identity, and you get to choose a nickname and how often characters in the story use it in place of their birth name.
Moving on past the LGBTQ+ stuff, I want to mention the NEURODIVERGENT (ND) REPRESENTATION. This is arguably an even bigger deal (to me, at least.) The language in these games doesn't feel at all like someone picked up a DSM-5 and picked random traits to give characters, they feel like real neurodivergent people that I'd meet and be best friends with. As an autistic person, I related so much to Cove that I was freaking out and telling all of my friends when he was officially diagnosed in the story, and even just seeing Qui in the demo feels so familiar as a person also with ADHD. It's really so important for people with different neurotypes to see not just positive representation, but see that representation in multiple places, and these creators really do that. And that's HUGE for the ND community. It's so beautiful to see a melting pot of neurotypes and personalities, and it's perfect for a game that's all about growing up and becoming your own person, and helping (or preventing) those around to grow alongside you.
Another beautiful thing about this game is the customization of the story. You're given so many choices to choose from almost every time you're presented with a choice, and I feel that the choices in this demo cover an even greater range of personalities than even the last game did. I am an autistic person, so the choices I make in social situations aren't usually options in visual novels; I'm used to getting stuck at choices and having to choose whatever is the closest to what I'd do, which often isn't remotely how I'd respond. However, in this game, I get stuck at choices because there's multiple that appeal to me equally. I truly feel like, in this game, I could create a character that I feel perfectly represents me, and I could play the game with a character that truly feels like I am a part of that world if I wanted to. You can make such incredibly different characters each playthrough and experience the story entirely differently with a drastically different personality. Hell, there's still dialogue I've never seen in the first game because of choices I've never made.
Another thing I love is the change to the relationship dynamic system. In Our Life: Beginnings and Always, you choose how close you feel to Cove and whether it's nervous, relaxed, or direct. In this one, you get a bit more customization over the relationship dynamics. You still choose how close you feel to Qui and Tamarack, but in addition you get to see how they feel about you in 3 categories, which you also get to choose how you feel about them in. The first is leadership; the choices are to, in general, prefer to lead, follow, or compromise. The second is comments you make to other them: you can be teasing, prefer not to comment, or complimentary. The third is how you see the person: do you place them on a pedestal, see them as an equal, or want to look out for and protect them. I think that this dynamic will add a lot more to the gameplay during the next steps than in the previous game, and I'm super excited for what's to come. I'm in love with the characters and the game, I know I loved the last one, and this one just seems better.
Hello! I absolutely love this game and it's probably going to become my next obsession like Our life: Beginnings and always. (I have 150 or so hours in it). When will this come out around? Gotta save money for the DLCs
Hi i downloaded the game and played it but only the first step...but when I'm checking the game here it says that there is a second step...but when i download the game again it only shows the first step
I just finished playing the demo and I'm so excited to see where this goes! I've play Our Life: Beginnings and Always and if it's anything like that, I know this one will be spectacular! Thank you guys for creating games that bring so much joy!
Just finished the demo and I already love the characters so much, they're so endearing and the fact that you can customise MC so much is absolutely amazing!! Not to mention that art style is gorgeous <3
I'm so in love with this game!! Everything is just so perfect... This game bring so much comfort and nostalgia! I can't wait for the full version to be out<33
hi i'm a bit into this game and as a self-admitted picrew addict (over 5k+ picrews saved to my PC god help)and VN fanatic, the dress up doll picrew-esque section got me locked and loaded + the fact that you can customize your MC that much. following yall and will absolutely pay for DLC when/if it comes out.
my god i love this game so much already! i remember the excitement i felt when i played the demo of our life: beginnings & always and i am so glad i can feel that again while playing this demo. so looking forward to future updates, i absolutely adore the art style and the characters! thank you for giving us such awesome games!
Soooooooooooooooooooo cute!! I am waiting for the Step 2!!!
Honestly I can't even have words how nice your games are! You have put so much efforts into it and it shows by how well the game turns out.
I loved Our life: Beginning and always a lot!! It was so realistic and good and I learnt a lot of meaningful things from that game too! The best thing is these games are free!
Love your games and hope to see your progress in future! :)
man!! full support!! i love the demo already!! the customization's still here :D the ui is so fitting and the artstyle?? (and the color pallete has me sobbing i love it so much you have no idea;) i cant wait for everything else!! <33
this is honestly amazing, i love the demo. i cant wait for the full game!!! the art is spectacular, i love how much customizing we can do too! this definitely will be my favorite 'dating' game aside from OL1 <3
I just can't explain how excited I am waiting for this game, I talked about it almost everytime with my friend, when they haven't even finished Our Life: Beginning and Always yet XDD
aa i can't wait for the full thing is released!! i really love the previous OL game, and i have no doubt that i'll enjoy this one too. just, take all my money LMAO
Ive just started this demo up, and I would like to say for someone who has lost their mother this made me tear up seeing that I could play something that had a mum <3 so exited to play more!
I can't wait for the full game or at least a knew step personality update because those are amazing to read but I know that making a game AND writing updates is hard, so I won't pressure you!!
AHHHHHHHHHHH I just finished playing the demo!! It's already so cute and wholesome, I love them both so much sob sob I am gonna have a hard time choosing which one to romance first but I WILL love them both, and MANY TIMES!! I do still hold hope that, if possible, there will be a polyam option in the future!! It'd be so cool >w<
Ahh but anyways, cute game, can't wait for the full release!!
Also my dramatic butt is so HYPED for the jealousy options heheh
OMG OMG OMG OKAY I am playing the demo rn and I AM FALLING IN LOVE I was already a big fan of the previous game but THIS ONE omg I love so much the little details on the text bubble that goes with the emotions AAAAAH the characters are SO SO CUTE I am so excited for the rest of the game !! you are doing such an incredible job <333
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I'vee been playing this for a few minutes now and everyone keeps trying to refer to me as a girl. even though I'm pretty sure I made it so I was a boy. (because I am one.)
maybe it's because I look like a girl, but I don't think the coding is that... word. good? complex? something like that.
Interesting game already. I don't really understand it though
I come from Twitter and friends, I discovered that the game is not coming out this fall as we thought... and probably not even this year! Everyone, cry with me! TT
Bro what???? q-q I don't want to wait that long
they said it’s at the earliest next years autumn, so we are in for the long haul 🥹
noooo
TwT damn
T-T
I've literally been counting the days since there's been a development log, lmao. It's been pain, and my friends have gotten so annoyed at me going: "Ugggghhhh, it's been 43 days since this game got a development update (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻"
Tl;Dr: I love the game and cannot wait for it lol
Gb-patch actually post a lot of content that you don't see here on tumblr! It's mostly just little sneak peaks about future features / scenes but they post very often!
https://gb-patch.tumblr.com/
https://gbpatchupdates.tumblr.com/
I loved Our Life: Beginning and Always so much and I still do, but Now and Always floored me with how much improvement happened between the two games, from the art style to the game mechanics (especially the character creator <3)
Both games give me such warm, happy feelings, thank you so much for your hard work!
I'm looking forward to the full game :)
i am excited for the full game to come out. With or without DLCs, your games bring my heart to tears.
I fell in love with Our Life: Beginnings and Always, the first game with Cove, over and over again every time I played. There were so many reasons for it, but the first was the incredible queer representation. Not only do you get to decide your sexuality in this visual novel, but you get to decide if you want your character to be transgender. BUT, on top of binary transgender representation, you also get the chance to be nonbinary! And the implementation of that in the story is so perfect, as young kids may politely question what that means and you just explain it and they accept it and move on. You also have the opportunity to transition later in life, if you prefer to have a character that doesn't know they're trans as an 8/10 year old. And the characters are all supportive and use your pronouns and preferred titles and terms, and the story also occasionally references that you're queer when it's relevant, which adds so much realism for an entire community of people who are almost never represented in visual novels. And I cannot tell you how excited I was to see that not only included in Our Life: Now and Forever, but that it was IMPROVED. There's even more nonbinary representation and customization, with the option for multiple pronouns (which you can customize the frequency of usage for), assigned sex at birth, gender identity, and you get to choose a nickname and how often characters in the story use it in place of their birth name.
Moving on past the LGBTQ+ stuff, I want to mention the NEURODIVERGENT (ND) REPRESENTATION. This is arguably an even bigger deal (to me, at least.) The language in these games doesn't feel at all like someone picked up a DSM-5 and picked random traits to give characters, they feel like real neurodivergent people that I'd meet and be best friends with. As an autistic person, I related so much to Cove that I was freaking out and telling all of my friends when he was officially diagnosed in the story, and even just seeing Qui in the demo feels so familiar as a person also with ADHD. It's really so important for people with different neurotypes to see not just positive representation, but see that representation in multiple places, and these creators really do that. And that's HUGE for the ND community. It's so beautiful to see a melting pot of neurotypes and personalities, and it's perfect for a game that's all about growing up and becoming your own person, and helping (or preventing) those around to grow alongside you.
Another beautiful thing about this game is the customization of the story. You're given so many choices to choose from almost every time you're presented with a choice, and I feel that the choices in this demo cover an even greater range of personalities than even the last game did. I am an autistic person, so the choices I make in social situations aren't usually options in visual novels; I'm used to getting stuck at choices and having to choose whatever is the closest to what I'd do, which often isn't remotely how I'd respond. However, in this game, I get stuck at choices because there's multiple that appeal to me equally. I truly feel like, in this game, I could create a character that I feel perfectly represents me, and I could play the game with a character that truly feels like I am a part of that world if I wanted to. You can make such incredibly different characters each playthrough and experience the story entirely differently with a drastically different personality. Hell, there's still dialogue I've never seen in the first game because of choices I've never made.
Another thing I love is the change to the relationship dynamic system. In Our Life: Beginnings and Always, you choose how close you feel to Cove and whether it's nervous, relaxed, or direct. In this one, you get a bit more customization over the relationship dynamics. You still choose how close you feel to Qui and Tamarack, but in addition you get to see how they feel about you in 3 categories, which you also get to choose how you feel about them in. The first is leadership; the choices are to, in general, prefer to lead, follow, or compromise. The second is comments you make to other them: you can be teasing, prefer not to comment, or complimentary. The third is how you see the person: do you place them on a pedestal, see them as an equal, or want to look out for and protect them. I think that this dynamic will add a lot more to the gameplay during the next steps than in the previous game, and I'm super excited for what's to come. I'm in love with the characters and the game, I know I loved the last one, and this one just seems better.
Nice, but did you enjoy it?
With all my heart.
the customization is really nice! seeing your character's portrait in the dialogue was especially a nice touch :) can't wait for the full game
OMG! this finally came outtt!! can't wait for the full version! tysm.
I LOVE THIS GAME ITS CREATIVE I CANT WAIT FOR STEP 2 &$*^*(@^&*($^(*
I fell in love with this game, it's so well-made!
even if it's just the demo, this game is amazing! waiting for more
I would donate if I hade any money keep it up this is awesome
Hello! I absolutely love this game and it's probably going to become my next obsession like Our life: Beginnings and always. (I have 150 or so hours in it). When will this come out around? Gotta save money for the DLCs
If Tamarack is the queen of the forest and Qiu is king of the cul-de-sac, what does that make the character?
The next door neighbour.
Hi i downloaded the game and played it but only the first step...but when I'm checking the game here it says that there is a second step...but when i download the game again it only shows the first step
That's only a preview for 2nd step. It hasn't released yet.
Ok thanks i thought something was wrong with my phone...can't wait for step 2😍 really love ur games
I'm just a regular player who also can't wait for step 2, haha.
It keeps closing out on me when I'm designing my character :( What should I do? I downloaded the android. Please help, I want to play :(
I just finished playing the demo and I'm so excited to see where this goes! I've play Our Life: Beginnings and Always and if it's anything like that, I know this one will be spectacular! Thank you guys for creating games that bring so much joy!
THIS IS ADORABLE
ive played the demo so much, already hooked lol
Can't wait for this game to fully release! Just from the demo I can tell I'm gonna fall for these LIs the way I did for Cove<3
Just finished the demo and I already love the characters so much, they're so endearing and the fact that you can customise MC so much is absolutely amazing!! Not to mention that art style is gorgeous <3
I'm so in love with this game!! Everything is just so perfect... This game bring so much comfort and nostalgia! I can't wait for the full version to be out<33
hi i'm a bit into this game and as a self-admitted picrew addict (over 5k+ picrews saved to my PC god help)and VN fanatic, the dress up doll picrew-esque section got me locked and loaded + the fact that you can customize your MC that much. following yall and will absolutely pay for DLC when/if it comes out.
my god i love this game so much already! i remember the excitement i felt when i played the demo of our life: beginnings & always and i am so glad i can feel that again while playing this demo. so looking forward to future updates, i absolutely adore the art style and the characters! thank you for giving us such awesome games!
I will arise from the dead if I die during this pandemic... just to play this game.. (Btw, yes I had Covid before, it was light for me thankfully.)
Oh no :' get well soon, make sure you eat enough and get some rest, ok?
I eat like a beast but I cant promise the resting part lol....
OL2 does not deserve to be THIS good, ITS JUST THE DEMO AND IM ALREADY OBSESSED WITH IT 😭😭
Soooooooooooooooooooo cute!! I am waiting for the Step 2!!!
Honestly I can't even have words how nice your games are! You have put so much efforts into it and it shows by how well the game turns out.
I loved Our life: Beginning and always a lot!! It was so realistic and good and I learnt a lot of meaningful things from that game too! The best thing is these games are free!
Love your games and hope to see your progress in future! :)
man!! full support!! i love the demo already!! the customization's still here :D the ui is so fitting and the artstyle?? (and the color pallete has me sobbing i love it so much you have no idea;) i cant wait for everything else!! <33
this is honestly amazing, i love the demo. i cant wait for the full game!!! the art is spectacular, i love how much customizing we can do too! this definitely will be my favorite 'dating' game aside from OL1 <3
I just can't explain how excited I am waiting for this game, I talked about it almost everytime with my friend, when they haven't even finished Our Life: Beginning and Always yet XDD
aa i can't wait for the full thing is released!! i really love the previous OL game, and i have no doubt that i'll enjoy this one too. just, take all my money LMAO
Ive just started this demo up, and I would like to say for someone who has lost their mother this made me tear up seeing that I could play something that had a mum <3 so exited to play more!
I'm so excited for this game, OL1 was so great and you can tell the creators enjoy what they are making!
I can't wait for the full game or at least a knew step personality update because those are amazing to read but I know that making a game AND writing updates is hard, so I won't pressure you!!
UPDATE PLEASE!!! NO PRESURE BUT PLEASE HURRAYThis was so adorable I love it 🥺 it'll probably take a while for the full game to be released but it'll definitely be worth it!
AHHHHHHHHHHH I just finished playing the demo!! It's already so cute and wholesome, I love them both so much sob sob I am gonna have a hard time choosing which one to romance first but I WILL love them both, and MANY TIMES!! I do still hold hope that, if possible, there will be a polyam option in the future!! It'd be so cool >w<
Ahh but anyways, cute game, can't wait for the full release!!
Also my dramatic butt is so HYPED for the jealousy options hehehThank you for making wonderful games and helping a girl find herself. The new one is wonderful and i know its gonna be a wonderful game!
OMG OMG OMG OKAY I am playing the demo rn and I AM FALLING IN LOVE I was already a big fan of the previous game but THIS ONE omg I love so much the little details on the text bubble that goes with the emotions AAAAAH the characters are SO SO CUTE I am so excited for the rest of the game !! you are doing such an incredible job <333
no updates yet?
i already love this game so much ! i love how we can personalize everything and a can't wait to be older to pay all the DLC !!!