GB Patch Games: 2024 Intentions


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Welcome to 2024, everybody 🥳️

This is the year of Our Life: Now & Forever (and 2025 will be too, but let's not get ahead of ourselves that much). After a good five odd years of making Our Life: Beginnings & Always content, it's amazing to look ahead and see only the progress that will be done on this new game. Qiu and Tamarack are the center of the GB Patch Games universe now. But even though I'm not creating any new OL1 scenes, there may still be some exciting developments for the existing stuff. Cove hasn't been forgotten.

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If you want to know about what will be accomplished specifically in January, you can read that HERE. Now here's the entire year's goals-

Honestly, 2024 is gonna be the most basic year in a very long time, haha. There's not gonna be major launches of new DLCs, or a full game going live, or any bonus Moments. It's simply making progress on OL: N&F. That's pretty normal for game development. It's just not something we've had to go through since 2019. But we're hunkering down for the long haul on this one.

Specifically, Step 1 will be fully completed in 2024 and I'll make as much headway into Step 2 as possible. There will be two updates to the public demo, one probably in May and another sometime in Fall/Third Quarter 2024. Those will focus on Step 1 scenes still. I can't guarantee we'll be able to rework the Step 2 part of the demo with new content this year. As it is, the content was made to be a demo preview. A lot is gonna change for the complete version.

And that's about it for our main game. I appreciate all of you who decide to follow along with the process.

Beyond that, the Our Life: Beginnings & Always digital artbook is going to become available through Steam and Itch.io in early 2024! Maybe not January, but ideally no later than February.

Finger's crossed, we will also launch Our Life: Beginnings & Always for Mac on Steam and make it available for Androids through the Google Playstore. I can't state it with confidence, since there's constantly been roadblocks/issues with those, aha.

My final little note for this coming year is that, potentially, there could be more information coming out about the game that's going into production after OL2, "Project W".

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And that's what you can look forward to. Every year I'm amazed I can continue to do this as my fulltime job. I'm always wondering when that will end, but I'd be lying if I said I could see that point. The support GB Patch Games has gotten, and still gets each day, is more than enough to for it to continue for the rest of OL2's development.

I'm pretty confident in assuming that when that game does launch it's going to be successful enough for Project W to go into full production. It's a truly wonderful thing. Thank you so much for being here. We'll do our best with the time and attention you've given us.

Happy New Year 🥰️

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bro 2025 seems so far away now that this game is PEAK

real

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i honestly cannot wait! but i am curious in what month it will come out?

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this is the best game i've played in such a long time omg I CAN'T WAIT FOR STEP 2 TO COME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love both Tamarack and Qiu sososo much and I can't wait to follow them through their own independent journeys!!!

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FOR REAL OMG. I'm so excited for the release I'm literally dying to get to 2025!!

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RIGHTTTT IM LITERALLY DYING WAITING

any news on the artbook? just finished the new demo and is desperate for more content lol

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The Our Life 1 artbook is releasing next month! But if you mean OL2, that artbook isn't going to be released until 2026. The art won't be done until then, aha.

ah ok, still excited for the OF1 artbook :D 

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the way i will run into to traffic just to hop on my pc to play ol2 as soon as it comes out.

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my only motivation at the moment is being alive until this game comes out, love u guys

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Is there any word on when about the next version will be out? Love the game and sending good wishes and excellent vibes your way btw<3

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OL2 is getting a demo update on the 22nd, if that's what you mean!

When the game will be released, will there be a way to pay the dlc with paysafecard ?

I don't think Itch.io accepts that. I'm sorry.

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will there a new feature where we could be rivals or dislike qiu and tamarack in the final version?

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If you're neighbors, you can dislike them already. And if you set yourself to "contesting" you can be competitive towards them right now. But there won't be an official "enemies" or "rival" relationship standing.

Can Qiu/Tamarack dislike Mc but the Mc doesn't dislike them.

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I'm afraid not.

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I just wanted to say Ive been wanting to play Our Life for a long while, so when I stumbled on the Demo for OL2 I tried it, I loved it so much I’m officially a Patreon subscriber now, I loved the beta so much i officially downloaded OL1 and all its DLC :)  keep it up bother/sister 👍 these are such beautiful games 🥰😍

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Halfway through April and I am dying to get to May.

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literally crawling through the month 

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April is coming soon! If there is an update coming up in May, April will be very difficult for me to endure😿😿😿I can't wait!!!I look forward to seeing Qiu Lin and Tami again!!😆😆😆😆😆

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OMG I CANT WAIT FOR THAT!!! I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS GAME UPDATES FOR SOOO LONG AND RN IM SUPER EXCITED WITH THAT ERVUVFHNERHN

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If an update does drop on may then it’s going to be the best graduation month ever

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YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYA OMGOMOGMGOGMGOMGOGMGMGOMGGMGMON

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YIPPEE UPDATE IN MY PARENTS WEDDING MONTH

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Wait a minute what about the shark tooth cove found and put under his bed it say remember to ask him sometime but it never comes up again

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Lol i still find it funny that one of my favourite games is getting a series now and i cant wait your work is amazing your made me laugh and cry and cove is awesome and cant wait for you to put it up on google play store and next nintendo switch or PlayStation or xbox the sky is the limit with this game hope all the best for your future you guy rock

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LETS GOOO, Public demo update on my birthday month ! 

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I have a question, will there be more characters (through DLC's) that we can date? Like Derek or Baxter in beginning and always.

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I'm afraid not. The game will already rival that game's length with just the Tamarack and Qiu content.

Okay, thanks :D

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