Our Life: Now & Forever
Our Life: N&F - 2025 Plans
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Can you believe it? IT’S 2025! 🎉We hope this year is full of completed goals, fulfilled dreams, and time spent for YOU. (Perhaps with a GB Patch game? 🤭)
So, what’s the plan for OL2 this year? More below, but we can confirm that there will be at least one more major demo launch update for folks to explore. Keep an eye out for more updates and estimates on Patreon and our socials. We frequently have news to share regarding daily progress and would love for you to see them.
Let’s push on toward GB’s hopes and dreams for 2025 ✨!
2025 Schedule:
Hey everyone, it’s GB Lady writing this part of the post! Claire handled the rest of the update. However, I wanted to explain how things were going with Our Life: Now & Forever. My hope was that the base game and some DLCs would release near the very end of this very year, late November most likely. Even though 2025 has just started, I can already see that we might not hit that goal. I’ve made mistakes these past few months.
There was a certain amount of work I needed to have done by the end of 2024 to keep to the planned schedule. Step 1 needed to be fully written. That happened! The massive Step 2 prologue had to get checked off, I did that too. But I wanted to have at least four Step 2 Moments scripted out. Instead, I’m at two and a half. One and a half Moments isn’t massive in the grand scheme of the project, but it’s not that likely I’ll work fast enough to make up for being that behind. I could catch up on a few days of progress, but this being multiple weeks’ worth of work makes it more complicated. Plus, if I ever get sick during 2025 or decide to go see family, I could get even more behind. By the end of 2025, the game could still need a few months, not just to finish the writing but to then edit/proofread, program, and test the late scripts.
The problems began when I started writing those Step 2 Moments. To be honest, I haven’t been confident in creating the teenage time period. The leads are going through a tough time and I don’t know if I’m portraying it well or if any of this is enjoyable. When I feel unsure of myself, I tend to overcompensate by making things bigger, an “if it’s not quality it can at least be quantity” type of deal.
I already accounted for Step 2 scenes being longer than Step 1 in my plans since there’s more alterations to consider, yet these first few Moments have still taken more time than I ever anticipated. It’s gotta stop. In 2025 I need to get a grip. I have to be stricter with myself on designing scenes no matter how much I feel compelled to expand and expand.
So, what is either going to end up happening is there could be some Moments in Step 2 that feel unusually pared down or short to make up for the unexpectedly long ones, or we’ll have to accept the loss, keep going as normal from here, and the game ends up delayed until 2026. No matter what, we’ll keep you informed.
I’m sorry to start the year on a low note like that. In better news, there will be another public demo update coming in 2025! It will expand the Step 2 prologue more.
There will be multiple casting calls to bring VAs onto the team for OL2. You’ll finally get to hear what these characters sound like! Then perhaps 2025 will finally be the year Our Life comes out on the Google Playstore or gets verified for Macs. We’ll see. Anything could happen.
But that’s mainly it. Thank you so much for following along with this grand story adventure. We’ll keep doing our best to actually finish something. Happy new year, everybody 🥳️
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And there you have it! Whether it’s new asset reveals, demo updates, fan contests, or reliving some OL1 throwbacks, you’re in for a treat this year. We promise to work hard to bring you the content you love, with some surprises along the way. We hope the next 365 days are everything you hope they could be – we’ll be there every step of the way. Happy New Year to you all!
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Please take all the time you need! You put so much thought and heart into the stories you tell, and I'm perfectly happy to wait longer. Also, please don't forget to take care of yourself and your health first and foremost. That's more important than any game, no matter how beloved. We'll still be here whenever you're ready.
Regardless of how long i have to wait ill be excited, now and forever! And good games take time. You can do it🙏🙏
Thank you so much GBPatch and Amazing work! Take your time and breaks if needed and take care of yourself! Thanks for all of your hard work 😁😁🤗
Don't feel that you have to rush or be pressured we will all wait and making mistakes is perfectly okay. It's apart of it all together and I'm so excited to see a new update. I'm absolutely sure that your writing skills and that your abilities are fantastic! Happy New Year!!
Good work for what you've already accomplished. take breaks if you need them, take your time to flesh out ideas. If it gets delayed, then it gets delayed. i do believe we can all wait for how ever long it takes. Just make sure your health doesn't go down and to also give us updates when you can! :3
Thank you so much for all the hard work! Please take care in the new year: hydrate, rest, connect with friends and family.
And as many others already mentioned: There's no need to feel rushed or pressured. We all love what you're doing and are willing to wait.
Also, happy new year everyone! Here's to a lovely year ahead.
You're doing great! You say mistakes, I say necessary prioritization. It's all part of the process and there are many of us who are happy to wait as long as needed for a final product that you can feel proud of. These are your precious characters and while I am so excited to be a part of their stories, I know that with your story telling abilities the wait will be well worth it. Take good care of them, but first and most importantly, take good care of yourself <3 Thanks for your hard work!!
AH we can wait!!! know we all love what you're doing and if you think it's not up to your standards then we'll wait for it!!
I assure you I'm not speaking alone in the fact that we can wait for the game to come out if it means it's better, more polished, and up to your standards. Take your time <3
Now it has definitely become a race between the release on this or GTA 6 bro, i can't wait to finally play both
Take your time, i know it'll be amazing either way, we don't care it might get delayed to 2026, do whatever you can do to make this game an incredible experience. Thank you for the hard work
Take your time. I will wait as long as necessary for this masterclass of a game. THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK!
I'm willing to wait,i'll even wait all ywars just to see Mx.Qiu!! They stole my hearts :p take ur time and PLEASE! Take care of yourself! OL:NF is a great,no amazing game. And i'm willing to wait^^
i have stuck around for this game for a while,loved every minute, and i will stick around however long the rest of it takes! please take care of yourself in the new year!
Very much looking forward to the game's release! Of course take your time and don't overwork yourself. And, I'll be looking for that casting call when it comes out.
omgg I'm so excited! I love step 2 Qiu, I feel very related to them in many ways,, take your time, your game is already amazing and we can all wait a bit more if you need to rest or anything! wish you luck 💪💗
Im willing to wait! this looks awesome! (plus ill just keep myself busy playing with Cove lol)
Hey, this may be an unpopular opinion, but if it takes you 'til 2026 to release something you're proud of, I'd rather that then something less planned out. Writing is hard, and I'm sure the significant majority of us are appreciative of all the work you put into making OL so fantastic. I trust y'all's judgement on what needs to happen before release. xx
Pace yourself. Our Life is already an amazing concept (Genre? Whatever word works XD), so anything you want to add but feel like might take too long can be added later :)
You guys make a amazing work, take some time and rest, all of you deserve! <3 hugs from Portugal <3!!!!
I waited this far, and I could keep waiting for how long you guys may need to not just complete the game, but to make sure everything is at where it should be, take your time to feel the inspiration and life experiences to finally be able to fully write the script the way you wanted it to be, so it won't become an stressful process for you, I'm pretty sure I will enjoy anything GB Patch drop to us for this game, I already love it and nothing can change that! Sending love from Brazil ❤️🇧🇷