​Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Devlog

• Cove Step 1 Plushie Now Available for Limited Time!
  November 24, 2023 by GBPatch

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  Yes, Cove James Holden is once again available in plushie form! Though this time he's eight-years-old and has some nifty extra features. He comes with a detachable firefly ball that actually glows, an... Continue reading

  
• Our Life: Beginnings & Always - The Last Major Update
  June 23, 2023 by GBPatch

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  Today Our Life version 1.7.1 went live! It fixed the errors reported for Baxter's DLC and added a handful of improvements throughout the entire game. If there are any updates beyond this, they will on... Continue reading

  
• Our Life: 2023 Goals
  January 01, 2023 by GBPatch

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  [ The beautiful guest art piece is by allie_ozS on Twitter ] Welcome to another year everybody ✨!!! We’ve got Baxter, Tamarack, and Qiu to celebrate with us. It is their year, after all. It's alwa... Continue reading

  
• Our Life 1.6.1
  October 06, 2022 by GBPatch

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  Hello! Thank you to everyone who has played the Derek DLC, and thank you for the feedback on it, too. We've released a patch to solve some problems people were having. Mainly, there were issues if you... Continue reading
• Our Life Version 1.5.4
  May 22, 2022 by GBPatch

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  Hey everyone! 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... Continue reading
• Cove Plushie Now Available (Limited Time Only)!
  April 29, 2022 by GBPatch

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  Cove Plushie Campaign Page ☀ 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... Continue reading

  
• Cove Plushie Coming Soon! + Giveaway
  April 22, 2022 by GBPatch

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  The baby boyfriend is coming to the real world as some actual merch that you can get!! Cove Holden plushies will be on sale in about a week, which is very hard to believe for me personally, haha. But... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Build 1.5.3
  April 01, 2022 by GBPatch

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  We've released a new bug patch for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. It removed the issue with the Jeremy sprite staying on screen too long in the Wedding DLC, a couple cases where characters would recal... Continue reading
• Wedding DLC Release Date & Plushie Poll!
  February 01, 2022 by GBPatch

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  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 everythi... Continue reading

  
• Happy New Year!!!
  January 01, 2022 by GBPatch

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  2021 was GB Patch’s most successful year by far and I want to seriously thank everyone for the support. Thanks to that we were able to expand each new part of Our Life: Beginnings & Always past what... Continue reading

  
• Our Life: Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉
  November 16, 2021 by GBPatch

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  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 cou... Continue reading

  
• Our Life 1.4.1 Patch!
  September 26, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We’ve released a bug fix patch for Step 4 of Our Life! These are the patch notes: · The errors on the character/Cove creation screens are gone · The game skipping to the wrong Step is resolved ·... Continue reading
• Our Life Step 4 is out now! 🎉🎉🎉
  September 18, 2021 by GBPatch

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  You can finally continue your story after the credit sequence with a final five-year time-skip. Return to Sunset Bird once more for a heartwarming epilogue. Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a nostalgi... Continue reading

  
• Step 4 Launch: Sept 18th, 2021!
  September 16, 2021 by GBPatch

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  Our Life: Beginnings & Always Step 4 launches in two days!! Amazing. It’s a free update that continues the story past the ending credits. It adds about 80,000 more words to the script. Step 4 is an... Continue reading

  
• 15k Twitter Follower Giveaway!
  August 27, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We're at 15,000 followers on Twitter! That's crazy. To celebrate, we're giving 50 randomly chosen entrants the Our Life: Beginnings & Always DLCs for all three Steps. Click HERE for the tweet to enter... Continue reading

  
• Patreon Bonus Moment Release!
  July 06, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We've released some extra content for Our Life: Beginnings & Always exclusively to our Patreon! The download is available at the Fan tier ($5USD) or higher. And the event will remain on the Patreon fo... Continue reading

  
• Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Mini-Clip 5
  May 19, 2021 by GBPatch

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  Cove spots an opportunity to bring up his most brilliant idea once again in this first video preview of Our Life Step 4! Yeah, it turns out adult Cove is still really cute, haha. We're still working a... Continue reading
• 10k Twitter Giveaway!
  April 29, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We reached an absolutely immense amount of followers on Twitter today. To show some appreciation, we're giving 100 randomly chosen fans the Our Life: Beginnings & Always DLC of their choice! Winners c... Continue reading

  
• Our Life New Patch
  April 20, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We've released another update! For PC, Mac, and Steam. Android is still in the works. It fixed the issues with the display for the Late Shift CG and the typo/grammar issues reported. You'll need to re... Continue reading
• Paypal & File Issues Info!
  April 16, 2021 by GBPatch

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  Hello! *UPDATE* Paypal seems to be working as an option again! -------------------------------------------- Thank you so much to all the people who have gotten, or want to get, the Step 3 DLC already... Continue reading
• Our Life: Step 3 DLC Launch!
  April 16, 2021 by GBPatch

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  The Step 3 DLC for Our Life: Beginnings & Always is officially out! The day has finally come. Thank goodness. Spend even more time in the summer of young adulthood by doubling the amount of Moments av... Continue reading

  
• Android Build Voiced Name Fix!
  March 08, 2021 by GBPatch

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  We've got a quick post to say that the voiced name version of the Android build was fixed so that the selected voiced name will properly play. Thank you for waiting for that to be updated! In other ne... Continue reading
• Our Life Build 1.2 Android Launch + Small Bug Fixes!
  February 19, 2021 by GBPatch

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  Thank you for waiting! We've got a small post today to say that the Android build now has its 1.2 update. The PC and Mac builds were also given a small update to fix a couple errors players caught. We... Continue reading
• Our Life Build 1.2 Launch + 100 New Voiced Names! (PC & Mac)
  February 15, 2021 by GBPatch

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  Hello everyone! Thank you very much for your patience on the next update for Our Life. Every time we added the "final touch", we came up with something else to improve. But the latest version is final... Continue reading
• HAPPY NEW YEAR!
  January 01, 2021 by GBPatch

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  (Unless it’s not for you where you are yet. In that case, happy almost new year!) Things did not go as we expected in 2020, but we managed to release the main story of Our Life: Beginnings & Always... Continue reading

  
• Android Update! Our Life Build 1.1 + Voiced Name DLC
  December 04, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Thank you for waiting for this! We've now released an updated version of the Android build for Our Life, plus you can get the Voiced Name DLC for it. You can get the new version of Our Life by uninsta... Continue reading
• Voice Name DLC Release & Our Life Build 1.1! (Android Ver. Coming Later)
  November 30, 2020 by GBPatch

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  The Voiced Name DLC has released! You can now add preset voiced names to your game build and have Cove say your name of choice aloud. However, it'll only work for Windows, Linux, and Mac currently. Th... Continue reading
• Step 4 Cove Preview! Happy 5,000 Followers
  November 23, 2020 by GBPatch

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  We hit 5,000 followers on Itch recently and hit the same amount on Twitter today. To celebrate this milestone, we're sharing fully grown Cove. Well, some of him. Step 4 Cove has 2 body types he can gr... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Beginnings & Always is OUT!
  November 16, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Art by @_noanagi on Twitter Everyone, we’ve finally made it. Our Life has released! You can play the entire game for free from start to finish right now. Plus, you can enter to win fun prizes by sha... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Giveaway! MC Showcase Style
  November 14, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hey everyone, to celebrate Our Life’s release on the 16th we’re having a neat giveaway. If you want a chance at getting DLC keys for the game or another Our Life prize, you’re welcome to come be... Continue reading

  
• Release Delay to November 16th, 2020
  September 16, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hello, Unfortunately, news continues to be pretty awful for my personal life and so also for the development progress of Our Life. The main announcement is that because of outside circumstances stoppi... Continue reading
• Our Life: Demo Expansion! (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android)
  August 01, 2020 by GBPatch

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  We’ve released another large expansion for the public Our Life: Beginnings & Always demo. For those who’ve played prior builds, the big addition for this version is a brand new, full-sized Moment... Continue reading

  
• July Update Plans: Patreon & Public Builds
  July 03, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hello everyone! We've got an update today to talk about game expansions. The latest update for the Our Life: Beginnings & Always beta build is available for those backing us on Patreon. GB Patch Patre... Continue reading

  
• June Demo Expansion (All Builds)!
  June 17, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Our Life has continued its development and we’ve just released the latest update for the public demo ☀ Features: A 78,000 word script, up from 67,000 words in the prior version. The complete versi... Continue reading

  
• Official Release Date Announcement!
  June 01, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hello everyone! Happy first day of June and the start of pride month ☀. We've got an extra update to announce the specific day we're going to be releasing Our Life! There's been general estimates an... Continue reading

  
• Our Life: Demo and Beta Expansions! (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android)
  May 13, 2020 by GBPatch

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  We’ve largely improved/expanded the Our Life demo again! Some important changes and additions had to be done, so while making the new build we figured we might as well add more content too. Itch.io... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Beta Build Released on Patreon! (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
  April 15, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Our Life: Beta Build 0.45 Released! We're excited to announce that the latest beta for Our Life has gone live for our Patreon and Kickstarter supporters. The beta build is over 135,000 words long and... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Demo Expansion! (PC, Mac, Linux, Android) EDIT
  April 11, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hey everyone! The Our Life demo had been pretty long and gave a fairly good impression of what the full game would be like. That was our original hope for the demo. Though, at 44,000 words we thought... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Patreon beta now includes all of Step 1!
  April 02, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Every month we add more content to the beta build of Our Life. Recently it hit a major milestone, it now has all 10 Moments of Step 1. People who get the beta can play through the entirety of the chil... Continue reading

  
• PAX Demo Released for Backers ☀
  March 04, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hey everybody! As a special thanks, we’ve just released the PAX demo to everyone who has donated to Our Life: Beginnings & Always (Windows, Mac, and Linux). If you supported the Kickstarter last yea... Continue reading

  
• Really Important Game Info Updates!
  February 24, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hello! 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. W... Continue reading
• Our Life Demo Major Update! (PC, Mac, Linux, and Android)
  February 15, 2020 by GBPatch

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  Hey, everyone! That demo update we’ve been promising has arrived! Hooray! It’s been improved/expanded in pretty much every way. Here’s the breakdown on what’s new: The script has been expa... Continue reading
• PAX East Indie MEGABOOTH Appearance (Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2020)!
  February 11, 2020 by GBPatch

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  We’re a part of the Indie MEGABOOTH, specifically as a member of the Visual Novel Reading Room . OL is just one leg of the team. Along with us you’ll be able to see Green Solid with their ghost hu... Continue reading

  
• Android Demo Update!
  December 14, 2019 by GBPatch

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  The Android version of the Our Life demo got its update. The content is all the same as the Windows/Linux/Mac update that already came out, we just had some extra errors to fix for that build. As a re... Continue reading
• Demo Visual Update!
  December 04, 2019 by GBPatch

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  The demo has been updated! This update is mainly various visual improvements. Next year is when the script expansion update will happen. If you’ve already played the demo, the new current version ma... Continue reading

  
• Kickstarter is Over, Now Hiring!
  November 11, 2019 by GBPatch

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  The Our Life Kickstarter is over! Thank you so much for the incredible amount of support we got 💕. We're so thrilled with how the campaign went and we're excited to continue with the rest of devel... Continue reading

  
• Final 2 Days!
  November 08, 2019 by GBPatch

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  Hi! We’re in the final 48-Hours of the Our Life campaign ★ And there’s one stretch goal remaining. We’re so close to the end now. If you’ve been interested in Our Life: Beginnings & Always... Continue reading

  
• One Week Left! Paypal Donations, Cove B-Day, Bonus Reward
  November 02, 2019 by GBPatch

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  Hello everybody! We reached the wedding DLC stretch goal so every tiered supporter of the Kickstarter will be getting it for free ❤ We’re into the final week of the Kickstarter campaign now. We've... Continue reading

  
• Demo Errors Fixed, Kickstarter Fourth Stretch Goal Nearly Reached
  October 18, 2019 by GBPatch

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  Hello! We put out a bit of an update to the demo builds. There was an error with the Android version that prevented some people from continuing the demo. That's all fixed up. There have been a couple... Continue reading

  
• Our Life Funded + Stretch Goals!
  October 12, 2019 by GBPatch

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  We've been funded! After only ten hours, no less. By the end of the first day we had hit the first stretch goal as well. And now we're close to the second. Thank you guys so much for all this support... Continue reading

  
• ​Kickstarter Live & Expanded Demo!
  October 11, 2019 by GBPatch

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  Our Life is now on Kickstarter! There's lots of rewards to choose from, so please give it a look. We've also released the 2.0 version of the demo. Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/project... Continue reading

  
• Voiced Name Preview Video!
  October 01, 2019 by GBPatch

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  The voiced name screen is working and we've got the voice acting to go along with it! We released a little preview video so people can have an idea of what it's like. Right now there's only a handful... Continue reading
• Preview Kickstarter Page!
  September 13, 2019 by GBPatch

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  We’ve got a public draft of the Our Life Kickstarter up! There’s a bunch of new information about the game and cute screenshots/video clips that haven’t been shown before. You can even see Step... Continue reading

  
• Voiced Name Feature!
  September 07, 2019 by GBPatch

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  We have some nifty news! The basics for a brand new feature in Our Life are working and we're excited to share it. This is the Voiced Name screen- Like most of our previous games, Our Life will have p... Continue reading

  
• New Hair Colors! (PC & Mac, Not Yet Android​)
  August 24, 2019 by GBPatch

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  [Another XOXO Droplets reference, haha] We were planning on slowly adding more hair color options over time, since it takes a while to get each done, but the response to the demo has been so kind, and... Continue reading

  
• Page Live & Demo Released!
  August 23, 2019 by GBPatch

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  Hey! The Itch.io page and demo for Our Life are both now up and running. Hooray! It's been a long time coming and we hope you'll enjoy the start of your life in Sunset Bird. Go ahead and let us know w... Continue reading