Month End Post: June 2026 Wrap-Up
☀️ SUMMER IS HERE! ☀️
You know what else is here? Our end of month recap! Welcome to our June blog, where we dish out what the team has been up to recently.
Grab your beach towel and a cute drink, because we’re about to soak up the sun. And by “the sun”, I mean development progress on your favorite indie visual novel. 😎
Monthly Content Summary
We have three new team members! Please give a warm welcome to our new MC doll icon artists:
We are so excited to have them on board, and are very grateful for their help in getting OLNF to the finish line.
Second, this month we opened pre-orders for the (indefinite) final run of Our Life: Beginnings & Always merch! We have an ORCA-themed shirt and sock pair available, and we hope you think they’re cute. 🥺👉👈 The window to order is open until July 1st, at 12:00pm CDT, so swing by the page ASAP if you’re interested!
If you’re on the fence about picking up a piece of merch, Makeship has made us a deal: If we reach 1,900 pre-orders (collectively), all orders will come with a very cute Cove sticker, seen here! ⬇️The goal has been reached!
On the theme of merch: Makeship hosted a giveaway last week, and gifted two lucky winners both ORCA merch items. Congratulations to them!
We celebrated two historical holidays this month: Pride Month and Juneteenth!
Development Progress
Alright, let’s jump into development progress!
Our new programmers have started sending in scripts, and GB has been focusing on finishing those. She notes that way more programming progress was completed this month than usual. Icon!
WE’VE GOT NEW MUSIC! Two new tracks came out this month, (titled: Awkward and Chill) and were placed into the beta. They were created by the same composer who worked on earlier OLNF tracks.
In art, this month held lots of progress for Step 2 — most of the time was spent finishing what remained of the S2 assets.
Finally, this month’s beta included:
Step 2 Tested Part 3
Step 2 PJ Day Part 3
Added new music tracks throughout Step 1 & 2
Added backgrounds that were missing in prior build
Fixes to typos/errors from the prior build
Important Dates
July 1st: Month Start Blog
July 10th: Public Patreon Q&A transcript released
July 12th: GB Q&A
July 16th: Mid-Month Update
July 31st: End of Month Blog
Important Links
Here’s a quick reminder that we are now releasing the public version of the Patreon Q&A transcript on the second Friday of each month instead of being linked below. This gives our team a bit more time to put it together, and we appreciate your understanding. 🙏
New artist portfolios
Conclusion
That’s a wrap on our first summer blog of 2026. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, stay cool (literally)! If you’re not, you can still stay cool (metaphorically).
Thanks for joining us for another update, and I’ll see you again in exactly one month!
Very warm regards,
Claire ☀️
Comments (7)
I know that the linked Moments are far more complicated than the regular Moments, but I didn't think about PJ Day not having the final part, considering the computer room part felt like the end of that Moment to me. Now I'm going to have make sure to play it through, or there'll be a missing gap that I'd never know about.😳☺️
Quick question is part 3 the final part for tested? Since i plan on resuming the beta once i'm no longer stuck on that moment.
i think so! i finished the recent beta build and was able to complete tested all the way through :D
may I ask how those characters are part of the lgbt community? Maybe i'm unaware of step 3 lore, but like, Yusuf, Opal, Vianca?? (the rest are obvious lmao but these three caught me off guard)
Yusuf is an intersex trans man, Opal is asexual, and Vianca is a lesbian :]
How many full moments does step 2 have in the beta so far now?
As of this beta, there are four completed moments for Step 2.