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GB Patch Games is proud to announce that our upcoming title, Our Life: Now & Forever, will have its Early Access release next month, November 27th at 6am US Mountain Time/8am EST! Our Life: Now & Forever is a slice-of-life romance visual novel, following you and your two neighbors from childhood thr

Wow, after all these years OL2 might be getting some physical merch! And it's so cute. We're running a poll on which of these four styles will move forward, but we're also going to do a Makeship interest check after this. If enough people sign up for that to say they want to purchase an OL2 hoodie t

Hey everybody! There’s a major update coming to Patreon as a whole that’s going to change how GB Patch’s tiers work as well. Patreon is retiring the model of subscribing for a specific month. Instead, future memberships will exclusively charge people on the day they joined, whatever that day is. If

🥳️ Wow, the GB Patch Patreon now has consistently 30,000+ followers. Patreon numbers fluctuate over the month way more than other platforms but it hasn't gone below that in weeks. That's massive, especially for a less used site. Claire made this cute gif for the occasion. Thank you to everybody who

Throughout the month of June we've got two OL1 merch options available for pre-order. There's a T-shirt and socks, both with the style of the in-game group ORCA. You can wear the same shirt Cove does! It's nice to have this going during summer. I'm not sure when we'll have OL1 merch again. There's n

Okay everyone, the MC Doll artist position is now open 🥳️. The full details are listed on the GB Patch Games' website. Job listing with info on how to contact us HERE. We'll be accepting applications until Saturday, May 30th. Starting in June, there should be a lot more MC doll option preview posts

Here's a post prepared by Claire for all our pages! It's news we want to share with everybody. Craving Cove? Look no further. Announcing: Our next line of official Our Life merch! We'll be selling ORCA-brand t-shirts and socks via Makeship, starting June 1st! Like the Cove hoodie, these will be a li

Alright, the latest GB Patch Games job position is open! We're looking to bring on two or three more programmers to help with the massive OLNF script. You can read the entire job listing with info on how to contact us on the GB Patch website HERE. Thank you to everyone who reaches out. All those sce

Hey, later this year we're planning to have some new merch for Our Life: Beginnings & Always! This time it'll be socks and a t-shirt. But there's a lot of good potential options for something like that. So, Makeship has allowed us to share the early design concepts and let players vote on which one

[The dazzling guest image is an alternate version of the art used in the month start post by caffeinana on Twitter!] Happy belated new year! I’m gonna let everybody know what’s going on with the project and our new plans for releasing Our Life: Now & Forever. I’ll start with what people most want to

Here's the gymnasium of Riverview Peak! You can't have gym class outside too often. Usually, you'll be breaking a sweat on these shiny floors. And yes, it is another artist introduction! Now that the script for Step 2 is nearly done, I know how many locations are needed. It's a lot. So many I decide

Get ready for a run! Step 2 focusing more on school means you'll have to do gym class. But this background is more exciting than just that. GB Patch has brought a new artist onto the team. Welcome Tiana (Botai) Wen! This is her work. She'll be contributing to the long list of locations you'll visiti

It's here! Our Life: Now & Forever has gotten a significant update to its free demo. More childhood wonder and teenage angst await 😄. This might be only a demo, but it has a massive script of 256,000 words (the version before was 161,000 words). Of course, it's not 256k straight through. There are

Hooray! The first Our Life apparel merch is live! I think it's really nice 🥰️. Edit: Looking for a discount? Makeship just dropped a brand new option for you If you sign up for their VIP access email list before the 28th, you can get 10% off! If you've already ordered, no worries! Simply email supp

Hello! GB Patch Games is looking for another background artist for our upcoming commercial visual novel project. Our Life: Now & Forever is a wholesome LGBTQ+ story set in a forested mountain town during fall. The game already has an existing art style, and the new artist will be required to match t

Hey, everyone! The newest GB Patch Games merch made by Makeship is coming near the end of November. Specifically, November 21, 9:00AM EST. It's an Our Life: Beginnings & Always inspired hoodie 🌊. It'll be available for a limited time only. We've never released clothing merch before. I hope you'll l

Hey! I'm now able to share what should be the finalized voiced name list for OL2. It's 1,657 options in total, haha. I hope everybody finds a name that works for them! Our Life: Now & Forever Voiced Name List Though, there is still a chance there will be small changes to the list. If a backer forgot

Hey everybody! Today's the day I'm leaving on a trip. I'll be visiting family in another state and some other out-of-state family members are gonna be there, too. It's like a partial family reunion 😄. I won't be back until the 25th of June. Little to no game development work will likely be done whi

I'm excited to announce that Our Life: Now & Forever has a new feature! Shawna has created a system that tracks choices you've made in prior playthroughs and shows which character made that choice! It's super cool and convenient. You just turn it on in the new settings screen (I showed a preview of

Thank you again to everyone who auditioned for our game! The child characters in Step 1 now have voice actors 🥳️. Each one is talented and a wonderful fit for the character. We'll share previews of their lines as development continues. You can find the voice actors here: Emily Sun: Website: https:/

Hey everyone! Starting today and ending after May 9th, we've got a casting call open for the four child characters in Step 1. So, Qiu, Tamarack, Ren, and Baxter. You can check out all the details on our website- GB Patch Casting Call Post The adults who appear in Step 1 won't get VAs until much late

For a limited time only you can get a pair of Cove Holden pins! There's only two designs included. The reason there's three images is because the window pin actually moves. You can open and close it. I got a sample pin before the launch and it's very nifty to fiddle with, haha. You can get them from

Yeah, we've got two posts today. We're running out of space in February to do things, haha. But GB Patch and Makeship are working together again on Our Life: Beginnings & Always merch 🥳️. This time it's a set of two pins. This will be launching 9am Eastern Time on March 3rd and will be for sale for

Hello again everyone, GB here! The release structure poll for Our Life: Now & Forever has closed. Nearly 10,000 people voted, and we got hundreds and hundreds of thoughts people left about the idea. I want to say thank you so much for the supportive and understanding messages. It made me pretty emot

We're hosting a content creation contest (with prizes! 🏆 ) where players can submit any medium they'd like. This contest's prompt: "Where are your MC and Cove now?" 🥰 Interested? Details here. [This post and the contest are created by our community manager, Claire!]

We've got one more announcement before we're back to normal previews, haha. There's a new account where you can follow us! Claire is gonna be doing a lot of the posting there. But I'm intending for the company to stop using Twitter once most players have had a chance to move to somewhere else. So, i

Hello everyone 👋 Today a new member of GB Patch Games is ready to meet you, Claire. She's going to be our community manager going forward. This will be for social media accounts and general updates. I'm still going to do all the posting/message answering here on Patreon. You can read the introducti

Today the artbook for Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched! It's 10% off for the first full week. Steam Page Itch.io Page This is the last piece of extra content we'll release for this game 🥺️. Thank you for everything, Sunset Bird.

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, and his iconic pink cast does too. Cove GITD Plush on Makeship It can be purchased only between now an

Very, very good news. There's finally another Our Life: Beginnings & Always plushie on the horizon!! And this time it's gonna glow 👀✨ Yes, it is Cove again. I wonder what glowing thing might be associated with him. As we all know, Cove James Holden is not a predictable boy, ahah The plush will be a

So, I’ve changed my own mind! You will be able to end up in a relationship with both Qiu and Tamarack if you want to when Our Life: Now & Forever is fully released. I originally didn't guarantee a polyamorous relationship option because I didn’t know for sure if it'd be possible to add it without pu

We have an official date for the Our Life: Now & Forever Kickstarter Campaign. It'll be going live October 10th, 2023 at 9am PST. Less than three weeks 😳 Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page An update to the game's public demo and the official trailer will be launching that same day. It's gonna be great ✨

We all remember the Voiced Name feature in the Our Life series. That's a classic. It's gonna be included in Our Life: Now & Forever. People will be able to request voiced names of their choice by supporting the upcoming Kickstarter campaign. But we know not everyone who wants a voiced name will be a

Shawna has released the entire custom pronoun system for anyone to use in their own Ren'Py projects! I know having this kind of set-up was too complicated for me to do in the first Our Life, even though it would've been ideal. It's been wonderful having it in the second OL after Shawna put it togeth

Yeah, you got me 😌. I've been hedging people's hopes on this for a long time, but it was always my goal to make it happen as long as an interest remained after the last of the proper DLCs released. And now I can finally say that we are actually making one more story with Cove Holden, or whatever la

Hey everyone! Today's post is an announcement to say that we're looking for three additional VAs for the upcoming Derek DLC. Specifically, we're getting Step 2 Jorge, Step 2 Nicolas, and adult Mr. Suarez (who's voice will be the same in Step 2 and Step 4). Later on we'll have another casting call fo

Congratulations on your wedding, everyone 🥰️! This DLC is in the running for the longest expansion word-count-wise, added way more new art assets than prior DLCs, and is very alteration heavy with tons of ways to impact the script. We went pretty all out, haha. I hope you have a nice time during th

Hey! Here's a quick reminder that in the private Patreon Discord voice chat session we're having will start in one hour and thirty minutes - 12:00pm (PDT). It'll be possible to chat through voice, listen in while commenting through text, or to just follow along if you're not comfortable jumping into

Hey guys! It's a new month and we're still safely passed the former highest goal of the Patreon. So, we've gone ahead and added something new to strive towards. Here's what we've thought of- "We'll add three new extra-special CGs to Our Life. These full screen images will show small parts of the mai

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 and placeholders, but now we've got an official date. The date is- Cove's birthday, November 2nd 2020. A

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. We know how disappointing that news must be to people who have been following the project. One of the worst thi

Hooray! Some of you may have noticed that since last month we've been going up and down between having reached the next goal and being just shy of it. We decided that was good enough and we've already hired another artist to help add more outfits to Our Life ✮. Now little Derek has his own swimsuit.

We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has joined our Patreon. We're so pleased to have reached one of our goal tiers. We'll be sure to keep things lively around here with bigger and better posts. As always, if there's anything you'd like to see us post more of, feel free to let us know!

Hello! We've got some good news for everyone. If XOXO Blood Droplets and XOXO Reunion wasn't enough jerk content for you, we've got yet another XOD related project in the works. Amazing, aha. The OG XOXO Droplets is getting a revamped version! It will have brand new character art, CGs, and interface