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There’s something in the air… Maybe it’s the first leaf to ~fall~ or possibly Omi’s cooking — either way, we’re absolutely living for everything seasonal. 🍂 Welcome to our September 2026 Month End blog! The team is creating an autumn game and it is now autumn, so things are getting VERY real around

Residents of GB-land! Fall is right around the corner. Let’s say goodbye to August (and summer, I weep!) in style 👋 I’m here with the scoop on our team’s achievements this month. Things have been a bit different as GB recovers from her surgery, but each team member remains hard at work. Read on for

Is it hot in here or WHAT?! 🔥It could be the weather, but it’s probably just GB programming at the speed of light. Her keyboard is on fire, and so is development on Our Life: Now and Forever! (In a good way, to be clear.) Welcome to our end of July 2026 recap blog! I’m here with the team’s “I did t

☀️ 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

How’s it hangin’ fellow kids? 😎 It’s been a fabulous month over here in GB-land. The team has been working hard, dipping their toes into Step 3, and starting our next merch run along the way! We’ve got the scoop on May’s achievements here for you. Grab a dolphin balloon or your crunchiest leaf and

Dear residents of Golden Grove, For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring continues to be sprung! 💐 Can you imagine the colors on the trees in our little Oregon town right now? I supposed it would be similar to the fall that we know and love, but more green-ish. And pink-ish? Definitely so

SPRING HAS SPRUNG! 💐 Welcome to a new season, full of blooming progress on Our Life: Now & Forever. We have our monthly update here for you and we hope you enjoy it. A small caveat: This month’s blog is more condensed than usual, because I am currently moving across the country! I will be out of of

It’s the end of February, love birds! I hope you had a splendid month, full of affection (or spite, I’m not judging). We’ve got a lovely monthly wrap up for you here — it includes our usual progress and some news about the new job opening at the one, the only… GB Patch Games ‼️ Grab a discounted box

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s freezing outside. The ground is cold, the air is cold, everything is cold. But the development inside GB Patch Games… Nothing but heat, baby. 😎 Welcome to our January end of month wrap up! The team has been hard at work on Our Life: Now & Forever dev

Well, the moment has arrived. Let’s all wave a collective “goodbye” to 2025! *slow wave from everyone* *Tamarack waving unbelievably fast* *Baxter too cool to wave, offers a scoff instead* As the clock ticks down on the last few hours of this year, we hope you can look back with a full heart. Whethe

I bet you’re wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today. There’s an extremely lucrative business opportunity called growing up next to your two best friends and living out your youth with days full of wonder and piles full of leaves. Interested? Call 1-800-QIU-TAMA NOW!! 💰 *end scene* Welcome t

Today’s the last day of October! Leaves are finally falling, there’s a chill in the air, and Tamarack is throwing a paper airplane at your head. Some may call it autumn in Golden Grove, but I call it paradise. We had a few bumps as a team this month – GB was out of office and, unfortunately, came do

Whenever I start writing these blog entries, I say to myself “it simply cannot be one whole month later.” And yet, here we are! It’s the last day of September 2025. 👋 Summer is out of here, and fall has burst through our door – bringing leaves, warm meals, and chilly weather with it. This month, GB

August is just about wrapped up, and for the Northern-hemisphere-inhabitants, we’re weeks away from the first day of fall! We are about to be in full-swing Now & Forever mode, so make sure to soak up the sun while you still can. Soon, leaves will be falling, sweaters will be worn, and SOUP SEASON WI

The last day of July is here, and August is knocking on our door! (It’s asking if you want to have a tea party. Also if you have any milk and honey. For…no reason at all. 👀) Take a dip in the cool waters of this month’s wrap up blog – we’ve got a ton of exciting updates to share! 🏊💦 Monthly Conte

Summer may have just arrived, but it’s already time to give June a good ol’ Golden Grove goodbye! (The infamous GGG involves throwing a paper airplane at the departee’s head and gifting them a handful of Omi’s candy.) Let’s take a look at what went down in June! From development, to art, to communit

Well, well, well… What do we have here? Another month has flown by like Baxter sprinting from a heartfelt conversation. (What? Who said that?) May was packed with updates, celebrations, and tons of behind-the-scenes magic. We celebrated birthdays, cast our first round of voice actors, and built a co

How does that saying go? April showers bring… Dev hours? Cove flowers? Qiu powers? One of those has to be right. It’s the end of the month! We’re here to catch you up on all of the progress and activities that our team has been working on. So sit back, relax, and take a gander at the GB Patch Games

March has come to an end, folks. 🌷 This month, we saw tons of new content for the GB world: new merch, a guest artist call, March Madness, and more! Read on for all of the juicy details. Monthly Content Summary: We started the month off with the launch of our latest merch item: a Cove Holden pin se

The end of February is upon us, my friends! It may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean our team worked any less. We’ve got a ton of updates to share about what went down this month and what you can expect in March. Read on, fellow Valentines! 💕 Monthly Content Summary: On the c

January 31st ALREADY? 😳Whether you can believe it or not, we’re here to say… 🗣 Welcome to the first End of Month Update for 2025! 🎉In this edition, we’ll be covering script, programming, and art progress, as well as events that took place this month. GB has started the new year off with hard work

Welcome to the end of 2024, everyone! This is Claire, the GB Patch Community Manager, here with a final update for the year. We’d like to, first, take a moment to reflect on what was accomplished this December and, second, relive all that happened in the GB Patch world throughout 2024! It seems that

Hi everyone! This is Claire (GB's new community manager) here with your end of month update. A few new things to touch on here as we move into December. (Already? I can't believe it!) ❄️ Monthly Content Summary: In case you missed it – I officially started with GB this month! It's been so, so fun ge

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate 🥳️ This has been quite a month here at GB Patch Games. A bunch of progress was made. I'm gonna get right into it- Monthly Content Summary: I've officially hired a community manager! You'll get to talk to her soon. But don't worry, I'll still be around, especia

Edit: Oops, I needed to count up my words from yesterday to get the total and forgot to plug them into the update before it went live today. Haha, sorry for the confusion on that! Hello 👋 Another month of 2024 is over. We're already in the final stretch of the year! It's been a busy few weeks latel

Hey everyone! The last quarter of the year has nearly arrived already. There's a lot I want to get done before 2025 hits, but let's talk about what actually has been accomplished lately. Monthly Content Summary: August has been all about the Step 2 prologue. I managed to draft all of that and script

Hey everybody! Another month is behind us. Last time I wrote one of these posts, I had been feeling pretty behind. Now I'm feeling better! Things are coming along and I've managed to get over some massive hurdles. I'll explain that in the progress breakdown- Monthly Content Summary: This month I fin

Hello 👋 June is over. I wish it wasn't! I feel like I spent the entire time being behind. But there was some major progress and things can just keep going in July. The end of the month doesn't mean it's too late to do anything. So for now, let's go over what did happen these past weeks- Monthly Con

Hey everybody! The end of spring is upon us, and it was the first entirely normal development month for me in a while. Though it was only normal in the sense that I wasn't spending multiple days of May on a trip. But what I did during all those work hours was actually pretty different. Let's get int

Hello! This was a very long month for me, haha. It kind of seemed like the month that would never end, while also never allowing me to get caught up. I returned from a two week trip early in April and it took a bit to get back into the swing of things. But let's get into what was finished when devel

Hi everyone! I'm writing this ahead of time. It'll be over a week later when the post actually goes live, haha. March wasn't a full month of development for me. All of my game progress ended back on the 22nd. I left for a trip on the 23rd. I won't be home until April 7th. However, over twenty days o

Happy leap year day! How nice it is to have one more day to get things done in February. But the month is still basically over, so let's talk about the progress here at GB Patch Games. Monthly Content Summary: I finished the script for the final Step 1 base game Moment! All five are done. I also wro

The first month of the year is already done! For me, it's felt like January has already been over for days, but I don't know how this brand-new year is already not-so-new anymore, haha. But this means more progress has been made, so let's get into what it was- Monthly Content Summary: Our Life: Now

It's the last day of the year!!! I'd say we did as best we could at GB Patch Games these past twelve months. No complaints, besides the usual "how does the time keep passing so fast". I've written a review on everything that's happened around here throughout 2023. But it's also the final day of this

Hi everyone 👋 Fall is already nearly over. It went by so fast, but we made the most of it. Our Life: Now & Forever has progressed leaps and bounds compared to the pace it's been at since backburner development started all the way back in 2021. Here's what's happened over the past weeks- Monthly Con

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! And happy end of the month to those who don't! I'm posting another big update today for the Kickstarter, but that won't stop me from doing the normal monthly wrap-up, though. It's been a memorable few weeks, so lets get into how it went- Monthly Content Summar

Hi everybody! Another month has come and gone already. The leaves are beginning to change colors where I live. Fall has officially begun in the northern hemisphere. Fittingly, this was the first month that was 100% dedicated to Our Life: Now & Forever, and what an auspicious start it was, haha. Let'

Well folks, it's the end of summer in the northern hemisphere and the end of the last Our Life: Beginnings & Always real development month. There was a big final push for the Wedding Night Bonus Moment for about the first half of the month, and then I was able to move back into OL: N&F work for a co

Hi everyone! It's good to actually be here, haha. At the end of June and throughout the first half of July I was on a trip, so all those posts were scheduled in advanced and I was away when they went up. My vacation ended safely on the 15th, and I've been doing my best to get into the normal swing o

I'm on vacation! Hi everybody, this is a post I wrote a few days in advance and scheduled to go live at the normal time. Currently I'm on a trip that's going from June 29th-July 14th. It's something I planned to do once Our Life: Beginnings & Always was finally done. But speaking of, let's get into

Hi everyone 👋 This month had a lot of progress and huge happenings, though very little of it had to do with the normal game development work I usually mention in these posts. Here's a breakdown of what's gone on lately- Monthly Content Summary: After working non-stop on the Baxter DLC in April, I t

Well hello, everybody! We've made it to the end of another month. Hallelujah, as Baxter would say. And after what a month April has been, I've gotta take a little break from the games, haha. I'm taking today, as well as the next few days, almost entirely off (I've pre-scheduled this post to appear).

Hey everyone! March was a long month for me. There's been a lot to deal with outside of game development work lately, however I did manage to finish all the main goals I had set out. That's something to be proud of, and let's break it down- Monthly Content Summary: 23,000 words were outlined and 19,

Hello! We've made to the end of the month, everybody. It was awfully busy. I had to take a trip to another state last minute, which I originally thought would be done in March so it hadn't even been mentioned in the monthly plans post. And there were various other non-development matters to deal wit

Hey everybody 👋 We've had our first month of the new year and I'm very impressed with what us at GB Patch Games managed to do. It was a great way to kick off 2023! Here's the break down- Monthly Content Summary: My number one goal in January was to finish the entire draft of Baxter's DLC. If you're

Happy final wrap up of 2022! It's a combination update that will look back on the most recent month of development, and the year as a whole. There's a lot to touch on, so let's get into it. 2022 Reflections: Amazingly, I don't know how, 2022 was more successful than 2021- which was previously the mo

Happy end of November, everyone! It may or may not be holiday season for people now and I hope you're all having a nice time. We had another solid month of development here at GB Patch Games. This is the progress breakdown- Monthly Content Summary: The only main goal this month was to really get int

Happy Halloween! If you celebrate that. Derek's DLC launched over a month ago already. I've gotta thank everyone again for the support with that. It's been great to read about people enjoying his story and to see that players will still try content even when it's not Cove-based. The pull of that guy

Hello everyone! Well, the month is over and it finished on a real high note. After so long, another story has reach its end. Here's the breakdown- Monthly Content Summary: My word counts for September were 13,070 words of outline drafts and 26,540 words of properly written content for a total of 39,

Hi everyone! The final full month of summer in the northern hemisphere is over, but it was a good one. These past weeks were the productive prelude to the upcoming launch of the Derek DLC ✨ Monthly Content Summary: August was serious business. So much got done. It was the final big rush for Derek's