welcome to the neighborhood!

Having two main leads in an Our Life game has been a lot of fun, haha. It certainly keeps things lively in that town.

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

Steam Page Itch.io Page

Here are the fourteen-year-old versions of the extra-snazzy character bios! It’s such a lovely display for such unfortunate circumstances, haha. Step 2 is a rough time.

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

Steam Page Itch.io Page

We’ve got extra-fancy character bios for the Our Life: Now & Forever leads! Here’s the Step 1 versions. The text is the same from when they were first revealed, but it’s a super nice update in the aesthetic 💖 

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

Steam Page Itch.io Page

Qiu’s side sprite, except! The hood is up this time 💞

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Steam Page Itch.io Page

And now here’s Qiu’s charming Step 3 side sprite ✨

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Steam Page Itch.io Page

[The beautiful guest art piece is by allie_ozS on Twitter]

Welcome to 2023 everybody ✨!!!

We’ve got Baxter, Tamarack, and Qiu to celebrate with us. It is their year, after all.

It’s always an exciting time thinking about everything that could happen over the course of a new year. Our Life: Beginnings & Always will at long last get its final DLC and Our Life: Now & Forever will be the major project in development. That’s amazing. 

Speaking of, there are two major launches planned for 2023 at GB Patch Games.

Our Life: Beginnings & Always – Baxter’s Story DLC

Second Quarter (April-June)

Our Life: Now & Forever Demo Expansion + Crowdfunding Launch

Third Quarter (July-September)

And those happen to be all the goals I’m setting for 2023. We’re keeping it simple, haha. I usually love to plan out as many milestones as I can, and it never works out as intended. Because of that I’m sticking to only the most central production points for the official goals.

But that’s not to say there won’t be anything else to look forward to over these next twelve months, it’ll just be a surprise for you, and me, what ends up actually happening.

For one example, it was mentioned in the year review post that right now the Google Playstore releases are on hold until an error is fixed in the engine we use. There is a chance we’ll be able to start putting games on that storefront in 2023, but it can’t be guaranteed or given a specific date.

And another consideration is that with Our Life: Now & Forever coming to the forefront of development, I’ll want to have something else on the backburner. As excited as I am for the game, I couldn’t only work on OL2 until it’s complete. At least part of my efforts this year will be going into creating another piece of content. But I don’t know exactly which, or if it’ll only be one thing. There are multiple options. One of these days there might be some interesting previews appearing on the Patreon, and then later on the public social media as well.

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Along with these year-long goals, I’ve noted the usual monthly plans in the full post HERE.

And with the updating done, I wanna give all my appreciation to our players! I’m able to go into 2023 knowing with total certainty that I can spend this year working on developing our projects. GB Patch Games has gotten so much support from people who love the Our Life series, and our older games too. It’s absolutely wonderful, and I never want to take it for granted. For however many more years I’m around to do this, I’ll do my best to make all your kindness and encouragement worth the while.

Thank you again for coming here to see how things are going! I hope we’ll all have a wonderful 2023 💕. 

This is Qiu’s Step 3 expression sheet. Very charming 💞. And as usual, all the brows/eyes/mouths can be mixed and matched between each other to make even more reactions!

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Steam Page Itch.io Page

The Our Life Now & Forever Demo has been updated!

Thank you to everyone who has been looking forward to this. If you’ve played the demo before, here’s a quick rundown of what’s new; 25,000 more words, new MC doll accessories, the ‘create your own MC bio’ feature, sound effects through all scenes, plus other small tweaks and improvements.

Besides the build itself, the store pages were remade to feature new promotional art, screenshots, and an improved description. Progress and polish for the game are coming along very well 💕.

Itch.io Page (PC, Mac, Android)

Steam Page (PC Only)

Game Premise:

Fall settles over the charming mountain town of Golden Grove as the story begins. But it isn’t only glittering leaves that are changing. You and your mom leave behind everything you knew before when you move to a new home nestled right in the middle of a tight knit cul-de-sac. It’s there where a paper airplane lands at your feet and brings you to unanticipated crossroads.

Make your own path through life as you grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. Even in the chilly autumn weather, it’ll be a truly heartwarming time.

Demo Features:

A 75,000-word script and dozens of choices to make

Design your own MC in terms of appearance, identity, personality, and preferences

Make a personalized bio image for your MC that can be saved and shared

Develop your own custom dynamic with the two leads

Customize the font style and textbox arrangement to suit your preferences

Enjoy a music room to listen to the OST at your leisure

Thanks again for waiting for the update. It’s been great seeing how excited people are to spend more time in the town of Golden Grove. I hope you have a wonderful afternoon there in these new scenes!

As you might have been waiting for, here’s the second of the traditional promo pieces that come along with every Step! It’s so beautiful 😭💖

And there’s a growing up gif too! 

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Steam Page Itch.io Page

There’s one more thing that promo piece I’ve been sharing is used for, and it’s to be part of a growing up progression! Look at them go 💕

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Steam Page Itch.io Page