#our life forever and always

[frogprincessmack]

Therapy isn't enough. I need Cove Holden to knock on the second-story window of my childhood home during the night to invite me in on one of his ideas.

[mintesprig]

I love me a good autistic coded babygirl~

feeds my soul

[am0ngtheb0nes]

Peregrine Hawthorne - another Our Life 2 MC. I cannot wait for this game.

[invierlaces]

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[chronicowboy]

this post & merthur

[gb-patch]

GB Patch Games: Response About Sensitivity Reader

[Some of you might not have heard of this happening, but I wanted to address it across the board]

Hey everyone,

I want to make a post about the screenshots of comments from one of our sensitivity readers. The situation is that neither me or Rose want people to feel uncomfortable with Our Life: Now & Forever, but Rose hasn’t done anything terribly wrong and isn’t going to be punished.

The comment about OL MCs wasn’t meant to be genuine hatred towards all male players/MCs of OL. Rose wrote a reply about it-

"Hi everyone! This is Rose, I want to address the male MC comment since it was taken wildly out of context and without the lengthy discussion that was after it. I don't hate male MCs, in fact far from it, male MCs are integral to the story in OL:NF as female and trans MCs are. I think the relationship they could potentially have with Qiu could be a great asset in my opinion as they figure out their gender alongside the MC. The discussion itself was about how I noticed players were sticking to heteronormative norms by shipping Tamarack with a man purely out of societal norms than it was genuine thought into the characters and how I personally wished there was more sapphic relationships with Tamarack or just Tamarack with trans characters as a sapphic trans person myself. I didn't mean to offend anyone by it as no one but my friends who understood what I legitimately meant behind my message and it definitely wasn't meant to be seen seriously. I am sorry regardless to anyone I have offended and I love your male MCs regardless."

And most of the comments were about me. I’ve seen screenshots of the full conversations and they’re not as harsh as the cropped snippets made them out to be. It was longer discussions about not including Derek in any base game Moments for no good reason and not having any plus-sized love interests in OL1 because I was afraid players wouldn’t accept it. That’s not a lie, it’s what I decided for the game I created, and it is ridiculous of me. I’m the one who should be feeling embarrassed over how OL1 will forever be that way, not the people who remember that I did that. I’m not perfect and Rose actually cares more about the players than making me feel like I am flawless.

I also don’t want to tone police an employee venting about their boss in private, on their own time. Both the OL games deal with personal, important topics. This is sensitive work, and it can bring up frustrations. Sometimes people do use harsh words among friends, but they wouldn’t ever say it to a person seriously and directly.

I understand if you wouldn’t want to see anyone speak badly of a dev you like, but I promise it’s not a point of contention between me and Rose. I don’t feel mistreated in anyway. Rose genuinely cares about the Our Life series, and that’s why they get fed up with me over certain parts of the game.

Rose has never been unkind or unreasonable to me when working on the project, and their advice is detailed and well-explained. They do care about the game and want it to avoid having content that upsets people because of my own ignorance/shortcomings.

This being shared publicly from a private server is targeting Rose and seems to be a continuation of things that have happened before this. I don’t want this to continue happening. If you do still have concerns over the one comment about the community, you can let me know. But again, I don’t want people being mistrustful of Rose on my behalf for comments about me in conversations with missing context.

Do not send angry messages to Rose about any of this. We’ll do our best so that OL2 will be better than I was before. Thank you to everyone who reads this and participates in the community!

[aoi1dee]

me: im not going to post or draw today i just not feeling it

pinterest: alright buddy here are memes to draw our life characters over

[dreamtydraw]

*check my notes* the whole gang is here !!!! Had the pleasure to work on all this comissions for the lovely @meesherbeans !!!

[mojo-is-rising]

Using Our Life to live through the childhood I didn't have and using keyframes to live through the college life I don't have because there's something inherently wrong with me but I don't know how to fix it

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

do you ever just

and then

[minthe-drawings]

Return to golden grove (29 and 28 year old baxscar design)

[mintesprig]

Still thinking about Love at The Milky Way Diner. I fully think it will eventually be one of my peak comfort games along with Our Life. The demo was so cute, and fueled my need for cozy scifi.

[am0ngtheb0nes]

There’s something special about the memories made in a breath of sunlight.

[mistyscenter]

Something that I appreciate about the Our Life games is how they deal with gender, regarding the MC that is.

Granted, the OLNF pronouns system is legit the best pronouns system for Trans people, you can even add neopronouns and that is very cool.

But I do love that in OLBA you can be a trans man and still present feminine if you so do wish, I love that you can be non binary and have top surgery without having to go on hrt, I love you can straight up choose to not medically transition.

Genuinely is the type of gender fuckery that I live for, these games are so trans friendly when it comes to their customization of trans MCs and I adore that

[covesdadappreciation]

[gb-patch]

Why do the MCs never have a father?

In OL1 I wanted the MC to have same sex parents. I couldn't have them be two dads because the story already gave so much attention to Mr. Holden. It just made sense for them to be moms.

In OL2, the MC had to have a single parent to make it easier to handle. It would've been too hard to have a mom and dad that you could tweak the appearance of and have an entirely custom relationship dynamic with. The family relationship was simple in OL1 and I wanted it to be more complicated in OL2. However, I didn't want to repeat the story of a single dad moving to a new town with their young child. So, once again it is because of Cliff, aha. I ultimately decided to have the OL2 parent be a mom who chose to have a biological child on her own to make it very different from what happened with Cove and Cliff.