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 join us!

Monthly Content Summary

This month, we announced our next line of official Our Life merch! We’ll be selling two pieces: A t-shirt and a pair of socks. Both will be themed to match the ocean conservation non-profit that Cove works for: ORCA! They’ll go live on Makeship tomorrow, June 1st, and you can check out their links ahead of time here: ORCA T-shirt / ORCA Socks

GB also opened a new job call! This time, she’s looking for at least two artists to join the team. They’ll be specializing in creating the MC doll icons for OLNF. If you’re interested and haven’t applied yet, you can check out the job description here.Both Our Life Games were featured in Steam festivals this month! 🥰OLBA had a spot in the Otome Games Celebration Festival, which celebrated otome-themed visual novels. Both OLBA and OLNF were found in The Storyteller’s Festival, highlighting games that had a heavy narrative structure. 

On May 19th, we celebrated the birthday of the one and only Baxter Ward. Players across our socials shared what they initially thought of him, and answers ranged from “Why is he dressed like that?” to “I am 100% sure he is my soulmate.” Thanks for shouting out our favorite fancy man, everyone! GB reports that she is still recovering from her injury and working through it. Thank you to all who inquired!

Development Progress

This month, several new OLNF scenes were drafted. The transition between Steps 2 and 3 was completed in draft-form, as was the first day of the Step 3 prologue! GB has also pushed beyond the draft stage and has begun writing the official Step 3 content. She made the comment to me that a few weeks ago, Step 3 didn’t exist at all, and now… There’s already an hour’s worth of content! 

Finally, this month’s beta, 1.5.9, included:

Step 2 Tested Part 2

New backgrounds that were missing in prior build

Fixes to typos/errors from the prior build

Important Dates

June 1st: Month Start Blog

June 12th: Public Patreon Q&A transcript releasedJune 14th: GB Q&A

June 15th: Mid-Month UpdateJune 21st: First Day of Summer

June 30th: 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 Job CallOur Life: Beginnings & Always ORCA Merch (T-Shirt and Socks)Otome Games Celebration Festival

The Storyteller’s FestivalOL2 Beta Build

Conclusion

Summer is almost here, and Cove is probably pressed up against the window like this ✋🤩🤚 waiting for the sun to come out!Thanks for following along on another installment of our monthly check in. We appreciate your support so much and can’t wait to see you again in June.

Until next time,

Claire 🌷