Our Life: Beta Build 0.83! (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android)
Added 2020-10-27 19:21:55 +0000 UTCWe did it! Our Life's base version, plus the Step 1 and Step 2 Cove DLCs, are fully programmed. The beta now allows you to play from start to finish. It's pretty nerve-wracking to share. The ending has been a long time coming and now it's here.
Please don't hesitate to let us know what you think of the conclusion/the game as a whole. We'd really like to hear how you felt it came together overall.
New Content:
- 444,000 words in total
- The Step 2 to Step 3 intro narration was added
- The complete Step 3 ending is playable
- Cove in Step 3 can now be determined through the choices you make in Step 2
- You can choose and decorate your own bedroom in Step 3
- The gallery base screen was added, though the CGs don't unlock yet
- Errors were fixed from before
- If you're at Fond or Crush during Step 2, the fourth level of relationship (Love), can be unlocked during Step 3. If you were indifferent during Step 2 then Crush will still be the highest option.
What's Missing:
- Terri's swimsuit
- A couple CGs for Cove
Known Errors:
- The Cove creator might not let you choose what pants he wear
- Some of the decorative layers that can decorate the MC's room got save weirdly and look all pixel-y
- Sometimes Cove is wearing the wrong clothing layer in Step 3
- Saves from the old beta or the public demo will have errors if used with the new version. Please start a brand new file!
- New events don't have voice acting for most characters yet
- If you run into any kind of error report screen, hitting the Ignore option once or twice will generally let the game continue past that point.
And I just want to thank you all for being a part of this development process. The game wouldn't be nearly as good as it is without your support and feedback. And we're going to keep making improvements until the public release, and after the release too. But for now, I hope it lived up to expectations ❤
Comments
Thank you for explaining what you experienced! Cove does want to touch the MC and be affectionate with them. There's quite a lot of times when he does. You only got two kisses from him it sounds like, but there are several opportunities within the game for it, they just must not have happened. Our Life always prioritizes player choice over Cove just doing something towards them, and that can make things feel one-sided. But, based on your choices, there are spots peppered in each scene where Cove gets romantic/affectionate on his own. What you get depends on what you've decided, how long you've been an official couple, and the game's assumption on whether or not it's okay for him to do it without there being a choice on it. Usually, people get enough of those alterations to not feel like he's uninterested. But things didn't go that way in your playthrough and I can see how you'd assume it was meant to be that way because Cove has a sexuality you weren't super familiar with. We're going to try to better explain how physical affection works and tweak the system to make it more straightforward to get the results you want.
GB Patch
2020-11-02 21:19:30 +0000 UTCThank you for your insight into being demi. It does help me understand Cove better as a character. Perhaps my own experiences with love, sex, and sexuality have colored my perception of Cove and it made me judge him too harshly.
Micah Hardman
2020-11-02 20:48:06 +0000 UTCso I'm not repeating myself. I'll just say that I left a few remarks on being a demi under Jeremiah right above you. I don't know if they help clarify the way at least I behave as a demisexual. I'll just say in my playthrough Cove admitted to being terrified about moving forward that sometimes it was easier for him to try to stay still, but the MC also made him want to try new things and he didn't understand why his body had those things mixed up. I can say those things are part of being a demi. it's really hard to explain why we demi's are different. We aren't completely sexual people, but we aren't completely asexual either especially if we are around someone we have a romantic attraction towards. I don't think Cove wants to end things, he's just afraid that the MC will leave him because of how he is.
VerlysGamingLife
2020-11-02 18:14:42 +0000 UTCFirst I want to say I like the game. I really do. It's adorable and sweet. However Step Three was a bit of a disappoint for me. Cove seemed to take several steps back in how he dealt with the MC. In Step Two, he seemed more into the MC, so it came across, in Step Three, more like they were friends who kissed, not really dating. He only gave my MC two kisses in my playthrough. The rest of the kisses had to be instigated by the MC and, except for the piggyback ride and kiss at the farmer's market, he seems to prefer no touching or kissing. Most of the time it feels like he just goes along with what the MC wants and doesn't seem to want it himself. It left me feeling a bit uncomfortable. In fact it feels, especially after the demisexual talk, that Cove doesn't want to be with the MC. Granted I don't know much about being demi, but if I understand what I've read, with Cove having known the MC for ten years, he should want to do something with them even if it's not full on sex. Also after the Charity moment, and Cove's talk of them getting their own place together (one of the few times where it feels like he actually likes the MC), I expected the step to end with him asking the MC to move in with him, but it didn't. He even says they likely won't see each other as much and he's worried they'll grow apart, but he can't stay in one place and be afraid, he must move forward. Which really drives home the point that he doesn't love the MC as a lover, but as more of a friend. When he's afraid to do anything with the MC, he just doesn't do it, but when it comes to anything else, he pushes himself to do it anyway. Makes me feel that the MC isn't that important to him.
Micah Hardman
2020-11-02 00:11:46 +0000 UTC
