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Phew, we've got the beta on the way 😄

Here you can leave ideas for small MC script additions in Our Life: Now & Forever. There are various guidelines for what is doable, though.

To start, I can't add new features, entire new scenes, concepts that'd have to be accounted for over the whole story of the game, or anything not script-based (e.g. art/music). What I can do is add in specific choices/reactions to specific scenes to add some extra fun and make the existing content more fitting to different MC types.

There's a lot of things the MC can theoretically do/think/feel in OL2; the dynamic settings, the MC's feelings on the move and house and town and school, if they're shy or rude or amiable with different people, if they break rules or not, if they're tidy/polite or messy/rowdy, and more.

I try to remember it all, but I'm sure there are situations where I don't give certain aspects enough attention. If you feel like there's pieces missing to complete the experience, you've got a chance say so.

Basically, I'm gonna do my best to have the game reflect a wide range of responses/emotions per scene, but I want to do that without the game's actual completion being delayed by weeks, months, or years by adding more and more totally new scenes/features to it, haha.

Comments usually don't get a reply, but that doesn't mean the suggestion isn't going to be added. However, if you don't read the guidelines and request something not possible, it also might not get a comment to explain that it's not going to be added. I'm afraid it's not always possible to keep up with everything people post. So please do read the guidelines!

Guidelines:

-Suggestions are for the script. You can express an interest in new art, features, music, etc. and I'll remember that as the type of things players would want if possible based on time/budget, but anyone can do that kind of post in any place and putting it here in the suggestion thread won't give it a greater chance of being possible.

-Suggestions can only be for the content that's available for players to test. I won't be able to keep up with requests that apply to theoretical future scenes that don't exist. To go along with that, suggestions can't be to completely remake a current scene in a different way or to fit in entire new scenes in between what's there. This also applies to requesting MC elements/additions that expand over the entire game. For example, you can't request that the game should start tracking what phrases the MC tends to use and have characters comment in the future on their common phrases. Suggestions are for just the current scenes and the content that's already being tracked.

-Suggestions are for the MC and general prose. I can't do requests to change how non-playable-characters behave/speak. They are who they are.

-Suggestions must be appropriate for the age of the MC and the overall 16+ rating for the game. I can't make the 10-year-old MC act like an adult, not unless it's framed as clearly a child who is trying to pretend as if they're grown up. And I can't put in a ton of bad language or adult topics, especially in Step 1.

-Suggestions don't have to be specific, but that greatly increases how likely it is that what you want will end up in the game. For example, commenting that you'd enjoy silly options is something I can keep in mind when working on the game, but may not come through that well. Saying you'd like an option where the MC can tell a joke on a specific choice menu in a certain scene will give me a lot more context on what to do.

-Suggestions can be too specific, however. I can't use comments where the player actually writes out MC dialog/prose and would like that added word for word into the game. The goal is for me to create what players enjoy, I don't want to outsource filling in the script to other people.

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There's also a channel in the private GB Patch discord for submitting suggestions, if you prefer to chat there.

And that's everything. You're welcome to mention where you think the MC could have more reactions/responses and such!

Thank you for following OL2's development 💕

Comments

Obscurus Ciel

My current mc is extroverted but a strict rule follower and blatant mommy's child (mc calls her mother). I like that 👍 lol 😆

Psykes

When Tamarack offers to take in the MC into her family forever.... Is it possible for the MC to say they'd like to be with both Tamarack's and Qiu's family forever? Even if the MC had to chose between Tamarack or Qiu later down the line when it comes to marriage, my MC would like both to be considered a part of both families. Having a crush on both makes deciding between one or the other would be harder for the MC to decide at this point in time.

Psykes

When Qiu and the MC walk to the Baumann's home during Slumber Party, the MC could think to themself, "It was nice how the whole neighbourhood was like a big family." With the discussion of the MC's circumstances (such as the MC wishing for an extra parent, and realizing this may never happen) and Tamarack offering to be the 'forever family' of the MC, could the MC bring up how they felt on the way to Tamarack's house in the earlier Moment? It could be "I really like the offer, Tamarack, but I'd like to think of both your families being a part of mine."

Psykes

When my MC is with Qiu in the Hobby and Exercise room, and Qiu shows the MC the photo album, the MC thinks to themself: "You know different towns, different bedrooms, not other countries, not the other side of the world." It made me think about how the game handles nationalities/where the MC used to live before the move to Golden Grove. We can say what nationality the paternal donor was and where our MC and Opal lived before the promotion/move to their new hometown. But there's nothing that indicates that town/city may be from another country/continent (other than how far it was from where the MC used to live compared to where they live now). London could be in England, but it could also be in Ontario (I live two hours from London, ON, for example). Maybe there could be a screen after the one where we can specify where the MC used to live before the big move to the little Golden Grove, where we can say whether the place they used to live was in the US or from another country or even continent? After all, the business Opal may work for could have an international presence, sending Opal to where ever they needed her (and a great opportunity to purchase the special clothes that the MC could wear in Fancy Fun). 🗼🏯🏰

killjinx

experiencing a bug where tamarack doesn’t show up in the beginning of class

Leif

silly little suggestion for a snack option, but i'd love to see an option for chocolate covered gummy bears suggested as a snack for food centered scenes, i know its very specific but i love playing an mc with a big sweet tooth

Psykes

Considering the MC could think that the house and/or neighbourhood is haunted by a ghost, when Opal asks the MC what they think of the house at the beginning of the Step 1 Prologue could they tell her "It's kind of scary....", or if they are mostly quiet 'The spookiness of the house made you shiver.'?