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It's time for the biggest beta update we've ever done!

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

RottingMothguts

Thank you to you and the whole team for putting so much work into making this game so good I will never regret a single cent given towards the development 🧎‍♀️

Psykes

For Rhyming Riddles, when Tamarack offers the Molly Special to the MC, could there be an option to say, "No thank you," if they are verbal, or 'You politely shook your head side to side while holding up a hand' if they are not?

WhispWar

Not wanting to eat a macaroon in Rhyming Riddles is kinda fecky. Even though I already chose the option not to have one, I still had to choose a flavour. Then Qui said it was my MC's turn, but Tamarack's turn happened instead. Along with a few other oddities.

Psykes

For Rhyming Riddles, in the bakery, the MC could offer their cookie to Opal, but their cookies to either Qiu, Tamarack or Mr. Lin. I was thinking about hand sanitizers for me to recommend after the bonus game clean up and I was going to post about it here, but Tamarack beat me to the punch. 🤭

My Name's E

Sorry if this has been asked before, but when Tamarack askes if you are a girl could there be an option to be offended/confused that she would think otherwise? It's just that I remember being upset at that age when other kids would call me a boy just because I had short hair lol

My Name's E

also could the "manliness has taken damage" reaction to Tamarack's room in step 1 be available for girl MCs too?

Psykes

I'd picked the Piano for Orchestra and Marching Band, but there's a problem with having a piano for an instrument when it comes to having a 'piano case' to place stickers from Rhyming Riddles.... Maybe for something that big, maybe there could be an option to actually place the sticker(s) on the piano itself? Mind you, I think Tamarack would never speak to my MC again if that was done....

Psykes

For Rhyming Riddles, when ordering drinks, could the MC be able to text Opal: 'Thank you (for rule follower; personally I hate using shortform when texting)/Thank U'? for non-verbal MCs or those who just love texting whenever they could?

Psykes

For Secrets, one of MCs who didn't use/pick the 'cusses/swearing' chat options and is 'Very Quiet, polite, rule-follower, casual.' had said 'The whole@55 neighborhood....' when went to the cul-de-sac. Just because they were seriously breaking the rules by going back there with Tamarack, they'd would've said 'The whole neighborhood....' instead. ___ While walking back to school after a woodland instrumental duet, and Tamarack took a tumble after pulling out her phone to look at my MC's text while walking next to her, my MC raced down the stairs to check up on her, she said "I'm sorry I ever told you where I am." My MC was right next to her while she was walking on the wall of the bridge, and my MC tried to grab her before she fell out of reach. I'm sure that response would be if Tamarack took off from school without the MC (another MC of mine, who's instrument is the notoriously difficult to carry around piano, didn't follow her out of the school, but went out to look for her when she didn't return before lunch like she said she would).