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Shawna implemented a very fancy new way of letting people add their own information into the story and now it'll be possible to input more complicated details we couldn't add using the normal choices/flag system ✨

The prologue will be updated to allow you to determine exactly where you moved from, your race, and your nationality heritage! You can't talk about it with the other characters then, however Moments will be written with this feature in mind. So scenes are going to come up eventually where you can share with Tamarack and Qiu your own culture or let them know your family comes from the same place as one of them.

And this feature will be used for various other things, too.

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Deidra

Omg this is awesome!

Alyssa

The features in this game never stop amazing me!!

vinea

HYPE!

A

Shawna is amazing because omg this feature is so cool!! They deserve all the best things in life 😊

LemonBee

That is so cool!

Rayna

This is so amazing and when I thought it couldn’t get any better. There’s even more. I look forward to this so much.

beobraed 🐝💛🍞

omg!! this is so cool! I was literally just writing up all of my MCs' nationalities, ethnicities, and hometowns the other day.

Evie

We love Shawna in this house

Trashi

That's so cool, especially as an international fan I find it so inclusive 🥰🥰🥰

Anime Mistake

Finally my Mexican oc is going to come to life spectacularly

Zuu

Once again Gb team is overdoing it! All hopes to this game im already hyped for full release lol nice work Shawna and Gb.

June

Whenever Shawna is mentioned what they did/are doing never fails to be amazing.

Emma's dreams

OMG!! Bow down and thank Shawna~🙇‍♀️ they did it again! when I see this name, I know something heavy is coming!😆

Treyben Mazelin

This is such a cool update. Many thanks! <3

Lívia

OMG!!! THIS IS SO AMAZING! thank u team!

Joud Alhosain

Wow, this is so cool because I plan to use a Japanese name that means winter and has other meanings. I will tell you the details on Kickstarter and of course there is a suitable last name .❤️❤️

Anna Bia

Whenever i read "Shawna" i know something great is coming... (and yep i will do an MC from Sunset Bird)

Kimiko

Whoa, this is incredible!!!! 😲

Sym 🍓

SHAWNA!!!! literally god tier coder I swear

EliSapphire

Yooooo, this is a dream come true 😍

Léonie

That absolutely insane features?? I've never seen such care and efforts into giving freedom and possibilities to players, I'm amazed !!

Rea Sanka

OwO! I'm so excited for this new feature now! Thank you for all the amazing work to include tiny little details about the MC! I'm looking forward to it!!!(Now I'mma write even more about my MC 🏃 ✍️)

Matheo

That's great! ❤️😍 Since all this is being added, will it also be possible to choose whether you have a different native language or know a second language? For example, when MC says to Tamarack's grandma that you know the word "Oma" because you come from Germany, for example, and understand German

Saki-hime

OMG! amazing! <3

Voc_Art_Ota

YES OMG TY I LOVE MY CULTURES THIS IS SO GREAT DJWJCJQKFI

Yuki

Nico Heart

LETS GO SHAWNA!!!!!!

Rocket

We Stan Shawna in this golden grove household fr

GB Patch

I'm afraid not. Opal only knows one language, so it can't really be worked in that the MC has a different native language. Maybe when they're older they could study to learn a second language though.

GB Patch

Not yet, but it'll be in the next beta and public demo updates!

Allison

TBIS IS SO COOL I LOVE IT HEREEEE. need the kickstarter to open so it can take all my money fr

MaderHatterMax

I know it would be a lot of work but is there any way of adding a list to choose from instead of writing your own or being able to copy and paste works into the game because I have bad dyslexia so spelling isn't a easy thing for me and I'm sure there may be other people who would have a hard time too.

Lee

I remember asking about something like this before! So glad it's in the game! But I'm just a little slow so could I maybe get an explanation for the race/heritage thing? How are they going to act differently? Or, just, like, how are they different? Sorry, again, I'm just kinda slow.

Mary Hoban

Oh wow!! I’m so excited to include my heritage!! I’ve never been able to incorporate that into a game🥰🥰

Flightwings

Our Life B&A had a lot of customization far beyond a typical VN, but I can see Our Life N&F will be on a whole other level entirely! Such a cool feature!!!

Cheese-And-Rice, Mooney

Oh my God this is so cool, I believe it is kinda difficult as a thing to do and I'm not lying when I say that I'm really grateful to your hard work to make the game even more inclusive, especially when those things are most likely not easy to do I assume. You all are really great, thanks again for all the hard work you all put in this game.

Lonely_Mermaid

YESSSS me and Mamãe will be canonically Brazilian now!! 💕💕💕

idis91

this is so cool i cant wait thank you for going to such lenghts you all are amazing and are doing a fantastic job

JD Starflower

This is really cool. I remember thinking something like this would have been useful in OL1 when the discussion of favorite colors happened. Thank you all for all your hard work.

Jess B.

I absolutely love this! 💕

Hailey

Shawna does it again

GB Patch

No, not for these types of choices, I'm sorry. There's hundreds to thousands of things people would use. We couldn't even attempt to list them. But if you hit the arrow to see more options you can answer the question without typing in an answer and can just know in your own mind what you want it to be!

GB Patch

We can't determine the MC's race purely by skin tone and your race doesn't always determine your nationality. For example, maybe your MC is Asian racially, but your extended family mostly comes from Germany and you'd like both of those to be noted. I don't know all the times and places where those details will come up, but it's something worth acknowledging just in general.

Marshie

time to restart all my save files again

Emily

SOOOOOO COOOL

Lance Heyen (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-05 13:00 This is great but, please, don't make it NECCESARY to ever have to enter that sort of information. I would much rather have the option available, but also be able to choose preset options.
2023-09-12 01:01

Itachun

Very nice. owo

sleepyserendipity

mm i thought i could not adored this game even more... i thought wrong

A Giant Crab

Not sure I personally will get a lot of use out of this (I usually prefer to keep details vague) but it does seem like a very useful feature for most of people. Thanks!

Yarino Tengoku

YESS I can finally represent the fact that I am Japanese AND from Japan~~

Pippintastic

So will this also affect Opal’s nationality? Or is she hardcoded American?

Aubriette

I redownloaded the prologue off of Patreon but it didn't come up, am I doing something wrong?

Aubriette

Oh okay I'm sorry

Gatewaytono

This is a cool feature! But is it possible that this can be toggled off?

Joud Alhosain

Don't apologize it's nothing ❤️

Anna Bia

Yeees! Vai ser maravilhoso ser brasileira no jogo!

Mialiya

This is a really nice feature! Being able to decide where you're from and your heritage is exciting, but I'm especially curious about the race option shown here. I gravitate toward writing mixed race characters, as I'm multiracial. Whether it's a simple feature or more complex, I'll be very happy when this feature is implemented. Thank you for always giving us more ways to express ourselves and our MCs! ❤️

Garlyle Wilds

Small thing from an Interactive Fiction background (writer/reader) that does features like this: Please be careful around how it will be capitalized (using a sample in the prompt if necessary). Unless you're going to be automating capitalization (or decapsing) as necessary, it's frustrating to get into a scene and type, say, 'Purple' as a favourite color, and then every time it ever comes up mid sentence it now is capitalized. It's an easy mistake for a writer to make and a *pain* to go back and fix up later.

Lee

Oooooooh. Makes lots of sense. Thanks for the explanation. 😅

Pineapple Greyhound

I agree; my suggestion would be to have an option in the menu that lets you fix these later on, if you make a mistake.

GB Patch

It's not required. If you hit the arrow to see more options you can answer the question without typing in anything!

GB Patch

The only language she knows in-game is English to make the script doable for me to write, but the game is never gonna say she was specifically born in the US. You can headcanon other places.

GB Patch

Maybe! But there will only be a handful of menus like this in the entire game either way.

GB Patch

The programming will check to make the capitalization correct!

Emi K

Thank you for your hard work Shawna! ❤️❤️

Rosarium678a

Love it! Quick question, what if I want the father to be of mixed race for my MC? Would that be a detail that can be incorporated?

Kalyx Wynthor

You really are the best to implement features enabling us to live the game as if we were into its universe ourselves. The level of personalization in that game will be crazy. I can't wait to try them out. I feel like you have grown ever since OL1 and you are innovating new game dynamics that will immerse us even more. Thank you for existing. I feel like I will live my best life in playing OL2.

GB Patch

You can type in the two races with a hyphen, but the game won't be able to track it very well and will always refer to it as a single thing. I'm sorry for that.

Rosarium678a

It's okay! Totally fine! I love the feature regardless. 🩷

Gatewaytono

Fine by me then!🫡 As always please give my thanks to Shawna, they continue to never flop!!

Redkitty120

This was a nice feature. Especially since the previous OL had talked about the ethnicity of Lizzie but not the MC. I hope there’s more inclusivity in the future, like being on the asexual/ace spectrum, clothing preference, and maybe even allergies!