After all those posts showing the neat new things weâve been improving on and adding to Our Life: Now & Forever, weâre finally ready to release an expanded version of the demo! Itâs got twice as much content all around and gives a much better idea of what itâll be like to play the finished version.
Itch.io Page (PC, Mac, Android)
Steam Page (PC-Only)
Game Premise:
Fall has settled over a quaint town high on a mountain as the story begins. But it isnât only the leaves that are changing. You and your mother were leaving behind everything you knew before, having just moved into that well-worn house in the middle of a tight knit cul-de-sac. Itâs there where a delicate paper airplane lands at your feet and leads you to unanticipated crossroadsâŚMake your own path through life as you grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. Even in the chilly autumn weather, itâll be a truly heartwarming time đ
Demo Features:
50,000 words and dozens of choices to make (twice as long as the prior demo)
Design your own MC (with even more options than before)
Customize your mom to match your character (with more options than before)
Choose a cute sticker to tell different playthroughs apart (with more options than before)
Develop your own custom dynamic with the two leads (and in this demo you can start seeing the impacts of those decisions)
A music room to listen to the OST at your leisure (a new feature in this updated version)
Itâs been great seeing things shape up more and more. I really hope youâll enjoy the demo if you give it a try!
[The beta build you can get on Tier 2 and up of the Patreon is 20% larger than this public update.]
Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. Itâs currently in development by GB Patch Games.
happy pride. be gay. take care of urself and each other. consider being gay if u arent. cut a lemon into quarters with ur lgbt friends and see who has the calmest face when they bite it. the winner will be king gay (gender neutral). cheers
due to a correction made by robobarbie saying NakedToaster is Danish and not Dutch (i have several processing disorders along with trauma-based memory issues so i am not surprised my recollection was wrong), i edited the og post accordingly. if you prefer this listicle with Dutch!Toasty, i copied that info to this post for perservation reasonings for y'all lmao but like, Toast is Danish. however, you can also headcannon whatever you wanna. i definitely cant stop you lmao
i also moved the changed!naming structures for xyx and Quest over here, because they're just the same name but expanded to be more culturally accurate
but the editted post's here if you like Danish!Toast and/or wanna see Danish!Toast's name reasoning
all art and rights go to @robobarbie and team
the others' name reasoning is in the og post
NakedToaster â Pieter Hauer (Dutch)
i forget where i read that NakedToaster was probably an immigrant (first generation or a Dreamer or something). maybe it was from robobarbie?? i think i remember that Dutch was thrown in and i just went âyep, got it, fitsâ. i tried to find it but tumblrâs search function is.. what it is, so alas. my poor memory will have to do
this one was straight-forward. i looked up âfamous Dutch peopleâ and scrolled through it once for a surname and then again for a forename. and i forced myself to not click on their wikipediaâs to find out more and see if their legacies match with Toastyâs arc, and i am continuing not to so i wonât go âi caNâT LEAVE IT AS THIS ONE BECAUSE OF Xâ. that goes against the point of the exercise of finding names that âfitâ, the legacies of the forebearers do not matter (i donât think anyone even checks for that kind of âwho else has this name and do they parallel this fictional characterâ except for me because of course i fucking do). anyway. they are named after Rutger Hauer (a famous Dutch actor) and Pieter Bruegel The Elder (a famous Dutch painter). i know nothing about either man, other than that i actually probably have learned about Bruegel in art history but just am too poor with names that i cannot remember anything about him. anyway, i forced myself to leave it at that and lock in the name as permanent before letting myself look the names up
i will add though that a Toasty named Pieter probably has to deal with people mistakenly calling them âPeterâ a lot. and as (a fellow enby) someone who goes through something very similar with their own name, iâm just fully projecting here. Toasty probably only corrects people who they care about knowing lmao âPeterâ is probably his restaurant-name on purpose, like a barista asks and Toasty thinks 'they are paid minimum wage, we donât know each other, they donât need to know my actual name and struggle with shouting out my order when its doneâ and Toasty just fully spells âP-e-t-e-râ for them. same with reservations, probably, or maybe he uses his surname if heâs worried about multiple âPeter"s. like. itâs just easier. i know i, personally, went the extra-mile and didnât even correct people when i was working at jobs that werenât related to my major/passion. but i always corrected my professors and potential new friends and whatnot (though i also have landed myself in weird situations where places i am a regular at will be confused that i say one name when i order at the register and then, when i order online, approach for a wholly different name. i have not made it ANY better for myself by blue-screening because "this wasnât in the scriptâ and impulsively lying âThatâs my roommateâs nameâ and then having to live in fear of them remembering that lie/just me in general from then on until i go âactually, i will just never returnâ. but idk if thatâs a TOASTY thing. but i think itâd be funny if it was).anyway, i can see a Toasty named Pieter being similar. but everyone who actually knows Toasty would, of course, call them Pieter
also i want to add: im nonbinary and i still have the name that my parents gave me even tho it is DEFINITELY gendered. so i dont always look for names that are unisex for nonbinary characters nor do i always look at the new-ish noun name trend. ill make trans-binary OCs and still have them keep the name their parents gave them. i dunno. i just always see any trans character having to change their name to fit their gender, and tho thats an authentic aspect of the journey for many, it isnt a requirement. i can see Toasty changing their name to be genderless, or have part of the gender journey be to become a trans-woman as some people have suggested and have Toasty choose a more feminine name. but i dunno. i dont like the expectation of trans people to have their name match their gender. and i definitely dont like the entitlement behind nonbinary people having to have to be androgynous - in no small part because i myself am not androgynous. (to vent for a min: itâs messed up that im thinking about changing my name to be more genderless because people treat me like a diet form of the gender i was assigned. i shouldnt have to change my name as a way to feel like people are then respecting my gender identity. i should get to just feel it no matter what. thatâs fucked up) did i go into Toastyâs forename process with this in mind as i read through that list of damous Dutch people?? no. not at all. i just thought âlook for a name that fits Toastyâs faceâ and Pieter did that for me. if you wanna headcannon a NakedToaster named Pieter as having Pieter be Toastyâs eventual dead-name tho?? go right the fuck ahead, my dude, i dont control you. im just explaining why, tho name changing is definitely common in the trans experience, it isnât and shouldnât be expected to be a requirement in any shape or form. Toasty is a member of the trans community no matter their irl name or the potential gendering their name may carry
now with that party-pooper disclaimer out of the way, letâs move on to name meanings (fuN SHIT, FUN SHIT, HELL YEAH, LETâS SEE SOME FUCKING FUN SHIT lmao)
Pieter: Dutch form of Peter. This name was borne by the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Peter is derived from Greek Î ÎĎĎÎżĎ (Petros) meaning âstoneâ. [Here I am omitting a couple of paragraphs featuring a bunch of history that was within this passage that I wonât pretend to have processed the meaning of. It explained Biblical information that I will not be referencing anyway and name-dropped various royal people with no context] Famous fictional bearers include Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potterâs childrenâs books, and Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up in J. M. Barrieâs 1904 play.
Hauer:Â Derived from Middle High German houwen âto chopâ, referring to a butcher or woodchopper.