GB Lady Work Schedule Update (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

Normally I post the monthly Influencer gift on the 2nd, but I wanted to make this post as early on as possible, so the bonus gift will be up tomorrow instead. There's gonna be a bit of a change with how I get things done for the games.

From now on I'm gonna have two specific days off per week. I've decided on Saturdays and Tuesdays currently, maybe that'll change. For the next while I might also take additional days off or do mainly half days since I'm not feeling the best.

The most immediate and noticeable way this will impact players is with the monthly OL2 beta builds. I had hoped they'd be 20k+ per month once we got past the last of OL1 work, but with this reduced schedule OL:N&F betas will likely add somewhere around 15k words per month. Sometimes they might be more than that, and other times it could be closer to 10k.

I am still aiming for Our Life: Now & Forever to properly launch in 2025, albeit very late 2025. Though, the initial release probably won't come with all three Step DLCs available out the gate, and it for sure won't have the Step 4 epilogue. That'll have to come in 2026.

For now, I'll keep doing my daily update posts on Twitter/in Discord on Saturdays and Tuesdays to let people know that it was a day off, but if those stick as my breaks I may eventually not post at all on socials those days.

And, of course, nobody was forcing me not to have days off before this. I've never felt like fans of the games were impatient. Our players have always been willing to wait for stories to be done when they're done! I just like getting things done and there's so many things I want to get done, it makes it hard to choose to not do anything. But I'm at a point where I can't keep up that pace. I need more breaks than I used to and am gonna take them rather than risk reaching a point where I might have to stop work for multiple months because I've pushed myself too hard.

So, that's the situation right now. I'll keep you all up-to-date if things change further or get rearranged. Thank you for taking the time to read it and for following along with my progress 💕!