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Great, thank you. I'll pass that info to the programmers and see what they say. Thank you for your patience!

Yes, each Step will have a Halloween Moment, just to give official confirmation. Thanks for following!

The game does not have a Spanish translation. Sorry about that, but thank you for being here.

We do have two 18+ DLCs available through our Patreon, yes. Make note that the DLC are only available on alternating months, depending on your membership. But once you've downloaded them, you're welcome to keep them forever. Thanks so much for playing!

Hello! Sorry about that. Our programmers are looking into it, but it may be something only the Ren'Py developers can resolve. Thank you so much for playing, though!

Hello! We appreciate you brining this to our attention. I mentioned the matter to our programmers, and we're trying to see if there's anything on our end we can do to fix it. Unfortunately, it might be something with the Ren'Py engine itself that we can't change. If that's the case, you may have to address the matter to them. Sorry about that, but thank you so much for playing!

Hello again. I had a chance to raise this issue, and unfortunately we're still not certain. Could you give us a bit more information about the device you're using? What kind of Android device is it?

Hello! We really appreciate your detailed suggestion. We are trying our best to let people express themselves and who they want their MC to be in the world of Our Life. However, we are limited in some ways with what we can do, simply due to the scope of alterations we can handle. One of those areas is transitioning during Steps. Because the Moments can take place in whatever order the player chooses, having their MC come to important realizations about their own identity during a Moment is beyond what we can reasonably include. It would require so many alterations within almost every Moment, as well as potential reactions to those changes in other Moments. That's too many alterations for us as a small team, and so the MC's identity journey is mostly contained to between Steps. We do include scenes where the MC gets a chance to express themselves, and assert their identity, but as for actually changing and self-growth, those things simply are too complex to happen during gameplay itself. We appreciate your understanding, and hope you can still have a fulfilling story in Golden Grove! Thank you so much for being here.

That's great! I'm glad to here it's working for you now and you're enjoying it. Always happy to help. Thanks for playing!

That's what I thought it might be. What probably happened is that the Patreon version overwrote the persistent data from your normal version. I don't think there's any way of recovering it in that case. Sorry about that! And thank you so much for playing anyway.

That's OK! Hopefully I can still help. Could you show me a new image of the folder with the unzipped file in it?

Could you share with me a screenshot of the "game" folder? This is in the main directory, which you can find either where you downloaded the game from itch.io, or under "Browse Local Files" on Steam. Thank you, and hopefully we can help sort this out.

Unfortunately, the Steam version of the game does not work on Mac devices. The DLCs work across platforms, but if you've bought them on Steam, you probably won't be able to access them, since the base game won't work. If you can get a refund from Steam, you can instead buy the DLCs here on itch.io, and those will work with the Mac version of the game you can get for free here on itch.io. Alternatively, if you can get access to a PC somehow and get Our Life on Steam there, you can actually find the .rpa files and extract them directly, and reuse them anywhere. Sorry for any inconvenience, but we appreciate you playing the game!

Sorry that happened. Typically there is persistent game data which is stored separately from the game folder itself, which is where stuff like the gallery is kept. On PC this is found in the "Roaming" folder, and then under "RenPy", and "OurLife". I don't own a Mac, but from what I find online, it seems to be located in a path labeled "~/Library/RenPy", followed by the specific game, in this case "OurLife". That might be where the issue occurred, and forgive me if that path is the wrong one. If you find it, when was the "persistent" file in the "OurLife" folder updated last?

Darn, that is unfortunate. Could you send me a screenshot of inside your game folder? It should be labeled "OurLife-1.7.1-pc". Just the inside of that, please.  I need a bit more information. Thank you!

Do you mean you bought the DLCs on Steam, but you're playing on a Mac? Unfortunately, the Steam version is not compatible with Mac, so that might be reason you aren't seeing "Browse Local Files".

Sorry you're having trouble! Do you get any error messages when this happens? Hopefully I can help.

The updated demo will come out sometime in November. Thanks for following!

Unfortunately, there won't be any translations of the game. We're so glad you enjoyed the game, and thank you for following!

If you're transferring the DLCs from a PC to phone version, those don't always work, unfortunately. The DLCs will all work from Steam PC to itch.io PC versions.

Thank you for playing!

It is going to be bigger than a typical demo, but that's alright. It's still a demonstration of what the game will be like. Thanks for following, we hope you're looking forward to it!

Unfortunately, the problem is that the Steam versions of those other DLCs are not compatible with the Android version of the game. You'd have to get those from itch.io, which would compatible versions. Sorry about that, and that you're having price hike troubles! Probably the simplest method would be to just play them on Steam, so you don't have to buy the DLCs a second time. Thank you so much for playing either way!

The next update will be sometime in November! Thank you so much for following, and we hope you're looking forward to it.

Thank you for so much information, and for being so thorough. Sorry you're still having that problem. I will raise this with the programmers and see what we can find, then get back to you. We appreciate your patience, and thank you for playing our games despite the issue!

Sorry to hear that! When you say you can play the other Our Life game, which do you mean? Which ones work for you and which don't? Hopefully we can figure something out.

Sorry to hear that! Hopefully I can help. Are you getting any error messages when this happens? What browser are you using?

Hurray! I'm so glad. Thank you for your patience, and hope you enjoy the rest of the DLCs.

OK, thank you for all of those, that's great. It does actually look right as well. In the first image, I see the "autorun" folder. That's the one you want. Click on that, and inside should be the "game" folder. That's where you want to put the DLC. See if that works and let me know.

Did it work for you? If so, I'm so glad! Thank you for playing, and hope you enjoy the game.

That is unfortunately an issue I haven't run into before. Could you please download a fresh version of the base game and show me what it looks like? Just so I can get a clear view of what we're working with. Sorry for all this trouble, but hopefully we can figure this out!

The Our Life games are extremely large, having millions of words, and they're simply too big to do official translations. Even doing one language would be beyond the scope of what our budget could handle, and that wouldn't be fair to the many language we'd need to represent. If fans want to do their own translations on their own time, we aren't going to stop them. But we also can't endorse any fan translations either, nor direct players to them in any official capacity. If people want to find them on their own, that's up to them. We appreciate your understanding.

Glad you were able to figure that out! Fortunately, the second issue is also a simple fix. You actually need to add the DLC out of game, rather than in-game. First, local the DLC file, which should be called "derek_dlc.rpa".  Go to where you put the whole folder containing the game, and look inside there for the "game" folder. You want to but the DLC file directly into that folder. You'll know it worked by booting up the game and clicking the "DLC Info" button in to top left corner. It should show the Derek story DL C as "Installed". If you need more help, just let me know, and we hope you enjoy the story!

The original preview scenes weren't in chronological order, so they were removed when the real start of Step Two got added. But all that and more will be put back with the update in November. Thanks for following!

Thank you, that's really helpful. We sometimes see a similar issue with people who play the game on mobile devices, where the native anti-virus/anti-malware software flags games from itch.io as "suspicious". Usually what has to be done is to change the permissions of the software to make an exception for the Our Life application. Do you know what program on your Mac might manage that sort of thing? A quick search shows me things like Gatekeeper, Notarization, and XProtect, but I don't know for sure which one is working in this case.

Sorry to hear that! I don't have a Mac, but hopefully I can help. When it doesn't work, do you get some kind of error message? Could you share that?

It looks like you're missing a file, so you might want to try a clean reinstall. Simply delete that current version of the game, and download it fresh here from itch.io. Make sure you set aside the "dlc_wedding" file before you do. Check that the reinstall has the "archive.rpa" file in the "game" folder, then try it again. Hopefully that works!

Unfortunately not. Sorry about that, but we appreciate you following us.

There will be a big update to the public demo in November. We hope you're looking forward to it, and thanks for following!

Thank you for that. Do you have the "cache" and "saves" folders in there as well? I can't see those in this screenshot.