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hi just wanted to show my appreciation for this little game for filling in a lot of niches that I don't really see a lot. love the writing and the rapport the characters have with each other, and the art is really cute. i also really enjoy autumn and winter as romantic settings, you don't see gay romantic visual novels about 30-somethings much unless it's about being a parent or something. Maybe i'm just not looking hard enough, haha.

anyway, i also wanted to say that this story helped me feel seen in a lot of ways. i'm not ace, but i struggle with social anxiety and asocial tendencies, and i saw a lot of myself in iggy throughout the course of this story. especially the part about not feeling "queer enough" for lgbtqia+ spaces hit really close to home for me. i also played your other spinoff about texting iggy and something he said there resonated with me, too. it was about pulling away when getting too close to someone. as someone who feels like he's sabotaging himself all the time romantically, i really felt that.

i don't really like horror VNs very much, so i don't know if i'll be checking out the source material, but i can tell you put a lot of love and care into your universe and characters, so i wish you well with your continued and new projects. :)

Hi I just marathonned this all day and I gotta say it's really good and I enjoyed it greatly. Just judging based on the character badges I honestly wasn't expecting to like Toasty as much as I did, but come the other side of the game they're actually my favorite one. Maybe not surprising, given our shared love of FFXIV, but just from the portrait it seemed like they were going to be a lot different than they ended up being. Warm fuzzy feelings :)

Another thing, I just have to give my utmost appreciation for the character ages here. As someone who's also 29 and about to crest the hill into his 30s, it's super refreshing to see a romance game about fully-grown adults rather than 18-20 year olds. Kinda makes me feel like all hope isn't lost yet, haha. Thank you for this pleasant experience <3

[also i caught those free trial jokes ur not slick (yes i know they were meant to be obvious but still)]

All good suggestions, but I'm gonna put my personal backing to the "Transition/Start Images" suggestion as I was literally just about to suggest it myself!

It would make the idea I have involving a TV "changing channels" to a new expression so much more doable :)

Haha, no problem, hope you enjoy it! :)

UPDATE: If you installed the DLCs to your itch.io launcher thing then you have to update them and replace them in the new Our Life version's folder (1.4.0) because it doesn't come installed that way.

If you downloaded it all directly then just re-download the DLCs and re-apply them. Hope it helps!

Confirming here that DLC moments break when trying to load them, with the traceback citing that their labels don't exist:

While running game code:
ScriptError: could not find label 'ghost'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 326, in bootstrap
    renpy.main.main()
  File "renpy/main.py", line 617, in main
    run(restart)
  File "renpy/main.py", line 148, in run
    renpy.execution.run_context(True)
  File "renpy/execution.py", line 922, in run_context
    context.run()
  File "prologue.rpyc", line 2574, in script call
  File "s1_shopping.rpyc", line 1483, in script call
  File "s1_grownup.rpyc", line 1842, in script call
  File "s1_long_day.rpyc", line 1469, in script call
  File "s1_sandcastle.rpyc", line 2087, in script call
  File "s1_firefiles.rpyc", line 1623, in script call
  File "prologue.rpyc", line 2574, in script call
  File "s1_shopping.rpyc", line 1483, in script call
  File "s1_grownup.rpyc", line 1842, in script call
  File "s1_long_day.rpyc", line 1469, in script call
  File "s1_sandcastle.rpyc", line 2087, in script call
  File "s1_firefiles.rpyc", line 1623, in script call
  File "renpy/script.py", line 918, in lookup
    raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))
ScriptError: could not find label 'ghost'.