Monday 23 May 2016

Newlife 0.3.22

Hello everyone!

 
Version 0.3.22 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. Early-access Patrons can find it in the creations section here. The changelog is below.

Version of 0.3.21 is now public. You can download it using the links on the right-hand side of the blog. The 0.3.21 changelog is here.

As usual, saved files & templates from older versions probably won't work with newer ones. 

For new players - just use one of the links to the right to get a zipfile containing Newlife. Once unzipped, you'll see a folder containing .jar and .exe files. Either one of these will run the game. 

For either version you'll need to have Java installed. A lot of programs use Java so you might well already have it. If the jar shows up as an unrecognised file type, then you probably don't. In that case you can get it from http://www.java.com/
The exe should tell you if you don't have the right version on your computer, but you'll still need to install java to run the game.
There's a guide for new players here which includes some troubleshooting tips for installation & downloading.

Here's the full changelog for 0.3.22:
Major changes & additions:
  • Added a new weekend activity: spend time with friends. This will reduce stress and slowly increase your relationships with your friends. There isn't a guaranteed scene based on this, but instead some special events are added to the normal list. The stress reduction from this action is based on your highest friendship status, with additional bonuses & penalties for each friend at Close or Bad status. This means that having more friends can benefit you, but only if you're close with all of them.
  • Added three new events for the above activity. One of these incorporates suggestions from Novus Operandi, sid67, cubano, Erica Heathrow, Derp and probably a few other patrons I've forgotten to name here – thanks for your help!

Minor changes & bugfixes:
  • Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Fiery Dog Poop and Baby J for reporting problems they found.
  • As requested by Chris on patreon, added a line to the character screen showing who you lost your virginity to. This will only appear if your character isn't a virgin, and only if her first time was with a man from the game.
  • Fixed a bug where summer dresses weren't being created pink for the player (due to a typo, purple had a double chance of being chosen instead).
  • Fixed a bug “reported” by cubano where the rare virgin party-girl npcs never lost their virginity when going home with men on nights out. There's now a 2/3 chance of this happening.
  • Fixed a bug reported by NotYou where you could enter the gym a second time without a membership if you had a fine to pay from your free visit. You now get prompted to buy a membership after paying the fine, and need to pay for both to use the gym.
  • Fixed a bug reported by NotYou where work experience from the male character wasn't being transferred to the female one.
  • Added an option to disable custom NPCs, as requested by NotYou and Saur. This only affects new games – changing the value won't add or remove NPCs from saved games.
  • Added a new dialogue action to the bar-with-friend scene, as suggested by cubano.

Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs! 

35 comments:

  1. I still say you could have gone the science route to resolve the party girl virginity thing. The game could have had an event where Ivy reveals the phenomenon of party-girls who were supposed to have had sex having vaginas with both virgin and non-virgin characteristics. This is known in quantum mechanics as the double slit experiment.

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    1. You know, you'll be to blame if some naive fool uses comments on this site as a basis for their PhD defence.

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  2. Hi Ostrich, first of all I'd like to thank you for this great game! Nonetheless, I guess I found a bug on 3.21. My character is still virgin but at the same time she's got pregnant. Is that possible? I'd have attached a screen capture if I could. Transcribe from program though:
    From Character Screen, under "Fertility and Contraception"
    "Unlike most virgins, you've managed to get yourself knocked up. Come on girl, at least go have some proper sex! It's not like it can get you any more pregnant than you are already!
    You're in the first trimester of pregnancy, and it isn't showing yet.
    You're carrying a baby fathered on you by Kyle.
    You can't go on the pill while pregnant."

    And then under "Other info":
    Name: Julia
    Virgin: Yes
    Relationship status: Single


    Any additional queries to: lovely_hubby@yahoo.com.

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    1. That's intentional. The game counts you as losing your virginity when you have penetrative sex, but it's possible to get knocked up without a man going inside you if he ejaculates outside but in a dangerous area.

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    2. Once spent 120 weeks keeping my virginity and only masturbating men while they were against me. Felt so proud when it happened, not sure if i should feel ashamed of it now :P

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  3. Sh*! I just loved to have the character going some steps of the game jerking the guys and then rubbing and cumming at the "gates" before she finally give in her virginity. :( So now, just by going "in between lips" can make her pregnant. That's not fair, lol. Besides, real world doesn't work like that. It's a long way for the fucking bastards to swim until they get to the womb. ;) Only the strong survive!

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    1. The real world does work like that, although the risk of pregnancy is lower than from internal ejaculation. The pregnancy chance in Newlife is also reduced to reflect this.

      You can go on the pill if you want to avoid pregnancy, and this is something that you can justify even if you want to think that your character isn't expecting to hook up. Even if they aren't planning on having sex plenty of women go on the pill because it can help with period pains.

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    2. Just kidding! I know it "can" happen. Not that by knowing it makes me feel more relieved though, lol.

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  4. I'd like to suggest some kind of addition to the Gym scene. Where if your wearing a skirt and no underwear. That they get a flash of your bare lower body. Whether just your smooth butt, or the more private vagina. This triggering when you choose the "Show Off" Option when you notice men checking you out. Maybe even the gym pervert touching you through or under your skirt.

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  5. Hey, I first want to take the opportunity to say thanks for putting the time and the effort in to create and continually update this game!

    Now, on to the main reason I made this post; there are a few things that I believe could be improved upon.

    First, and the more important of the two, I believe that there is a flaw in the sex scenes. I'm unsure if this was intentional, but the sex is entirely! (no italics, have to make do xD) focused on the guy. There are no options for the guy to pleasure the PC aside from straight out intercourse, while the PC has many (4, including intercourse) to pleasure the guy. In addition, the sex ends automatically when the guy climaxes. This is a problem because you (quite rightly) made the girl take longer to reach climax without intervention (such as the sensitive traits and stuff). Now, If this was intentional to make some sort of minigame out of trying to get off before the sex ends, than that's your creative license (though I personally disagree), but if not than I would recommend adding more options for the guy to pleasure the PC and either allow manual ending of the sex after one or both has climaxed or forced ending based on the guy's personality. In fact, both of my suggestions could be based on the guy's personality, with assholes refusing to pleasure the PC, and not caring about the PC's climax.

    Whew, that was long. Anyways, second: I'm going to throw my hat into the ring for removing, or at the very least extending the time limit on non-patreon users. Now, I understand it is meant as an incentive, and I'm sure it is effective as one, but it comes off as punitive. I know the game was designed to be 52 weeks, but, combined with no cheat options, it can quickly become an unenjoyable rush to get to a satisfactory ending. Just my two cents, patreon should be bonus, not join or else.

    third, I would add more options for sex in general. Extend it to fetishes and kinks. Expand the rough content to bondage, etc. This isn't something that's wrong in the game currently, just something that should be constantly worked on, IMO.

    Sorry for the long post xD, thanks again for all the hard work on the game.

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    1. First, I'm sure that the game's creator will work on making tweaks to various aspects of the game itself but it seems to be done in a unique viewpoint. There are some aspects of the game where an NPC that your character is having sex with is based on their personality (i.e. jerk will force himself and his wants on you whereas a nice, romantic guy will work on getting you off). SO has done some nice work in giving you the choice of what to do and the NPC will work off that choice, so to speak. I've had characters that got multiples just off the NPC's actions prior to intercourse.

      Second, the game was much shorter than the 52 weeks so, to see it at 52, that's a nice touch. In essence, you have 51 turns to do things and that's a long stretch. I'm sure people would love to add an infinite period of time but, as a F2P, I'm good at 52. It's more of a challenge to get things in that I want my characters to do before that conversation with Ivy comes up. Plus, patrons should have something to reward them for their support. I'm okay with that.

      Third, SO has stated that there will be some fetishes and kinks that are possible to encode into the game but it would be put to a vote and to see what is generally desired by the game's fans. Think it's referred to as a PMW(Prove Me Wrong?) version that's released on a rare basis. You can also join up as a patron at a certain level and suggest items/actions to be put in.

      Once again, it all depends. I'm just enjoying the ride and glad that you are too.

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    2. Hi, I am planning on adding cunnilingus, and the lesbian update will also involve some changes to how hetero sex scenes are handled.

      When playing the game for fun, I've never gone past 52 weeks - I generally find that my character's story has reached what feels like a conclusion before that. I'll be adding post-ending gameplay to the game, but only when I feel there's enough late-game content to justify it.

      There are a number of fetish scenes, notably the recent BDSM club one. However, the core game isn't well suited to covering a wide range of fetishes because the main sex scenes are large and complicated which makes it slow to add new ones. That's why fetish-based side scenes tend to be written in a more linear way so they aren't taking too much time away from what I consider more core game content.

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    3. You mentioned BDSM club. Is it something already in the game or just a future content? If it's the first one, mind me asking how to access it?

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    4. The event involves a female NPC listed as a "naïve innocent" that you've successfully befriended.

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    5. Ah, got it. I only have 'party girls' right now. I'll check it out, though. Thank you kindly. c:

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  6. it would be so great if we could have exhibitionism trait for the character.character with this trait loves to show of their body,enjoy being watched by men,which means there will be some special events such as walked home naked in midnight after over-time working to release her discontent/stress.
    lift up skirt in the pubilc while no seeing u.

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  7. Also,the clothes discription after being groped should be more,it will make the players voted to the game more.

    BTW,Thank you for creating such a masterpiece!

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  9. Possible bug: Male NPCs with personality Jerk don't have decreased chance to use protection.

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    1. As far as I can tell from looking in the code, they should do. There are many other modifiers in that method though, so personality can easily be overridden.

      I did find a bug though where they didn't have a reduced chance of having the conscientious trait - I've fixed that for the next version.

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    2. That's what I meant :)

      I think something is up with the part that decides if a Female NPC has skilled hands as well.

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    3. Ah, looks like there was an error there. Thanks

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  10. Are there any plans to allow you to create and wear outfits that don't adequately cover you up, outside of nightwear and sexy nightwear? Maybe only for sultry characters?

    The idea of being able to eventually go to work topless or something and get fired for it if your boss isn't totally wrapped around your finger would be cool.

    Or being arrested for indecent exposure, and having to smoothtalk/fuck your way out of a police station, or else you get a fine.

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    1. Probably not. It seems unlikely that the pc would try going topless on her sales job - she'd definitely get arrested and/or fired for something like that in real life, so it'd just be insane to do it.

      I wouldn't necessarily rule out further public sex/nudity content, but it'd probably be done as specific scenes which removed parts of the pc's outfit at the appropriate point, rather than by allowing the player to create topless casual/going-out/business outfits.

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    2. Actually, you can play a bit into that by generating two outfits, one pantyless and/or braless and assigning random to outfit choice. I usually do it after my PC has grown on her feminine side and it plays well. I enjoy it a lot to find out PC has been touched there and is pantyless.

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  11. hey, just wondering, will this game ever include options for anal?

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    1. From everything SO's said (though I still hold out hope he'll change his mind) it won't be added unless it wins a "prove me wrong" vote - the next of which, if he's planning on doing it at the same time as last year, should be in just a couple months

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  12. When is the next version coming out? Can't wait!

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  13. I really enjoy playing a shy girl and 'do nothing' turn after turn, expressing uncertainty, begging them to not cum inside me, letting the guy have their way with me as I'm too shy to stop them...

    2 things would make this much better.

    1: Ability to repeatedly express uncertainty and other vague 'I'm uncomfortable but I'm not going to stop you...' options.

    2: Option to 'do nothing' in more situations. For instance, when a guy has you on your knees, you have to be proactive and do stuff to him (or go back to making out) When in reality this is one of the more vulnerable positions to be in and you should be able to 'do nothing' and have the guy have his way with you. Having the guy command you do things would also be nice.

    Thanks for listening! I love this game.

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  14. First I would like to say that I absolutely love this game.

    I was thinking, would it be possible to have an event where you find evidence that your partner has been cheating on you with one of the female NPC's? You could also have different reactions based on your personality and your partners.

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    1. This idea can be combined with "finding someone's phone for random event" too

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    2. I'll be improving cheating content as part of the relationship update. Votes on the next major update will be coming fairly soon - once 0.3 is done.

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  15. All and all a interesting little game, but one thing I found weird is honestly no option for anal sex. Both men and women are into it, least some are.

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