Wednesday 22 June 2016

Newlife 0.3.23

Hello everyone!

 
Version 0.3.23 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 0.3.22 is now public. You can download it using the links on the right-hand side of the blog. The 0.3.22 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 0.3.23:
Major changes & additions:
  • Fixed the issue of the player being able to cook dinner in the apartment even if she was treated to a meal by an NPC earlier in the evening, an incongruous date night behaviour that could immediately pull players out of their immersive Newlife experience. As the most important change in this release, it deserves pride of place at the top of the Major Changes section.
  • Added custom female NPCs. See the custom NPC guide for details. This is linked from http://splendidostrich.blogspot.co.uk/p/custom-npcs.html.
  • You can now ask a man to be “just friends” with you, which will deter him from making sexual advances in most circumstances. This is currently done via the “important talk” action at home, although I may add other opportunities for it if it proves to be a popular change. This status is automatically removed if you act provocatively towards him. This functionality is not related to friendship directly: you can be “just friends” with someone who isn't actually your friend – you don't even need to like each other. Maybe I should think of a less confusing name for it!

Minor changes & bugfixes:
  • Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Kayla, Saur, NotYou and Cubano for reporting problems they found.
  • Fixed the problem reported by Cubano where the custom NPC tooltip was just appearing on one line.
  • Fixed a bug reported by Mihir where men with the jerk personality didn't have a reduced chance of being conscientious, and a second one where character types weren't being checked properly when determining if they got the Magic Fingers trait.
  • Men can now invite themselves back home with you at the end of a date. The player can refuse them, but only when passing a willpower test.
  • Added quite a few alternatives to the “his penis twitches inside you” line that appears when your sexual partner is about to orgasm during unprotected sex.
  • Added some more descriptive text when changing into a sexy outfit at home, if that outfit means you're naked or just wearing panties.
  • Added a new nightclub action for NPCs where they can stop by briefly to talk with you instead of chatting you up. This is primarily intended for those under the “just friends” curse, but can be used by others in some circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug with uneditable character creation where some checkboxes were being re-enabled on loading templates or selecting the “block rough content” option – this was reported by NotYou on the 0.3.13 version and is finally off the todo list.
Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs! 

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  2. Alternatively you could have added "chubby chaser" to the list of possible sexual preferences and introduced consecutive feedings of NPCs in order to make a more perfect man as a new gameplay element.

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    1. If you hadn't showcased your dry wit earlier I'm perfectly sure one day Splendid would start taking these suggestions seriously :P

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  3. Thanks for the update, friend-zoning is a godsend. In a similar vein, any chance we might eventually get a Serious Talk option where the PC can express her desire to remain a virgin? (basically, limiting NPCs to foreplay) Like the friend-zoing, it wouldn't have to be a hard restriction, in fact certain types of jerks would no doubt see the player's self-enforced chastity as a challenge.

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  4. I think that a good idea would be adding a scene where you would find out that an npc (a boyfriend after you have the chance to look at his phone, or an npc at the finding-a phone-in-the-road scene) is boasting with his friends about how he fucked you. It could be real or just a lie, in the case that he actually fucked you he could even send some pictures of you or something. You could be asked to give pictures of yourself naked by someone who has your number, too. Just thinking...

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    1. Definitely needs some blackmail, where you're tasked to find an outfit with a certain amount of naughtiness (say, 15 overall) and then meet that person somewhere.

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  6. how about small dick trait?

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  7. A couple of things I would like to see added. Lesbian sex, to be able to go from sex to oral sex, or at least option let the guy cum in the girls mouth, after sex when asked to pull out. Option to let the girl suggest a trip to the bathroom instead of only the guy, option for some naughtiness in the movie theater if it isn't very busy.

    Anyways just a few thoughts I had after playing it.

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    1. Lesbian is coming in a future update, the groundwork for it is setup now that female NPCs exist.
      It is possible to do something you say, like if you go cowgirl you can opt to have NPC finish in your month.

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    2. Yeah I just meant like how it is set up now. You can start with oral and then have the option to go back to making out which can then lead to sex. I would just like to see that same option with sex. So you can switch back. Or depending on position add a new line for switching. examnples

      Doggy style - "You pull away and give your lover a mischievous look and turn around on all fours, offering your mouth to him" which would lead to the oral sex options.

      Or during sex if you ask him to pull out, he has a chance to be reluctant, then you can either insist or tell him you want him to pull out so you can swallow every last drop. He could agree but have 3 different outcomes.
      1) He is way to slow and cums in her anyways.
      2) He is kinda slow and pulls out and cums on her face as he drags her head over to him.
      3) He is in time and it goes to the oral face fucking one where he just uses her mouth.

      Anyways just some thoughts and is there any other place other than these comments to make suggestions? Like a forum or something to help come up with traits and the like etc. Since I am sure I wouldn't be the only one willing to help with traits or even dialogue etc.

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    3. I believe that SO has rejected most people trying to add things due to how the game is coded.
      There is this blogspot, a Patreon and a thread on Fenoxo's forums.

      And part of it is supposed to be "typical" or "normal" relationships where the man is more in control. Agree or disagree. SO made a comment to that degree quite a while ago, he worded it far better.

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    1. The regular female start meant you did change your body to be able to fit the government form's description, no?

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  9. I just updated my NPC creator to 0.3.23 and this brought a feature to my attention that is rather annoying to me. When the npc parser encounters a option or trait it doesn't recognize it fails the npc. If you could change this to a warning or add an option to disable this it would make future updates way easier for me.

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    1. Hi, this is intentional to make it more obvious when something's wrong with the NPC. Because the yml files are intended to be editable by hand, there's quite a risk of typos so the NPC being disabled is intended to make it clearer that there's an issue - it's hopefully useful to the player and it's especially handy for making it obvious if there's a bug when I add things to that part of the code.

      The notifications to the player about invalid NPCs could probably be clearer - especially if people start a game without running Test NPCs and don't have the Psychic cheat to check that their NPC is present. For the time being though, that's quite low down the list of things to change so it isn't likely that I'll get to looking into it for at least the versions leading up to 0.4.0.

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  11. What's the maximum number of custom male npc that can be added in one game? On previous version I could only make 11 working custom npcs.

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    1. I think it's around a dozen. The custom npc guide yml file should have the exact number in it somewhere.

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  12. Hey, Splendid, I mean I'm pretty happy with the progress and all, but it doesn't take a lot to realize the updates are slowing down. Is there something new affecting the speed? Or maybe it's just as the project grows in size.

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    1. It's the second one. Newlife has grown large enough that its players experience the effects of gravitational time dilation, meaning that for every month we wait for an update, only a week has passed for Splendid Ostrich.

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    2. Must be really fantastic for Splendid to wait for Half Life three then....

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    3. Must be really easy for splendid to wait for Half-Life three then, now...

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