Thursday 25 August 2016

Newlife 0.3.25

Hello everyone!

Version 0.3.25 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.

The previous version is now public. You can download it using the links on the right-hand side of the blog. The 0.3.24 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.


This version adds a new large sex scene, using the cowgirl position as chosen in a vote on patreon. My general approach is to add one per major update, and this is the one for the 0.3.x releases.

The new scene itself is definitely the largest one in a new release, and might even be the biggest in the game outright, despite most of the other big ones having been built up over multiple releases. It's hard to be sure though as some of them are split over several files. Considering that there are multiple new scenes in this release including the fairly-substantial new makeout one, this makes it an absolutely massive update. 

While I'm hoping you'll be pleased with the large amount of new content, I don't plan to make updates of this size a regular thing. 

In this case a mix of over-optimistic planning, the mutli-participant nature of the new scene and the need to put the sex and makeout scenes in the same update contributed to its size, but that's a combination I will need to avoid in the future.

I've said in the past that for a game that's funded on a monthly basis I consider the minimum release schedule to be one version per calendar month unless something really critical happens. That's still been met with this being the update for August. However, the time between releases was about five weeks which is obviously not sustainable - perhaps once in a rare while for an exceptionally large release, but not as a regular thing.

Fortunately, the next two or three updates will be putting the finishing touches to the friendship update rather than adding new major scenes, which tends to be the most time-consuming thing to do. This will include a few new small and medium scenes as well as improvements to some of the recently-added large ones. Those updates certainly shouldn't be as large as this one, and so I'm expecting them to be out in less time.


Here's the full changelog for 0.3.25:

Major changes & additions:
  • Added a new full sex scene.
  • Added a somewhat-simplified makeout scene that leads into the new sex scene.
  • Added 2 new socialisation events that can lead to the new scene.
  • Added a new path to one of the house-party actions that's the third and (for now) final way of getting to this scene. Other ways into it will be added in future releases.
Minor changes & bugfixes:
  • Fixes to text issues. Thanks to DrGong, Max Musterman, pgiac6, Jayjay78, Death25, Joram78 (any relation to Jayjay or is 78 a popular number?) & centerflag982 (shouldn't that be centerflag78?) for reporting problems they found.
  • Disabled NPCs will no longer appear with Name: Not Set in the custom NPC test output. Instead, the name field will not appear for them.
  • Fixed a bug reported by death25 where requesting rough treatment from one partner at your house party would cause all future partners in that scene to also be rough.
  • Modified the text for some of the gallery scene actions when the pc had her first time with someone she loves as Jayjay78 had quite correctly pointed out that the what the pc said didn't always make sense for the action the player had chosen.
  • If YML parsing fails then a disabled placeholder custom NPC will be created with an appropriate error message. This won't affect actual gameplay, but it means that the Test NPCs function will show output informing the player of why the NPC isn't valid, instead of showing nothing because the process errored before creating the custom npc object.
  • Automatic outfit generation is now significantly more likely to include underwear for athletic outfits if the pc has large or medium-large breasts, as otherwise it's difficult to work out without a bra. Automatic outfits will now always include one in that circumstance if possible unless the pc has the sultry trait, and the chance is quite a bit higher even for sultry girls.
  • Automatic outfit generation can now create athletic outfits using only a sports bra as the top.
  • Added a new cheat option that doubles the number of clothes for sale in the shop.
  • Rewrote the simple “man caresses you during sex” action following a report by death25 that it wasn't correctly tracking the player's clothing status – in fact this was an old-style action like those in the original 0.1.0 version that had just a single line of text that showed up in all circumstances. It now has tender/rough/normal variants as well as actually checking the pc's clothes before describing her as “naked”.
  • Following a suggestion by Cubano, added a small action to the end of the art gallery scene where the pc goes back to experiencing the art as previously the scene ended rather abruptly. I also gave refined characters a small stress reduction, seeing as the scene is in an art gallery after all.
  • Female NPCs can now go on the pill and have a fertility cycle similar to the player's, although their fertile/safe weeks won't necessarily be in-sync with yours. This affects text and dialogue relating to impregnation-risk. However, female NPCs will not actually become pregnant for now.
  • As requested by Drew on Patreon, when playing through a scene you can now double-click an action to take it.
Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs! 

29 comments:

  1. how do you get the art gallary scene?

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    1. You need to choose the activity where you socialise with your friends on the weekend, when you have at least one innocent friend who's also a virgin. The event won't fire for down-to-earth characters.

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    2. I can get it to fire, but there are only options to tell her how I want to lose my virginity, it never lets me encourage her to do so. Is the flirty trait necessary for that?

      Also, after about an hour of rerolling characters, is it even possible for a party-girl to be a virgin? I haven't seen any non-innocent characters ever with that flag.

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    3. There are two art gallery scenes, and the 2nd one occurs after the player is no longer a virgin, and it contains the option to encourage the innocent NPC.

      I got a party-girl virgin to show up in a game the same way you did, from starting lots and lots of new games. You're better off just loading one as a custom PC.

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  2. There's an issue with the game resetting saved PC female templates. It seems that certain traits will get mixed up, like the looks section, physical traits, mental traits and sexual preferences.

    Just thought I'd point that out. It's not big, but it gets kinda annoying ; n ;

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    1. a better in depth explanation of what happened would probably help.

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    3. Is this a template created with version 0.3.25, or one from an older version of the game?

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    4. Templates are created with previous game versions. Is it like save games not working on newer versions?

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    5. Yes, I use the same method for save-games and templates, and they have the same problem with updates.

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  3. I sent you a message on reddit if you want to check it out. I know this a terrible place to put this but there aren't many ways I can find to contact you.

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  4. Is the new scene tied to the house party? I can't seem to find it

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    1. If you are a patreon, how to is posted in the comments under 0.3.25. If you are not a Patreon, you don't have the content yet.

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  5. Hey guys, I've released a new version of NLCC on my blog. I won't link it here since that'd be rude to Splendid, but there's a link on the Newlife TfGames page!

    Cheers, FreshSalad

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    1. Feel free to link your blog. I think there's even a link on the custom-npcs page, if it's https://freshestofsalads.blogspot.co.uk/

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    2. S.O. A direct link to the custom-NPC page on the top bar, or sidebar would be nice.

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    3. Yeah, that's my blog. Cheers SO!

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  7. Excuse me, I have a question. Is there a way to play for more than 52 weeks?

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    1. currently, only via patreon version if you donate. I believe that S.O. accidentally released a patreon version to the public, but it would be quite old.

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    2. cheat engine is your friend there.

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    3. Both of the above are correct: I'll eventually add post-ending gameplay, but not until the endgame content is there to support it.
      The patreon version has a number of cheats, to which I added an option to change the game's length. However, if you can't or don't want to support on patreon then cheat engine should work fine for changing how long the game is played.

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  8. Hi dude,ihave a some ideas maybe u liked.
    -Add exibicionit trait and events.
    -Add beach location(With exibicionit thinks)
    -Add go lo alone to adult shop(Maybe add gloryholes)
    -Add masturbation scenes.
    -Add event The protagonist find some boy masturbating(And only watch or help her)
    --Add event The protagonist is caugth masturbating
    -Add lesbian sex.(With toys)
    -Add maybe more locations(Library,grocery, more shops,events like carnivals,adult exposition(Like e3 for sex and adult porn hahah)
    -Add events for ur computer and Add webcam sex(maybe like omegle.com with a random pervert or in a good page for money)
    -In future add more jobs like maid,model,whore,etc.
    -Maybe add gangbangs,sex partys,orgys etc.

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  9. So now that this is public I was wondering if we could get a how to for the new scene

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    1. I think someone posted the details on the tfgs discussion thread.

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  10. Cannot trigger the new scene either.

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    1. Finnally got it. Is it the threesome scene?

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    2. Yes, that's the one. Well, I don't call it a threesome because the PC isn't an active participant, but I know what you mean.

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