Hi all,
Now that Newlife's 0.4
milestone has been reached, it's time to vote for what major update
will be 0.5. The vote will take place this month for voter-tier
patrons on Patreon. I'll list the choices here, but for instructions
on how to vote see
this patreon post.
You'll notice that some
releases are bigger than others. Bigger updates have more content,
but they'll also take more time to develop, so go ahead and vote for
a smaller one if you want and don't worry that you're getting less
stuff.
As for sex scenes, I
generally intend to add one new one per major update, unless that
update requires more. I'll try to add a scene that's related to the
update's theme, but if that isn't possible then I'll still add a new
sex scene anyway.
Here are the options.
Please note that these reflect my thoughts on them at this moment in
time. This might change once development starts and I'm looking into
an update in more depth, so the specific details shouldn't be
considered set-in-stone.
Work & Career
An
update about improving your work options. This will include
completing the sales career, starting a new one and improving how
work interacts with stress. Key features:
Complete the Sales
career with new events and branching promotions. The current elite
saleswoman path will have an alternative where you become a sales
team leader. This will use different skills and have different
events.
Add a special
event chain for high-level sales jobs.
Add a new
management skill for the team-leader path.
Rebalance stress.
New events with
worse consequences for poor job performance and/or high stress
levels.
A new trait that
will make you incompetant at your job and stop you getting promoted
to higher levels, for players who want to be stuck in a low-paid
basic job for the whole game.
Career-related
activities such as spending your weekend on a training course.
New career,
probably office work. This won't be fully complete for 0.5, but
it'll have a basic groundwork with some unique events. The new
career won't be based on the Charm skill, so it'll provide an
alternative for socially inept characters.
Add a way of switching between careers.
Romance & Marriage
An update focused on
relationship content. This will add a lot to the late-game, which I
think is very much needed. As well as adding content for characters
with boyfriends, it'll also include the possibility of getting
married.
New events for
characters in relationships. Both romantic and otherwise.
Marriage
proposals.
Weddings and
wedding nights – have a sweet and romantic wedding with your
special man, or worry about having it disturbed by a smitten bloke
making a final attempt to get you to ditch your fiance and get
together with him instead.
Modifications to
existing scenes to allow for marriage, including recognising it in
the endgame sequence.
Depending on your
choices in the endgame sequence, you might get the possibility to
continue playing afterwards.
"Trying for a
baby" relationship status, which will modify actions, dialogue
and descriptions in sex scenes.
Potential
restrictions to your interactions with your husband based on
promises made before the wedding. For example, if you promised that
he'd never need to worry about protection again once you're married
then you won't be able to ask him to wear a condom.
Improved
relationship interactions including more negative ones like having
arguments with your boyfriend and letting pent-up stress get the
better of you
Better
consequences for cheating.
Special traits & events for scumbag
boyfriends. Is your man a drunk? A cheater? A cheating drunk? Now
you can live out your dream life of being woken up in the middle of
the night by your husband staggering home pissed and expecting to
have his way with you.
Storyline
An
update just for Ivy!
Help Ivy fix her
machine, or be doomed to the life of a healthy and beautiful young
woman... forever!
Cackle maniacally
as you learn the mad science skill and suffer yet more unforeseen
experimental side-effects. The fools called you mad, but they are
the ones who will be mad, mad with envy once you perfect your
greatest invention!
Choose from a
variety of tasks with multiple solutions. Maybe Ivy needs a special
component – you could study so you can make it yourself, use your
charm to convince a technician, break into a workshop and steal
one... or use your feminine wiles to seduce someone into helping.
Ivy will be added
as a friend at game-start, in addition to your normal friend limit.
Ivy will have a special "mad scientist" character type
with unique content in some scenes, although she won't be available
in as many different scenes as the main
innocent/party-girl/sophisticated character types.
Once fixed, you can use Ivy's machine to
adjust certain aspects of your new body.
Femininity
An update based around
giving more content to the gender-bender aspects of the male-start. A
lot of this content won't be available to female-start characters.
A new life as a
woman? But you're a man! Just because you have soft silkily smooth
skin and full pert breasts doesn't make you any less masculine!
Resist the change
and act as manly as possible.
Wear manly
clothes.
Most men might
find this unappealing, but maybe you'll find one who likes tomboys
and have a proper bromance together. You can have lots of sweaty sex
in a bromance, right?
Lots and lots of
changes to existing scenes.
Resist the change unsuccessfully, and give in
to your womanly urges.
Homes & money
Along
with the work update's rebalancing of stress, this is the second of
the big balance changes – in this case affecting money. This will
add more late-game money sinks as well as an ongoing financial drain
from your rent. Starting funds will be increased, but characters who
are bad at their jobs might find themselves low on cash even into the
mid-game. However, NPC wealth levels will make it feasible to lean on
your boyfriend for financial support, and will give an incentive to
date a rich man even if he isn't otherwise the best partner for you.
Men will have jobs
now, and different amounts of money depending on what they do.
"gold-digger"
content where you try to exploit men for financial gain.
Rebalancing of the
female endgame content to make it more possible to fail to raise the
money – currently this only happens if the player is really trying
to spend all their cash.
Be given presents
or treated to expensive dates by rich men... or eat fast-food on the
street with poor ones.
Move to new homes,
with unique events for each neighborhood.
Pay your rent, or
suffer the wrath of your landlord.
Call the handyman to fix broken appliances.
Your fridge is just running sooooo hot and you really need him to
inspect your plumbing.
Daily life
An update based around
adding hobbies and other things to do that don't revolve around work
or dating. Of course these will still lead to plenty of opportunities
for sex and romance – the existing dance content should give you an
idea of what to expect.
Maybe you just
want to go about your normal life, but better. If so, this update is
for you.
Get a pet and bond
with it. You can't have sex with your pet (of course), but it might
be able to help you in your love life. Different events will be
added for different pet types.
New stuff for your
home.
Hobbies for your
free time, with new skills and events.
Go to the park and feed the ducks.
Lesbian love
An
update based around adding lesbian sex & relationships. This is
probably the biggest one here because it'll require an alternative
set to the core game scenes.
The
game mechanics for the player-character will always act as if she's
bisexual, in that she'll be able to be attracted to either gender. It
will however be possible for you to play them as fully-straight or
fully-gay, just by rejecting the advances of anyone of your
less-preffered gender.
Meet lesbians and bisexual women and seduce or be seduced by them.
Alternative lesbian versions to the main
club/date->home->makeout->sex->sleep->next morning
scene chain.
Lesbian relationships
Update existing scenes to handle the possibility of the PC being in
a lesbian relationship, having had lesbian sex etc.
Improved pregnancy
An
update all about improving how pregnancy is handled in the game,
including:
New events & activities for pregnant characters and new mums
(although note that your children themselves will not appear in any
scene that's even slightly sexual or erotic).
A better implementation of lactation: continue lactating after birth
and enjoy breastmilk-related actions during intimate moments.
NPC pregnancy.
Improvements to the Maternal trait: I'll probably add a more extreme
"baby-crazy" trait that allows for more dramatic actions
like trying to get pregnant from someone you just met.
Trying for baby relationship status (yes, the same one that I listed
under the Relationships update – I'll add it if either of these
options wins the vote)
