Hiatus

Hi all,

I've come down with an injury that is stopping me from working on Newlife for the time being. This unfortunately means that there not be a new release coming out in April.

I've put the patreon page on 'pause', which means patrons won't be charged at the start of May.

I'll re-assess the situation in early May and post again to let you know if I can resume work or if I'll need to extend the hiatus.

It's painful and difficult for me to use a keyboard, so I will not be able to reply to any comments or post on forums until I've recovered.

Thanks for reading, and I hope your month has got off to a better start than mine.

Newlife 0.4.18

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.18 has been released. 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 public version's 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 release adds the baby-crazy trait and the ability to tell men you're saving yourself for marriage. There's also an improvement to the shopping scene and the ability to meet your sister-in-law at your wedding. 
As a release full of "lots of little modifications throughout the codebase" type changes it's been quite tiring. I'm going to take a different tack for 0.4.19 and focus away from the wedding for a bit. I will be returning to married-life again before the 0.4 changes are done though - I've said before that the wedding can be seen as the climax of the game and its associated scenes should end up as some of the deepest ones in Newlife to reflect that.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added the baby-crazy trait. This has some similarities with Maternal but implies a more obsessive, less rational attitude and doesn't come with Maternal's benefits to parenting. Both can be taken together for a character who's obsessed with getting pregnant and also well cut-out to be a mother. As usual for this sort of trait, the change required lots of little adjustments all over the place and it's possible some might have been missed – let me know if you spot something that doesn't make sense with the trait.
• As requested by several people on Discord, you can now select from a number of shops when you go to buy clothing. This is done from a combo-box next to the money display. Each shop specialises in a different clothing style, with the high-street being the general one.
• You can meet your sister-in-law at the wedding, and there's a small sub-scene involving her later.
• You can now tell men that you intend to stay a virgin until marriage. Men who are cool with this will not attempt to have PIV sex with you until your wedding night. Even if they aren't fine with it this will still stop them for the rest of that scene. This doesn't affect anal or oral sex.

Minor changes:

• As suggested by George S. on Patreon, you'll now usually be able to ask your partner to remove a condom if you're married. This will make it easier for characters to handle the “always use condoms” vow.
• Removed the extra clothes that are added to the shop at high fashion levels. These aren't needed any more now that the choice of shops gives players a much bigger selection to choose from.
• As reported by Saur, the booty-call scene didn't really fit taciturn characters. They now get a very short text, in-line with their normal lack of verbosity.
• Following a report by Max Mustermann, Added a line in the birth scene that mentions the hospital will inform the father if the player hasn't.
• As requested by Max Mustermann, the Clear Head trait will now appear a bit less often due to randomness (e.g. chaos mode).
• As suggested by Madcat, added an alternative lead-in to the repeatable jerk-friend scene for when the PC lives with her partner.
• The “Ask him to come inside” cowgirl-position action now checks that the man is close to orgasm instead of checking the PC's arousal. I'm not sure if this was a bug or just an odd decision when the action was written, but I think it makes much more sense this way.
• As suggested by Flanjygo, the anniversary will now specify it's your anniversary as a couple, not “as his wife/girlfriend”.
• As suggested by someone (I forget who – possibly MadCat), added an NPC reaction to the “tell him you're a virgin” action you can take at home.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added the informVirginUntilMarriage method to male NPCs, although I doubt many user scenes will need to call on it.
• Added the attemptRemoveFromWardrobe method to the player character, as requested by Nashiita. This allows writers to permanently remove clothing from the PC's inventory. However, this will only succeed if it wouldn't lead to problems in the game. The method will return false if the attempt to remove clothing failed – writers will need to take this possibility into account if using the method.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to MadCat, Max Mustermann, Sync, Ammut, OrangeJuice and Saur for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug reported by Dunk where the groom would sometimes wear a condom when consummating a marriage when he shouldn't be.
• Fixed a bug with the blackmail scene.
• Stopped the nightclub scene erroring if the scene description is requested when behaviour is null.
• Fixed a bug reported by Plundernoob where the willpower test when being taken home from the bar was blocking the wrong action.
• Fixed a bug reported by Mr Simple where your baby's father wasn't automatically being identified when there was only one man who could have got you pregnant.
• Fixed an issue reported by MadCat where you often wouldn't get special text when your husband wears a condom in the shower because of a vow.
• Fixed a bug reported by Flanjygo where it was possible for the morning scene with your husband to not have any available actions.

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