Major update vote results

Hi all,

I've just finished counting up the results of the major update vote on patreon, and it's a decisive victory for Improved Pregnancy. The results were:

1: Improved Pregnancy
2: Lesbian Content
2: Work and Career
2: Homes and Money

That isn't a typo by the way. The 3 options that didn't win all tied for second on the exact same vote-count.

Kudos to the voter patrons for having their say and helping me see what options were more (or less) popular. That 3-way tie for second-place is interesting because it shows there's appetite for all three of those other choices, even Homes & Money which didn't do so well in the last vote. That's something I'll be taking into account once 0.6.0 is out and I'm preparing for the next vote.

Here's the summary of what improved pregnancy means:

Improved Pregnancy:
- Improved lactation tracking, with lactation continuing after birth and options (via traits, Ivy or the doctor) to control it.
- Lactation content during sex scenes.
- Female-NPC fertility, contraception and pregnancy mechanics and key scenes to support this.

I'll start planning how to implement this. I'm aiming to be more focused this time and keep it smaller than the Relationships update that took 30 releases. The 0.5.x releases will focus on this update and 0.6.0 will mark its completion.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all find something you enjoy in the upcoming changes.

Newlife 0.5.1

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.1 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 focuses on updates to the careers framework that will be needed to allow other careers to be added.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Updated the job framework to support job-switching. The PC now starts unemployed, has to interview for her sales job, and can quit to become unemployed again or to be a full-time housewife.

Minor changes:

• As suggested by NoName, the PC no longer has the option to let her partner name a new baby if he knows it was conceived from cheating.
• Bitchy characters can name a newborn son after his real father, if she's in a relationship, her partner isn't the biological father, and it isn't a cuckoo baby. This causes a substantial hit to her partner's liking towards her.
• Increased the base score for PIV auto-sex as well as the bonus for being with an attractive man as several people had reported that it was too hard to reach orgasm in quicksex.
• Made some improvements to add more variation to the male-dominant-sex-scene NPC sex-talk action, as requested by Wisdom on Discord.
• Increased the liking penalty for unfriending someone.
• Following some comments by -Artemis-, gave a bonus to the chance a likes-to-share boyfriend will be ok with the PC getting pregnant by another man, but only when he's ok with becoming a dad.
• Changed infidelity confessions to use th “severe” text if the PC got pregnant from cheating. This should resolve an issue reported by saint-destiny where the more extreme cheating has timed-out so the pc confesses to just doing a bit of kissing... and getting pregnant.
• Slightly increased the post-orgasm arousal for hard-to-please characters so it's less likely to drop down below the ready-for-sex level.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added methods to directly set arousal to various levels, as requested by Eulexia: e.g. setArousalComfort()
• Added isNakedExceptLegwear() methods to the PC and female-npc, as requested by Eulexia.
• Added an optional transitionInfo parameter getReadyForDate to the TOWN_DATE transition. This can be set to true to start the date at the “getting ready” section.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, Classique75, ChaosBlade, madcat and Saint Destiny for reporting some of these.
• Fixed an oversight with the “a breakup would be hard on your kids” text where it wasn't counting cuckoo babies.
• Fixed a bug reported by Secondarian where cuckoo babies weren't counting towards “have x children” vows.
• Fixed an issue reported by NoName where the text for your partner discovering a cuckoo baby when you give birth assumed you were at home, when it's possible that you're in the hospital instead.
• Fixed a bug reported by Pen where an invalid condition could cause the cooking scene to error.
• Fixed a bug where the officeHarass scene was using the weight modifier from lowlivesAlleySex.
• Fixed an error reported by Saur where flirting with the cooking instructor could lead to both “invite home” actions being available when they're intended to be mutually exclusive.

 

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

Newlife 0.5.0

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.0 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 is the final release in the "relationships" update. I'll be running a vote over the next month to decide what to approach next.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new scene that lets you reveal your pregnancy to your partner even when he isn't the father.
• It's now possible to lie to your bf and pretend he's the father, although only if he did have sex with you around the time of conception. The PC can get caught when giving birth if the real father's race is different from both hers and her partner's.
• Added a new work scene (well, technically 2 scenes) that can occur if there's a repairman with a thick cock in the game – it doesn't matter whether or not you've met him before.
• Instead of the PC's bf sometimes dumping her if she doesn't tell him he's the father, there's now a short new scene in the third-trimester where he'll show up and ask to talk about it. This lets the larger scenes be used for this with their detailed handling of his reaction.
• Added the “Walk Home Alone” scene submitted by Lost Trouting. This will sometimes appear when the PC leaves the club by herself.

Minor changes:

• Increased the knowledge increase from dating, as suggested by Morion.
• Added updated versions of the spyOnSex and lowlivesAlleySex scenes provided by Rigel that use the haveSexWith method.
• Added a few minor variant text passages here and there.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Following a request by Lost Trouting, added a properties file in the official_content folder with weight multipliers for certain random events. Change the values in this file to affect how often an event will appear.
• Added a variant inseminatePlayer(int,boolean) method to connect with new pregnancy mechanics that track whether the PC got pregnant while cheating. The old inseminatePlayer(int) method still exists and uses a default of true for the boolean.
• Added a new method to check if an NPC believes him and the PC have a baby together, whether or not this is true.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, MKB, Madcat, Stochastic, symptom1818, ArsenalJacob and Rafflesia for reporting some of these.
• The sex-shop date will always dress both characters on exiting now. Thanks to Max Mustermann for reporting this.
• Fixed an issue reported by Blargan where the cooking class could error for cute characters cooking with an NPC who likes cute women.
• Fixed an issue that probably won't have been noticeable to players where the bringHome transition to the custom scene wasn't processing relationship modifiers for NPCs other than the one in the next scene.
• Fixed a problem reported by Jams and Teddy where lying about being unprotected was still leading to some dialogue that referred to the PC being on the pill.

 

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