Newlife 0.5.3

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.3 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 support for female NPC pregnancy, something which I'll be building on over the next few releases with scenes for both general female NPCs and for some specific ones.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added support for female NPC pregnancy including updates to the text in scenes where pregnant female NPCs can appear. The week summary will inform you when an NPC is pregnant and again when she gives birth.

Minor changes:

• Added a few more lines to some actions in the cheating-partner sex scene.
• Added a new conversation outcome when chatting with female NPCs at the club.
• Using Ivy's help in a job interview will now guarantee success, even for characters with bad traits.
• New befriending paths for a pregnant party-girl friend that don't rely on her drinking.
• Updated the OfficeHarass scene with an improved version from Stochastic.
• New befriend paths for pregnant party-girl NPCs that don't involve her drinking.
• House-party guests will now gradually drink over the course of the evening even if you aren't serving them drinks, although they won't drink enough to get hammered without the PC involved.
• Added some alternative text to one of the nightclub actions with a focus on lines for genderbent characters.
• The gender-bent jerk friend is now always available to be your bridesmaid if she exists and you're marrying the man she tried to get you to cheat on.
• Added some new text to the wedding intro to recognise when the PC has chosen the gender-bent jerk friend as her bridesmaid.
• Added a trait to make the PC more attracted to older men, as requested by Brobort.
• Reduced some of the unnecessary spacing in the week summary.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added the getFigureDesc method requested by Secondarian to the PC context object.
• Added the inseminateNpc(maleNpc, femaleNpc, int) method to the $scene context object. I know it's a little unintuitive to have it on $scene instead of the FemaleNpc, but it made the most sense during implementation with how the context objects are structured internally.
• Updated the documentation to include the PORN_ACTOR and COOKING_TEACHER traits in the enum reference, thanks to Stochastic for bringing up this oversight.
• New methods for female NPC objects: getPregnancyStage(), getStomachDesc(), isLactating(), isLatePreg(). In addition, the isPregnant() method can now return true.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to OrangeJuice, Saur, MadCat and SgtReznov for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug reported by CagedSissy and NewFace where the text after the pregnancy talk had a bad condition that led to the wrong passage being shown.
• Fixed an oversight where catching a woman having sex with your husband wasn't removing her virginity if you just leave them to it instead of watching.
• Fixed an issue in the npc+npc sex scene that could lead to multiple passages of text being shown at once instead of just one.
• Fixed an issue reported by NewFace where your partner could show up to ask about your pregnancy even if you'd told him about it the week before.
• Added alternative text to the noisy baby scene's intro for unemployed/housewife PCs to resolve an issue raised by stochastic where it mentions getting up for work the next day.
• Fixed an obscure bug reported by JulianR.Amazing that might have allowed the porn actor to be befriendable.

 

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