Newlife 0.5.4 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 a new event chain. To access it you need to be cunning, bitchy or baby-crazy and have a friend or boyfriend with the impregnator trait. There's 4 new scenes, but one will only fire if the female NPC is on the pill so it won't appear on every playthrough.
Changelog:
Major
changes & additions:
- A new event chain consisting of 3 required and 1 optional events where you help a friend or partner get a girl pregnant. For now this can only trigger with an innocent NPC as the “target” but I intend to revisit these scenes in later updates to add more variety.
Minor
changes:
- To resolve an issue reported by stochastic, telling your partner that you're pregnant from cheating will now stop him believing you're a virgin (unless you still are) even in situations that previously wouldn't have updated this.
- A new trait for custom female NPCs: DONT_TAKE_PILL which stops her using contraception.
Changes
for user-submitted content:
- Added a getGirlOrWoman() method to female NPCs.
- Added the PILLS_SABOTAGED npc trait – add this to a female NPC to disable her contraception via trickery.
- Added the setOnPill(boolean) method to female NPCs. Use this to get a female NPC to start or stop taking the pill. You can additionally add the DONT_TAKE_PILL trait to stop her going on the pill in the future.
Bugfixes:
- Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Rafflesia, Sync, Saint Destiny and Saur for reporting some of these.
- Fixed a bug reported by JulianR.Amazing where the game would error when asking your partner not to leave after informing him of a cheating pregnancy if the PC's charm skill was zero or negative.
- Fixed a character-creation bug reported by Sight where the PC's female body-type was sometimes being set incorrectly when picking one based on her male version.
- The player will now be properly paid for prostituting herself at a hotel – thanks to Secondarian and Rigel for reporting this issue and tracking down the cause.
Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs!
