Hello everyone!
Newlife 0.8.1 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.
Saves from old versions are unlikely to work in 0.8.1.
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 is the start of rent and landlord content.
Major changes & additions:
You must now pay rent every 5 weeks. Every four might seem more obvious for a monthly rent, but the PC's ovulation is on a four-week cycle so if rent synced up with that then you'd always be at the same point when the rent is due.
The landlord will meet you at the start of the game to give you the keys to your flat. For now the landlord will always be a sleazy creep. You'll have various ways of greeting him. In particular, flirty PCs are able to try to seduce him for lower rent.
Failing to pay your rent will result in a brief scene where the landlord demands payment, one way or another. You can pay by going into debt, which costs double the rent and will send your balance negative. Otherwise... there are other ways to pay. I intend to improve and add more content to this scene as releases proceed.
Minor changes:
Male NPCs will no longer initiate anal or oral sex after the PC agrees to let them film sex, as there is no filming content for these scenes. Thanks to iLurk for reporting the inconsistency with this.
Minor changes to the text at the end of the intro sections to inform players that they'll be meeting the landlord next. Hopefully this will be clear for new players – do let me know otherwise.
Added a some extra lines to the sofa sex scene for some specific traits.
Added some landlord-specific dialogue lines to the male-dominant PiV sex scenes.
Changes for user-submitted content:
The landlord is not yet available as a custom character. I intend to allow this at some point, but I want to wait for a few releases in case I need to make changes that would break custom characters.
Bugfixes:
Fixed some text issues. Thanks to nameless and kabasny for reporting some of these.
Fixed a bug reported by fhish where drink descriptions were null in the lesbian club.
Fixed a but reported by Detective Lizard Wizard where the noisy-baby scene could error in a lesbian relationship.
