Hello everyone!
The update has been delayed a while due to my health issues, including a brief but rather miserable period of hospitalisation. However, I'm at home now and it is ready to go!
So, Newlife 0.8.12 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 could run into issues here and may not work properly with the new version.
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 update adds a new neighbourhood where you can get a super-cheap room above a brothel, along with a bunch of new scenes around living there and potentially making some money on the side.
Major changes & additions:
Added a new 'bad' neighbourhood, a crummy flat in the redlight district in a building used for 'other purposes'. This is overseen by a new landlord (the “Pimp Landlord”) who is always the landlord for this home and only this one.
Failing to pay your rent in the non-redlight homes will now have the PC evicted instead of going into debt. Failing to pay in the redlight area will still cause debt, although this may be changed later.
The PC can, on moving into the redlight home, offer to do sex-work as a side-gig. This is handled by events and is not treated as a “day job”.
Two new events for the redlight home, focusing on the impact living there can have on her work. Both of these are currently only available for working characters.
Minor changes:
Increased the weight for the “interact with first baby” scene to make it more likely to fire during its restricted time window. Thanks to AnarChYsT for highlighting that this potential issue.
Added an action to go back to the initial choices to the move-home scene, now that there are multiple available moves.
Redlight neighbourhood has a slightly higher chance of mugging events (90 weight, compared to 80 for the starting home and 10 for the pleasant one).
Added some stats and game-flags to track prostitution, both in the new redlight content and the existing hotel/street scenes by Secondarian.
Rent modifier is now tracked on a per-landlord basis rather than a single value.
Changes for user-submitted content:
PIMP_LANDLORD can be customised. Bear in mind that this NPC is always the landlord for the redlight district and only that – he cannot be given other landlord traits.
Bugfixes:
Fixes to some text issues. Thanks to StuntCuffer for reporting some of these.
Fixed an issue with text about changing landlords when moving back to a home you've previously lived in.
Fixed an error reported by Gamecat007 where one of the childfree events was throwing an error when opening.
Fixed a bug reported by StuntCuffer where the “dragged to bed by your hair” route in the scene where your husband demands you fulfill a breeding vow was still triggering for shaven-headed PCs.
