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! 

Newlife 0.4.30

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.30 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 updating and improving certain existing scenes. 

I'm considering making a longer blog post to discuss the changes to the cooking class in particular - what I did and why I decided to make those particular changes & additions. It's a bit late in the evening for me to write that up right now, but look out for it soon.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Your performance in the porn-shoot is now stored and can appear as a film you watch at the porno cinema.
• Added content to the porn-shoot, mostly focusing on “regret” lines for characters with the refined, shy, romantic traits or who feel guilty about cheating on their partner.
• Extensively updated the cooking class male interactions to add new paths when cooking with a male partner that offer more variety and alternative routes through the scene.

Minor changes:

• Added some alt-text for shy characters to the cooking class scene, following a report by LiveJoker that the game was forcing them down inappropriate paths. Combined with the wider interaction variety I think the problem should now be fixed: if it re-occurs please report it again along with a copy-paste of the offending text.
• TownDate: Added a thin+braless section to the upper-body description when the PC looks at herself in the mirror (assuming none of the other special clothing-flag sections are shown instead)
• PornShoot: Added an alternative ejaculation section for when one of your friends is the porn-star.
• In order to fix an issue reported by Saur where the club scene ends on the same turn that the PC is getting prompted for her behaviour towards a new NPC, the “flirt” and “meet someone's eyes” actions have been changed to no longer take up any of the evening's time.
• (0.4.30b): Improved some text in the blackjack scene to better handle the baby-crazy trait, thanks to a suggestion from Saur
• (0.4.30b): Increased the 'naughtiness' of the sheer-blouse clothing type, as suggested by Saur.
• (0.4.30c): Following a suggestion by NewFace, updated some quick-sex text to better handle the situation where the PC has an orgasm from foreplay but not one from whatever happens afterwards.
• (0.4.30c): Following a post by RecalledDread, the hotel prostitution will now choose a random client. This makes no difference to most games because there's only one man with the HOTEL_PROSTITUTION_CLIENT trait. However, if the player has created custom NPCs with the trait the game will now load up to 5 of them and pick a random one each time. Refusing a client ends the scene-chain for everyone. I didn't spend too much time thinking this one over: please let me know if there are issues or I've opened the door to unintended consequences.
• (0.4.30c) As suggested by Secondarian, multiple custom porn actors can now be loaded and one will be chosen at random if needed.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added boolean isOutfitCute, isOutfitSexy, isOutfitElegant and isOutfitCasual methods to the PC object that check if the PC's clothes are sufficiently far along the relevant axis: see the documentation for details.
• Added a getHadAnalSex method to the Npc objects which returns true if they've had anal sex with the PC.
• Added getHadBabyWithPc and isPcPregnantBy methods to male NPC character objects: see the documentation for details. These allow you to check if the PC has known children/pregnancy by the NPC.
• The 'test custom scenes' activity is now also available as a weekend action, as requested by Stochastic. This means it's now available even if the weekday activity is blocked due to childcare.
• Added an isClothesDisarrayed method to female NPCs, also as requested by Stochastic.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, Brobort and Sync for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug where the porn-shoot scene would error on using a professional porn-actor if the NPC existed before the scene started.
• Fixed a bug where information wasn't being correctly passed between the porn-shoot and porn-sex scenes which meant that the video was always considered terrible. Thanks to Cristia and Bagashi for highlighting that there might be issues in the porn-quality code.
• Fixed some places where the fashion bonus to clothing stats wasn't being applied.
• Fixed a bug with custom scenes where having a returnToParent condition would block scene transitions in that action even if the condition evaluated to false. It'll now block them only if the condition is true (the priority goes finished, then returnToParent, then scene transitions)
• Fixed a bug where repeat porno-shoot opportunities weren't appearing because the countdown wasn't being processed correctly.
• (0.4.30c): Fixed an issue reported by NewFace where the porn-shoot wasn't incrementing the “orgasms from sex” stat, leading to future sex scenes incorrectly assuming the PC was having her first.
• (0.4.30c): Thanks to OrangeJuice asking about dance-competition cheating I was able to find a bug where the couple-competition cheating action was never actually made available to the player. It can now be chosen for characters with the CUNNING trait.

 

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