Updated 0.4.28 Changelog

Hi all,

I've put an updated version of 0.4.28 out to patrons - I'd expected a ton of bug reports for the new content as I hadn't tested it very thoroughly, but apparently it's mostly been working fine. So, this has given me a chance to catch up a bit on bug reports and smaller change requests from various forums. 

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Completely reworked the town date.
• Added Secondarian's bringHome scene. This was originally envisaged as a weekend friendship event but I've changed it to trigger from the nightclub scene instead.

Minor changes:

• Added a new “heavily tweaked” randomisation option for malestart characters, as suggested by Morion. This has double the randomisation changes of the tweaked start: 40% for both physical and mental categories, compared to 20% for tweaked and 50%/0% for the mental-only and physical-only starts.
• Added some new male orgasm text in a few places, notably a new romantic text-passage to the standing-front scene.
• Talking with the cooking instructor now grants some knowledge.
• Added a short alternative path suggested by Morion where male-start characters who have the romantic trait and are engaged or married and are in love with their partner will no longer be able to change back to a man in the endgame sequence.
• As suggested by Kyrus, added alternatives to the “cheating on your partner” lines in the anal scene for the situation where the PC knows he likes her to sleep around.
• Improved some text & conditions around the “virgins can't get pregnant” claim when the PC isn't actually a virgin but the man thinks she is – thanks to Morion for highlighting this.
• The sales boss now has a significantly higher chance of getting the cheater trait if his personality isn't caring or romantic. Thanks to Astroturf for pointing out that he's married when he first hits on the PC, so he should be less faithful than other men. I've decided not to make the trait guaranteed for him because his marriage is described as “failing” so he might not cheat in a happier relationship.
• Following a suggestion by astroturf, jerks are now more likely to be assholes towards the PC when caught cheating.
• Increased the anti-flip-flopping modifier applies when falling in or out of love.
• The cooking class can now still be taken at max skill level (although you don't gain much from doing so), as requested by M.S. on Patreon, and I think a few other people. I may re-add the restriction if I add more cooking content, especially if there's one or more scenes aimed at high skill characters.
• Following a suggestion by Ammut, tweaked boring+sexual conversation text for overactive-imagination characters to read a little less inconsistently.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added TOWN_DATE as a possible transition: see the yml reference doc for details.
• Added a new method to female NPCs: haveSexWith(MaleNpc), as suggested on Discord by Stochastic. This sets their virginity to false (the NPC's, not Stochastic's). The male-NPC parameter is not actually used for anything at the moment but I didn't want to add a no-params loseVirginity method that'd end up needing to be removed when/if NPC-NPC relationships get a more in-depth implementation.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Madcat, OrangeJuice, Classique75, Xerax and Neil for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug reported by Stochastic where the sophisticatedSalesHelp scene could incorrectly fire for a virgin NPC.
• Fixed an issue reported by Katie where a male NPC could have a big cock and a small one at the same time.
• Fixed a bug reported by Katie where the “advise oral sex” during the blackjack scene was instead setting the NPC to use the makeout forfeit regardless of their reaction to it.
• Made some obscure pregnancy-related condition changes suggested by MadCat for the husband-before-work scene.
• Fixed an error in the new towndate where the action to cancel the date after the bloke refuses to change his plans was not being handled correctly.
• Fixed a bug reported by MS on patreon where one of the “exchange numbers” actions with the instructor still had incorrect conditions.

New version released

Hi all, I'm feeling a bit too tired to do the whole changelog thing - I'm a bit behind on fixing problems so I'll be doing a bugfix release in the next few days and I'll post one then. 

Anyway, there's a new version out on Patreon and I've updated the public version as well. Enjoy!

Newlife 0.4.27

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.27 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 one adds a new skill along with a scene based on it that's the first commissiond scene to be added to the game. I have another commissioned scene that's almost ready and will be out next month, as well as a big rewrite of one of the core scenes that I wasn't quite able to finish for this release.
Depending on how the commissioned work is received, this could be something you see more of in the future - I'm hoping that people will enjoy it and I'll be able to bring in more writers to take a bit of the load off and give me more flexibility to work on things other than new content.
Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new skill: Cooking. The “cook dinner at home” action has been reworked with more variety and greater impact based on the skill.
• Added a scene commissioned from lovelesspoison: the cooking class. This can be accessed by choosing the appropriate activity on the weekday evening timeslot.

Minor changes:

• Increased the base chance of a pullout attempt succeeding (when the man actually tries – not if he lied).
• Drunk men now get a penalty to their chances of successfully pulling out.
• Provocative-style clothing can now be generated in purple.
• As suggested by Saur, the Refined trait cannot be taken with the Sultry personality, as this led to odd situations where the PC would be overtly sexual towards a man and then get offended when he responded in kind.
• Following a suggestion by Saur, the various “have (sex/oral/etc) to rekindle your love” options in the out-of-love scene now block certain actions in their followups, for example offering your virginity blocks oral and anal. All of them now block rejections which also means you can't call him over to have sex and then tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. There will still be some paths where it's possible for the PC to not follow through with what she said she'd do, e.g. if the man finishes during the makeout but these should now be fairly unusual.
• Changed the text on the character-creation 'looks' tab to no longer refer to the PC's “new female body” for non-transformed female-start characters.
• Added a check suggested by Kyrus for when a GP exam reveals your pregnancy so that the “proof of your infidelity” text will now only appear if the “came inside” cheating status is set on the baby's father. This will stop it appearing for situations where you conceive outside a relationship and then get together with a new bf before discovering the pregnancy.
• Fixed an oddity reported by Kyrus where the PC would be stunned that she got pregnant after going on the pill, even if she only just started buying the pill minutes ago in the same GP visit where she found out about the pregnancy.
• Modified the logic around the PC accepting or rejecting guys who come up to her while dancing at the club to have a higher chance of rejection for certain situations.
• Added a few misc lines of content here and there.
• In “new stuff that 90% of people won't see”, I've added a new possible path to the “be mean to her” section in the innocent-sales-colleague repeatable bad-day scene. This will happen if the pervy client has previously “rescued” her from you in an earlier run of that scene.
• エボラちゃん reported an issue where it wasn't possible to lower the relationship with a needy female friend so thy couldn't be un-friended. On reflection I've decided that the “requires a bad relationship” unfriending condition wasn't improving the game so I've replaced it with one that allows them to be unfriended but increases the PC's stress and anxiety on doing so. This is currently set at +40 stress and +3 anxiety.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added sceneEndProcessing as an optional text field in the yml file. This contains vm code that will be run (with any text output discarded) when the scene finishes or makes a non-returning transition. This is intended as an effort-saver for scenes with multiple similar ending paths that perform similar changes to the game's state.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, OrangeJuice and Katie for reporting some of these.
• The hotel-prostitution client will now be hidden from “describe characters” until the PC actually enters his hotel room.
• Updated customNpcGuide.yml to reflect that INEPT_LOVER and LIKES_GOING_DOWN are opposites. Thanks to Secondarian for pointing this out.
• Fixed a bug where your bf could leave you during pregnancy because he hasn't been told the child is his even when the PC was pregnant when they got together.

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

Newlife 0.4.26

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.26 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.

I'm a bit rushed with xmas-stuff so I won't write much that isn't in the changelog. I have received a commissioned scene but I haven't found the time to review it yet - you can expect that in the next release.


Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added the SophisticatedSalesHelp and SpyOnSex scenes written by …? and Rigel.
• The PC can now fake an orgasm during sex if she isn't enjoying herself. Sex will also finish faster now once the PC's partner believes her to have had an orgasm.
• To further the “be annoyed at your sucky lover” theme, added a “be frustrated” action to the male-dominant sex scenes. This appears when the PC has low arousal and a reason to dislike the encounter (Inept lover, small cock for a likes-big PC, disliked pace choice from the NPC) and inflicts an additional penalty for her arousal on top of the original cause.

Minor changes:

• Following a suggestion from Saur, updated the “are you about to get pregnant?” line with an alternative if the PC's partner had lied about her not risking pregnancy from her first time.
• Added a small alternative to the missionary quiet orgasm for “rough” encounters.

• Following a report from エボラちゃん, made the makeout scenes increment the times-unfaithful stat if you bring the man off in them.
• Added a handful of relationship lines to the bar scene.
• Sleazy men will now make a sexual comment when they're buying the PC strong drink in a nightclub with the intent of getting her pissed.
• Updated some penetration text to no longer refer to a small cock going “deep” into the player, as suggested by Saur.
• Renamed the “Take someone to bed” action to “Take a man to bed”, as suggested by OrangeJuice.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, OrangeJuice, Saint Destiny and Katie for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug with auto-sex reported by Newface where multiple men could end up being flagged as having been your first anal lover.
• Fixed a bug reported by IHayden where your date being unable to face you any more tonight does not actually stop him from facing you a whole lot more.
• Fixed a “plants a kiss on your no panties” issue reported by Katie.
• Fixed some potential boundary issues with the makeout orgasm trigger.
• Fixed a bug reported by Katie where transitioning from a standing to a lying makeout blocked cunnilingus even if you hadn't done it previously in that makeout.
• Fixed an issue reported by Katie where touching yourself in the shower referred to your husband as a “guest” even though you now live together.
• Added some extra boastful text to the “biggest dick” question in the jerk-friend introduction scene where your boyfriend can't help but brag about the size of his tool.
• Fixed an issue reported by Saint Destiny: your partner will no longer refer to you as his husband when telling him you're pregnant - you'd think the pregnancy would have tipped him off!

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

Newlife 0.4.25

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.25 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 version adds the "inept lover" trait, along with a scene where you can teach him to be better - see the changelog below for details.

This was a very tough release for me - not for any personal reasons but just because the general scope of the new trait and the increasing size of the codebase made it a painful task to trawl through the whole thing, figure out where new content was needed and insert it into the game. 
I'll try to learn my lesson (that rather being a theme of this release) and be more disciplined about the changes I make in the future - it would I think be beneficial to focus on getting to the 1.0.0 release instead of keeping on getting sidetracked with fun but optional side-content.

The next release will be in mid-december, with PMW coming for the one after that - doing a quick release first means I won't have to handle a deadline while I'm travelling for the holiday period and lets me focus on some requests I've had for smaller individual changes.

On a less pleasant note, I'll be looking into legal counsel soon because of the UK's anti-porn laws. Enforcement for the age-verification regulations that I've posted about in the past is expected to go into force next year and it turns out I was wrong about text-only content not being affected. This may affect how I use the blog or other sites - I can't really be sure until I speak with a lawyer. If you're a UK-based adult content provider who's been looking into this, then I'd certainly appreciate if you could share your expertise in the meantime!


Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• New “Inept Lover” trait with content throughout existing scenes
• New teaching scene where the PC can train an inept partner – he must be her bf or better. This is repeatable and will eventually lead to him losing the trait and gaining a positive one. To access it, you must first have had sex (or anal sex) with him. Then talk to your inept partner at home and get his agreement, the choose the relevant activity on a weekend evening. If he refuses then you can force the issue when discussing wedding vows.

Minor changes:

• Added some new pullout-orgasm text to the doggy-style scene that can sometimes appear for a mostly-naked PC and an NPC with big balls.
• Tripled the chance of the 2^nd Tanya event firing on risky days for non-pregnant PCs who are not on the pill. This should stop the issue of it appearing much faster for PCs using contraception.
• Updated some oral-scene passages to reflect the small-cock trait, as suggested by Saur.
• Updated some orgasm text to no longer refer to the PC's “first climax from sex as a woman” for female-start characters.
• Added some alternative lines to the ask-to-be-inseminated action for when the PC is already pregnant by the man, as requested by Saur.
• There's a placeholder “dark theme” setting in the options, although it doesn't work especially well for now. If you want to use this make sure to restart the program after selecting it and exiting the options screen.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• New clothing flag for bras: NO_UNDERWIRE. Check this if your text would otherwise be mentioning underwire. I also alphabetised the list of clothing flags in the documentation... maybe that should have been in the “major changes” section.
• The new inept trait may be relevant to some scenes.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saint Destiny, Swamp Dragon, Luna and Saur for reporting some of these.
• Fixed an incorrect condition reported by Swamp Dragon where some lines comparing the PC's lover with an ex were instead using her current partner only.
• Fixed a bug reported by エボラちゃん where the “trying for baby” status was not being cleared when the PC and her boyfriend break-up.
• Fixed an issue reported by MadCat where some actions were mentioning the PC's bra's underwire when she was wearing a bralette.
• Fixed a passage of text being inaccessible during the “watch another girl have sex” scene: this is for when the PC has a child with the man.
• Fixed some bad conditions in the initial jerk-friend scene.

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