Newlife 0.6.9

 Hello everyone,

 
Newlife 0.6.9 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 makes the obvious addition. Next will be PMW, and then the rival will return in 0.6.11.

Major changes & additions:

• The PC and her lovers can now indulge in 69, a position which can be accessed by either partner starting from a lying-down makeout.

• It is now theoretically possible for the PC to “defeat” the office rival by getting the upper hand across multiple events. However, because adding the 69 scene distracted me from rival content, there isn't much support for this. After the PMW release I'll be adding events that give the PC straightforward options to turn the tables but right now it's only something you'll see in fairly niche situations. Notably, you get a lot of defeat points if she gets pregnant, so following that (extremely obscure) path in the coffee-spill event will be the main way you'll see this. I don't really recommend going out of your way to see this right now: there'll be more scenes to support it in a few releases time.

Minor changes:

• Removed “Darcey” as a female name because it's too similar to “Darcie”. Added a few extra names (Libby, Lois and Nicole).

• Slightly increased the arousal gain from the PC touching herself during oral when she has the clever hands trait.

• Halved liking loss from negative enjoyment during sex, which should make relationships with inept lovers a bit easier to build.

• Added some content requested by Gatekeeper to the impregnator-friend socialisation scene where a baby-crazy PC can end up in bed with him.

• Added a randomise button to the female character creation screen, as requested in a blog comment. This can be found on the right-hand side of the screen, above the load/save template buttons. This re-rolls character creation. Male-start characters use the same male character as a basis and keep the same randomisation level (tweaked, physical-only, chaos etc). Female-start characters use chaos level of randomisation.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added LIKES_COOKING to the enum documentation. Thanks to Stochastic for reporting this omission.

• Fixed a documentation issue reported by Stochastic where PILLS_SABOTAGED was listed as a male-only trait when it's actually female-only.

• Updated the code to automatically stop the PC taking the pill if she's baby-crazy when a temporary trait is assigned. Previously this was done manually in the charm-training scene which was the only place in the main game that temp traits are currently used, but wouldn't have affected custom scenes using them. If you want to have text that checks for the PC having previously been on the pill then you need to call it before you actually assign the temp trait.

• New potential scene transition for custom scenes: SIXTY_NINE.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saint Destiny, AnarChYsT and Customescenes for reporting some of these.

• Pregnant characters will no longer get the “you want a baby” choice when they notice a broken condom. Thanks to customescenes for reporting this.

• Fixed a bug where breaking up with your bf would stop the PC using the pill. This may be related to an issue reported by AnarChYsT where the PC was unexpectedly being taken off the pill.

• Fixed an issue reported by Newface where the tasty_sperm trait might be incorrectly added to an NPC.

• Fixed an issue reported by Newface where talented-tongue and magic-fingers were not checking for inept-lover when they were added, potentially leading to an NPC having conflicting traits.

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