Newlife 0.8.9

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.9 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.

Saves from old versions should keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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 content for the silver spoon landlord in the starting home - which landlord you ghet for each neighbourhood is now randomly determined unless you use custom characters to set them.

Major changes & additions:

• The silver-spoon landlord can now be the starting landlord. Unless overridden by the player using custom characters the two landlords will now each be assigned a single neighborhood. It is possible for one landlord to be in charge of both, but only by using a custom character as I felt it was more interesting for both landlords to be guaranteed to appear in the game by default.

• Added a new event chain for the silver spoon landlord that can trigger if he's your landlord at the cheap home you begin the game in. This has 4 scenes but the events branch based on the pc's choices so not all scenes will necessarily happen in a given game. These events cannot happen in games where the sleazy landlord is the one for your starting property: you can force a particular landlord using custom NPCs, or by just restarting the game until you get the one you want – which landlord you have should be clear quite early-on.

Minor changes:

• Male NPC traits that increase pregnancy chances now have a reduced effect on “safe” weeks.

• Updated the initial landlord introduction at your first home to handle the possibility of a silver-spoon landlord.

• Some improvements to the initial landlord encounter.

• Tidied up some of the text for the “date leaves after refusing to sleep over” date section.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• PLEASANT_HOME_LANDLORD can now be added to custom silver-spoon landlords to guarantee they'll be the landlord for the associated neighbourhood.

• Added CHEAP_HOME_LANDLORD as a trait that can be added to custom characters. Both these neighbourhood traits are only relevant for characters with a landlord trait and will automatically be removed during game setup if added to any other characters.

• Updated custom landlords to support each of them being able to be the landlord for either or both of the neighbourhoods.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to StuntCuffer for reporting some of these.

• Fixed a bug reported by Birb, F'roOTi and Mazin where the date scene could error at the end if you ask him to sleep over and he refuses.

• Fixed a problem where the late-rent scene could have a null action, though I'm not sure if this was actually in the last version or if it was a bug introduced in development for the latest release.

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

Newlife 0.8.8

 

 Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.8 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 should keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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 the silver spoon landlord who, unless set otherwise (via a custom sleazy landlord with the PLEASANT_HOME_LANDLORD trait) will be the landlord for the pleasant neighborhood. 

This does unfortunately mean that the recently added garden scene for the sleazy landlord becomes unavailable, but this is only a temporary measure. I intend to add content for the silver-spoon landlord in the cheap neighborhood, and then randomly assign them at game-start.

Major changes & additions:

• Added the Silver Spoon landlord, along with an introductory event where you first meet him.

• A random event for the Silver Spoon landlord that can happen when you're in the pleasant neighborhood and he's your landlord. Because he has content for the pleasant neighborhood and not the cheap one, Silver-spoon will always be assigned to this neighborhood in the current version unless you use a custom character to override it.

• Updates to the “behind on rent” scene to support the new landlord

Minor changes:

• Moved rent details to the 'home' section of the character screen.

• As suggested by BereavedPoet, pushy men might ask to spend the night at the end of a date in your home.

• Improved the spacing in the spitroast scene. Thanks to Ammut for highlighting this issue.

• Following a request by Stochastic, added a relationship duration check for your partner asking you to get pregnant so he won't do this when you've just started dating.

• Added some variants to the kiss-through-clothing part of the cunnilingus scene leadin.

• It's now possible to meet another woman while changing in the gym, with an initial introduction/flirtation for strangers, and the possibility of swapping numbers as a followup.

• Improved enjoy handling in the house party.

• Made some house party NPC actions a bit more responsive to what the PC is doing.

• Gave sleazy dates something they can do in the cinema that isn't holding hands.

• Landlord NPCs now have their own NPC career.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added SILVER_SPOON_LANDLORD to custom characters.

• Added PLEASANT_HOME_LANDLORD as a trait that can be added to custom characters, though it is only meaningful on the SLEAZY_LANDLORD at the moment. If added to him, it makes him the landlord for both properties (as in previous versions). Otherwise the silver spoon landlord will be the landlord for the pleasant neighbourhood and Sleazy will only be the landlord for the starting home.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Ammut and Schwachflotte for reporting some of these.

• Fixed a bug reported by Villain where the landlord garden scene could error.

• Fixed an issue reported by Ammut where part of the wedding-dress scene was showing lesbian text for a straight engagement.

• Updated the conditions for an impregnator compliment so it shouldn't appear when conflicting with the doesnt-want-kids trait. Thanks to Ammut for reporting this!

• Fixed a bug reported by Zab where the nighttime inspection scene would sometimes not correctly remove the PC's underwear.

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

Newlife 0.8.7

 Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.7 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 should keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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.

After thinking over how to handle other landlord types, I decided not to restrict the sleazy landlord to always being the starting one. For now he's the landlord for both properties but I eventually intend for some homes to have different ones, randomly determined when a game is started. As the sleazy landlord is definitely not then a placeholder for the pleasant neighborhood, he needed an actual scene there to replace the flat-inspection one, so that's what I've focused on this update.

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event for the sleazy landlord when you're living in the pleasant neighborhood.

Minor changes:

• Updated the “asks you to be his girlfriend” npc action in homedate to have a range of possible lines based on your relationship, rather than just using the same basic text every time it happens. I think this is an action that was largely unaltered since Newlife's first ever version, back when the game lasted 26 weeks and becoming someone's girlfriend was the furthest a relationship could progress.

• Added some alternative lesbian-club text for situations where an npc who with the likes_sexy trait comes to be with you after you've been acting in a provocative way.

• Added an option to kick the landlord out when he tries to inspect your flat. This will stop the event reoccuring for some time, but he will raise your rent a bit as revenge.

• Added a new option for sultry characters to hit on the landlord in a very forward way at the start of the flat inspection, assuming they're attracted to him.

• As requested by Sluttycricket, made it easier to win your feud with the office rival by updating various scenes to increase the effect of victories over her.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to for reporting some of these.

• Fixed an issue reported by Helvette and Zab where the rent amounts for your current and new home were not being compared correctly, resulting in text indicating that the more expensive home was actually cheaper.

• Improved handling of the office rival dominance stat so the minimum value should actually be enforced consistently.

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

Newlife 0.8.6

 

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.6 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 should keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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 lays the groundwork for moving homes and new neighborhood content.

Major changes & additions:

• Added game mechanics and scenes to allow the PC to move home. This will be expanded with future updates.

Minor changes:

• Updated every one of the hundreds (bleck) of references to the PC's “apartment” or “flat” to check for the possibility she lives in a house instead and return the correct text.

• The neighborhood an NPC lives in is now influenced by their income.

• As requested by Hippolyta, the jerk friend can now have a TONED body-type. This will be less common for randomly-generated jerks but custom ones can set it.

• Made some adjustments & additions to the makeout male orgasm text to better handle the “sitting in lap” position. Thanks to Helvette for highlighting some issues here.

• Changed the process for making the exe file. Please let me know if this leads to issues running it. The jar file is unaffected so this won't matter for players using the jar to start the game.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added getNeighborhood, isLivingInFlat and getFlatOrHouse to the PC object for custom scenes.

• Added HYPNOTIST to the custom NPC guides: it was allowed for custom NPCs before but wasn't included in the guides. This trait has very minor effects in the main game, but may be more relevant in some custom scenes. Thanks to Stochastic for flagging up this omission.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Stochastic, helvette, StuntCuffer, Abby, JulianR.Amazing and Obort for reporting some of these.

• Fixed an issue reported by StuntCuffer where the action to go back to side-by-side in the sitting makeout would always succeed even when it was supposed to fail and had text indicating as much.

• Fixed an issue where failing the back to side-by-side and similar actions would still allow the NPC to initiate anal sex that same turn, even though these sort of actions are supposed to stop sex initiation (and do for PiV) until the following turn.

• Fixed a “no actions available” bug reported by BannedHeresy in the NPC pregnancy reveal scene.

• Fixed an issue reported by Anarchyst and Obort where newlines were added between parts of the relationship description even when those parts were blank, which could potentially lead to a relationship description starting with multiple newlines. This led to bad spacing in, most notably, the nightclub “describe characters” section.

• Fixed a bug reported by AnarChYsT where the action to un-do the “don't pull out” relationship status available to likes-bare characters was not working.

 

 

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

Newlife 0.8.5

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.5 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 should keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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 adds more NPC work content as well as some changes based on suggestions from players.

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event that can happen if you are a housewife to someone with an office job (business, accountancy, civil servant, or certain special event jobs).

• Added a new event where you can ask an unemployed partner to seek work, and a follow-up if they agree to your request.

• Added a bunch of content for the evil hypnotist in existing scenes, including the club, dates, sex and the marriage scene. The goal isn't to add an entirely new playstyle (which would take up far too much writing time for such a niche route) but rather to add flavour content for characters in these relationships. Therefore, there are still plenty of actions that also don't have evil-hypno content – don't expect it everywhere! This content is enabled by the “UNDER_THRALL_OF_EVIL_HYPNO” flag which is set when you finish a hypno session with him without breaking the trance, and removed if you do break the trance in such a session. This was requested by someone and I'd normally thank them here, but I didn't take notes about who it was – sorry!

Minor changes:

• You can now ask an NPC what they do for a living in the club or at your home. This will give you the information regardless of your current knowledge level. Thanks to Zab for reminding me that this needed to be added!

• Certain special NPC careers will be automatically known by the PC, and the repairman's career will be known if you've encountered him while he's working.

• Added a new RECEDING hairstyle for male NPCs.

• Added a new “important talk” option suggested by Death Magus for characters with the likes-bare trait. This lets you tell a man that any requests you make for him to pull out or use a condom are just playing and should be refused. When this is set the conditions for such actions will be reduced and your partner will always refuse them without your character being angry at the refusal.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Eulexia and Sky Dreamer for reporting some of these.

 

 

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

Newlife 0.8.4

 

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.4 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 may keep working, but I can't make any promises.

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 adds a new NPC-job-specific event, as well as various minor changes and improvements.

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new event that can happen if you're in a relationship with someone who works in a bar.

• Added an “All Shops” option when you buy clothing, that will display a combined list of all clothing items from every shop.

Minor changes:

• As requested by cwr0308, added a MILKY trait for female NPCs. This will not be added by the usual character-creation process but can be chosen for custom characters.

• The mugging scene now has text for when the PC hands over her purse but has no money, and gives her increased stress when this happens (because it makes the mugger angry, and she's afraid he's going to hurt her).

• Made some text improvements to certain responses to the “tell him you're ready” action while fixing an issue reported by Sync.

• PCs working in sales can now take Ivy's charm-increasing treatment more than once, though repeat treatments are only half as effective as the first. Side-effect are not halved.

• Updated some text on the work-trip scene so wearing a short nightie with no underwear wouldn't describe the PC as having a “bare lower body”. There's now an alternative line for that situation.

• Added some line-breaks to hopefully make NPC descriptions a bit more readable.

• Added a new repairman career for those NPCs, thanks to Birb for highlighting that one was missing.

• Updated how the low-self-esteem interaction with bad partner effects works, so that it will take effect every week instead of just weeks when the PC has interacted with them.

• Low-self-esteem PCs now get a bonus to their maximum love if they have neutral liking towards an NPC. These PCs already got a large bonus towards NPCs they dislike, but this is lost if the relationship improves which can lead to dramatic changes in the relationship. I do like the idea of a low-self-esteem PC falling for a jerk only to lose interest if he doesn't treat her badly enough, but the effect should be a bit more gradual: going from +25 to +10 instead of +25 to +0. Incidentally, I suspect this is the cause of the reports of excessive love-decay that I've seen: the issue looks like might not be love-decay at all but rather the big drop from an improving relationship.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• It is now possible to set a custom sleazy landlord, as requested by several people, most recently by Darth Magus I think. You can do this by using the SLEAZY_LANDLORD trait on a custom male NPC. This conflicts with other special-NPC roles. The sleazy landlord will be set to be a sleazy jerk(even if you don't add these values yourself) and will have conflicting traits (charming & traditional) removed.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some text issues. Thanks to Zab, Made 2 face black and blue face and Sync for reporting some of these.

• Fixed a bug reported by Birb where the mugging scene would behave oddly if the PC was utterly skint.

• Fixed a bug reported by Sameer where the impregnator breeding plot event chain could get have two different men with breeding plots and get confused about which should be chosen for a scene. Now, if the event chain repeats and the man from the previous time is still eligible to be the plotter then he will always be chosen. Otherwise, he'll have the relevant trait removed so there should only be one plotter at any time in the game.

• Fixed duplicate job section in the NPC browser, thanks to Birb for reporting this.

• The braless shopping scene will no longer fire for a man you've had sex with, thanks for Sci for reporting this inconsistency with the scene's text.

 

 

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

Newlife 0.8.3

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.8.3 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.

I do not expect saves from old versions to work in this one.

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 adds various new content as well as first part of NPC careers.

Major changes & additions:

• Added internal functionality for NPC careers, with their job being visible at a sufficient knowledge level.

• Added a new scene with a sleazy landlord and your lesbian partner that can happen if you're unable to pay the rent.

• Added a new friendship scene that can happen if you have an innocent female friend and also own the enormous teddy-bear, Mr. Snuggles.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Custom NPCs can now have their career set. NPCs without a set career will have one picked by the usual algorithm, just like with most other values.

Minor changes:

• The amount you get from having your partner support you now varies based on their income.

• Improved some of the spacing for descriptions in the NPC broswer.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some text issues. Thanks to Zab for reporting some of these.

• Fixed an issue where some pregnancy text could incorrectly show at the office party even when the PC is not pregnant.

• Fixed an issue reported by Sync where the bar-with-friend scene was sometimes referring to the PC's lesbian partner as a man.

• Fixed an issue reported by Zab where the text in the bf's jerk friend ladder sex scene was often referencing the wrong relationship, resulting in your partner being referred to as “your acquaintance”.

 

 

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