Changes to cheats in 0.4.4

Hello everyone!

Following some discussion with the Inner Circle followed by a vote with all the Voter Patrons, I've decided to change how cheats work in Newlife. From the next version (0.4.4), the customisation half of the cheats menu will be available in the public version. The cheats half will still be disabled.

Here's a screenshot of how this will look, taken from the development version:

To encourage new players to get their first experience with the game using the default (and, in my opinion, best) settings this will only be available once a player has completed the game at least once. I'll put up instructions once 0.4.4 on how to circumvent this restriction for players who've completed the game in older versions before this was tracked. The patreon version also won't have the restriction - I assume that most patrons are not playing the game for the first time.

This will be run for a trial period of a month or two, at the end of which I'll have a look at the numbers and decide whether to keep it as an ongoing thing or not.

An apology for non-patrons

Hi all,

When I uploaded the public version of 0.4.2 earlier today I mistakenly used a buggy version that has a number of issues, in particular most of the actions to initiate anal not working.

I've now replaced the zips on Mega and Mediafire with the correct one. If you downloaded 0.4.2 before this post was made then you probably have the buggy version: I recommend downloading the proper version.
As usual, you can update Newlife by just unzipping the file in your newlife folder and choosing to replace all files. This will swap out the jar and exe with the new ones while keeping your newlife_gamedata folder with options and custom NPCs intact.

Sorry about this. I hope it didn't cause too much annoyance.

Post number 100 - Newlife 0.4.3

Hello everyone!



This post marks a completely-arbitrary milestone: it's the 100th made on the blog. It's taken a while to get there, but I'm perhaps not the most prolific blogger! In an equally important milestone, I'm releasing the 48th update to Newlife with version 0.4.3.

This has been released on Patreon. 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 contraception failure, including sabotage by evil NPCs with the Impregnator trait. 
Next up I'll be starting the relationships update. There's a lot to be done before you can tie the knot, but the path to your wedding day will start from 0.4.4. I'll wish you all a happy future marriage... although some of Newlife's men will prove to be very flawed as husbands!
Here's the full changelog for this version:

Major changes & additions:

• Condoms can now break during sex. This can very rarely happen naturally but is much more likely if an NPC with the Impregnator trait has sabotaged the condom. During sex either you or your partner can notice this and take appropriate action, although you probably can't trust your partner to tell you if he was the one who sabotaged the condom in the first place...
• New male orgasm text for broken condom situations in the five main penetrative sex scenes. Npc-Npc sex doesn't have condom breakage: that can wait until NPC pregnancy is added.
• Npcs with the Impregnator trait can sabotage your pills if they get an opportunity in your flat. It's sometimes possible to catch them in the act but this is not guaranteed. Pill sabotage disables the pill's effects for that week, similar to when you fail a check for the Forgetful trait.
• Two new traits: Infertile guarantees that you won't get pregnant unless you take a fertility treatment at the doctor. Take this trait if you want to be sure to avoid pregnancy content as the pill is no longer 100% reliable. Unlike the other mutation-category traits, Infertile cannot be randomly chosen in e.g. secret-chaos starts. Damages Condoms is a new mutation trait that makes your vaginal juices degrade condoms, massively increasing the risk of them breaking even when sabotage hasn't taken place.

Minor changes & bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Cubano, Hunter Green and Classique75 for reporting problems they found.
• Fixed an issue where an NPC rejecting anal could also disable it for other NPCs in the same scene chain.
• Increased the weight for NPCs initiating anal sex.
• Fixed an issue reported by pgiac6 where female NPC outfits weren't handling legwear correctly, potentially leading to them being described as wearing a “braless”.
• Various minor improvements to some passages of text relating to condoms.
• Made some improvements to a few old actions in existing scenes.
• Gave impregnators an extra chance to agree to stay the night at the player's flat if they're looking for an opportunity to sabotage her pill.
• Added an option to remove your partners trousers while making out, as requested a while back on an Inner Circle comment.
• Following a suggestion from Gatekeeper, the game will now track if your partner has told you that it's safe to do it unprotected because you're a virgin and block pregnancy-related dialogue from him during that sexual encounter.
• Some improvements to the socialisation event where an impregnator friend is confronted by a past conquest, based in part on suggestions from Saint Destiny.

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

Newlife 0.4.2: PMW release with anal sex

Hello everyone!

Version 0.4.2 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. 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 a special Xmas/New-Year bonus, I gave patrons the option to vote on whether the patreon version of 0.4.1 should be made public. They overwhelmingly voted in favour and so thanks to them you'll get to enjoy the patreon version of that release. Why not show your appreciation by thanking a patron, worshipping them as a living god, or offering yourself up to them for use as a sex slave?

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 PMW release which adds anal sex. If you don't like that sort of content then you can disable it in the options.

Here's the full changelog for this version:

Major changes & additions:

• Added an anal sex scene. Thanks to Unknown, Kinezera, G.C Jin, Argesh & Karanya for helping come up with dialogue lines for the NPC for this oneas well as the Inner Circle group for their help & advice.
• Updated various existing scenes with anal content.

Minor changes & bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Hunter Green and Cubano for reporting problems they found.
• Fixed a bug reported by NotYou where automatic outfit creation in the wardrobe screen wasn't adding legwear to automatically-created outfits. There is now a 50% chance for legwear to be added to each such outfit, assuming suitable clothing exists.
• You can no longer ask your partner to be more gentle during sex if you asked him to be rough with you (unless you first get him to stop being rough).
• Reduced the price of many clothing items.
• Increased starting money by 100 for all characters.
• Increased the ambitious bonus to starting money up fom 150 to 200.
• Some minor text improvements to existing sex scenes where new content for the anal one also worked in them.
• If your partner says something insulting to you during sex when you hadn't asked him to treat you mean then some possible reactions will now flag your character as being annoyed with him for the rest of that sexual encounter. This gives you a bonus to the willpower check for ending sex and makes it easier to use the action where you insult him back: this is no longer entirely restricted to bitchy characters, although it's still much easier for them to access.
• Added a new option that disables anal content. The default is for this content to be available so if you dislike anal then you should change it in the options screen when you download this version. This should block all anal content: not just the anal sex scene but also references to it in other places. If you still see a mention of anal sex when it should be disabled then that's a bug - in that case please report it to me.
• Renamed the "Go Shopping" activity to "Shop for clothes".
• Anal sex lube can be bought when shopping in town via the "shop for your flat" activity. Lube will not be available if you've disabled anal content in the options.
• Added some anal content to the adult films you can watch at the porn cinema.
• Added some anal options to the malfunctioning couch demonstration scene with your boss.
• New NPC trait: LIKES_ANAL. This is available for custom NPCs.
• New player trait: LIKES_ANAL.

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

Dirty talk

Hi all,

I'm writing a doggy-style anal sex scene at the moment. Part of that includes new talk actions. To stop them feeling repetitive, speech actions need a lot of potential lines which may have conditions based on traits, the sexual situation, relationships etc.
By and large, these are done - the general "sex talk" npc action is still in progress but the others are in what I think is an acceptable state.
Still, more lines is always better so I'm making this post in case people want to submit lines they'd like to see in the scene. If you want to do so, you can put forward ideas in comments here or in a comment or PM on Patreon or one of the forums I frequent.

Some quick points:
- Obviously I might change your line or not use it at all, so don't make any suggestions if that would upset you.
- The format is typically something like "<Npc> says that he loves fucking your ass".
- You don't need to worry about listing the conditions as long as they're obvious from the text. For instance a line like "<Npc> says that he loves making love to his beloved girlfriend's lovely ass" would tell me that it should a) be restricted to loving men b) should only be for characters in a relationship and c) that you really need a thesaurus.
- Non-rhetorical questions that would demand a follow-up from the other person are not suitable for these actions.
- Lines are just that - lines. They should be limited to a single sentence. No walls of text please!

0.5 update voting options

Hi all,

Now that Newlife's 0.4 milestone has been reached, it's time to vote for what major update will be 0.5. The vote will take place this month for voter-tier patrons on Patreon. I'll list the choices here, but for instructions on how to vote see this patreon post.

You'll notice that some releases are bigger than others. Bigger updates have more content, but they'll also take more time to develop, so go ahead and vote for a smaller one if you want and don't worry that you're getting less stuff.

As for sex scenes, I generally intend to add one new one per major update, unless that update requires more. I'll try to add a scene that's related to the update's theme, but if that isn't possible then I'll still add a new sex scene anyway.

Here are the options. Please note that these reflect my thoughts on them at this moment in time. This might change once development starts and I'm looking into an update in more depth, so the specific details shouldn't be considered set-in-stone.

Work & Career

An update about improving your work options. This will include completing the sales career, starting a new one and improving how work interacts with stress. Key features:

• Complete the Sales career with new events and branching promotions. The current elite saleswoman path will have an alternative where you become a sales team leader. This will use different skills and have different events.
• Add a special event chain for high-level sales jobs.
• Add a new management skill for the team-leader path.
• Rebalance stress.
• New events with worse consequences for poor job performance and/or high stress levels.
• A new trait that will make you incompetant at your job and stop you getting promoted to higher levels, for players who want to be stuck in a low-paid basic job for the whole game.
• Career-related activities such as spending your weekend on a training course.
• New career, probably office work. This won't be fully complete for 0.5, but it'll have a basic groundwork with some unique events. The new career won't be based on the Charm skill, so it'll provide an alternative for socially inept characters.
• Add a way of switching between careers.

Romance & Marriage

An update focused on relationship content. This will add a lot to the late-game, which I think is very much needed. As well as adding content for characters with boyfriends, it'll also include the possibility of getting married.

• New events for characters in relationships. Both romantic and otherwise.
• Marriage proposals.
• Weddings and wedding nights – have a sweet and romantic wedding with your special man, or worry about having it disturbed by a smitten bloke making a final attempt to get you to ditch your fiance and get together with him instead.
• Modifications to existing scenes to allow for marriage, including recognising it in the endgame sequence.
• Depending on your choices in the endgame sequence, you might get the possibility to continue playing afterwards.
• "Trying for a baby" relationship status, which will modify actions, dialogue and descriptions in sex scenes.
• Potential restrictions to your interactions with your husband based on promises made before the wedding. For example, if you promised that he'd never need to worry about protection again once you're married then you won't be able to ask him to wear a condom.
• Improved relationship interactions including more negative ones like having arguments with your boyfriend and letting pent-up stress get the better of you
• Better consequences for cheating.
• Special traits & events for scumbag boyfriends. Is your man a drunk? A cheater? A cheating drunk? Now you can live out your dream life of being woken up in the middle of the night by your husband staggering home pissed and expecting to have his way with you.

Storyline 

An update just for Ivy!

• Help Ivy fix her machine, or be doomed to the life of a healthy and beautiful young woman... forever!
• Cackle maniacally as you learn the mad science skill and suffer yet more unforeseen experimental side-effects. The fools called you mad, but they are the ones who will be mad, mad with envy once you perfect your greatest invention!
• Choose from a variety of tasks with multiple solutions. Maybe Ivy needs a special component – you could study so you can make it yourself, use your charm to convince a technician, break into a workshop and steal one... or use your feminine wiles to seduce someone into helping.
• Ivy will be added as a friend at game-start, in addition to your normal friend limit. Ivy will have a special "mad scientist" character type with unique content in some scenes, although she won't be available in as many different scenes as the main innocent/party-girl/sophisticated character types.
• Once fixed, you can use Ivy's machine to adjust certain aspects of your new body.

Femininity

An update based around giving more content to the gender-bender aspects of the male-start. A lot of this content won't be available to female-start characters.

• A new life as a woman? But you're a man! Just because you have soft silkily smooth skin and full pert breasts doesn't make you any less masculine!
• Resist the change and act as manly as possible.
• Wear manly clothes.
• Most men might find this unappealing, but maybe you'll find one who likes tomboys and have a proper bromance together. You can have lots of sweaty sex in a bromance, right?
• Lots and lots of changes to existing scenes.
• Resist the change unsuccessfully, and give in to your womanly urges.

Homes & money

Along with the work update's rebalancing of stress, this is the second of the big balance changes – in this case affecting money. This will add more late-game money sinks as well as an ongoing financial drain from your rent. Starting funds will be increased, but characters who are bad at their jobs might find themselves low on cash even into the mid-game. However, NPC wealth levels will make it feasible to lean on your boyfriend for financial support, and will give an incentive to date a rich man even if he isn't otherwise the best partner for you.

• Men will have jobs now, and different amounts of money depending on what they do.
• "gold-digger" content where you try to exploit men for financial gain.
• Rebalancing of the female endgame content to make it more possible to fail to raise the money – currently this only happens if the player is really trying to spend all their cash.
• Be given presents or treated to expensive dates by rich men... or eat fast-food on the street with poor ones.
• Move to new homes, with unique events for each neighborhood.
• Pay your rent, or suffer the wrath of your landlord.
• Call the handyman to fix broken appliances. Your fridge is just running sooooo hot and you really need him to inspect your plumbing.

Daily life

An update based around adding hobbies and other things to do that don't revolve around work or dating. Of course these will still lead to plenty of opportunities for sex and romance – the existing dance content should give you an idea of what to expect.

• Maybe you just want to go about your normal life, but better. If so, this update is for you.
• Get a pet and bond with it. You can't have sex with your pet (of course), but it might be able to help you in your love life. Different events will be added for different pet types.
• New stuff for your home.
• Hobbies for your free time, with new skills and events.
• Go to the park and feed the ducks.

Lesbian love

An update based around adding lesbian sex & relationships. This is probably the biggest one here because it'll require an alternative set to the core game scenes.

The game mechanics for the player-character will always act as if she's bisexual, in that she'll be able to be attracted to either gender. It will however be possible for you to play them as fully-straight or fully-gay, just by rejecting the advances of anyone of your less-preffered gender.

• Meet lesbians and bisexual women and seduce or be seduced by them.
• Alternative lesbian versions to the main club/date->home->makeout->sex->sleep->next morning scene chain.
• Lesbian relationships
• Update existing scenes to handle the possibility of the PC being in a lesbian relationship, having had lesbian sex etc.

Improved pregnancy

An update all about improving how pregnancy is handled in the game, including:

• New events & activities for pregnant characters and new mums (although note that your children themselves will not appear in any scene that's even slightly sexual or erotic).
• A better implementation of lactation: continue lactating after birth and enjoy breastmilk-related actions during intimate moments.
• NPC pregnancy.
• Improvements to the Maternal trait: I'll probably add a more extreme "baby-crazy" trait that allows for more dramatic actions like trying to get pregnant from someone you just met.
• Trying for baby relationship status (yes, the same one that I listed under the Relationships update – I'll add it if either of these options wins the vote)

Newlife 0.4.1

Hello everyone!

Version 0.4.1 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. 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 clothing items to the legwear slot. The PMW release (with anal sex) will be the next one: 0.4.2.


Here's the full changelog for this version:

Major changes & additions:

• Added a breakup option under the “important talk” action at home. This is only available towards your boyfriend (obviously), and not if you're in love with him.
• Added legwear clothing items.

Minor changes & bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Kaspar, Cubano, Wasda, NotYou, Mercurial Bat, OrangeJuice and Starglider for reporting problems they found. Possibly some others too - there were a lot of text fixes and I might have forgotten to credit some people.
• Added some legwear-specific NPC actions to a few existing scenes.

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