Hello
everyone!
Newlife 0.4.16 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 adds the ability to get married, along with a first pass at the many parts of the game this will affect.
This is a big deal both for your character and for the code. Marriage's impact is extremely wide-ranging so it's likely I'll still be polishing and improving this over several releases.
The same goes for the wedding-day scene itself. This could be seen as the game's culminating moment and will need a suitably large amount of content. It wouldn't be possible to fit everything into one version: as you can see from the changelog, this one is hefty enough as-is!
This version handles a fairly straightforward path through the wedding without special circumstances. The wedding currently consists of a ceremony and a wedding-night. Later versions will add to this with special wedding paths (like the naked wedding), unusual circumstances (a desperate attempt by a rejected lover to win you over, perhaps?) and more in-depth content like interactions with wedding guests and probably an actual wedding reception.
Changelog:
Major
changes & additions:
Wrote
a first version of the marriage scene for standard weddings. I'll be
building up the wedding content over several releases but for now
there's a functional if simple wedding ceremony that allows you to
marry your fiance. Special marriages (like the naked wedding or
public consummation) are not supported yet. The public consummation
option is ignored and doesn't affect the scene, while agreeing a
naked wedding will stop the wedding scene from being available.
Wrote
a simple wedding-night scene. This has special text for vow
activation so you might find it better to disable the “activate
vows before marriage” option if you'd set it while playing
previous versions that didn't include marriage.
Added
the formal outfit for NPCs. The PC has no scenes where she wears one
at present.
Added
a new clothing slot for men: jackets. This is handled in existing
scenes where the man's outfit type allows for him to be wearing one.
Updates
to existing content to handle the MARRIED relationship status. This
is another thing I'll likely need to work on over time as it affects
an awful lot of current scenes. If you see something that doesn't
make sense post-marriage then please report it and I'll look into
changes.
Updates
to existing content to support cohabiting with your husband. The
game assumes that you are living together once married. The
implementation is currently fairly shallow but still touches quite a
few existing scenes: living with your partner will tend to restrict
your options to hook up with other men. As with general marriage
content, this is something that touches a lot of existing content
and it's possible some has been missed: let me know if you see
something that doesn't make sense when you're living with your
partner.
One
new random event (for married couples). For now husbands still have
fewer events than boyfriends as certain events have been blocked
post-marriage because they wouldn't make sense for a married or
cohabiting couple. I'll be adding more events for husbands in
upcoming releases.
Minor
changes:
Reworked
how friendship effects are handled internally, allowing them to be
added to custom NPCs.
As
requested by Karoak, custom NPCs can now have their friendship and
partner effect set. The npc guides have been updated with allowable
values.
As
requested by Monokuma, the dance student, teacher and judge can now
all be set as custom characters. See the custom NPC guide for
details.
Added
a new makeout action (loving pregnancy-focused clothed grinding from
behind when the PC is with child).
Added
another makeout action where a shy+low-self-esteem character might
fail to reject an attempt to remove some of her lower-body clothing.
Unfortunately, after writing this I looked over the code again and
it seems that the specific situation (lower-body clothing removal +
PC having the REJECT response) doesn't actually appear in the game
at present. Still, the action's there in case a scene gets added
where the conditions are right.
Added
a new marriage-related MO action.
Some
bad partner effects will now cause low-self-esteem characters to
gradually fall in love because they feel a bad boyfriend is what
they deserve.
Babies'
ages are now tracked and can be seen in the character screen. This
does not mean that the game has content for children growing up: the
game's designed for a 1-year duration, so your kids growing up is
very much out of scope.
The
lost phone event will now show up about 20% less frequently.
As
requested over PM on Patreon, I've added an option to enable older
ages for the PC in the character creation screen: tick the checkbox
in the options screen for this. However, older PCs are not
officially supported and there will be some text and game-mechanics
that don't match the PC's age . I have reduced fertility for older
PCs with 50s and older getting a very large reduction unless they've
taken a fertility treatment. Otherwise, they're treated the same as
younger women.
Added
a new special name reaction from Ivy in the male-start intro
section... it's been a while since I put in a new one of these, even
though I know it's what people really play the game for. Sorry
folks!
The
willpower text for walking home alone from the club when with a man
at the end of the night is now more difficult (although still not
especially hard). Also added a similar check to the equivalent
action when you're at the bar with a female friend.
The
option to tentatively touch a man's penis is now disabled for sultry
characters or for non-shy ones at high arousal levels.
Added
a section at the end of the vow-discussion scene where you decide
whether or not these vows should be made public at the wedding
ceremony. Shy and Refined characters will have trouble accepting
this sort of thing as most possible vows are sexual or otherwise
personal, although you will get the option at the cost of stress if
your partner requests it.
The
special clothes-shopping section of the male befriending scene will
now attempt to use standard outfit creation methods for the outfit
chosen for the PC.
As
suggested by OrangeJuice NPCs will not ask the PC on dates
immediately after a major bad relationship change such as a breakup
or the PC fleeing the altar.
The
'About' section now has a list of contributors whose scenes are in
Newlife.
Instead
of failing silently, exceptions in the scene description will now
show the error message in the UI. Unlike exceptions when processing
actions this will not cause the scene to end. This may sometimes be
helpful in custom scene testing but remember that changes to the
yml/vm files will not be picked up until the scene is exited (with
finishScene or returnToParent) and restarted.
A
few improvements to how the trying-for-baby status is handled in a
few scenes. This will still need another content pass later on
though. It remains only accessible through Vows. This will also
change at some point, but not in this release.
Changes
for user-submitted content:
Added
a new isMarried method to the player object so writers can easily
check if the PC has a husband. Like isSingle, this checks against
all NPCs: if you want to see if she's married to a specific
character use the npc getRelationship method.
Added
methods allowing access to Jackets for male NPCs as well as new
entries in the documentation. Jackets can appear currently on
going-out, business, wedding and formal outfits and are likely to be
added to casual ones in the future. It's important that you check
for jackets before writing actions that open/remove the NPC's shirt:
the jacket should be open or not worn for the shirt to be opened,
and it should not be worn if the shirt is to be removed.
Added
basicDesc methods to access 1 or 2 word descriptions of male
clothing. E.g. getTrousersBasicDesc will return something like
“trousers” or “jeans” or “pyjama bottom”. This may
sometimes fit better in a sentence than the longer descriptions.
Added
a new scene transition that can be taken in custom scenes:
DANCE_TOGETHER.
Added
a new scene flag that affects the makeout and oral scenes:
DONT_UNDRESS. This is used in the wedding-night path where the PC
asks to leave her wedding dress on. It also disables the action
where she removes her legwear but does not affect removal of
lower-body clothing or underwear.
Added
a new scene flag that affects the
HomeDate scene: HUSBAND_AWAY_FOR_NIGHT. This allows an NPC to sleep
over. It should only be set if the PC lives with her partner and the
NPC in question is not him.
Custom
scenes should now support NPCs being null and this can be
tested via the custom scene testing scene (the null option will be
at the bottom of the character list). Scenes where an NPC might be
null will need to account for this by checking for it before calling
methods on the object. However, this will be a rare situation. You
do not need to have
null-checks unless your preconditions allow for a null NPC. The main
situation where this might happen would be having the PC's boyfriend
as a hidden NPC so the scene can retrieve things like his name. Even
then, null-checks would only be needed if the preconditions allow
the PC to be single. A scene that requires her to be in a
relationship (like the blackmail one) can assume that the PC's
partner is non-null.
New
method for npcs: isCohabiting. This returns true if the PC lives
with the NPC and is currently only true for married couples: I've no
plans to change this but the method's separate from marriage checks
just in case. There's one for the player object too:
isLivingWithPartner. This will let you check if she's living with
someone even if he isn't an NPC in the scene.
Bugfixes:
Fixes
to text issues. Thanks to OrangeJuice, MadCat, “…?” (not a
typo, their username is an ellipsis and a question mark) and Saur
for reporting some of these.
Updated
how the jerk friend talk handles virginity following a bug report
from MadCat, although there may still be some edge cases that end up
being a bit odd. In particular you'll now only get 1 of the 3 virgin
lines (instead of all of them) and they won't appear for sultry
characters (who get a different discussion of virginity). He also
won't ask your bf if you're using condoms if you're a virgin. You
can still get the “sheepishly admits you haven't had sex” line
if you aren't a virgin but you haven't slept with your current bf.
Added
a line of text to an action in the jerk friend introduction scene
that would previously have had none.
Fixed
a bug where the FASHIONABLE trait was being added to every non-dull
man. It's now a rare-ish trait as intended.
Fixed
an issue reported by MadCat where the jerk friend's
alcohol-seduction attempt could fire even when the PC was knowingly
pregnant despite the game preventing pregnant characters from
drinking alcohol in other circumstances.
Changed
how Vow activation worked to prevent potential issues if the
pre-marriage-vows option gets changed mid-game. Changing the option
after vows have been activated during engagement will no longer
de-activate them for that relationship, unless the engagement is
broken off.
Fixed
an issue that allowed the “always use the pill” vow to put the
PC on the pill even when she's already pregnant.
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Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs!
