Newlife 0.5.3

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.3 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. 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 support for female NPC pregnancy, something which I'll be building on over the next few releases with scenes for both general female NPCs and for some specific ones.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added support for female NPC pregnancy including updates to the text in scenes where pregnant female NPCs can appear. The week summary will inform you when an NPC is pregnant and again when she gives birth.

Minor changes:

• Added a few more lines to some actions in the cheating-partner sex scene.
• Added a new conversation outcome when chatting with female NPCs at the club.
• Using Ivy's help in a job interview will now guarantee success, even for characters with bad traits.
• New befriending paths for a pregnant party-girl friend that don't rely on her drinking.
• Updated the OfficeHarass scene with an improved version from Stochastic.
• New befriend paths for pregnant party-girl NPCs that don't involve her drinking.
• House-party guests will now gradually drink over the course of the evening even if you aren't serving them drinks, although they won't drink enough to get hammered without the PC involved.
• Added some alternative text to one of the nightclub actions with a focus on lines for genderbent characters.
• The gender-bent jerk friend is now always available to be your bridesmaid if she exists and you're marrying the man she tried to get you to cheat on.
• Added some new text to the wedding intro to recognise when the PC has chosen the gender-bent jerk friend as her bridesmaid.
• Added a trait to make the PC more attracted to older men, as requested by Brobort.
• Reduced some of the unnecessary spacing in the week summary.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added the getFigureDesc method requested by Secondarian to the PC context object.
• Added the inseminateNpc(maleNpc, femaleNpc, int) method to the $scene context object. I know it's a little unintuitive to have it on $scene instead of the FemaleNpc, but it made the most sense during implementation with how the context objects are structured internally.
• Updated the documentation to include the PORN_ACTOR and COOKING_TEACHER traits in the enum reference, thanks to Stochastic for bringing up this oversight.
• New methods for female NPC objects: getPregnancyStage(), getStomachDesc(), isLactating(), isLatePreg(). In addition, the isPregnant() method can now return true.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to OrangeJuice, Saur, MadCat and SgtReznov for reporting some of these.
• Fixed a bug reported by CagedSissy and NewFace where the text after the pregnancy talk had a bad condition that led to the wrong passage being shown.
• Fixed an oversight where catching a woman having sex with your husband wasn't removing her virginity if you just leave them to it instead of watching.
• Fixed an issue in the npc+npc sex scene that could lead to multiple passages of text being shown at once instead of just one.
• Fixed an issue reported by NewFace where your partner could show up to ask about your pregnancy even if you'd told him about it the week before.
• Added alternative text to the noisy baby scene's intro for unemployed/housewife PCs to resolve an issue raised by stochastic where it mentions getting up for work the next day.
• Fixed an obscure bug reported by JulianR.Amazing that might have allowed the porn actor to be befriendable.

 

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

Newlife 0.5.2

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.2 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 a scene commissioned from Elizabeth King, as well as scene submissions from the excellent Secondarian and Lost Trouting.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Added a new random event, commissioned from Elizabeth King. This is a once-per-game scene that can happen on the weekend timeslot if you aren't wearing a bra.
• Added the datingApp scene submitted by Secondarian. This can appear if the PC has the personal-computer item and is single. It's an event in the date-night timeslot so will only show up if that isn't taken up by a guaranteed event like the nightclub or a date. This event creates a new NPC and gives you the chance to date them. If you do, they're permanently added to the NPCs in your game. Otherwise, they're removed.
• Added Lost Trouting's minidate scenes that can appear randomly at the weekend timeslot when you're in a relationship.

Minor changes:

• Slightly increased knowledge gain from dating, as requested by Morion.
• Reworded the creepily-vague start to the date scene when going to a bar and skipping preparation where your date just takes you to “a place nearby”. Thanks to ChaosBlade for pointing this out.
• Updated shyness cure and lowlives alley scenes with new versions provided by Rigel that use newer methods for setting arousal.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Adjusted the conditions for letting your partner name children to match the text a bit better.
• Added a haveOrgasmFromPc method to male NPCs. This is the same as haveOrgasm but also increases their enjoyment based on their attraction to the PC.
• A scene can now be defined with no actions by completely removing the actions: section in the yml. This will need to either finish the scene or transition elsewhere in the intro section. It usually isn't ideal to have no actions though, because it generally means that the scene has almost no content.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to OrangeJuice, NoName, Saur, ChaosBlade and ArsenalJacob for reporting some of these.
• Fixed an issue reported by NoName where the “be contrite” option in the newer pregnancy announcement scene was missing text.
• Added text to the “falling in love” scene's “You're so happy” action for when you aren't in a relationship together. Thanks to NoName for reporting this!
• Fixed some more issues with letting your partner choose a baby's name when he isn't the biological father. Thanks to NoName for highlighting these.
• Fixed a major bug reported by Jjrider, NoName and Vamatt99218 where an error setting up the scene where your partner visits to talk about your pregnancy meant it was not firing correctly.

 

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

Major update vote results

Hi all,

I've just finished counting up the results of the major update vote on patreon, and it's a decisive victory for Improved Pregnancy. The results were:

1: Improved Pregnancy
2: Lesbian Content
2: Work and Career
2: Homes and Money

That isn't a typo by the way. The 3 options that didn't win all tied for second on the exact same vote-count.

Kudos to the voter patrons for having their say and helping me see what options were more (or less) popular. That 3-way tie for second-place is interesting because it shows there's appetite for all three of those other choices, even Homes & Money which didn't do so well in the last vote. That's something I'll be taking into account once 0.6.0 is out and I'm preparing for the next vote.

Here's the summary of what improved pregnancy means:

Improved Pregnancy:
- Improved lactation tracking, with lactation continuing after birth and options (via traits, Ivy or the doctor) to control it.
- Lactation content during sex scenes.
- Female-NPC fertility, contraception and pregnancy mechanics and key scenes to support this.

I'll start planning how to implement this. I'm aiming to be more focused this time and keep it smaller than the Relationships update that took 30 releases. The 0.5.x releases will focus on this update and 0.6.0 will mark its completion.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all find something you enjoy in the upcoming changes.

Newlife 0.5.1

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.5.1 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 focuses on updates to the careers framework that will be needed to allow other careers to be added.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

• Updated the job framework to support job-switching. The PC now starts unemployed, has to interview for her sales job, and can quit to become unemployed again or to be a full-time housewife.

Minor changes:

• As suggested by NoName, the PC no longer has the option to let her partner name a new baby if he knows it was conceived from cheating.
• Bitchy characters can name a newborn son after his real father, if she's in a relationship, her partner isn't the biological father, and it isn't a cuckoo baby. This causes a substantial hit to her partner's liking towards her.
• Increased the base score for PIV auto-sex as well as the bonus for being with an attractive man as several people had reported that it was too hard to reach orgasm in quicksex.
• Made some improvements to add more variation to the male-dominant-sex-scene NPC sex-talk action, as requested by Wisdom on Discord.
• Increased the liking penalty for unfriending someone.
• Following some comments by -Artemis-, gave a bonus to the chance a likes-to-share boyfriend will be ok with the PC getting pregnant by another man, but only when he's ok with becoming a dad.
• Changed infidelity confessions to use th “severe” text if the PC got pregnant from cheating. This should resolve an issue reported by saint-destiny where the more extreme cheating has timed-out so the pc confesses to just doing a bit of kissing... and getting pregnant.
• Slightly increased the post-orgasm arousal for hard-to-please characters so it's less likely to drop down below the ready-for-sex level.

Changes for user-submitted content:

• Added methods to directly set arousal to various levels, as requested by Eulexia: e.g. setArousalComfort()
• Added isNakedExceptLegwear() methods to the PC and female-npc, as requested by Eulexia.
• Added an optional transitionInfo parameter getReadyForDate to the TOWN_DATE transition. This can be set to true to start the date at the “getting ready” section.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saur, Classique75, ChaosBlade, madcat and Saint Destiny for reporting some of these.
• Fixed an oversight with the “a breakup would be hard on your kids” text where it wasn't counting cuckoo babies.
• Fixed a bug reported by Secondarian where cuckoo babies weren't counting towards “have x children” vows.
• Fixed an issue reported by NoName where the text for your partner discovering a cuckoo baby when you give birth assumed you were at home, when it's possible that you're in the hospital instead.
• Fixed a bug reported by Pen where an invalid condition could cause the cooking scene to error.
• Fixed a bug where the officeHarass scene was using the weight modifier from lowlivesAlleySex.
• Fixed an error reported by Saur where flirting with the cooking instructor could lead to both “invite home” actions being available when they're intended to be mutually exclusive.

 

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