Sunday 3 December 2017

Newlife 0.4.14

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.14 has been released. The patreon version is here. The changelog is below.

Due to the delay in releasing this version, I've made it public straight away and it can be downloaded using the links to the right.

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 focuses on a plotline involving the PC's BF's jerk friend. To access these scenes you need:

- A boyfriend who does not have the selfish or jerk personality, does not have the doormat or likes-to-share traits and is not Horse.
- In a relationship for at least 4 weeks
- Some liking and love for him (the requirements are fairly low but aromantic will block this chain)

Changelog:



Major changes & additions:
  • Added a 4-scene event chain based around the “boyfriend's jerk friend” PMW winner.
Minor changes & bugfixes:
  • Fixes to text issues. Thanks to OrangeJuice, Rigel, Secondarian, Fiery Dog Poop, Aethar, Flanjygo, Saur and Never for reporting some of these.
  • Fixed an error reported by DrGong and Antage when you repeat the innocent befriending scene with an NPC you'd formerly befriended by going down the lowlife boyfriend path.
  • Fixed an error reported by Dunan Rayne and Jjrider in the “Friends don't blackmail” action of the jerk blackmail scene.
  • As requested by Kaorok, the main menu can now be resized without cutting off the buttons.
  • Added a potential partner effect for the doormat trait.
  • Added a friendship level check that was missing from the conditions for Rigel's lowlife event. This now needs a CLOSE friendship level to fire.
  • Added some flags to the blackmail scene as suggested by thereisnospoon to block condom use when the NPC insisted on inseminating the PC.
  • Doormat boyfriends will no longer dump you if you get pregnant by someone else. Thanks to Bartran for reporting this.
  • Fixed a “no actions” error reported by Dunkaroodle when the boss asks your innocent colleague to have anal sex during the electrocouch scene.
  • Fixed an issue reported by MadCat where men would compliment you on your outfit even when you were completely naked. They will now only do so if you're wearing at least one article of clothing.
  • Fixed an issue reported by jjrider where your character would mention being on the pill when asking a man to finish inside her, even if she'd lied to him about it previously.
  • Fixed a bug reported by Saur where the “no condom, no sex” option could be picked repeatedly even after the man put on a condom the first time.
  • Added 2 hidden traits requested by Fryett. These will currently never appear except on custom NPCs: UNLOVABLE prevents the PC from gaining love points towards that specific NPC, ODDLY_UNATTRACTIVE provides an attractiveness penalty and also caps starting attractiveness so they'll always begin as being unattractive to the PC regardless of body-type or traits like HANDSOME. Attractiveness can increase over time though so this might change in-game.
  • Added an NPC cunning trait that stops the PC's bf discovering cheating with them. This isn't randomly assigned to NPCs at present but can be added to custom ones.
  • Added new options that let the player modify the starting number of NPCs when a game is begun.
  • Fixed various errors with the first pass at 0.4.14, including ones reported by Flanjygo & Saur.
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Enjoy the new version, and let me know if you find any bugs! 


20 comments:

  1. Hello SO!

    I think that it would be nice to have an option to inform the boyfriend that the PC is pregnant, but not necessarily with the boyfriend himself - and his reaction could be connected to his personality and traits of course.

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  2. Hello Splendid O!
    Awesome game as always! Do you think you'll be fitting in more FF before the 2017 year end?
    Thanks~

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    1. Thanks, I don't expect so. For the next release I'm aiming to do some extensions to the new event chain and after that I'll finally be getting stuck into the wedding scene.

      I haven't scripted the wedding out yet so I don't know if it'll end up with any FF content, but that won't be the main focus.

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  3. Umm, was 0.4.14 supposed to be publicly released? I'm asking because the previous post was kind of confusing, to me, and didn't seem to hint that 0.4.14 was the next public release. If not, you may want to fix that.

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  4. Great game! I'd personally like the "evil" trait to be separated from the bitchy trait. I feel like as often as not evil/bad people are some of the more personable and charming individuals.

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  5. Something I dont understand:

    A boyfriend who does not have the selfish or jerk personality, does not have the doormat or likes-to-share traits and is not Horse.

    But then:

    Added a 4-scene event chain based around the “boyfriend's jerk friend” PMW winner.

    So which personality does he need now?


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    1. The boyfriend's Jerk friend is a heavily restricted NPC. You don't need to make or know them. The boyfriend introduces you.

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  6. What are the new scenes? Friend introduction, "handyman" scene, showing up at your flat.... is there a 4th and how to trigger it?

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    1. 4th scene is the repair sex-scene that branches off from the repair one.

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    2. Ok a little confused on this,
      1) friend introduction
      2) light broken so call fiance and bf friend comes
      3) bf friend comes late at night
      4) ?

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    3. The main way of missing it is to call the repairman instead of the friend. Otherwise you should get to the sex scene unless you reject his advances.

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  7. I tried around 2 hours now, but I can't seem to get the scene.
    Can someone tell me what to do exactly?

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    1. step one: get "A boyfriend who does not have the selfish or jerk personality, does not have the doormat or likes-to-share traits and is not Horse."
      step two: be "In a relationship for at least 4 weeks"
      step three: have "Some liking and love for him (the requirements are fairly low but aromantic will block this chain)"
      Step 4: but 2nd/4rd buckets in the week as "do nothing/stay home"
      Step 5: run through a bunch of weeks. It will eventually trigger.
      You literally do this. Befriend the

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    2. I think I'm missing on the "some liking for him" part.
      How to build that up? Spending loads of time with him, but nothing happens.

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    3. Sadly I don't know personally. @SplendidOstrich ??

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    4. Spend time with him, but only if he doesn't have traits that annoy your character: dull is the usual problem there. To gain love your liking+attraction must meet a certain threshold so if your character doesn't fancy him much then that might take a long time.

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  8. This game is really excellent. On my first playthrough, I played normally, but on subsequent playthroughs, I've done a female start. As a girl, I really love the writing style and the focus on your character's sensations and reactions to what's happening. Definitely the best text-based game I've played. Well done!

    I would love some more content regarding telling guys about your pregnancy, and their reactions and how they treat you afterwards. A bug I noticed was that even if you weren't showing and hadn't told a man you were pregnant, if you asked him to finish in you, you'd tell him to go ahead because you couldn't get any more pregnant. That kind of killed the mood a little! But as someone with a lot of pregnancy fetishes, I really appreciate the work you put into all of the scenes and endless variations with willpower and different personalities. Splendid Ostrich seems like a fun person to get a beer with. ;D

    Other content I'd love to see: more actual interaction with your babies, reactions of the men in your life to seeing your babies in your home, breastfeeding.. I was kind of excited for my character to have a post-pregnancy body with leaky breasts and have to go to the gym to get back in shape, so the automatic reset was a little disappointing. Anyway, I'm just dreaming.. Either way, it has been a joy to play your game. Thank you for sharing it!

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    1. Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you're enjoying the game :)

      NPC's knowledge about the PC isn't tracked in much detail - that's the sort of thing that I feel could potentially get very complex to write & code for. I sort of handwave it by assuming that the PC has mentioned these things to them during one of the conversation actions that wasn't described in detail. It's a bit of a simplification but I hope one that's usually good enough.

      I do plan to improve how things like lactation are handled, although not until after the relationships stuff is done: it'll be part of another major update ("improved pregnancy") which came 2nd in the last vote.

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