Wednesday 28 February 2018

Newlife 0.4.17

Hello everyone!

Newlife 0.4.17 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 public-consummation and nude-bride paths to the wedding. It also overhauls how virginity is stored with each male npc now having their knowledge of your virginity tracked separately.

Changelog:


Major changes & additions:
  • Overhauled how virginity is handled. Now men will no longer know you're a virgin automatically. Instead, you can tell them on a date or during a makeout, or they might figure it out from general conversation. Losing your virginity may leave some blokes still thinking you haven't been with a man.
  • Added the “public consummation” path to the wedding.
  • Added the “nude bride” path to the wedding.
Minor changes:
  • Improvements to the endgame section, mostly to better handle marriage.
  • Updated some scenes the innocent-friend gallery scene to account for the PC's first time being on her wedding day.
  • Men will be less likely to try to take you to the alleyway in the porn movie scene.
  • Updated the jerk-friend introduction scene yet again to work better with virginity, including the new potential for him to discover her virginity partway through the scene.
  • Following a report by Sync, changed the conditions for NPCs initiating anal sex when trying for a baby. This is now much less likely to happen unless it's a safe day for the PC.
Changes for user-submitted content:
  • Added support for tracking the PC's behaviour towards an NPC, including access to the default behaviour-choosing methods.
  • Added 2 new test game flags, for writers whose scenes need more than one.
  • Added the isBelievesVirgin method to check if an NPC believes the PC is a virgin and the informVirgin and informNotVirgin methods to change this.
Bugfixes:
  • Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Jason Montana, Saur, Sync, Eulexia, atc, OrangeJuice and MadCat for reporting some of these.
  • Fixed an issue reported by Flanjygo where the end-of-scene text for dates in town wasn't correct for characters whose partners like to share them with other men.
  • Fixed a bug reported by Brett where the character creation screen was always setting the female PC's age to 'late-teens'.
  • Fixed a bug where the clothing changes for the sleep-together scene wouldn't always happen following house-parties, thanks to Sync for inspiring the investigation that found this.
  • Fixed a bug reported by revan54 where your husband could leave you when informed you're pregnant.


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


16 comments:

  1. My virgin girl got pregnant- which has happened before- but her boyfriend accused her twice of cheating on him with the business executive, even though my girl had refused any extracurricular activity with the executive. In fact, refusal was the only option she was given, so I’m not sure why she was accused of cheating. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or not, but I figured you’d want to know. Otherwise, fun update so far.

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    1. Out of curiosity, how did you manage to get pregnant while staying virgin?

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    2. Manty Five is correct. This is the second time I’ve had a virgin get pregnant and both times followed from that end result.

      As a sidenote, she’s been married for over three years and she’s still a virgin. And her husband (a custom-created NPC named “Belly Sweller”) keeps accusing her of cheating with Liam, the business executive lech, despite the fact that she’s never done anything with him.

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    3. Has she flirted? I haven't played the game since marriage was worked in, but the author is aiming for realism. I believe that a recent addition has been that rumours have been worked in and it could be that rumours are causing this.

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  3. I think one vow you should add is if your fiance is a jerk&impregnator combination, he asks for you to quit your job after getting married. After that the money you "earn" would just be an allowance your husband gives you. It makes sense if you marry a sexist male that he'd expect you to get in a "woman's proper place" and stay in the home.

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  4. Is there ever going to be a scene in the future where a guy with the trait to enjoying his partner sleeping with other guys, will mention it without having to go and blow a few guys in the club first and just hoping he takes it well?

    I just think it would be helpful for that to be a knowable trait before it happens. If it is, it doesn't seem to ever show on the known things about someone list even when you know everything.

    I can also picture quite a bit of potential for scenes of a sleazy type guy encouraging his shy girl to act really slutty with some guy or ambitious partners trying to get their partner to sleep with the pervy client and their boss.

    Don't know. Just throwing it out there.

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    1. Perhaps. There's certainly room for more content around the trait.

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  5. Boy oh boy these updates are absolute garbage. One month for this?
    Hilarious how you manage to string more than 1000 patrons along. Id be disgusted if i wasnt so impressed by the way you manage to get money out of people for zero effort. gg.

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    1. He/she is doing a great job for this and keeping in touch with their community, and you don’t have to pay, every update IS free after a month and the game is great, plus they’re adding content monthly without missing schedule, a lot of devs don’t do that and still produce crap, take for example the Simbro Game devs, they stopped doing public releases cause they didn’t wanna lose money, now they get paid for literally nothing cause they don’t release actual content, it’s all just “bug fixes”, so if you wanna shit on anyone shit on them, love you Splendid Ostrich

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    2. Please don't feed the troll...

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  6. Suggestion: one week every monthly cycle, it should state whether she's having her period, or not.

    Usually her period should happen during the "safe week", unless she's pregnant, in which case she won't have one.

    Even if she's not pregnant, there should be a small chance that her period is delayed or skipped.

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  7. Does anyone know what difference it makes if a NPC knows you to be a virgin or not?

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  9. > Updated the jerk-friend introduction scene yet again to work better with virginity, including the new potential for him to discover her virginity partway through the scene.

    Not finding this scene. Does the boyfriend have to know in order for the jerk to find out?

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  10. Had a bug in the current public build where my character went off the pill after marriage only to get knocked up by someone she hadn't slept with since before the wedding?

    The night before the wedding she hooked up with someone and the condom broke, but she was on the pill/not forgetful and he'd never been to her house to mess with her pills.

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