Newlife: female-perspective lifesim text game

[Bagashi]

JUBILEE

Have fun with the new version

you can bet it

[Bagashi]

Hi

May i inquire about the odds of "clothes failure" in the disco?

Straps can fall on shoulders
Strapless tops can be pulled low-down
neck-knot can be seen "ready to unfasten"
Back-zip ones can be unzipped a bit
Front-buttoned ones can be seen unbuttoned

But no matter how drunk, energetic-dances, booze-swaying, boob-groping, nipple-fiddling, teat-gifted we are.

Those will never "woohoo" in the hall.

So... is a megarandom fact or is not implemented (yet)?

Uh, by the way, great addition that of the Gym Changing room

[splendidostrich]

Hi

May i inquire about the odds of "clothes failure" in the disco?

Straps can fall on shoulders
Strapless tops can be pulled low-down
neck-knot can be seen "ready to unfasten"
Back-zip ones can be unzipped a bit
Front-buttoned ones can be seen unbuttoned

But no matter how drunk, energetic-dances, booze-swaying, boob-groping, nipple-fiddling, teat-gifted we are.

Those will never "woohoo" in the hall.

So... is a megarandom fact or is not implemented (yet)?

There are limits on how far things can go in public and getting topless in the club is one of them. I don't know whether or not that'll change in the future.

Uh, by the way, great addition that of the Gym Changing room

Glad you're liking it

[Bagashi]

Well
sure is not "deciding" to go topless but an eventual happening. Just like thou said "no rape" for most respectable motivations... yet we can forced, mistreated, insulted, bred and other shades; this is an expectable "oops, mercy me" if we are drunk or "fuck you bastard" if our companion plays with our clothes.

It shouldn't be "immoral"... since we can "oopsies :p " to go to the stallion changing room knowing that is a malice-filled area and that there is a fine. Or that we are "slapped and take it like the cow we are" etc etc

Still, i understand your point.

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And we are glad you keep pleasuring us with such materialS

[decimad]

I'm female myself and I absolutely love this concept.
Although this game is in quite an early stage, you might add "a way to work".

What I mean by that:
When you go to work, you go with subway/train whatever. So each day there is a possibility to get groped in train which can result in various events.

Just my tiny idea.

Keep up the good work.

[Bagashi]

I'm female myself and I absolutely love this concept.
Although this game is in quite an early stage, you might add "a way to work".

What I mean by that:
When you go to work, you go with subway/train whatever. So each day there is a possibility to get groped in train which can result in various events.

Just my tiny idea.

Keep up the good work.

If it isn't kinky

Quite interesting indeed.

*mind wanders*

If we like it we can go along and enjoy the ride (ride on a ride. RIDECEPTION)
if not we can slap him and just leave a slap or enforce law.
...maybe he then gets revenge by robbing us (as the actual event)
Or even a coworker whispering in our ears to let him touch otherwise he'll give a bad report... *gasp*
or just a serie of suspicious touches now and then, and then you see who's doing it.

...maybe even our BF with a kink...

ARGH

'nuff thinking.

[Bagashi]

wow Ostrich

That NPC thinghy is just glorious!

even if will be released in... months (for us non-patron paupers) is a good thing to even come to know that will be a thing...

[decimad]

I think that it should be also possible to add some females for a little lesbian action. ( So you meet them randomly in the gym/club, that dancefloor aint enough )

I secretly hope that, since you include different races, there should be different sexualities - transsexuals. Even though I think thats not gonna happen. Hope dies at last.

In terms of character creation:
Is it even possible to describe breastsize in cups? easier to imagine than "medium-large".
Also it should be possible to create a somehow "ugly" or "fat/chubby" girl too, just for completeness' sake.

In the nightclub a feature like a gloryhole maybe? To earn a few bucks or just do it for fun.


Just throwing out a few ideas in case you stuck with ur own.

[mousie19d]

In terms of character creation:
Is it even possible to describe breastsize in cups? easier to imagine than “medium-large”. )

It’s a pet peeve, but cup sizes actually aren’t easier to imagine.

Number one problem, Splendid Ostrich is in the UK, and they use different bra sizes there. The EU and Japan are the same, but us anglophones have different sizes for North America, Great Britain, and Australia/New Zealand. The only reason cup sizes seem easier to imagine is because somewhere along the way we all saw a pair we liked, learned what size they were, and then attached that mental image to that size.

Number two problem, cup-size is meaningless if you don’t also know the woman’s height and weight. Are C-cups (North American) big? Small? Freaking humongous? The correct answer is yes, and no. If a girl is 5’1” and 90 pounds, then C-cups might look gigantic on her. On a muscular 5’11” woman though, they’re barely noticeable. Heavier women can often have much larger cup sizes without being really notable.

The third problem is that an individual might wear several different cup sizes depending on the brand of the bra, desire for comfort, etc. On top of that, natural breasts are often of unequal size, and they grow, shrink, deform, or smoosh based on a lot of factors (like a woman lifting weights tends to have her breasts tighten up and kind of get pulled into her chest).

Basically, attempts at precise measurement are worthless, and sure to give an inaccurate impression to most readers, but large is large and small is small. If I want to picture “large” breasts on my slim character (who in my mind might be under 5 feet tall) then I might be visualizing C or even B cups. If I’m envisioning a well-muscled, amazon type who is tall barefooted and towers over most men when she wears heels, well then “large” would need to be something bigger.

/end rant




Now that’s out of my system, I really like this game. Some requests:
1. Add something along the lines of “never use a condom” to the “Talk seriously menu”. Of course it would be fine if a guy chooses to use one even when asked not to, but it’s a little weird when I’m with my boyfriend, who is enthusiastic about having babies with me, but he’s a nice guy so he keeps slipping a condom on. I can work around it by giving him a little oral or a titjob, but sometimes he’ll keep putting the condom back on right away, then be happy when I finally manage to get him into me bare for a little fertilization fun. It would be nice if there were a way to pick certain guys that just don’t need to use protection with you.

2. I kinds like the rough stuff in the game, but I feel like some (not all) of the guys need to be sleazy, but still nice. If I want to fuck a guy I barely know in an alley, it’s because I want to fuck a guy I barely know in an alley. If I want to fuck a guy and his friend Horse, it’s because I want to do that. That doesn’t mean I also want the guy to not give a shit about me, humiliate me, etc. I don’t mind that stuff being in the game, but for dominance/submission to be a turn on for me it needs to be built on trust. It’s fine for a guy to say that I’m good for nothing but breeding or whatever, as long as he doesn’t actually believe it. The guys in the game that go there seem to go all the way, and genuinely don’t give a shit, which goes pretty quickly from “hot” into a hard no for me. (I mean, part of what makes it hot is that it borders closely on a hard no).

3. Add a “never be mean” and “do what you like” options of some type to “Talk seriously”. Sometimes you want to be a princess and Darth Vader at the same time, so it would be nice to not get permanently locked into one role. Of course some guys aren’t going to respect that.

4. Add some more aggressive options for players in the sex scenes, especially when a guy has done something that pisses us off (or maybe only when). The option to fight the orgasm is already good in that way, but when a guy is being rough or humiliating it feels like things go on rails a bit. It would be nice to answer some of the pain and humiliation with bites, scratches, pinches, whatever. Fine, you want to fuck me like an animal, I’ll fuck like an animal — have fun explaining the black eye and the hickies to your wife. The options wouldn’t need to be available all the time, but it would be nice to go against the guy who is my “perfect specimen of manhood” but a total bastard and give as good as I get. For certain types of guys they might even like that sort of response.

5. Some option to pester a guy for sex after he’s done once. It wouldn’t need to be full scenes, just something like the talk option, to remind the guy that he might be one and done but I’m not. It might have an option to do it flirtatiously (some guys are really turned on by a ravenous woman) or to use it for humiliation (either because the guy came in his drawers and I want to be a bitch about it, or because he’s some glorious big-dicked bastard that I’m rude to every time he’s around, but as soon as he gets his meat-paws on me we end up fucking like animals, and I remind him that I’m just using him for sex and that he’ll never be enough to keep up with me.)

And yeah, I understand and respect that doing anything with the sex scenes adds complexity to the game and slows development. I totally respect the choice to remain focussed — if I want a game exactly to my liking I should write one. I’m just stating my preferences is all.

EDIT
Another suggestion — it might be nice if there were some options to lie about whether or not it’s a safe time, or whether or not we’re on the pill. Some guys are more excited by one or the other, and some girls might want to dupe a guy into getting them pregnant. “It’s a safe week” is one of those famous lies along with “just the tip”.

[Bagashi]

Hey Ostrich, been reading 'bout the NPC chart and tried mak8ng my own Brutal npc.

Having last free update, is this already possible to achieve? or is activated eith future versions?

is a nice step anyway

[splendidostrich]

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a good weekend

And we are glad you keep pleasuring us with such materialS

You're welcome

I'm female myself and I absolutely love this concept.
Although this game is in quite an early stage, you might add "a way to work".

What I mean by that:
When you go to work, you go with subway/train whatever. So each day there is a possibility to get groped in train which can result in various events.

Just my tiny idea.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks Good to hear you're enjoying it!
The game's design supports that sort of scene fairly well and I do have a plan to add a chikan-style scene on the bus. Actually, this nearly got put in ages ago, but I decided to do the similar pervy-client event instead.

It'll probably just be a bus, rather than a subway, as most UK cities don't have subways.

I'm female myself and I absolutely love this concept.
Although this game is in quite an early stage, you might add "a way to work".

What I mean by that:
When you go to work, you go with subway/train whatever. So each day there is a possibility to get groped in train which can result in various events.

Just my tiny idea.

Keep up the good work.

If it isn't kinky

Quite interesting indeed.

*mind wanders*

If we like it we can go along and enjoy the ride (ride on a ride. RIDECEPTION)
if not we can slap him and just leave a slap or enforce law.
...maybe he then gets revenge by robbing us (as the actual event)
Or even a coworker whispering in our ears to let him touch otherwise he'll give a bad report... *gasp*
or just a serie of suspicious touches now and then, and then you see who's doing it.

...maybe even our BF with a kink...

ARGH

'nuff thinking.

I don't think I'll let the pc have men arrested, because they really should never approach her again after that, and the game doesn't support disabling npcs, at least at the moment. Otherwise, some interesting ideas. The BF one sounds like it could be funny – have the bus be too crowded for the pc to see who's touching her for a few actions, and then she turns around, ready to slap him, and discovers it's her sleazy sweetheart

wow Ostrich

That NPC thinghy is just glorious!

even if will be released in... months (for us non-patron paupers) is a good thing to even come to know that will be a thing...

Ah, shouldn't be months. 0.3.11 should be public by early November, or maybe late October.

I think that it should be also possible to add some females for a little lesbian action. ( So you meet them randomly in the gym/club, that dancefloor aint enough )

Yes, I do plan to add lesbians, but it'll be a very big change, so no doubt it will take a long time to add.

I secretly hope that, since you include different races, there should be different sexualities - transsexuals. Even though I think thats not gonna happen. Hope dies at last.

Races are easy, because they're just mentioned in the character description. Transsexuals would need different handling of all the makeout & sex scenes which currently all assume your partner is male – it'd be too big a change.
Well, it'd be a similar size change to adding lesbians, but I definitely won't have dev time to put in both, and I think lesbians is a more popular change.

I might have a futa-type scene as part of the endgame eventually though, where the futa npc would only appear in that specific scene and wouldn't need their own version of the club/date/home/makeout/sex chain.

In terms of character creation:
Is it even possible to describe breastsize in cups? easier to imagine than "medium-large".

Actually, very early versions did use cup sizes, but the current system works better I think, and also means I get lots fewer requests for larger sizes!

Also it should be possible to create a somehow "ugly" or "fat/chubby" girl too, just for completeness' sake.

I did originally plan this, before release, but I've rather changed my mind – it's a development time issue. Basically, adding new body types would mean new descriptive text everywhere the existing ones are referenced, and larger women would mean I'd have to stop assuming I can describe the pc's stomach as flat when she isn't pregnant.
In short – it's too much development time for the benefit it'd give.

As for ugly, there's the “plain” trait. An “ugly” one would be possible as a more extreme version, but I don't think it would be very interesting for the game as it stands. Right now npcs that don't find you attractive will mostly just ignore you.
I do want to look into difficulty at some point, and add special men with very high standards such as minor celebrities. When I do that, I'll be looking over the low-attraction content more and if I think the player has enough options in those situations then I might add another attractiveness category.

In the nightclub a feature like a gloryhole maybe? To earn a few bucks or just do it for fun.

I think that's a bit further along the innocent-normal-sexual axis than I plan to go with the game! Although, I think gloryholes were on the voting list for the PMW release, so maybe they'll show up again for the next one.

Now that’s out of my system, I really like this game. Some requests:
1. Add something along the lines of “never use a condom” to the “Talk seriously menu”. Of course it would be fine if a guy chooses to use one even when asked not to, but it’s a little weird when I’m with my boyfriend, who is enthusiastic about having babies with me, but he’s a nice guy so he keeps slipping a condom on. I can work around it by giving him a little oral or a titjob, but sometimes he’ll keep putting the condom back on right away, then be happy when I finally manage to get him into me bare for a little fertilization fun. It would be nice if there were a way to pick certain guys that just don’t need to use protection with you.

That will come with the relationship update – planned kids will be tend to be more of a marriage thing.

2. I kinds like the rough stuff in the game, but I feel like some (not all) of the guys need to be sleazy, but still nice. If I want to fuck a guy I barely know in an alley, it’s because I want to fuck a guy I barely know in an alley. If I want to fuck a guy and his friend Horse, it’s because I want to do that. That doesn’t mean I also want the guy to not give a shit about me, humiliate me, etc. I don’t mind that stuff being in the game, but for dominance/submission to be a turn on for me it needs to be built on trust. It’s fine for a guy to say that I’m good for nothing but breeding or whatever, as long as he doesn’t actually believe it. The guys in the game that go there seem to go all the way, and genuinely don’t give a shit, which goes pretty quickly from “hot” into a hard no for me. (I mean, part of what makes it hot is that it borders closely on a hard no).

Alleyway makeouts are linked to the sleazy trait, which is available for most non-jerk personalities, same for the porn movie.
The gym scene needs heavily restricted personalities to work, because otherwise having 2 npcs means the amount of content needed would be far too much. The guy being a jerk simplifies it a lot, although I plan some more romantic extensions involving Horse – his mate will always be an asshole though.

3. Add a “never be mean” and “do what you like” options of some type to “Talk seriously”. Sometimes you want to be a princess and Darth Vader at the same time, so it would be nice to not get permanently locked into one role. Of course some guys aren’t going to respect that.

Being mean is all based on the pc's request anyway, unless the guy actually is a dick, in which case he wouldn't listen to your request anyway.

4. Add some more aggressive options for players in the sex scenes, especially when a guy has done something that pisses us off (or maybe only when). The option to fight the orgasm is already good in that way, but when a guy is being rough or humiliating it feels like things go on rails a bit. It would be nice to answer some of the pain and humiliation with bites, scratches, pinches, whatever. Fine, you want to fuck me like an animal, I’ll fuck like an animal — have fun explaining the black eye and the hickies to your wife. The options wouldn’t need to be available all the time, but it would be nice to go against the guy who is my “perfect specimen of manhood” but a total bastard and give as good as I get. For certain types of guys they might even like that sort of response.

There is an action where you scratch up his back somewhere – it requires the passionate lover trait. I'll put a note to consider more of that sort of thing. Black eyes is going too far – actual sexual violence isn't something I want to add to the game, which is why he'll do things like pulling your hair or slapping your ass, but he won't slap your face.

5. Some option to pester a guy for sex after he’s done once. It wouldn’t need to be full scenes, just something like the talk option, to remind the guy that he might be one and done but I’m not. It might have an option to do it flirtatiously (some guys are really turned on by a ravenous woman) or to use it for humiliation (either because the guy came in his drawers and I want to be a bitch about it, or because he’s some glorious big-dicked bastard that I’m rude to every time he’s around, but as soon as he gets his meat-paws on me we end up fucking like animals, and I remind him that I’m just using him for sex and that he’ll never be enough to keep up with me.)

Yes, and no.

I don't want to add repeated sex, because it'd stretch the game out too long and I don't think the sex scenes have enough content to justify it. Considering that you can easily end up having sex 50-100 times in a game, they probably never will.

However, some of the dialogue you mentioned would fit quite well. At some point I plan to add traits that make an npc explicitly bad in bed, and the pc will need appropriate replies then. A “just for sex” kind of dialogue might be a good idea to let the pc cool down relationships with men who are falling for them too.

Another suggestion — it might be nice if there were some options to lie about whether or not it’s a safe time, or whether or not we’re on the pill. Some guys are more excited by one or the other, and some girls might want to dupe a guy into getting them pregnant. “It’s a safe week” is one of those famous lies along with “just the tip”.

I'll consider that sort of thing when I'm working on relationships. Lying is generally a bit tricky to implement because it needs some sort of code to work out if the npc believes the pc. I think that a proper implementation of cheating would be a step in that direction.
Right now I usually avoid having your partner react to other men because cheating is something that needs a proper standard implementation rather than custom bits and pieces spread out over individual scenes. When it does get put in properly, there'll need to be some method for working out if he notices, probably by tracking how obvious the pc is being about it.

Hey Ostrich, been reading 'bout the NPC chart and tried mak8ng my own Brutal npc.

Having last free update, is this already possible to achieve? or is activated eith future versions?

is a nice step anyway

You'll need version 0.3.11 to actually use the npcs. That'll go out on patreon in a few days, and the public when 0.3.12 is out as usual. I'm going to push to get 0.3.12 done a bit faster than the last few releases, although it's hard to predict these sort of things until I'm well into working on them.

[decimad]

waiting day in and out for 0.3.10 release..

[splendidostrich]

waiting day in and out for 0.3.10 release..

Well, I have some news for you then Despite a rather annoying delay due to illness-induced lack of productivity, version 0.3.11 is finally released!

And now, your usual copy-pasted release announcement:
Version 0.3.11 is now available and can be downloaded from patreon by early-access patrons. The previous version has been made public and can be downloaded from the blog. Patrons who aren't at the early-access level can get the patron version of 0.3.10 from patreon - I've changed the access level on that post to "all patrons" so you can get the cheat options.

The blog post with the changelog is here.

Have fun with the new version

[decimad]

NICE !

[Bagashi]

waiting day in and out for 0.3.10 release..

Well, I have some news for you then Despite a rather annoying delay due to illness-induced lack of productivity, version 0.3.11 is finally released!

And now, your usual copy-pasted release announcement:
Version 0.3.11 is now available and can be downloaded from patreon by early-access patrons. The previous version has been made public and can be downloaded from the blog. Patrons who aren't at the early-access level can get the patron version of 0.3.10 from patreon - I've changed the access level on that post to "all patrons" so you can get the cheat options.

The blog post with the changelog is here.

Have fun with the new version

JOLLY!

[Satoshi1]

Is there any way to continue after the 52 weeks? Does anything happen with your client after being able to go to his house? Is Horse only accessible from the gym and dance competition? Will there be other ways to lower their stress?

I liked the game and what it's trying to go for. I hope this project stays in operation.

[john1111111111]

Great game, though I feel that in some areas there could be more choices (depending of what type of character you play).

The Gym scene for example, would be perfect for a threesome or gangbang. Instead of just having the option to dance/shower with them, we can have an option where he suggests a gangbang. Or the one with "Horse" where it is an easy threesome chance right there.

Another one i can think of is the Adult Cinema. It'd be nice to have an option to go there alone/with date (you suggesting it). Other people there might want a piece of you as well if you go alone/with date (resulting in a gangbang).

Being someones bitch could also result in one of those options.

Does being drunk do anything? I haven't really noticed at all, or being someone's bitch (other than that they treat you bad)?

Going past 52 weeks would also be nice, or you can become the railroads gangs bitch. We also need more ways to get Horse. Or a way to sleep your way to being CEO of the company. Lol.

Just my 2 cents.

[nogoodname92]

I really like this game. I was thinking though, maybe as well as clothing affecting how you look, maybe there could be other options for makeup as well? I doubt it would make the girl look any cuter or more casual, but it could add some attractiveness, and some possible naughtiness or classiness.

I also really like basically every idea that the user above me came up with too, just saying lol.

Keep up the good work.

[Hoschelhoff]

I really like this game.
I'm super high on exhibitionism, and would love to see more scenarios where you show off your extremely hot body to strangers,

Are there good alternatives to this game that has male perspective, or will there be one eventually in Newlife ?
I've come across a few, but none that have such a vast amount of clothing and choices.

[Thrans]

Is there any way to continue after the 52 weeks?

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Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Always Save before trying to edit a game or save.

Download 'Cheat Engine', select the process to open (flashing green and red top left), put week number in the top right 'Value:' box and hit 'First Scan.' Advance the game 1 week, put new week number into 'Value:' box and hit 'Next Scan', if you have more that one address in the top left part of the screen, advance another week, put in the new week and hit 'Next Scan' again.

When you have 1 Address with a value that matches your week number Right click, top option (should be in bold), copy of address should now be in the box at the bottom of 'Cheat Engine' change the Value to the week number you want, next time you advance the week the week number should change to the one you want.