Newlife: female-perspective lifesim text game

[krazy4luv2]

Great game so far! I've been mostly lurking, but I recently ran into something weird... I don't know if anyone else has ran into a bug like this but when you have a boyfriend and he texts you and wants to fuck, you can have him sleep over which make sense so far, but then after you wake up and he leaves, you can do your evening activity. So I ended up going to the club afterwards which doesn't make much sense.

[UnLimiTeD]

not to mention when in the morning "you cutely look at him, but he say something about open legs and mounts on top of you"

gosh

that guy was amazing. Well... actually terrible, but is quite a kink.

QUESTION

Is there a way to know a guy's behaviour BEFORE going with him?
Also: are names binded with a particular chain of characteristics?

Example: Lewis is the badass alpha. If i start anew and i find a lewis, eill he be the same or is just a name with different assets?

Heh, that's quite the range of character options.
I tried out the new version with 3 girls so far, always around the first ten weeks. I set out to do different things, going from outgoing, sensitive, etc, to a setup that's more likely to get the tougher options.
And you know what? Didn't make a difference. All three tries, the girl got random promotions, found a caring and romantic lover within a few weeks, no one ever treated her badly, and there was an amazing clustering of guys buying her wine in the nightclub.

One thing htat's beginning to irk me, though, is the dancing is taking up roughly half the game. As in, I end up clicking through it roughly 30 times in the nightclub, and there's been a single time that something actually happened.

[Bagashi]

One thing htat's beginning to irk me, though, is the dancing is taking up roughly half the game. As in, I end up clicking through it roughly 30 times in the nightclub, and there's been a single time that something actually happened.

Gasp

what something

details :3

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QUESTION

Master Ostrich
there will be levels of customization of the girl body as for the male?

fatty
bloated
paunchy
muscular
etc?

[Bagashi]

I've encountered a scene that made curious:

check the attached image file "scena.PNG"

I am cold-rude girl. Had a baby with Lucas, and he reacted shouting at me. Still we kept going out and "sharing sex", now i find that scene, without having asked him to pull out nor anything else.

It seems strange that for an already-known couple with a baby in the nearby room is used this reaction instead of saying that to an unknown pick at the club...

[splendidostrich]

Hello everyone! I hope you've all had a good weekend. I'll be adding some more content to the gym scene for the next version as well as a variety of smaller improvements and additions.

Darn

The new scene are.... enjoyable... if you know what i mean

And the part where you are on all fours, he fucks you violently, you ask to be gentler, but he says that you are a stupid cow and fucks you even more violently... (gasp#1)

...then ask again to be gentler... and he slaps your ass and, "disciplined you look down at the bedcloths"(galactic gasm)

Those lines are....supreme, Ostrich. Very very supreme.

Thank you very much

not to mention when in the morning "you cutely look at him, but he say something about open legs and mounts on top of you"

gosh

that guy was amazing. Well... actually terrible, but is quite a kink.

QUESTION

Is there a way to know a guy's behaviour BEFORE going with him?
Also: are names binded with a particular chain of characteristics?

Example: Lewis is the badass alpha. If i start anew and i find a lewis, eill he be the same or is just a name with different assets?

No, names are selected completely at random when the characters are created. The only limitation is that you shouldn't see duplicate names within a game.
The only way to find out entirely about an npc before you get to know them is to use the Psychic cheat. However, you can get some basic information by taking Perceptive and spending some time in conversation with them.

Can we non-patreon know what is on the vote/will be voted in the "prove me wrong" issues?

The list to be voted on is quite long:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Getting guys' "stuff" on your clothes, cleanup, post-sex descriptions, possibly npc comments on this.
Anal
LAN party as an alternative action for going out
Public sex + getting caught
Fitness instructor (note that a sex scene in the gym will be added soon regardless of prove me wrong week)
Stat filter in clothing list
Blackmail from boss/colleague
Event where you can work as a stripper
Your date takes you to a porn shop & asks you to put on a show with a stranger
Male strip show, including play with the stripper.
An activity where you can work as a prostitute
Additional possibilities for the standard breasts description and similar sections (this assumes I can actually find ones that fit the writing and sound good though!)
Insulted by a bitchy/jealous girl in town, with possibility someone comes to your rescue
Guys fight over you in the club
Footwear? Might be quite a limited implementation though if the change starts looking like it'll be too big for the time available.
Massage at the gym
Sex toy underwear
Some way of creating new npcs during a game.
Bondage sex scene
Clothed sex trait for npcs that means they won't remove any more clothes than are necessary for sex.
More content for misogynistic npcs (these are ones with the jerk personality btw), plus probably some means of preventing them from warming up to the pc.
Gloryhole scene
Internet dating with some sort of sexual content before you meet (The patron who suggested it mentioned sexting. Things like webcams or phone sex might also be possibilities)
Some sort of submissive trait for the pc? This would probably be quite limited in implementation but I can look to see what's reasonable.
Limited swimwear (i.e. Bikinis but no one-piece swimsuits) & a scene to use it in (visit the pool?)
Voyeur content (either a new scene or maybe improvements to existing ones)
Exhibitionist content (as above – e.g. More content for going clubbing without underwear )
Configurable npc ages as part of the cheat options
Allow pcs to initate certain actions that are otherwise npc-only (e.g. Porn theatre)
Cosplay convention
Post-sex actions, including using a discarded condom to get pregnant
Car scene where you're being driven by an npc, with possible oral sex.
Limited threesome sex scene with 2 men (limited means probably severe restrictions on what personalities and/or relationship situations can go into the scene. For things like this there'll need to be more discussion if they win.)
Similar scene to the "shy girl gets comforted after you rip her clothes" part of the dance competition, except with the pc as the girl.
Corsets (although this might get added at some point even if it doesn't win)
Activities to call in sick at work or contact a man to ask him on a date
Pubic hair for the player
Cockoldry with your boyfriends permission/encouragement

Great game so far!

Thank you

I've been mostly lurking, but I recently ran into something weird... I don't know if anyone else has ran into a bug like this but when you have a boyfriend and he texts you and wants to fuck, you can have him sleep over which make sense so far, but then after you wake up and he leaves, you can do your evening activity. So I ended up going to the club afterwards which doesn't make much sense.

There isn't any transitional text between timeslots to highlight this, but the boyfriend texting you is a random event that happens in your weekday evening timeslot, so it's supposed to be on a different day from the nightclub visit which would be on a Friday or Saturday night.

Newlife triggers one event for each timeslot, not counting special “critical” events that always trigger at the start of week processing – currently the only critical events are the pregnancy & birth ones. Not counting those, there's therefore a maximum of 4 events in a week, all of which can be assumed to happen on different days from each other.

One thing htat's beginning to irk me, though, is the dancing is taking up roughly half the game. As in, I end up clicking through it roughly 30 times in the nightclub, and there's been a single time that something actually happened.

I'm taking some steps to reduce this a bit in the next version. In general though, dancing will become easier to avoid when nightlife gets a serious amount of content, as there'll be more places to go instead of clubs.

QUESTION

Master Ostrich
there will be levels of customization of the girl body as for the male?

fatty
bloated
paunchy
muscular
etc?

Probably not. Back before the first online release, I was thinking I'd eventually add this and the enum for female body types actually has 7 values even though only 3 appear in game: skinny/slim/toned/womanly/average/large/fat.
However, as I proceeded with development I realised three things. First, that the different body types get a fair bit of special text which would make adding new ones a moderately sizable piece of work, second that writing was simplified by having all playable body types have flat stomachs when not pregnant, and that adding larger women would mean rewriting a lot of that content, and third that there seems to be fairly little interest in adding body types other than those viewed as conventionally attractive.

I'd say that adding other body types might be a reasonable request for “prove me wrong” week, but otherwise I don't think the benefit is enough to justify the change.

I've encountered a scene that made curious:

check the attached image file "scena.PNG"

I am cold-rude girl. Had a baby with Lucas, and he reacted shouting at me. Still we kept going out and "sharing sex", now i find that scene, without having asked him to pull out nor anything else.

It seems strange that for an already-known couple with a baby in the nearby room is used this reaction instead of saying that to an unknown pick at the club...

Ah, the “oh no” orgasm reaction. That's probably the longest one in the game, in terms of code, although not one that will appear very often. You can't be in love with him (or have a crush), be maternal, be in a relationship with him, or be near orgasm – it basically only appears where having unsafe sex is quite bad news from your character's perspective.
I could add more requirements, but I think that the response does more-or-less work even for characters that have had a child with the man before. I've added a few alternative lines for them for the next version though.

[Bagashi]

The list to be voted on is quite long:

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Getting guys' "stuff" on your clothes, cleanup, post-sex descriptions, possibly npc comments on this.
Anal
LAN party as an alternative action for going out
Public sex + getting caught
Fitness instructor (note that a sex scene in the gym will be added soon regardless of prove me wrong week)
Stat filter in clothing list
Blackmail from boss/colleague
Event where you can work as a stripper
Your date takes you to a porn shop & asks you to put on a show with a stranger
Male strip show, including play with the stripper.
An activity where you can work as a prostitute
Additional possibilities for the standard breasts description and similar sections (this assumes I can actually find ones that fit the writing and sound good though!)
Insulted by a bitchy/jealous girl in town, with possibility someone comes to your rescue
Guys fight over you in the club
Footwear? Might be quite a limited implementation though if the change starts looking like it'll be too big for the time available.
Massage at the gym
Sex toy underwear
Some way of creating new npcs during a game.
Bondage sex scene
Clothed sex trait for npcs that means they won't remove any more clothes than are necessary for sex.
More content for misogynistic npcs (these are ones with the jerk personality btw), plus probably some means of preventing them from warming up to the pc.
Gloryhole scene
Internet dating with some sort of sexual content before you meet (The patron who suggested it mentioned sexting. Things like webcams or phone sex might also be possibilities)
Some sort of submissive trait for the pc? This would probably be quite limited in implementation but I can look to see what's reasonable.
Limited swimwear (i.e. Bikinis but no one-piece swimsuits) & a scene to use it in (visit the pool?)
Voyeur content (either a new scene or maybe improvements to existing ones)
Exhibitionist content (as above – e.g. More content for going clubbing without underwear )
Configurable npc ages as part of the cheat options
Allow pcs to initate certain actions that are otherwise npc-only (e.g. Porn theatre)
Cosplay convention
Post-sex actions, including using a discarded condom to get pregnant
Car scene where you're being driven by an npc, with possible oral sex.
Limited threesome sex scene with 2 men (limited means probably severe restrictions on what personalities and/or relationship situations can go into the scene. For things like this there'll need to be more discussion if they win.)
Similar scene to the "shy girl gets comforted after you rip her clothes" part of the dance competition, except with the pc as the girl.
Corsets (although this might get added at some point even if it doesn't win)
Activities to call in sick at work or contact a man to ask him on a date
Pubic hair for the player
Cockoldry with your boyfriends permission/encouragement

OH GOODNESS!

98% of these are god-tier stuff, lucky that i can leave the voting burden to others

Sadly there is no "over 52 weeks" stuff this is badly needed

Ah, the “oh no” orgasm reaction. That's probably the longest one in the game, in terms of code, although not one that will appear very often. You can't be in love with him (or have a crush), be maternal, be in a relationship with him, or be near orgasm – it basically only appears where having unsafe sex is quite bad news from your character's perspective.
I could add more requirements, but I think that the response does more-or-less work even for characters that have had a child with the man before. I've added a few alternative lines for them for the next version though.

Gasp

This explain all! So we breed while honestly hating eachother and both consciously or unconsciously don't want to bear the offspring of our union? ...primal.

[UnLimiTeD]

That's actually something perfectly human, I'd say.

I'd read somewhere that submissive content and anal are currently leading the votes with something else. Been a bit, though, could have changed.
Which raises an interesting question:
You said that the prove me wrong stuff, given sufficient funding, would haven twice a year or something.
Now, as anal often involves a sort of powerplay and thus ties into submissive content (Just using this as an existing example), won't that mean your workload will be steadily increasing as with each content addition, any new content becomes linearly more work?
Is that even doable over long?

[maryluka]

I am really really loving this so far, I enjoy these types of games. You're really doing a great job on this and can't wait to see what you do for it in the future. Though out of curiosity, are you planning on putting in allot of fetishes into the game? Like setting up an options menu to select the different fetishes you would like in your girls story. This is a question that is meant more for later stages on the game I know, but I just wish to know is all.

[splendidostrich]

Sadly there is no "over 52 weeks" stuff this is badly needed

If you mean playing on after the endgame, that's part of the core plan so it wouldn't be a change for “prove me wrong”.

I'd read somewhere that submissive content and anal are currently leading the votes with something else. Been a bit, though, could have changed.
Which raises an interesting question:
You said that the prove me wrong stuff, given sufficient funding, would haven twice a year or something.
Now, as anal often involves a sort of powerplay and thus ties into submissive content (Just using this as an existing example), won't that mean your workload will be steadily increasing as with each content addition, any new content becomes linearly more work?
Is that even doable over long?

That depends on what type of changes are made. Adding more complexity to the game mechanics is the big thing that makes future content slower to add and this is why I usually turn down requests for that sort of change. I've found that things like adding pregnancy has somewhat slowed certain types of content addition, but not to an intolerable degree.
In the long run, it is inevitable that the time taken to add more content will increase. I think it should be possible to keep it to a reasonable level that the game can be completed though, as long as I'm careful about not adding more complexity that I can handle.

That's changes to game mechanics though. Content additions are usually fine, and adding events or scenes typically falls into this category -adding new scenes doesn't usually mean more work for other ones and I can sometimes reuse content. Of course, especially big scenes like the full sex ones are slow to write and will require a certain amount of future maintenance work to handle changes in game mechanics, but their impact on other scenes is usually quite minor.

I am really really loving this so far, I enjoy these types of games. You're really doing a great job on this and can't wait to see what you do for it in the future.

Thank you

Though out of curiosity, are you planning on putting in allot of fetishes into the game? Like setting up an options menu to select the different fetishes you would like in your girls story. This is a question that is meant more for later stages on the game I know, but I just wish to know is all.

Good question. There are already a few options for “turning off” certain types of content. For example Iron Will disables the willpower system and I will eventually add a trait that makes it impossible for the pc to become pregnant.
However, I don't plan to add a lot of new fetishes, and I don't want to put in content that I expect many players will want to disable – that would just feel like a waste of time when I could be writing scenes that almost everyone will enjoy.

I will add opt-out traits if fetishes get added that are turn-offs for a significant number of players. This is most likely if they get added as part of “prove me wrong” votes. Anal is an example of this – if it wins then I'll put in some sort of character trait that stops it showing up in game.

[Bagashi]

Sadly there is no "over 52 weeks" stuff this is badly needed

If you mean playing on after the endgame, that's part of the core plan so it wouldn't be a change for “prove me wrong”.

<3

[sinhunter]

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

[Bagashi]

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

isn't enough not to choose modifications and take the pill? :/

[splendidostrich]

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

isn't enough not to choose modifications and take the pill? :/

For now, Bagashi is correct - the pill is 100% effective in Newlife unless you have one of the traits that adds a failure chance, so that's the recommended way to avoid pregnancy.
However, I do indeed plan to add a mutation that stops pregnancy, just as sinhunter suggests. This is because one of the planned changes is to let certain men sneakily sabotage contraception. Once that's in, I'll want to have a trait for players who absolutely do not want their character to become pregnant no matter what.

[Bagashi]

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

With the addition of mutations, will they be a mutation that prevents pregnancy?

isn't enough not to choose modifications and take the pill? :/

For now, Bagashi is correct - the pill is 100% effective in Newlife unless you have one of the traits that adds a failure chance, so that's the recommended way to avoid pregnancy.
However, I do indeed plan to add a mutation that stops pregnancy, just as sinhunter suggests. This is because one of the planned changes is to let certain men sneakily sabotage contraception. Once that's in, I'll want to have a trait for players who absolutely do not want their character to become pregnant no matter what.

We are touched and groped in drunken state, we are "forcefully impregnated", we are said to shut our fucked mouth like a bitch we are, we are "mounted" in the morning, our contracceptions are sabotated, when we ask to pull out we are filled anyway, if too rough and asked to be gentler, we are said that it feels too good to slow down...

...and "rape" is considered horrible...

:3

[DaveMcDavidson]

will futa ever be a thing?

[Bagashi]

will futa ever be a thing?

not to steal master Ostrich charge,

I remember him saying that it wouldn't be a choice as will mean to totally rewrite the whole game and mechanics as, as per now (and future) the game is a female perspective.

...and to rwrute the whole having a sheat instead of a sword is an humongous work.

[kvier]

A little wishlist item:
being able to remember where you've seen a given person. Like "you remember seeing them at (the gym) frequently" in the relationship browser, once both you and he have been there enough times.

Also maybe some mechanism for figuring out why a guy at the gym isn't initiating / a means to initiate things there? I really have no idea how that would work.

As is, I find myself beginning to feel a need to write down all the little tells in all the events, which ... I guess is accurate role-playing, but feels weird. Like it's more of a puzzle game than a sim.

[Bagashi]

[DaveMcDavidson]

With the futa thing, I was thinking of having a random event where you meet one and have sex

[Saika]

Fun game so far, will look forward to more content~

For sexy stuff: receiving oral, lesbians, and anal would be the things I'd most like to see.

For life stuff: getting to see what kind of job/etc the men have after you get to know them, or go over to his place instead of yours all the time would be cool. I'm assuming that changing your own job is already in the pipleline somewhere of course.