Java Newlife [v0.8.12] [Splendid Ostrich]

[Kubrows]

I'd really love the ability to actually have your child grow up instead of constant loop of taking care of the baby.
in depth going through each week slowly watching your kid grow up, son or daughter. even maybe being naughty with your son or daughter when they become of age. phewe. that would be awesome.
sometimes I wonder if I'd be a naughty mommy haha

 

[John Dirt]

Well, the lesbian stuff is finally in. I remember something about Ivy in the lesbian storyline. But still don't know if you can Romance and Mary in a Lesbian relationship yet. I also noticed no dildos or other sex toys yet. But we're getting there.

 

[Susan Xandera]

Well, the lesbian stuff is finally in. I remember something about Ivy in the lesbian storyline. But still don't know if you can Romance and Mary in a Lesbian relationship yet. I also noticed no dildos or other sex toys yet. But we're getting there.

Oh, you mean the lesbian stuff that was promised years back, kept being put on the back burner, was finally started to be worked on out of the blue, then for the focus to be shifted to Hypnosis before said lesbian stuff could be further developed and incorporated into the game proper to supplement the addition of later scenes (such as FMM, MFF, etc)? The lesbian stuff that was only briefly worked on to try to drum up a little more interest in a game that has been used to string people along with Bungie level promises and Bungie level bitchslaps to supporters? Oh, we're getting there alright, getting there for when SO waits 5 more fucking years to work on half baked systems then decide 'out of the blue' to halt development/port the game over to a new system because 'teh gahm isn't coming out as I's envisian ed it' and 'muh spaghetti code'.

 

[Erik1986]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...........but lets face it, this game's road has been having glaring neon signs saying "Satan's Pleasure Palace: 2000000 miles to go"

When it first started out it might have had some vibe of being a successor to games like Cursed, but right now its barely got more content then it had in its first year. Don't kid your self's, no mater what he (SO) adds now, its just to keep the Patreon money flowing for nearly no content at all.

It's dead Jim!

 

[Missmiles]

Does anyone know how to trigger the 'Jerk Friend' storyline?

Or better, have a save for it?

 

[Dysphorika]

I'd really love the ability to actually have your child grow up instead of constant loop of taking care of the baby.
in depth going through each week slowly watching your kid grow up, son or daughter. even maybe being naughty with your son or daughter when they become of age. phewe. that would be awesome.
sometimes I wonder if I'd be a naughty mommy haha

Love naughty mommies

 

[souldead341]

Does anyone know how to trigger the 'Jerk Friend' storyline?

Or better, have a save for it?

You need to have a good personality boyfriend, not sure what the specifics (in terms of player traits) are but I generally get it with a character with a caring, sleazy, crude boyfriend character. I think it only needs a caring or romantic personality, maybe normal works as well. Once they're your boyfriend it's random chance for him to ask to invite over his friend, then random chance each week for subsequent events.

If you want to genderbend the friend, you need to make sure to refuse and rebuff the friend at every stage, but not throw him out early in the first meeting.

 

[Funny Asian Pirate]

I'd really love the ability to actually have your child grow up instead of constant loop of taking care of the baby.
in depth going through each week slowly watching your kid grow up, son or daughter. even maybe being naughty with your son or daughter when they become of age. phewe. that would be awesome.
sometimes I wonder if I'd be a naughty mommy haha

"Canonically", the game is supposed to only last 1 Year if you play it legitly. I don't think SO is gonna add it in.

Lilith's Throne lets you have sex with your kids (but they are "magically" aged into adults shortly after they are born).

 

[John Dirt]

Oh, you mean the lesbian stuff that was promised years back, kept being put on the back burner, was finally started to be worked on out of the blue, then for the focus to be shifted to Hypnosis before said lesbian stuff could be further developed and incorporated into the game proper to supplement the addition of later scenes (such as FMM, MFF, etc)? The lesbian stuff that was only briefly worked on to try to drum up a little more interest in a game that has been used to string people along with Bungie level promises and Bungie level bitchslaps to supporters? Oh, we're getting there alright, getting there for when SO waits 5 more fucking years to work on half baked systems then decide 'out of the blue' to halt development/port the game over to a new system because 'teh gahm isn't coming out as I's envisian ed it' and 'muh spaghetti code'.

I like Java because it works on everything. The codes are there if someone wants to make their own game and actually follow through on promises. The Lesbian stuff was put in pieces little here and a little there. And now we actually have lesbian sex scenes but no dildos are toys yet. And we can now actually date women, but no making them into a couple or marrying them yet. And I agree that the Hypnosis storyline is a waste of time. At least you can also edit the lesbian stuff as well. We still don't have lesbian office workers. And I don't know about the regular club.

Maybe later we can add futa.

 

[Solomon Grundy]

Does anyone know how to trigger the 'Jerk Friend' storyline?

Or better, have a save for it?

You need to have a good personality boyfriend, not sure what the specifics (in terms of player traits) are but I generally get it with a character with a caring, sleazy, crude boyfriend character. I think it only needs a caring or romantic personality, maybe normal works as well. Once they're your boyfriend it's random chance for him to ask to invite over his friend, then random chance each week for subsequent events.

If you want to genderbend the friend, you need to make sure to refuse and rebuff the friend at every stage, but not throw him out early in the first meeting.

IIRC, the boyfriend needs to also not have either the Doormat or Likes to Share traits. And the PC needs some amount of love for the BF before it will fire. She doesn't have to be madly in love with him, but something beyond the crush stage is required.

 

[Dr.Sloth]

Oh, you mean the lesbian stuff that was promised years back, kept being put on the back burner, was finally started to be worked on out of the blue, then for the focus to be shifted to Hypnosis before said lesbian stuff could be further developed and incorporated into the game proper to supplement the addition of later scenes (such as FMM, MFF, etc)? The lesbian stuff that was only briefly worked on to try to drum up a little more interest in a game that has been used to string people along with Bungie level promises and Bungie level bitchslaps to supporters? Oh, we're getting there alright, getting there for when SO waits 5 more fucking years to work on half baked systems then decide 'out of the blue' to halt development/port the game over to a new system because 'teh gahm isn't coming out as I's envisian ed it' and 'muh spaghetti code'. View attachment 1578804

You put more efforts in this review than SO in their game xD

 

[cyrops]

I'd really love the ability to actually have your child grow up instead of constant loop of taking care of the baby.
in depth going through each week slowly watching your kid grow up, son or daughter. even maybe being naughty with your son or daughter when they become of age. phewe. that would be awesome.
sometimes I wonder if I'd be a naughty mommy haha

Sorry to butt in, what do you expect the gameplay loop to be like while raising your child? Going day by day just seems like a chore from players POV. Just asking as I ran into such a development dilemma myself.

 

[joe316]

This guy has got to be the greatest businessman in the world. He gets at least $4,000 a month for putting together small pieces of add on to this text game every few months.

 

[Susan Xandera]

You put more efforts in this review than SO in their game xD

Most of the effort went into moving my fingers to type it, thinking about it took only a few seconds and about thirty seconds to fix the grammar a little. If I can do that much in around a minute then SO shouldn't have this level of difficulty writing scenes that you can copy and paste from Pornhub scripts on something as widely used as Java, which after looking at Java itself, has quite a lot of ease of access for people who know how to write in the language. Overall, the grift is strong with this one.

 

[Orlu]

Anyone got a steer on contents / requirements of any of the new scenes? Since nobody cares enough about this game to keep the wiki alive, or even prune the link.

 

[Missmiles]

IIRC, the boyfriend needs to also not have either the Doormat or Likes to Share traits. And the PC needs some amount of love for the BF before it will fire. She doesn't have to be madly in love with him, but something beyond the crush stage is required.

That sounds like I have to start a new run from scratch...is there a save you could provide so I don't have to?

 

[coretex]

Just edit the save yourself. You can open it in Notepad++. Use the Json plugin (usually one is already preinstalled) to "Format Json" so it branches everything out.. and then you can find all kinds of details and make changes.
I had previously made posts in this thread and included even some editing tips.

https://f95zone.to/threads/newlife-v0-7-7c-patreon-splendid-ostrich.293/post-6074130

https://f95zone.to/threads/newlife-v0-7-7c-patreon-splendid-ostrich.293/post-6100830

I have made other posts with my own thoughts and commentary on the system.. but those should get you the basics to get into the files and have fun.

 

[quiboune]

Sorry to butt in, what do you expect the gameplay loop to be like while raising your child? Going day by day just seems like a chore from players POV. Just asking as I ran into such a development dilemma myself.

The way it's done in Newlife is, despite our vehement critiques, quite good. It gives you a little debuff that can be countered by skills or traits and offers a few scenes involving the kids. It works really well with the weekly turn system of this game, but might be harder to replicate in games that allow you to micromanage or directly control things. If I was to improve Newlife's system in any way it would be by adding more events to the kids (aging and being troublesome) and the father of the children (if loving more interaction with the kids, if jerks more taunting and a greater focus on entitlement).

 

[Conundrum]

Anyone got a steer on contents / requirements of any of the new scenes? Since nobody cares enough about this game to keep the wiki alive, or even prune the link.

The Hypnosis stuff?
You just come across the posters at one point, probably same non-existent requirements as finding a phone or getting mugged.
From that point on you have a new option for weekends, where you can call either the good guy (does what you're asking him to do) or the evil guy (will give you temporary changes to your character and traits, you get to choose from a list, usually fucks you, might force you to book more sessions with him).
Looking at the scene yml, you might need to make your own hypnotist NPCs, not sure if they're auto-generated if no custom ones exist.

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[DesuDemona]

Basically it's down to SO's personal preferences. They outright said early on in the development (on tfgamesite) that they'd never put outright rape into the game. Since they're the developer, that's all there is to it.

It's available to be modded in, but bitching about the lack of content you want but the developer doesn't is just pointless.

Which is ironic considering there's already plenty of content in the game that easily fits the definition of sexual assault and rape.