Happy October! (Patreon)

Hi all and I hope you're having a great month so far!

Just a quick update on what I'm doing;

I've been trying a new work method where I turn my router off to eliminate distractions. I think it's working quite well - my productivity is improved which means I have more time for non-Newlife stuff and I'm finishing my work earlier in the day so I'm not so stressed in the evenings.

Being offline isn't helping me catch up with my forum posts and comment replies, but I'm trying to schedule in time for that once I've hit my daily development goals.

I'm currently working on the small-cock trait. Right now I'm grinding through the slow-but-necessary task of searching out every reference to the NPC's penis in the code and updating them - not the most interesting thing to talk about, but rather critical to a change like this one.

I've also picked up on a task that'd been on my todo list for literally years - adding a single-action "quick-sex" choice. This was orignally suggested back in July of 2015 by a tfgs user named Vengeance1701 and I was reminded of it by some more recent discussions. I've coded in the option but it hasn't been tested yet and there's some special cases that I need to look into - such as whether quicksex needs to respect scenes like the hotel prostitution one that ask for the PC to perform a specific sex-act.

Quicksex is activated from the makeout scenes, and I'll probably need to make a blog post explaining how it works before the main release. It isn't intended to provide detailed erotic content or to be an accurate estimate of what would happen if the player actually ran through the scenes. Rather it picks one of 5 actions (sex, anal, oral, titjob, handjob) based on traits and a random element, decides what sort of foreplay the man performs (touching, cunnilingus, none), uses a simple algorithm to work out how much each person enjoys it and outputs a short summary of what happened.

So, that's the latest news on Newlife development. The PMW vote will start soon and I expect that will be the release after this one. Take care of yourselves and enjoy the rest of the month :)