Newlife 0.4.25 (Patreon)

Hi all, here's Newlife 0.4.25.

This one focuses on adding the "inept lover" trait, which proved to be frankly horrible to add. I'd thought I was making good progress earlier in the month, but trawling through the existing content to figure out where changes needed to be made turned out to take just way more than I'd anticipated.

I think this is an issue that's generally going to get worse over time - more content in the codebase means more stuff to look through. Considering how tough the end to this month was, I think I'll need to be a lot more disciplined about avoiding "complexity" changes in the future unless they're absolutely necessary. I've been saying for years that I'll be doing this, but I haven't really been restraining myself very well. 

In fact, I think it'll be helpful if I try to write up a minimal set of changes needed to reach 1.0.0 instead of keeping getting carried away by optional side-content. I'll aim to do that for the big 0.5.0 vote. That way Newlife can reach its "finished" version sooner and any extras can then be considered post-completion instead of sidetracking core content.

Anyway, this version has the core functionality of the new trait and the "teaching" scene which has a number of possible paths and I think is quite a nice scene that works well as-is while also leaving options for further extension, perhaps by commissioned writers.

The inept trait is probably a bit too common right now, but I wanted it to be easier for people to see as it's the new thing in this release. I'll drop its likelihood down in a few versions time.

I do have a ton of notes on areas where things can be extended, as well as a big backlog of comments to reply to, user-submitted content to include and player-requests to look into. This includes some things like faked orgasms that were requested recently over on the inner-circle post and that I haven't forgotten about even though they aren't in this release. 

I'm also expecting the first commissioned scenes to be ready soon - likely in early December.

Because of all this, and because I'll be travelling over Xmas and don't like to commit to a release while away in case my laptop is damaged in transit, I'm going to push the PMW release back an extra month. Instead, for the next release I'll do a smaller "bits and pieces" update focusing on smaller requested changes, integrating user/commissioned content and refinements to the inept stuff. Of course this "smaller" update might be very large indeed if a whole bunch of commissioned stuff comes through at once, but we'll see.

I'll be aiming to get that out by mid-December. In fact, I'll give a deadline now: Sunday December 16th.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and enjoy the new version!