New Life Project [Version 0.5.8]

Fixed club check variable error – you should now be able to get your money back after failing to get into the club, if you’re playing the public version.
Going to Constantin’s cottage immediately after visiting him at the safehouse will now have some flavortext telling you where he is instead of a blank page.
Added a smudge of flavortext to the mansion basement.
Quests should no longer start right after each other, if you’ve begun on the first quest late game.
Added an image to Otto’s first text, displaying the text like the other texts that you can send.
Changed the return link name on the Outskirts from “Go back home” to “Go back to the street”. This is to reflect that the Streets are not your only limited home.
Added a corruption stat lock to fun with Morris.
Added two corruption stat locks to jerking off in Chloe’s apartment
Added a corruption stat lock to the date with Ralph
Removed unnecessary whitespace
You can now get the bar job without having to work at the cafe job first.
Taking a rest in the restroom during dish cleaning now has a small corruption lock.
When it is too late to work at the bar, it will now tell you instead of showing you nothing.
Changed some more $’s to £. Bar promotion will show the pound amount in yellow color instead.
Improved the ATM just a smidge, visually. Also improved it back end for better immersion, as the passage will no longer reload on each entry, but utilize a live update wrapper. Also added a bit of flavortext depending on what actions you’re performing and not performing.
Changed the bank app’s name from GMA to GMA Banking in your phone.
Increased some corruption locks.
Added inhibition lock to showing your appreciation to the driver taking you to the bum-den.
Added a “Go downstairs” link from your room in the mansion, so you can go downstairs directly from your room, eliminating an extra click.
Removed a run-away “>”
Changed the money that the bum drops after being denied entry to the club from 1000 to 5000.
Added 23 new images
Further added onto the main storyline, with a new quest. It has two paths. It will begin on it’s own with a letter sent to your room.
Nerdy specs
92.781 words! (Patron version)
6.511 words added!
782 passages (Patron version)
35 passages added
Special thanks to Taulion for playtesting and helping with this update!

v0.5.6(2024-03-22)

Changed the currency sign in the grocery store to correctly reflect the currency used from $ to £.
Changed the currency sign in the electronics store to correctly reflect the currency used from $ to £.
Fixed going on dates with your boyfriend / girlfriend from the new luxury apartment taking you to the mansion instead of back to the apartment.
Lily’s love points now further increase at the end of your day date.
Fixed a bug where if you go to sleep single at the apartment, it would cut to a scene where you would go to sleep with “single”. Instead, there should have been a different text. There is now.
If you were living in the city apartment, but haven’t unlocked the mansion, you should no longer see the text “You currently reside in the mansion”
If you have bought the luxury apartment, you should no longer see the text “You don’t have a place to be…”
The game will now correctly display “Find a more humble living situation”
Added a small change to how links are displayed in the game, for (hopefully) a nice UI change.
Please let me know what you think of it.
Removed the unused passages of the old intro to declutter the game.
Restructed some of the cult passages to return to the cult instead of the library.
Added a cinema to the downtown. Go down there to watch movies.
You wont spot Zack in the town anymore if you haven’t unlocked the apartment yet.
Implemented a chance to set your home. Options are Zack’s apartment, the mansion, the camp and the luxury apartment. You have to have unlocked the home to set it in their respective bedrooms.
Implemented a chance to find a cat and name it. It will reside with where you live.
Fixed nightmare at Zacks apartment not showing correctly.
Fixed Asylum showering not updating your showered status
Fixed Asylum shower image being disproportionate
Finally fixed the Lily nudes bug, where it would display received text from Lily immediately discarding the flavor text.
Changed multiple instances of if/else to switch/case for easier readability and code framework
Asking Lily to either slow down or send more nudes now results in a flavortext feedback letting you know which option you’ve chosen.
Changed some structural code regarding the outskirts. Non visual.
The luxury apartment will now cost the appropriate £50,000 instead of being given for free once you enter.
The apartment reception will now show the appropriate text instead of near nothing. You are also now able to buy the apartment.
Skipping the intro no longer defaults your job to the cafe
You can no longer look for an apartment at night, thus throwing you into the Asleep time-block.
You can no longer help Rob with his “problem” during the second phase of the cafe job unless you have the required amount of corruption (>35).
Going to the restroom to relieve some steam during the second phase of the cafe job will now grant you an increase in corruption
Nerdy specs
84.041 words! (Patron version)
608 words added! (tallied – I removed the old intro, remember?)
719 passages (Patron version)
2 passages removed (tallied – I removed the old intro, remember?)
Special thanks to Taulion for playtesting and helping with this update!