New Year’s Day(e)
JonesyVersion: Ch. 4 v0.4.1
Game Info
Description
New Year’s Day(e): Picking Up the Pieces, Exploring New Desires
Jonesy’s New Year’s Day(e) isn’t your typical family drama sequel. Sure, it picks up the story of a single father, [MC], navigating the complexities of raising his teenage stepdaughters, Eve and Daye, and fostering a bond with their friends, Becky and Kaylee. But beneath the surface of familial love and shared grief for the MC’s late wife, Heather, lies a simmering current of unspoken desires and an exploration of unconventional bonds.
The holidays have passed, leaving a bittersweet aftertaste. The family, still grappling with Heather’s absence, seeks solace and connection in each other. However, this closeness takes an unexpected turn. Eve, grappling with burgeoning womanhood, finds herself drawn to the playful sensuality of Becky, their friendship morphing into a hesitant exploration of mutual attraction. Daye, the more reserved of the sisters, develops a surprising connection with the stoic MC. Their shared grief for Heather creates an intimacy that transcends the boundaries of father-daughter relationship, leading to a tentative exploration of a taboo desire.
New Year’s Day(e) throws you into a world of emotional vulnerability and erotic awakening. As the characters navigate their evolving feelings, the lines between familial love, friendship, and desire become deliciously blurred. The MC, wrestling with his guilt over his feelings for Daye, seeks solace in the arms of the enigmatic Kaylee, a woman harboring a secret past that adds another layer of complexity to the already tangled web of relationships.
The game delves into themes of polyamory and open relationships. The characters, forced to confront their unconventional desires, must navigate jealousy, societal expectations, and the complex dance of negotiating boundaries in a polyamorous arrangement.
New Year’s Day(e) isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a story that challenges traditional notions of family and explores the messy beauty of human connection. Are you ready to step into this world of unconventional desires and witness a family redefine love on their own terms? Prepare to be surprised, delighted, and perhaps a little bit challenged as you explore the emotional and erotic depths of New Year’s Day(e).
Changelog
v0.4.1
We finally get to see what happened after that really rough ending of chapter 3.
I’m sure Daye, Eve, Randall and the rest of gang can figure something out.
Anyway, I hope you have fun. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know how you liked it!
Sorry for the big file size. Just know that it’s packed with lots of good stuff.
Also, guess who learned how to port their games to Android? That’s right! Now, did I do a good job compressing the images? That’s up for debate.
By the way, did you notice any tags missing from this game’s description? That’s right. No more “Kinetic Novel” for me. There’s choices to make…starting in chapter 2.
As always, thank you for your continued interest in my stories.
v0.3.2
Bug Fix
v0.3.1
Long story short, There are no story changes, just a bunch of spelling and grammar corrections and an added skip feature for the end of chapter 3.
v0.3.0
This is chapter 3. It has taken a little longer than usual for me to get this out, but I have been having a rough time this year. Luckily, I have creative outlets like this one to help channel negative energy into. Enough about my boring life. What about this chapter?!
In this chapter, we will see the resolution of the problems between Kaylee and her mom. We will meet Becky’s little sister Olivia and uncover some as of yet unknown things about the MC’s past. I’ve tried to include a few foreshadowing clues here and there, some are more subtle than others, so keep an eye out.
We will also see how the big New Year’s party is shaping up and there are some really great things that happen with our titular characters.
While I touted earlier that this chapter is not nearly as dark as chapter 2, I will say that for the majority if the time this is true, but watch out for the ending of this one, it’s a doozy.
v0.2.4
I have received a lot of feedback about NYD chapter 2 over the past couple of weeks. Some was good, some was not so good. All of it is greatly appreciated, so thanks! It’s because of this feedback that some errors were brought to my attention. It seems that I failed at conveying certain ideas, and in doing so, kinda screwed up the whole tone/feel of the story. I Have gone back and rewritten several parts of the story. While the overarching story line hasn’t really changed, the MC’s character arch is much more clear. I think that this update is a much more comprehensive version of the story I originally set out to tell in chapter 2. I think it stays more true to the original tone of Christmas Eve and NYD Chapter 1.
So, feel free to download v0.2.4 and replay it to get the full understanding of what was going on in the MC’s head during all of this drama, and let me know what you think.
Sorry for not getting it right the first time around, but, hey, that’s what the phrase “in development” means, right?
v0.2.3
Chapter 2
v0.1.0
Almost 1000 renders, and almost the same amount of code as the entirety of Christmas Eve, this chapter is big!
Installation Guide
1. Extract and run
Developer Notes
Developer: Jonesy – Discord – Itch.io – Twitter – Patreon – Subscribestar
I tried. I really did. I just couldn’t wait the whole week. So, here it is. Chapter 1 of the sequel to Christmas Eve – New Year’s Day(e)!
I feel I have grown a lot as a dev in the past few months, and I hope it shows here. Please, play it and let me now what you think.
I can’t wait to see if you like it even a fraction as much as I do. (Of course I kinda know what happens next, so…)
Enjoy.
~ Jonesy
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