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The House Party – Winter Holiday Pack Is Out Now!

Winter is here, brahs!

Download the completely free House Party – Winter Holiday Pack to keep your party merry and bright all year long!

Party in a festive, Christmas-themed version of Madison’s house full of holiday cheer – with snowflakes falling outside, opportunities for snowball-throwing, a hysterical new short Frank side-story quest, and your favorite party-goers bundled up in themed Santa, elf, and reindeer hats and ugly sweaters!

Much like the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack, the House Party – Winter Holiday Pack is a permanent, year-round version of the limited-time 2022 seasonal winter update.

Unlike the haunting vibes from the Halloween DLC, the Winter DLC introduces pine garlands, hanging lights, glowing candy canes, star-shaped lights, ornaments, a snowman, and snowflake window decals to the party space.

There’s plenty to explore with the return of this fun-filled holiday. Armed with a bucket of snowballs at your side, get ready to pelt your favorite NPCs with snowballs to see their hysterical reactions and collect Frank’s special holiday steam achievement in his funny seasonal side quest!

Thank you for waiting while our team worked hard to get this event permanently prepared for you!

If you missed our post on the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack, we explained that we hadn’t expected either of these seasonal events to be so loved by players. But, many of you requested for us to keep them around permanently, and we wanted to do that for you!

Since these events weren’t originally built to be in the game full dash time, we had to essentially completely rebuild both of them so they could be in the game permanently.

We didn’t want to compromise our normal development, so we tried to keep up our original planned pace and prepare these two seasonal DLCs alongside our original plans. Of course, this took a bit longer than we expected, and these events have permanently dropped at an odd time of the year, but we hope you’re happy to finally see them back for good!

What did the full restructuring of these two seasonal DLCs include?

  • The DLCs are optional and won’t bloat your base game if you never plan to play or install them
  • You can toggle on and off the DLCs if you ever don’t feel like playing the Halloween or Winter content
  • We insured that merging the DLCs with house party wouldn’t create any major bugs or issues that would impact the short or long-term health of the base game
  • And, most exciting, we future-proofed the DLC so more content can be added in future updates!

As we mentioned with the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack, you won’t see any gameplay or content changes or new cosmetics in this DLC yet, but we have plenty more planned to come in the future.

We’ve also laid down a framework while restructuring both of these DLCs that will allow us to add a brand new free feature for all players. It is super exciting, and something many of you requested in our Future Of House Party Feedback Form. We can’t wait to share it with you!

And, speaking of, now that both of these awesome seasonal DLCs are finally released, we have so much on the horizon.

The release of the House Party – Detective Liz Catz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack is right around the corner, there are exciting new updates feature updates coming in our roadmap, and, toward the end of the year, we plan to release the House Party – New Content Pack, featuring two new characters from the House Party Universe!

For now, just look forward to everything cool that’s on the way, and enjoy the winter-themed party!

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The Free House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack Is Out Now!

​Halloween is back, partiers!

Enjoy chilling at a decked-out house party filled with spine-chilling ambience, sinister costumes, and much more in this petrifying autumn party pack!

Here by popular demand, the House Party – Halloween Holiday Pack is a permanent version of the limited-time 2022 seasonal Halloween update.

This DLC brings pumpkins, spooky ghosts, a skeleton, tons of spider webs, and one giant furry spider back to decorate Madison’s house in creepy fall vibes!

It also dresses all of the NPCs at the party in a chilling succubus costume – including startling horns, creepy bat wings, and a sexy, spiky tail!

Thanks for your patience as we worked to get this ready, doods!

We know it’s taken a while, but we hadn’t originally planned for the 2022 limited-time event to become permanent. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea fueled by season-induced passion, and it really wasn’t built to be in the game year-round.

However, after seeing so many of you ask for it to stay around, our team worked alongside our already-planned development schedule to completely rebuild the Halloween and Winter events so they’d be suitable to be in House Party permanently.

This full restructuring includes:

  • Making it so the DLCs are optional and won’t bloat the base game if you never plan to play or install them
  • Allowing you to toggle the DLC on and off if you don’t feel like enjoying the Halloween aesthetic during a specific play session
  • Ensuring merging the content with House Party wouldn’t cause any major bugs or issues with the short or long-term health of the base game
  • And, best of all, future-proofing the DLC so we can add more exciting content in additional updates! 🤘

While the Halloween Holiday Pack will visually look the same as the event did in 2022 (so, no, don’t expect to see any “new” playable content or cosmetics yet), it’s undergone complete restructuring and there are major framework changes under the surface. And these changes will allow us to properly add extra content (cosmetics, decorations, side-quests, achievements, etc.) to the Halloween Holiday Pack in the future as time permits!

Also implemented into this framework beneath the holiday pack are the roots of a very exciting new feature that we plan to bring for free to all players in the future. We won’t spoil exactly what this is yet, but we’ll just say it’s something MANY of you requested in the latest survey we released!

So, get excited, doods and lady-doods, because what’s coming is gonna be amazing – and we can’t wait to share more details as we get further along in development.

And, if you’re still waiting for the snowy season to return, don’t worry! The House Party – Winter Holiday Pack will be ready to play very soon, too!

But, in the meantime, what are you waiting for? Come enjoy the haunted house party!

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Get Early Access To “Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery” Alphas & Betas!

 

Want an early look at the House Party – Detective Liz Katz In A Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack?

 

If you’re excited to meet Liz Katz and solve a crazy murder mystery, you don’t need to sit on the edge of your seat waiting for the DLC to release!

 

We’ve gotten a ton of questions these past few months asking what the Liz Katz DLC will be like, but did you know you can get the best first inside looks right on our Patreon?

 

Curious what her character model looks like? Want to see her various outfits? Want to know what teasers are on the way? Want to know the inside scoop behind certain House Party posts? Wondering where we’re at in development? Unsure what the gameplay will be like? Or just want faster and more frequent news updates?

 

We share all of the above and more on our Patreon. It’s the first place we drop progress check-ins, teasers, screenshots of assets we’re working on, and, best of all, early playable builds!

 

 

Seriously. Did you know there are actually 5 Alpha Builds (and 4 Beta Versions) on our Patreon right now, where we’ve released portions of the Liz Katz DLC for early testing?

 

Whether you just want to meet Liz for the first time in-game (“Look What The Cat Dragged In” Beta), or you want to see the party get a little darker with a taste of mystery (“Blackout” Beta), there’s something for you to check out! More interested in a bit of shock value? Check out “Stop It Step Bro.” Like it hot? Playtest “Too Hot To Handle.” Or check out the most recent content in “Will & Testament” and put your decoding skills to the test!

 

To playtest early versions of House Party, be sure to subscribe to the corresponding Beta or Alpha supporter tier. Or, if you just want to stay updated on news (yes, that includes Office Party news, too), supporting at the lowest tier is also always appreciated! 🤘

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Winter & Halloween: Limited-Time Events vs. Permanent DLCs

We’re nearing the end of a long road of development with turning the 2022 Halloween and Winter limited-time events into permanent House Party seasonal DLCs!

 

Soon, we’ll share an official roadmap with the exciting news that both of our seasonal DLCs should (fingers crossed!) be releasing by the end of May to all players! These are free DLCs made to enrich the base game experience with holiday themes, so we hope you pick them up and enjoy the seasonal aesthetics!

 

We want to thank everybody for being so patient. These took longer than expected to get ready, but, thanks to moving a bit slower on getting them ready, we’ve actually been able to work on them these past few months without sacrificing too much time on our regular development schedule – which is awesome for those of you who are excited about the big things (like Liz Katz) coming soon to the party!

 

 

So, what took so long, anyway, Eek? Weren’t these events pretty much done already? 

 

To really answer this question, we have to look back at last year. We decided, right before Halloween, to drop a couple of fun things into the game with the intention that they would be removed after the event. They weren’t built to stay in the game long-term, both because of base game bloat and because there was no framework in place to actually support their existence.

 

When you doods loved the Halloween event, we decided to try to squeeze in some Winter content, too. Winter was even bigger, since we tried to fit in more of your feedback from the Holiday Feedback Form, and it also wasn’t built to be in the game long-term. Instead of just cosmetics, we added in a snowball throwing mechanic, voice line reactions for characters being hit by snowballs, new shirts, new headbands, falling snow, new decorations, an achievement, and an entire Frank side-quest.

 

And that was awesome! So awesome that a bunch of you wanted both the Halloween and Winter holiday content to be permanent, which we definitely weren’t prepared for. But we thought that was a great idea, and we really wanted to make that happen for everyone – but we wanted to make sure we were doing that the right way.

 

 

What IS the right way? And will these events look any different?

 

Both the Halloween and Winter permanent DLCs will look exactly like the seasonal events you remember from 2022, but they are actually very different on the inside.

 

We know this isn’t super exciting from a player standpoint, but we hope that you’re excited for the future: Since we built these events properly for permanent use as DLCs, we’ll be able to add more content to them easier, and it’ll bring you a better gameplay experience long-term!

 

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So, what’s been restructured, exactly? 

  • We made it so the event won’t bloat your base game if you don’t want it added!
  • We made it so you can toggle the DLC on and off if you don’t feel like seeing the Halloween (or Winter) aesthetic during a certain play session!
  • We made it so the content won’t cause any foreseeable major bugs/issues with the base game long-term by being added!
  • And, best of all, we future-proofed this baby! 🤘

 

 

What does “future-proofed” mean?

First, it means we made it so we can add extra content (cosmetics, decorations, side-quests, achievements, etc.) to the Halloween (or Winter) Holiday Pack as time permits!

They’re built to support more content updates, brahs! But, even better, it means we can add some exciting new features to the DLCs in the future.

 

 

While we don’t want to spoil everything, we’ve also started running an invisible framework beneath this DLC for something really exciting.

 

You shouldn’t see a difference, but it’s there. We’ll share more info on this soon!

 

In the meantime, remember, the permanent seasonal DLCs won’t “look” much different from the original limited time 2022 events (besides a toggle on/off DLC button)!

 

Still, we hope those of you who have been waiting for them to return again! Thanks a ton for your patience. You won’t have to wait much longer, partiers!

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Our Most Gruesome Murder Mystery Teaser Yet!

We’ve got another exciting (and messy) teaser ready for you to watch, dudes!

 

…Ready to take a look?

 

 

It seems like something strange is going on with Madison’s microwave… Is it malfunctioning on its own, or is that something you’re responsible for? 👀

 

Either way, the old thing is sparking up a storm, and seems pretty dangerous! Seriously, does that atrocious appliance EVER work properly? You ought to step in and stop that thing before someone gets hurt!

 

Plus, it looks like someone is cooking tomato soup in there…or something. Yuck, it smells. And it looks like they left it in for a little too long… What a mess! 💥

 

 

Eager to learn more about the shocking stuff coming in the Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack? Summer’s coming up fast, but we know the suspense is probably killer. 🔪

 

We’ve tried to share teasers and sneak peaks to give you an idea of what to expect, without giving away too many spoiler-y details, but here’s some confirmed stuff coming to get hyped about:

 

    • THE SEXY LIZ KATZ: Meet a fun & flirty cosplayer in a hilarious new original storyline!
    • HOTTER THAN THE DOJA CAT DLC: Nothing’s held back in Liz Katz’s intimacy scene!
    • A SHOCKING MURDER MYSTERY: A new flavor of House Party storytelling with a wild plot!
    • SENSUAL COSPLAY COSTUMES: See Liz dressed in a variety of cute and sultry signature outfits!
    • NEW DRUNK & DISORDERLY: Get steamy and bubbly in a crazy new cutscene!
    • CONSOLE COMMANDS: Use your favorite console commands on Liz’s character!
    • 🌶️ and much more…! 🌶️

 

For those of you who are looking for more specifics, we also have some new information about the DLC coming – including first looks at some of Liz’s in-game outfits and maybe even some quick peeks of early alpha gameplay! 🎉

 

 

For those of you that have been wanting the Halloween and Winter holiday packs to return, they’ll both be available to play very soon – and we have exciting news to share soon about some awesome features we have planned for them, too!

 

Don’t forget that the recently announced New Content Pack will also drop later this year (bringing two new original characters from the House Party universe to the party)! If you’ve been looking for more original House Party characters and content, we’ve got you covered, brah! 

 

There’s so much exciting stuff coming to House Party in 2023, and we can’t wait to share it all with you. We’re curious to know what you’re most excited for from all the new things coming, so let us know below! Until next time, party people!

 

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