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House Party 1.0.3 Stable Release – Halloween Update

House Party Stable Release 1.0.3 - Halloween Update

 

Warning: There are spooky elements and creepy critters in this limited-time mini-update. If that makes the party too scary, read the instructions at the end of this post on how to not play the event and enjoy the original version of the game.

 

Happy Halloween, partiers! 

 

The house looks a little different this Halloween, and so do some of your fellow partygoers!

 

Madison’s decked the place out with a few chilling decorations, and some of the more Halloween-minded guests have put on a sinister special accessory to celebrate. Be sure to fully explore the party, as you’ll encounter spine-chilling seasonal decor and a petrifying new limited-time cosmetic item!

 

This mini-update comes as a free temporary patch that’s available to all Steam players. The eerie visuals will revert back to normal approximately two weeks after Halloween, so enjoy them while you can!

 

Not in a Halloween mood? Are the new decorations too harrowing? To swap back to the regular base version of the game, go to the Properties for House Party in Steam, select “Betas”, and then choose either the “1.0.3” or “testing” beta branches to play the regular version! Feel free to do this at any time to get rid of the spooky seasonal appearance!

 

Note: At this time, the seasonal accessory and household decorations will be visible in all custom stories. To revert to the normal world aesthetics, please swap to the “1.0.3” or “testing” beta branches which host the regular version of the game.

-Eek! Team

 

CHANGE LOG:

https://housepartygame.com/release-notes

 

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Eek! Games Got to Chat with Doja Cat for a Coveted Q&A

With the recent hype about Doja Cat coming to our House Party, the popular digital entertainment network Revolt.tv was able to get a coveted exclusive with, as Frank calls her, Ms. Cat herself.

Here’s what our favorite global superstar had to reveal:

Is your music in the game?

“Yes! Part of the story is to help me stream a live video, and I get to perform Kiss Me More – on top of a hot tub of course. The party also has its own playlist and if you get my mp3 player you can hook it up to the sound system and I think you can play Woman and Get Into It, Yuh and Kiss Me More. And yes, I have an mp3 player. Don’t throw shade.”

How authentic is your character? Is it Doja Cat or Doja Cat acting as an NPC?

“This character is me. You get to party with me, Doja Cat the performer, but you also get to meet me, Amala, the girl next door. But it’s not like I’m some dissociative character, it’s all just me. Eek Games made my digital character using photos and videos of me with real outfits I’ve worn and I voiced my own lines and collaborated on my own story.”

What was your favorite part about making the game?

“It was exciting to see the behind the scenes process – seeing all the steps it took to bring my character to life and reviewing all the story concepts and visuals when they came in. But I have to say the best part was the voice acting. I was able to let loose and ad-lib a lot of the lines. Being able to live inside this story was a great experience.”

The game is banned on Twitch despite receiving an M-rating from the ESRB and there is a larger conversation about the acceptable level of gratuitous violence in video games versus the censorship of nudity. What are your thoughts on that discussion?

“Unban me, bitches!”

We’re trying, Doja! Stay tuned for further discussion on this larger conversation about Twitch because as you can imagine, we’ve got plenty more to say.

Cheggout the Revolt exclusive here:  https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-09-30/214175/doja-cat-talks-joining-house-party-for-her-virtual-video-game-debut/

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Doja Cat joins the House Party on September 30th, 2022!

 

The real-life Grammy and American Music Award-winning star arrives at the House Party in style!

 

She brings an amazingly realistic in-game character and wild new gameplay to the Original Story! Explore a hysterical new branching adventure in your favorite comedy game and help Doja Cat create her next music video – for better or for worse!

 

 

There’s a major celebrity joining the House Party! We’ve teamed up with the hit pop star Doja Cat to deliver a wild all-new side-story to the party that’s packed with unforgettable adventure, comedy, and mystery!

In the DLC, you will be able to navigate through an unpredictable night filled with outrageous partygoers as they help Doja Cat carry out a master plan to track down a mysterious masked dancing sensation who is taking the online world by storm.

You can interact with Doja Cat in several ways. Get her to the party. Befriend her. Maybe even flirt and fall in love!

 

 

If you’ve ever wanted to party with Doja Cat, this is your chance! Not only is her character as close to her real-life appearance as we could make it, all of her lines are voice acted by Doja Cat herself (and even ad-libbed for extra personality).

You’ll also be able to see her in-game wearing three outfits that were hand-selected by Doja herself; a casual black dress, awesome music video performance attire, and a steamy hot tub bikini.

 

 

Throughout her story, Doja will react to the craziness that ensues during the party, showcase custom dances and performances, and create her next music video with your assistance – and how it turns out depends entirely on your in-game choices!

 

Mark the date on your calendar and get excited:

The Doja Cat House Party Expansion Pack is planned to release this September 30th, 2022!

 

Want to play the House Party base game while you wait for the big release? Buy it here!

And don’t forget to add the Doja Cat DLC to your wishlist!

 

For more updates, follow us on Twitter, visit our website, and join our official Discord!

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Community Content Giveaway Winner Announcement

Congratulations to all of the winners of our Community Content Giveaway! 

We challenged you to submit cool House Party fan art, screenshots, let’s plays, cosplays, and more – and we were thrilled to see our community participating!

Thanks again to everyone who submitted fan content! You’re all awesome, and it made us smile to see the cool stuff you sent in. 

Since this is our first giveaway, we wanted it to be extra special. So, we’ve decided to increase the amount of free merch prizes we’re awarding to winners! 

We also added in a reward for those who received Honorable Mention. These were submissions that didn’t quite place, but we still thought were awesome and deserved a special reward! 

Now for our winners!

1st Place: Plushy Matt’s Female Player & Game Grumps Digital Art!

Not only was this a hilarious and creative House Party scene brought to life with some awesome artistic talent, but it got a ton of positive responses from our Discord community, too!

As a 1st place winner, Plushy Matt will be taking home:

  • One shirt of their choosing from our merch store! This can be the Frank t-shirt or even one of our brand new Ashley t-shirt designs that are available in a black/grey or white/blue variation!

  • A House Party logo hat from our merch store!

  • A mug from our merch store featuring their favorite House Party character!

2nd Place: keebord’s Hunting Lodge Photo & Personal Experience Story!

“We were trying to unlock all the ‘spicy’ scenes [in House Party]. One of the guys had their girlfriend with and she seemed to be getting pretty turned on when we unlocked one of them…”

It was super cool seeing House Party played somewhere other than at home, and the personal experience story was super cool! 

The 2nd place winner will receive the following:

  • One shirt of their choosing from our merch store! This can be the Frank t-shirt or even one of our brand new Ashley t-shirt designs that are available in a black/grey or white/blue variation!

  • A mug from our merch store featuring their favorite House Party character!

3rd Place (Tie): badboyz08’s “I’m so drunk, brah” Patrick drawing

Our team loved this drawing and it got a ton of reactions from our Discord community! 

We can hear Patrick saying this voice line every time we look at it, and the drawing style fits his character perfectly. Well done! 

3rd Place (Tie): Nightimeglobe7’s Ashley stockings and nails character design

It may have been your first time making art like this, but it wasn’t scuffed, it was awesome! Our team really liked seeing Ashley decked out with some new attire!  

Both third place winners will receive:

  • One shirt of your choosing from our merch store! This can be the Frank t-shirt or even one of our brand new Ashley t-shirt designs that are available in a black/grey or white/blue variation!

  • A mug from our merch store featuring your favorite House Party character!

Honorable Mention: Machomana’s “House Party and my quest to fit in” YouTube video 

As the very first submission we received, this got the Community Content party started on a fun note! 

Thanks for taking the time to put together such an amusing and down-to-earth video! We really liked watching it! 

Honorable Mention: Specter’s Frank meme

What can we say? Everything about this submission is ridiculous…in a good way! 

Sometimes crazy things happen in-game and you just gotta roll with it. We love that when Frank got wedged into a funny position, you photoshopped some commentary onto the screenshot! Good job making the dialogue sound like classic Frank! 

Honorable Mention: Tenag’s “Frank – where tf is the drink” meme 

Tenag submitted so many memes that made us chuckle, but this was the one we all agreed was our favorite! 

Thanks for helping us to translate the game, and thanks for keeping the Community Content Giveaway lively with your hilarious submissions! 

Honorable Mention: PandawanBear’s Doja Cat look on Twitch! 

We loved the cool idea of you doing a makeup tutorial Just Chatting stream while you chatted about the upcoming Doja Cat DLC! We’re super hyped for it to come out this Fall! 

Honorable Mention: a2zz2a’s Game Grumps Digital Art! 

It gave us a laugh seeing that you took a ridiculous moment from the Game Grumps Amy’s Quest playthrough and made it even more ridiculous and comical! Great art! 

  • Each user recognized for honorable mention will receive one piece of merch of their choosing from our official merch store! This can be a Frank t-shirt, one of our brand new Ashley t-shirt designs, a House Party logo hat, or a mug featuring their favorite character!

We will be reaching out to all of the winners via Discord’s private messaging system soon to take note of merch selections and shipping information! 

If you’re on the winner’s list, but you don’t see a message from us within the next couple of days, please reach out to Markiez or SecksyTimeShow on our Discord Moderator List.

Comment below to let us know if you enjoyed this giveaway and if you’d like us to do another someday! 

Congratulations winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!

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House Party 1.0.1 Stable Release

After-Party Bug Fixes & Performance Updates Arrive In House Party Stable Release 1.0.1!

The exciting post-release after-party is here, doods and lady-doods!

 

If you’ve been watching our updates lately, you know that the Doja Cat DLC is coming along awesomely, and we’re still working super hard on improving the base game, too! Also, we’re proud to announce that House Party’s Stable Release 1.0.1 is available to all players now!

 

What’s in this fancy new release? Well, before House Party left Early Access, we added some of the biggest graphical improvements that the party had seen thus far, and we also added some pretty graphically intense cutscenes. In this update, we worked hard to account for these graphical upgrades by adding a ton of optimization improvements!

 

We have also significantly reduced the memory that House Party uses, increased the frame rate of the game, improved frame drop and game lag issues in the yard (which were reported by multiple partiers), and fixed several crashing and stability problems. The game should be a much smoother and consistent experience for everyone going forward!

 

Thanks to these changes, House Party also runs smoother on the Steam Deck! You should find that the game now plays great on Ultra settings.

 

Of course, a handful of bug fixes and other changes to existing content were added in this update, too! It should be much harder for characters to accidentally fall outside the game world (total party foul right?), new translation components were added to the “hard coded” English text so translators can make more progress on localization, and we improved some sight check/culling check settings.

 

You can also now grab more items around the house, and keen-eyed players might spot a few mysterious, spoilery items hanging out and about in the game world!

 

Want to see a full list of the changes? Read our patch notes below.

-Eek! Team

CHANGE LOG:

https://housepartygame.com/release-notes

Note: Custom stories may no longer function as intended, until updated by their owner/author.

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