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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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Eek! Games CEO Discusses House Party With Tvgry

Recently, popular YouTuber tvgry, also known as @TenPanMateusz, posted his video game review talking House Party highlights and outrageous missions. He, of course, noticed a certain character on our settings page, describing him as “a bald guy just sitting there looking into nothingness” – you guessed right…it’s Frank.

As a preamble to his review, tvgry sent over some questions to our beloved Founder and CEO Bobby Ricci – we figured we’d share this interview-Esque dialogue for your reading pleasure. So, as @TenPanMateusz put it so eloquently, “grab your friends, put on something nice, grab some juice (yes I said juice) – you’ll find out why later.”

From your point of view – who should play the game? Who is your target audience?

BR:  Anybody over the age of 17, really! (The game is rated Mature 17+ by the ESRB).  House Party appeals to a large audience with its Sims-like gameplay mixed with free-roam sandbox, and the game’s main aim is to be a comedy first and foremost.  You can play as a male or female protagonist, and the game is very inclusive in its portrayal of sexuality.  We have found men and women between the ages of 17 and 35 are mostly enjoying the game, but we also have a significant amount of players over 35 as well!

Is it a dating sim/adult dating sim or house party tropes parody?

BR:  Both!  House Party’s main aim is to be funny, and there are hundreds of opportunities with thousands of branching storylines, a lot of which have nothing to do with dating or romance at all.  Though it’s possible to romance most of the characters in the game, that is more of a feature rather than a focus of the game.  Most of the storylines have endings and don’t always end in romance, depending on the choices you make.

How did it all start, and have you incorporated any of your real-life experiences?

BR:  House Party actually started as a character engine I was writing for Unity.  It started shaping up very well and was unique, so I figured I would try my hand at creating something with it before I tried to sell it on the Unity assets store.  I didn’t want to do another tired game with violence and/or gore, and I was always a fan of those old adventure-style games, so I decided to do something along those lines.  I also felt like I wanted to bring back that old style with a more modern feel, and the House Party concept was born!  There may or may not be real-life experiences mixed into the game, but I will leave that to the player’s imagination. 🙂

How the hell did you get Doja Cat to have a guest appearance?

BR:  Doja Cat doesn’t just have a guest appearance, she has her own DLC with hours of gameplay, and she will be voice-acting her character herself!  The player will be able to interact with her like most of the other characters in the game, and she will have a storyline where you can help her out with her goals and schemes for the night, or not.  As always with House Party, the choice is yours.

With the success and positive reception of adding the Game Grumps, we thought it would be a good idea to do it again, only this time going for a much bigger celebrity.  We talked to many, but Doja Cat just seemed like an awesome fit for our first DLC with the perfect mix of personality and her crazy and silly sense of humor.

What’s next on the list of updates after Doja Cat DLC?

BR:  I’m not at liberty to say yet, but let’s just say…if you think Doja Cat is big, we are having some conversations right now that will blow your mind!

Who’s your favorite character, and why?

BR:  Hands down, Frank.  He’s just the funniest to write for, and it’s always a treat having his voice actor, Bentley Michaels, bring him to life with new lines.

What can I do to be one of the guests? Just asking for a friend ;p

BR:  Super easy! Just become a Grammy award-winning Pop Star!  We’ll wait.

Ok, so maybe the award-winning pop star requirement is a bit over the top – but so is House Party! Our player-choice, free-roaming game will let you (and maybe even encourage you) to align and re-align that moral compass of yours.

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