House Flipper 2 News

[hr][/hr][h3]📢 The second official House Flipper 2 Community Contest![/h3]

Yup, the contest for the best Floor is Lava community-made houses lasts till the end of April!
This is yet another chance to prove yourself when it comes to Sandbox Mode skills, and to win some amazing HF2-themed rewards for 6 winners (top 3 in each of the 2 categories!):

click on the image to visit the contest's page on mod.io!


[hr][/hr][h3]🔍 We will be rating your entries in 2 categories:[/h3]

Enjoyable Gameplay - in this category, it's ALL about the gameplay! Show us how enjoyable, interesting, and surprising your track can be! The difficulty of the track can vary, as we love both the casual and easy tracks, as well as the more challenging and harder ones! Bring it on!

Visual Masterpiece - in this category, we will be rating the entries by how visually creative and appealing the entries are, within the theme of “Floor is Lava” of course! Go totally ham with unique designs and show us how awesome your lava track can look like!


[hr][/hr][h3]📋 A quick reminder of the rules:[/h3]
1. Create a new property in the House Flipper 2 Sandbox Mode.

2. Build a track / course fitting the theme of the Contest - “Floor is Lava”:

a) Your "Floor is Lava" project has to contain the Lava surface finish (found in Sandbox Mode's Surface Finishes/Other)

b) Remember that your project also has to contain the following items:

• A Start gate
  
• At least one Checkpoint gate
  
• A Finish gate

These can be found in the House Flipper 2 in-game item store, in the Sandbox Only/Minigames category

3. Upload the finished property to the Mod.io website with at least 3 screenshots best showcasing the project, as well as check the “Floor is Lava” tag in the upload process.

4. Make sure to submit your entry by April 30, 2024, 23:59, Polish time (CEST)!

Check out the full version of the Official "Floor is Lava" Community Contest Ruleset!
If any of the rules is unclear to you, make sure to let us know!



Best of luck to all the contestants! Love ya! 💌

[h3]🔥 Dare to leap or face the HEAT![/h3]
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Today we're bringing you the ABSOLUTE HOTTEST update!
You better check out the new content for some FIERY additions to House Flipper 2:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


[h3]🗒️ Take a peek at the patch notes![/h3][hr][/hr]
[h3]New:[/h3]

• A job (Don’t bother looking for any BLAZING HOT content, nothing to see here, just some boring cleaning!)
  
• A new interaction with the “VR goggles” item! (No need to check that either, NO HIDDEN FEATURES, just move on!)
  
• A collection of items fitting a new theme! (Some weird stuff referring to HIGH TEMPERATURES or something… no clue.)
  
• Mod.io houses and jobs can now be browsed from inside the game! (Ah, at last! This WARMS my heart!)

[h3]Changes:[/h3]

• Optimization tweaks for the “Coast” environment!
  
• If you’re playing on a controller, you can now enjoy a bunch of navigation and quality-of-life improvements!
  
• UI visual enhancements.
  
• If your PC was struggling with window cleaning, now it’s gonna be smooth as butter! (at least we hope so…)

[h3]🏆 The second House Flipper 2 Community Contest starts NOW![/h3]
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Oh yeah!
With this update, it's much more than just new content prepared by us, the devs.
You can create your very own lava tracks and levels, share them with us, and even compete in the Community Contest for the best lava track in the Flipper community!


[h3]📝 The rules are simple![/h3]

1. Create a new property in the House Flipper 2 Sandbox Mode.

2. Build a track / course fitting the theme of the Contest - “Floor is Lava”:

a) Your "Floor is Lava" project has to contain the Lava surface finish (found in Sandbox Mode's Surface Finishes/Other)

b) Remember that your project also has to contain the following items:

• A Start gate
  
• At least one Checkpoint gate
  
• A Finish gate

These can be found in the House Flipper 2 in-game item store, in the Sandbox Only/Minigames category

3. Upload the finished property to the Mod.io website with at least 3 screenshots best showcasing the project, as well as check the “Floor is Lava” tag in the upload process.

4. Make sure to submit your entry by April 30, 2024, 23:59, Polish time (CEST)!

Check out the full version of the Official "Floor is Lava" Community Contest Ruleset!
If any of the rules is unclear to you, make sure to let us know!



We will be rating the entries in 2 categories:

Enjoyable Gameplay - in this category, it's ALL about the gameplay! Show us how enjoyable, interesting, and surprising your track can be! The difficulty of the track can vary, as we love both the casual and easy tracks, as well as the more challenging and harder ones! Bring it on!

Visual Masterpiece - in this category, we will be rating the entries by how visually creative and appealing the entries are, within the theme of “Floor is Lava” of course! Go totally ham with unique designs and show us how awesome your lava track can look like!



When it comes to the rewards, three participants in each category, so six participants in total, will win exclusive House Flipper goodies!

1st place in each category: The House Flipper 2 Microsoft Controller!
2nd places: The steelbox version of House Flipper 2!
3rd places: Bessie the Beaver plushie!




[h3]🎥 Last but not least - a developer stream![/h3][hr][/hr]


April 3rd, 6:00 PM CEST!
We'll be streaming on:
- Twitch
- Steam
- YouTube

Everyone's welcome to come and chill out with us for a bit! We will surely talk a bit more about the update, hopefully get a chance to play some of the first "Floor is Lava" community maps on Mod.io website, as well as have a chat about the Floor is Lava Community Contest!

I hope you'll love this update as much as we do here in Frozen District.
Had a great time working on it, and as long as it catches some of you off guard during this year's April Fools' Day, we're glad we tried to deliver such a different idea!

Have a great April y'all! ❤️❤️

[h3]🌱 Goodbye winter, hello spring!!![/h3]
(well technically not yet but please share my enthusiasm)

Spring is so close, we can already see signs of it everywhere we go!
In fact, we already started celebrating it last week with our first Major House Flipper 2 Update, and now it's time for more!

Discounts, discounts, discounts! One of the biggest House Flipper Franchise sales, with House Flipper 2 prolonging its first-time-ever -20% sale, and the original House Flipper and its DLCs seeing deals up to 50% off!


[h3]Bundles:[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/37256/House_Flipper_Franchise_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/31350/Everybody_Loves_Animals/


[h3]Individual Discounts:[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190970/House_Flipper_2/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/942290/House_Flipper__Garden_DLC/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1126050/House_Flipper__HGTV_DLC/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021110/House_Flipper__Luxury_DLC/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569190/House_Flipper__Pets_DLC/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1832960/House_Flipper__Farm_DLC/

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Hold up, friend! 👀
Today we've also brought a little sneaky House Flipper 2 hotfix!

• Added an autosave feature to the Sandbox Mode!
  
• The game should no longer think that it was improperly closed every time you launch it!
  
• The game now correctly identifies family home when attempting to sell properties (the ability to sell family home will be introduced in the upcoming major update).
  
• The game should now properly calculate the profit from cleaning a house when putting it up for auction.
  
• Fixed the resizing feature randomly turning off.
  
• The readable items you can find around the new job and house now contain the right texts.
  
• Selling the stairs should no longer create holes in the map!
  
• Quest markers are now unmovable and do not react with certain tools.
  
• [UI] Adjusted spacing in job emails.

...aaaand that will be it for today folks!
Celebrate the upcoming spring season, and don't forget to flip a house or two in the meantime!
Cheers! 💚💚


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[h3]⭐ Time for our first major House Flipper 2 update![/h3][hr][/hr]
Thanks to all the suggestions from our community, we recently managed to plan everything out and come up with a roadmap that contains all the content we want you to have!

Today we're bringing you the first big chunk of it!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Also today, the first major House Flipper 2 sale (a 20% discount!) hits the Steam Store:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190970/House_Flipper_2/


[h3]🗒️ Take a look at the patch notes[/h3]
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[h3]New:[/h3]

• "Healthier lifestyle for a change" - a brand new job!
  
• "House left behind" - a new house you can buy after completing the job!
  
• 240 new items (details below) 📋
  
• Resizing - now available in Story Mode for certain items! Look for it in the Flipper Tool's “Change style” panel. Resizable items can be recognized in the store by looking at the icon with two arrows, shown in the top left corner of the item preview in the store.
  
• Resizeable items from the “Sandbox only” category were moved to “Architectural elements/Other” and are also available in Story Mode. Say hello to columns and floor mouldings!
  
• Sell roofs and stairs in Story Mode (hold LMB)! Also works in the Sandbox “Play” and “Test property” modes.
  
• Certain items like fireplaces and candles can now light up! 🔥
  
• Textiles are now available as surface finish options in Sandbox Mode!
  
• A new perk - "Well deserved rest" - which will let you sleep in beds.
  
• 4 new special buyers (for a total of 11)
  
• Two new assemblies - a hanging and a standing kitchen cabinet.
  
• Toy trains placed on tracks are now interactive! Choo choo!
  
• A new sound for window cleaning.
  
• Flower petals - a new vacuumable dirt.
  
• [UI] Progress bar for jobs with a fancy animation when all 3 stars are obtained.
  
• [UI] You can now complete jobs with a button in the Quest tab.
  
  New items include:
  - Step ladder
  - 10 cute plant pots 🦊
  - 5 new types of plants
  - 12 new spring-themed patterns - can be used on items or as wallpapers!
  - More green vines
  - Backpacks, bags, shoes, gloves, and hats 🧢
  - Thermostats, air purifiers, and a vacuum-cleaning robot
  - Pillows!
  - Curtains and window blinds!
  - A smaller version of the ceiling spotlight “Knicknacks”
  - 2 new spotlights
  - Poster “Oddities” for your custom poster needs
  - A resizable cube called “Building molding Jungfrau”
  - 12 new toys for kids
  - Sports equipment - badminton, golf, and for the gym
  - Accessories for painters 🧑‍🎨
  - Accessories for taking care of hair
  - Valenti dinner set
  - Valenti bathroom accessories
  - Valenti hallway set
  - Extravaganza office set 👁️ 👄 👁️
  - Skadi living room set
  - The Cent shelving unit

[h3]Changes:[/h3]

• The game now stops responding to inputs when you minimize it.
  
• The store sorting option for dates are now less confusingly called “Date: from newest” and “Date: from oldest”. Useful for seeing what’s new in the update 👀
  
• Clothes will now be easier to hang on hangers.
  
• The auction fee is now lower for cheaper houses and higher for more expensive ones.
  
• Fixes to the trampoline! (Say goodbye to unwanted space trips and hello to dynamic diagonal dives - I'm sure this won't come in handy 🌋)
  
• Textiles such as carpet tiles have been moved to the right category in the store (Surface finishes) and have been fully translated.
  
• Reworked some buttons in the “Change style” panel to make them easier to understand (e.g., for plants - "Soil" - "Yes/No").
  
• Items from the "Sandbox Only" category can no longer be used in a “To Buy” quest in jobs.
  
• Stains placed in Sandbox Mode will now disappear automatically if they're small enough.
  
• We've optimized stain highlights while using the "Dirt management" tool.
  
• The new perk - “Well deserved rest” lets you control the time of day in a house you own. You’ll do this by sleeping in a bed, changing the time to morning or night. Important! Changing the “Game time” option in the settings will only have a visual effect on clocks.
  
• Changing the time in the “Property settings” tab in Sandbox mode now also changes the time while making a level as well. No more going in and out of the “Test property” mode to see if the sun is high enough!
  
• The progression of the Mount Everest achievement now properly scales with the size of your paint roller
  
• [UI] Added an animation when hovering over the series or name of an item, and the company logo in the store. This shows you can click on them for easy searching.
  
• [UI] The auction fee is now shown on the button for putting a house up for auction
  
• When building walls in Sandbox Mode, the preview of the chosen material is now bigger.
  
• The "unstuck" and "reset-to-spawn-position" commands are now visible in the console (F11).

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Further advancements with our war on corrupted save files (we're winning, aren't we?)
  
• Improved recognition of presets when switching between them in the “Change style” panel
  
• Pool balls are now arranged in the correct order in the “Change style” panel
  
• Building walls on stains should now clean the stains
  
• The game now correctly calculates the amount of money paid for the auction immediately after putting a house up for auction
  
• Fixed the spray VFX
  
• The "Spray" tooltip shows up only when the "Cleaning spray" perk is active
  
• Removed the Confounded Face emoji from the bottom right corner of the screen 😖. Bye friend!

[hr][/hr]⚠️⚠️⚠️
Some of you may be disappointed with the lack of a Before/After feature. Overall, this has been one of the most popular requests since House Flipper 2 came out, so we fully understand that!
To be frank, we already had something ready, a bit more than a prototype of this feature, but we felt that instead of releasing it now, we wanna take our time and bring it to you once we're fully happy with the results! From the development perspective, this feature isn't as simple as it may seem, and considering how many players are interested in it, we aim to bring it to a higher standard!

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It's a big one for us, and we'd love to hear from you regarding all the new content!

If you have any suggestions, make sure to let us know! - our Steam Discussions or the House Flipper Discord are probably your best bets!
You're also welcome to visit our feature board on Canny.io!

Last but not least, check out this brand new bundle!
Hairdresser Simulator just came out, and if it's something you might enjoy, go show them some love! 🤗

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38867/Hairdresser_Simulator__House_Flipper_2/

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Have lots of fun with the Spring Update, and make sure to celebrate the upcoming spring season! 🌼
- Many hugs from the Frozen District team! 🐻

[h3]🤯 Incredible? Outstanding? Superb?[/h3][hr][/hr]
Oh my!
Our minds are totally blown, and trying to think about words that would describe exactly why would probably be a waste of time, so let me just show you:

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1. Casa Crusoe by AerSparrow
AerSparrow wins the main prize of a one-of-a-kind PC setup created in collaboration with AMD and the talented case modder Crafts of Two!
They achieved that by showing us their incredible creativity regarding even the smallest of details. AerSparrow creates items out of other items like a boss. Marvelous ideas, peak performance, high-speed, low-drag sandbox mode professional!

2. 17th Century Robinson Crusoe's Dream Home by Thedarlingfreaks
Thedarlingfreaks surprised us with the effort, creating a little flipper village, that is just beautiful in so many ways! Admirable creativity!
Thedarlingfreaks wins an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU! Wow!

3. Isle of Artistry & Companionship: Robinson's Haven by roronoakrna
Roronoakrna takes the top 3 spot, putting incredible amounts of work into this project! All the greenery looks like a breathtaking little jungle, and in the middle of all that, there's a beautiful cozy property.
The prize here is an AMD Radeon RX7900 GPU! Amazing!

The competitors who took the spots 4 - 10 receive a fancy House Flipper 2 Controller!
Congrats! You guys have loads of creativity, and we love seeing you use it in House Flipper 2!

4. Robinson Crusoes Dream House - But with a PLOT by DovahKupp
5. PARADISO by birbiegorl
6. Crusoe's Seaside Refuge by Broluffy
7. Crusoe: the adventure continues by Yazawita
8. Getaway by birb472
9. Crusoe's Humble Home by faunbuns
10. Depths of Madness by DrNoctumus


Check out the full list of winners, as there are 100 of them!
The creativity went through the roof with this one, and ooooh we're so going to organize more of those!
If you missed the House Flipper 2 Community Contest, you can find all the information about it right here.

Thank you guys! Huge shoutouts to all the participants! ❤️
The effort and creativity from the flipping community is stronger than ever, and we can't wait to see more.



[h3]🌼 The Spring Update is veeery close![/h3][hr][/hr]
In fact, it's coming in 3 days - on the 6th of March!
We'd like to invite you to a stream that will be happening on that exact day, at 6:00 PM CET!
As always, we'll be streaming at Twitch, Youtube and Steam!

We'd also like to inform you about a little giveaway we're hosting:



Click on the above image (or HERE) to find a link for the Spring Giveaway!

That's it for today guys, have a lovely Sunday evening, and you'll hear from us again next week!
Cheers! ❤️