Two Point Campus News

Greetings Space Cadets!

Today is THE DAY we've all been waiting for... we're incredibly excited to announce our first major DLC, Two Point Campus: Space Academy, is OUT NOW alongside Free Update 3.0 with lots of quality of life additions!

With a galaxy of exciting new features including celestial campus locations, far-out courses, and a host of stellar student archetypes, Two Point Campus: Space Academy is sure to bring out-of-this-world excitement levels to all of our lovely Campus players!

Missed the original announcement? No problem! Take a look below...

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The Two Point space program is far, far, away from its golden years when rockets lit up the news and astronauts were semi-famous (like B-list actors you don't even recognise). The County needs your help on the front lines! Not only in promoting the space industry but also in galactic defence, inter-dimensional diplomacy, and preparing for foreign life. The aliens are coming; look busy! Dust off your moon boots and set phasers to fun, it's time to get your students to reach for the stars… and their wallets.

[h2]NEW CAMPUSES[/h2]

Universe City


Cape Shrapnull


Cheesy Heap


[h2]NEW COURSES[/h2]

Space Knight School
A nomadic offshoot of traditional (land-based) knighthood. Nothing tests your bottle quite like the endless void, let me tell you...



Astrology
A field unconstrained by gravity and common sense. Astronauts flout traditional beliefs and float off into the ether. You may not like it, but you would say that you're probably a Capricorn.

Cosmic Expansion
For generations, Two Pointians have looked to the stars and thought "I'm going to own that someday!". Thanks to alarming technological advances, that's now a very real, unfortunate possibility.

Space Academy
Life in space isn't all shooting stars and dodging lasers. No, it's mostly just protocol and ironing your uniform. Become confident in space from the comfort of wherever this is.



Cheese Moongery
No one wants to see how the cheese is made.



Humanities
Countless alien civilisations have studied humanity during our relatively brief existence, but most have stayed at a safe and understandable distance, until now!



[h3]Space Academy (Paid DLC)[/h3]

• Three new Campus locations
  
• Six new student archetypes
  
• Three new events including Sci-fi Conventions, Space Battles and an out-of-this-world gig act.
  
• New Time Tourism Club
  
• LOTS of new items!

[h3]Free Update 3.0[/h3]
Quality of Life Improvements

• Added new visualisation mode to show which items are ready to be upgraded
  
• Added Queue Management (version 1)
  • You can now see student's position in queues & move them up or down to suit your needs
• Added a Career Goal Completed inbox message to help players claim their kudosh
  
• Added some new animations for the Love Bench item
  
• (Archaeology) Added a button on the "Dig-Site" empty notification to take you to that particular Dig-site
  
• Commercial Research Projects have a different background colour, making it easier to differentiate between Academic & Commercial projects
  
• Added A new feeling "Missed Class" to apply to students if they miss a class due to problems with a class (like no teacher, or missing items). This debuff will reduce happiness and make students more likely to consider dropping out or refusing to pay fees
  
• Added tooltips on the Campus Overview for Staff and Student happiness

Bug Fixes

• Queuing behaviour improvements. Students will now prioritise needs over sitting down. Students will try to stay in front of the room doors rather than going round the back of rooms.
  
• Fixed a bug where some players were experiencing stick drift on Steam Deck
  
• Fixed a bug where Knight school teachers were sometimes standing in front of the Combat Dummy and blocking students from using it
  
• Fix for players Room Template descriptions not showing the the Room Template tooltip.
  
• Fixed a bug where the “Build research room” objective wasn’t auto-completing if you had already built the room earlier
  
• Fixed a bug where Internet History students weren’t using the VR Projector when they had a self study project that required it
  
• Various stability improvements
  
• Minor bug fixes

Two Point Campus: Space Academy is OUT NOW for £8.99/$9.99/€9.99. We can't wait for you try it out, be sure to tell us what you think over on the forum!

Hey everyone,

We've been buzzing with anticipation to show you all the stellar goings on in our academic space race, and we're thrilled to see such an awesome response, we've been loving your excitement over on our social channels!

Today we're blasting off for a closer look at what exactly the first major DLC for Two Point Campus is all about. We sat down with Head of Animation, Chris Knott and Designer Harry Puttock to talk about what you'll be doing and what you can expect in the new DLC. Strapped in? Boosters set to ignition!

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[h2]Everyone's super excited for the new DLC, tell us a little bit about what players will be doing in Space Academy.[/h2]

Harry: In Space Academy, players will lead their students through a range of galactic courses. Meet aliens, mine space rocks and have a superbly science-fictional time. Everything you know and love about space has been carefully crammed into this DLC. Most of it, anyway.



[h2]Heading into space is definitely not the first place you'd expect to be building Campuses. What was the inspiration behind the setting of Space Academy?[/h2]

Chris: As with all our games we tend to go with both the consensus in the studio and feedback from the community. Space Academy seemed the best choice as every science student has dreamt about going into space! Plus there's a nice large scope for us to make weird courses and even weirder machines for students. We could also see ties with existing courses in the game, so it felt like a really nice theme to step into.

Harry: It may sound outrageously simple, but it seemed like a fun thing to learn about (for the students, not us). Space is such a rich point of reference, with loads of historical moments - remember? - and pop-cultural bits to twist, reference and ruin.

[h2]What sort of locations will players be heading to?[/h2]

Harry: Each of the new campus settings celebrates different elements of space travel and science fiction. You've got Universe City, the home of Two Point's old space program, which is what people will recognise as 'real life' space travel (rockets, astronauts etc.). Then you have Cape Shrapnull, HQ for the County's new space academy, which is more heavily Sci-Fi inspired. Cutting-edge and farfetched, sure, but also familiar and grounded, literally! Finally, there's Cheesy Heap: Delta-Rye, the first level we've ever set outside of Two Point County. Things get a bit wilder, understandably - heading into space - with cosmic cheese and lots of aliens... It's our spin on the unknown, and hopefully amusing, future of space travel.



[h2]Of course, there are a bunch of cosmic courses on offer at Space Academy, how do you come up with the ideas for these?[/h2]

Harry: A lot of it comes down to the students. What kinds of characters do we want to see in these settings? What fun things can they be learning and doing? There's an abundance of ideas, with a theme like space, so it becomes a process of figuring out which combinations best serve each of the levels, and the DLC at large. As I mentioned with the settings, we wanted to establish three different styles, or eras, of space travel. The students and their courses are a crucial part of that. Then, when we finished, and everything was perfect, we figured out how to shoe-horn in something about cheese.

Chris: We thought of fun tweaks on existing space-themed tropes. and puns! (Obviously! ). Anything we could think of that would fit our world and maybe pay homage to our favourite space films or fiction.



[h2]Cheesy Heap, cheesy space rocks, cheesy monsters... there's a lot of intergalactic cheese in this DLC! Tell me about Cheesy Gubbins, do we really want to know how they're made?[/h2]

Harry: I cannot confirm that Cheesy Gubbins has been using cosmic cheese as a secret ingredient in their famous snack. I could, but I won't.

Chris: We all know for a fact that the moon is made of cheese, so the Two Point world is perfect to explore the intergalactic cheese mysteries held within... Just don't ask how it's made...




[h2]As you've had a chance to play Space Academy, what's been your highlight?[/h2]

Chris: I am biased but the new animations are really fun, the Space courses offered us a whole load of silliness to animate and the new course machines lean into the weirdness of space.

Harry: My favourite part of the DLC lives in a piece of machinery that's used on the Cheese-Moongery course. Now, that's a sentence! Please send them my love when you meet them in Cheesy Heap. Thank you.



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Two Point Campus: Space Academy is coming 6th December 2022 for £8.99/$9.99/€9.99. Pre-purchase now for a 10% discount!

Two Point Campus is going into space next week, sort of, with the release of Space Academy, the first major DLC release for the not-entirely-serious school management sim. The expansion will add three new campus locations to the game, along with six new student archetypes, six courses and classrooms, and other new features...
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Our excitement levels are out of this world as we announce the first DLC beaming into Two Point Campus, Space Academy! With a galaxy of exciting new features including celestial campus locations, far-out courses, and a host of stellar student archetypes for you to mould into the intergalactic pioneers of tomorrow. 

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The Two Point space program is far, far, away from its golden years when rockets lit up the news and astronauts were semi-famous (like B-list actors you don't even recognise).

The County needs your help on the front lines! Not only in promoting the space industry but also in galactic defence, inter-dimensional diplomacy, and preparing for alien life. The aliens are coming; look busy! Dust off your moon boots and set phasers to fun, it's time to get your students to reach for the stars… and their wallets.

[h3]NEW CAMPUSES[/h3] Universe City Revitalise the County's interest in outer space, one small step at a time.

Back in the day, Universe City was a bustling facility with non-stop foot traffic, now it's dusty, forgotten and unprofitable. Re-launch the County's interest in outer space and land safely in the dawn of the second space age. 

Cape Shrapnull Take over Two Point's recently founded Space Academy and prepare for contact with aliens.

The County opened the doors to its fledgling Space Academy, but it launched with a fizzle and no satisfying bang. They've struggled for word-of-mouth from this off-shore locale, and need to generate some buzz about outer space. Prime the space industry and prepare the County for alien life.

Cheesy Heap Attract students from across the galaxy to learn on the surface of a massive space rock.

We discovered a cluster of cheesy space rocks caught in the County's orbit, they're a little bigger than the ones we usually sell back home. One of them is so large even, it got us thinking, is it big enough to sustain student life? Time to source alien students from all across the galaxy and teach them everything we know about us, all on the surface of a massive space rock! 

[h3]NEW COURSES[/h3] Space Knight School

A nomadic offshoot of traditional (land-based) knighthood. Nothing tests your bottle quite like the endless void, let me tell you... 

Astrology
A field unconstrained by gravity and common sense. Astronauts flout traditional beliefs and float off into the ether. You may not like it, but you would say that you're probably a Capricorn.

Cosmic Expansion
For generations, Two Pointians have looked to the stars and thought "I'm going to own that someday!". Thanks to alarming technological advances, that's now a very real, unfortunate possibility.

Space Academy
Life in space isn't all shooting stars and dodging lasers. No, it's mostly just protocol and ironing your uniform. Become confident in space from the comfort of wherever this is.

Cheese Moongery
No one wants to see how the cheese is made.

Humanities
Countless alien civilisations have studied humanity during our relatively brief existence, but most have stayed at a safe and understandable distance, until now!

[h3]WHAT’S INCLUDED?[/h3]

• 3 new campus locations
  
• 6 new courses with fully animated classrooms
  
• 6 new student archetypes
  
• 3 new events including Sci-fi Conventions, Space Battles and an out-of-this-world gig act.
  
• New Time Tourism Club
  
• and lots of new items!
  

Two Point Campus: Space Academy releases 6th December 2022, you can pre-purchase now for a 10% discount!

As the year draws to a close, it's nearly time for The End of Year Awards! Now an Academic Excellence or Best Teacher Award aren't exactly our forte, but The Steam Awards 2022 nominations are now open, and we need your help!

The Steam Awards are an annual event where the esteemed Steam Award Selection Committee chooses their highlights and shining stars from the year, and only the most qualified can judge: you!

We don't know about you, but whilst Campus management can be hectic at times, we love the feeling of achievement when you earn those stars, taking the Summer Break to just sit back and get creative with your Campus, and the rewarding moments once your students' needs are met and all is well in the world of academia. That's why we're asking for your nomination in:

SIT BACK AND RELAX AWARD "This game is the antidote to a busy day. It's smooth, it's relaxing, and it lets your worries melt away. This game is your moment of zen."



The choice is yours! Nominate us for the Sit Back and Relax with your vote.

Don't forget Two Point Campus is also in the Autumn Sale! Now is a great time to settle down, get cosy and play. You can grab Two Point Campus at 20% off HERE!