House Party News

Helloooooo Custom Story lovers!

It is our pleasure to announce the release of the Custom Story Uploader (CSU) tool in advance of our release of 0.16.5! This tool will allow you to upload a Custom Story (CS) that will then become available via a Custom Story Browser (CSB) directly integrated into the House Party (HP) client. Other users can then download your story directly via the CSB, play immediately, and then rate your story!

Oh hell yeah dude.

Here is the link for the CSU: https://csu.eekllc.com/

Using the CSU, you'll be able to upload your story, provide a description or other text, a thumbnail, and an optional Eek! Forums link dedicated to your Custom Story. Check it out, you can start uploading stories for internal testing right now! Come on, you know you want to help us iteratively improve core feature sets! Just be mindful that it's still being worked on almost every day, so if it goes down...it is most likely us throwing wrenches at it. Or re-calibrating the tubes, etc.

Appearance and features will be improved over time, so just bear with us. For now, we want to give you all a head start on making your stories available to the public. Note that you must create an account on the CSU Page in order to upload stories; no other account (Steam, Patreon, Eek! Forums, etc.) is usable as a CSU account. Your stories must contain .character file(s) and a single .story file; we will not be accepting any other file formats as part of Custom story submissions.

Here are additional rules that will govern treatment of accounts and stories on the CSU/CSB:

You must be 18+.
All characters depicted in your custom story are portrayed as being above the age of 18.
We aren't against moral ambiguity in a story, but your custom story cannot simply contain hate speech or be hateful in nature.
Your custom story is within the legal parameters of your country’s media regulation standards.
Your story does not contain any trademarked materials, images, or names.

Eek! Games reserves the right to remove any story from our service (based on its content, CSU description or name, or thumbnail, etc.) that is deemed in our estimation to be unlawful, hateful, malicious, abusive, harassing, or pedophelic, or otherwise violates any applicable law within a state, national or international purview. We’ll also probably call you a ♥♥♥♥.

For those who are unaware, you create Custom Stories using our Custom Story Creator (CSC). You can find info, tutorials, and download links for the CSC here: http://games.eekllc.com/custom-story-creator/

We look forward to seeing your stories!

What’s up House Partiers!

A few months ago, we posted a year-in-review of House Party that detailed all the ways our game has evolved over its multi-year development. From combat mechanics to hundreds of new dialogues, House Party is POPPING.

We fully plan on leaving early access in 2020, and in preparation for doing so, House Party will receive a price increase on January 6th, 2020. From that date on, the uninitiated will be able to purchase House Party for $24.99.

Now, don’t think development is finished. We’re moving full-steam ahead with new stories and features into 2020.

To name a few things to look forward to:
- Female playable character
- Intimacy animation improvements
- Vickie Vixen’s unforgettable finale

And, of course, the Game Grumps’ story is not too far away. If you follow us on social media, you’ve probably seen some sneak peeks of the new chaos that’s coming your way.

House Party has to climax at some point, and your support has made it possible for our game to have the biggest nut to bust. And after HP has left EA behind, we’ll continue to support it while we begin working on our next venture--something we’re excited to talk more about, but only when the time is right.

And hey! If you’re reading this and don’t own House Party, now is your chance! The Steam Winter Sale is in full effect, and that means our ass-kicking game is 25% off for the rest of the month! The iron is hot! Strike, you bastards!

Exciting things are coming. Stay tuned.

Thanks,
Eek Team

Hello Party People!

We've had some people mention on our social networks that HOUSE PARTY is the ideal nominee for the "Labor of Love" Steam Award. Naturally, we didn't even know that was a thing.

But now we do know! We've been devoted to making HP the best/worst game it can be and it truly is a labor of our love. House Party and fighting gators in the sewer--those are really the only things we love.



If you're interested in learning how the game has evolved over the years, check out our recent 2019 Update Post. Things are reaaaaallly movin. And if you agree that we put way too much effort into a game about becoming the ultimate bonerboi, vote House Party!

Or don't. We really don't understand this shit to be honest.

-Eek Team

P.S. Our art guy is still out for Thanksgiving so that leaves me, the idiot writer, to make a cover image for this post. I'm so dumb, I couldn't even figure out how to rotate an image in Paint. I just wanted to have the Steam Awards image to show on the TV that Patrick was holding. WHY COULD I NOT DO THAT. This is what I get for trying to do something NICE.

Alright, bye.

Has it been over a year since you’ve stopped by House Party? Boy oh boy, are there some things for you to see. A lot can change in a year. Even Patrick has done some soul searching.

Don’t get us wrong: he’s still a douche.

Sanitary products aside, House Party has crushed some pretty awesome milestones recently. How awesome? How does 500,000+ total sales sound? What about a total cast of 15 characters, including a celebrity guest (LetyDoesStuff)! And our sixteenth fourth wall break...oh snap! Like we said: awesome. But bruh, it doesn't stop there. Take a look at some of the major features that have been added to House Party since the Spring of 2018.

• Nearly 3000 unique voiced lines of dialogue
  
• 50+ interactive Items
  
• 2 Side Stories (+ 1 Training Story)
  
• 5 new party songs and soundtrack control
  
• A new environment (VR Scape)
  
• Combat mechanics
  
• Throwing mechanics (Beer pong!)
  
• Background chatter mechanics
  
• A motherf%*$ing snake! (No Plane)
  
• Dozens of new animations
  
• New intimacy positions
  
• Additional localization support
  
• Improved graphics, audio, controls, and optimizations
  
• Updated CSC Feature Suite
  

As of October 2019, we’ve been keeping the party going for over FOUR YEARS! We see our full release on the horizon, but there’s still so much more to add.

So if it’s been a hot minute since you’ve partied with House Party, stop by for a drink or 5. We’ve sure got a lot to talk about.

-Eek Team

Happy Friday, party people!

We’ve got a redeploy for House Party, bringing us to update 0.15.5! This time round, we’ve made sure the loading issue that many House Party players were experiencing is gone for good. No more staring at the screen as Brittney stares back, eating away at your soul.

We’ve also done some other touch ups to our massive 0.15.4 update, but more than anything it was about getting this loading issue resolved. Alright, have a good weekend fuck-os!

-Eek Team