House Party News

Hey guys!

A huge thanks to all of you who have been enjoying the Liz Katz Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery DLC.  The feedback has been very positive, and we are happy to have brought another chapter of House Party to you.

We know a lot of you are wondering what comes next, and although we are still working on one more DLC for House Party, we've been starting to shift our focus to Office Party as well!

We are optimizing and adding new capabilities to our engine to create a more robust foundation heading into Office Party.  This will help improve the game performance and allow for new features that Office Party will have, that House Party doesn’t.  A big one of those things is clothing customization!

Just because we are transitioning into working on the Office Party engine doesn’t mean that House Party can’t reap the benefits of some of the upgrades and optimizations that we are doing.  In the next release of the House Party base game we will be leveraging the groundwork we’ve been laying down for Office Party, to optimize House Party’s performance, and bring some new features to the mix this summer.


Character Customization:



The most exciting new feature that you'll see is character customization!  You'll be able to change colors, patterns, decals (on some characters), skin tone, hair root and tip color, and even add effects like emboss and metallic to some clothing pieces.  Check out more example outfits:










We're Switching to Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP):

We'll be taking even more advantage of HDRP's capabilities in Office Party, but we're enhancing House Party too!  In House Party, you'll notice amazing new lighting and shadows and visual upgrade to the house and all of the characters!  Take a look at some work in progress HDRP screenshots below:












Overall Engine Optimization:

We've made some major under-the-hood optimizations resulting in less of a memory footprint and improved CPU and GPU performance resulting in:

• Save file size reduced from ~35MB to ~1MB.
  
• Save/Load times greatly reduced.
  
• New game load time greatly reduced.
  

Check out the post on our website!
housepartygame.com

Check out our official trailer if you haven't seen it yet!

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We released The House Party - Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery Expansion Pack on May 26th and our players have been loving it! We've got a Very Positive review score on the DLC so far. Thanks to everyone who has picked it up and we're glad you're enjoying it! And, over the last few weeks we've been working to make it even better!

We've released a few patches (one as recent as today, Friday, June 23rd) fixing some minor bugs and improving the gameplay experience even more. If you haven't picked it up the DLC yet, check out the trailer and the reviews, and grab your copy!

You can see all the release notes detailing our fixes and enhancements here:
https://housepartygame.com/release-notes/


[h3]The House Party - Detective Liz Katz in a Gritty Kitty Murder Mystery expansion pack features:
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• House Party’s largest content expansion pack yet with hours of new Original Story content to explore
  
• New gameplay mechanics that expand the sandbox possibilities of interactive items, and enhance a variety of new puzzles and challenges to explore and solve
  
• A thrilling brand new murder mystery storyline starring Liz Katz - featuring hilarious, mysterious, shocking … and explicitly sexy … endings and side quests
  
• A hot-as-sin new “Liz Katz” character model added to the base House Party game
  
• Several unique explicit intimacy encounters with Liz Katz that even toy with the laws of gravity, and an extended intimacy scene with never before seen explicit actions
  
• Brand new scenes and stories with hundreds of lines of new dialogues voice acted by Liz Katz herself
  
• A new naughty, bubbly, and unexpected Drunk and Disorderly Opportunity
  
• The ability to use console commands on Liz Katz’s character