Hello, Party people! Alex here with the progress report on Party Hard 2.
First off, I think we got it. We finally have the design of Party Hard 2. It was a long time coming—and previous alpha builds didn't really hit home with variety and emergent gameplay features you all loved from the original Party Hard.
Check out the trailer for Alpha 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5h5S-5AXI
PAX Experiments
Fine folks from Pinokl have been traveling to PAX expos with us, tweaking builds alongside the feedback from alphas. This has been incremental in figuring out what works and what doesn't. The latest Alpha 4 build is a remake of the Vegas level from Party Hard. It is smaller, but has loads of procedural features.
Featuring chickens, aliens, gas canisters you can fill up and light up with a trail, and much more—Alpha 4 demos the gameplay feel that's coming to the final game.
There was this one specific player at PAXEast last month. At expos, many players like to stack bodies for some reason. They'd carefully kill off NPCs and stack their bodies behind dumpsters. So, this player stacks up a whole bunch of bodies behind the dumpsters. Then he takes a gas canister, fills it up, sprays it all over the bodies. And lights it on fire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, you can also party on a spaceship.
For now we're doing pre-sales on http://PartyHard.game, so, if you want to check those alphas out, head on over.