Happy December, doods and lady-doods! The holidays are almost here, and we’ve got some fun news to share about our upcoming winter seasonal update!
Before we get into the details, we just want to give a quick heads-up that we are still working on that Toggle On/Off feature for holiday content that we promised. Although it won’t be ready in time for our winter event, we hope to have it ready for beta testing early next year!
With that said, when it drops, the Winter Event will be a temporary update to the base game (without the toggle feature), but we will release it as a permanent free DLC (just like we’ll be doing with Halloween) with a toggle on/off feature as soon as it's ready after the holiday.
Thanks for being patient with us, doods! We want to make sure this feature is good to go and package the DLCs properly going forward. We definitely focused on getting the content out on time for the holidays first, and are stoked you’re enjoying it enough to make it permanent!
So, what can you look forward to in the winter event?
Thanks to an overwhelming amount of you asking for Seasonal-Themed Opportunities / Short Side Stories, we are planning to release a little holiday Quest that features its own special Steam Achievement!
We also heard you about Seasonal Activities and added a new in-game activity (we'll give you a clue...it has to do with that bucket of snowballs we shared last week).
A bunch of you also asked to see Frank as Santa. Like...a weird amount of you brahs have a kink for seeing the angriest, most aggressive, most domineering dude at the party dressed as the most cheerful, heartwarming, generous man of the season for some reason. Full-body custom outfits take a lot of our artists’ time, so no promises on a full Santa costume (this year), but let's just say Frank will definitely get into the spirit of the holidays!
Speaking of making things happen - but a bit off-topic to the holiday content - did you know in our last update (Stable Release 1.0.6), we also brought back the mechanic where painkillers give a stamina boost and booze (beer, wine, liquor) gives a strength boost?
We had to remove that feature to get House Party ESRB "Mature" rated (you know, so we could get on various platforms that are still giving us a hard time), but it's back in the Explicit Add-On since you guys asked for it on our last dev stream! Enjoy drinking your way to buffness, doods!
You're probably curious to see what we learned from our Holiday Feedback Form, too, right?
Holiday Underwear was one of the most wished-for items on the seasonal list! Although we, unfortunately, couldn’t add sexy holiday lingerie to this upcoming holiday event, we’re keeping this in mind for our upcoming holidays, because a huge number of you wanted it!
Since you weren't too interested in Discord Emojis and Steam Emojis & Stickers, we won't prioritize making those for a while, but, overall, most other holiday features - including all decorations, accessories, and outfits - were quite popular!
The ambiance was surprisingly desired even more than most outfits and decorations, so we are adding falling snow (Weather Effect) to the update coming this winter. Let us know if you like it!
The most loved characters were Ashley, Amy, and Vickie, but there was still a lot of hype for the rest of the party guests! We were also shocked to see tons of love for the next DLC guest already there! We’ll be announcing more soon(™)!
We had a surprising majority of players say it is alright for us to reuse costumes for characters if we can't give everyone something unique, so we will do that if we need to! But, overall, we want to prioritize getting unique costumes for our party guests, when possible!
We got a ton of written feedback responses, too! It's been crazy cool seeing all the wild ideas you doods have for the party. While we can't do all of them, we are chatting about them as a team, drawing inspiration from them, and trying to work on things we see a lot of players writing in and asking for (like Santa Frank)!
P.S. For those of you who are looking forward to Office Party more than the seasonal content, we are still working on it alongside the holiday content, but it will be a long project and we are still in the very early stages of planning and framework development at this time. If you want to support its development and get special first-look updates in the meantime, click here!