Beta 1.0.8 is ready for testers! Check out the new Custom Story "CharacterGroups"!

Patron-only beta 1.0.8 is ready for you to test and enjoy, doods, and it brings a bunch of huge Custom Story Creator quality of life improvements. If you like getting creative with House Party, this should be a creamy update for you.

One of the biggest new additions with this update is our new "CharacterGroup" behaviors. These things are awesome. They let you work faster and more effectively to create more complex stories than ever before. 

Have you ever dreamed of making a party where everyone orgasms as soon as you take off your shirt? Or where the whole party gangs up on Patrick? Or all of the guests meet up in the living room for a sweet no-pants-allowed dance party? 

Yeah. You can do all of that and much more way, way easier now.

How does it work? You can now create targeted groups of Characters and use GameEvent, Criteria, Event Trigger, and/or CriteriaGroup behaviors on them selectively or en masse. Not all GameEvents and Criteria are available for use with this system, but this should be super cool nonetheless!

If you've worked with the CSC (Custom Story Creator) before, you probably already know how difficult it was to send mass instructions to characters - but now you no longer have to send one-on-one instructions to them! This is huge, dudes!

Character groups should allow there to be more varied custom stories made by both new and experienced creators alike. We're stoked to see how you guys use this sweet new story-crafting superpower.

Several previous issues regarding past updates breaking custom stories have also been fixed, so your current stories should work as intended again! We've made significant optimizations that will notably reduce the UI "lag" experienced when manipulating many CSC elements, dropdowns, text fields, and so on, too.

(Note: The new optimizations required minor changes to the UI. Some functionalities like sorting/arranging elements are now controlled strictly through user-interactable elements like arrows, the copy/paste functions, and insert/remove.)

We've continued making progress on the user interface and functionality for selecting a holiday DLC pack that we shared in our recent progress post, too. We still have more mechanics to work on before we can tie DLCs into the engine and bundle the holidays into individual downloadable packs, but we're making good progress!

In addition to the new Custom Story changes and optimization fixes, this update also ironed out some bugs (some of which were not just minor annoyances) and added some story and engine improvements!

Have fun testing! We can't wait to see your custom stories.

- Eek! Team

CHANGE LOG:

https://housepartygame.com/release-notes/

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