So you may have noticed that our previous roadmap (which you can look at here!) expired along with the end of last month!
That means that for the recent couple of weeks, we have been planning things out and gathering all the needed information to create the Official House Flipper 2 Roadmap - Part 2!
This new roadmap is actually an HF2-only roadmap - we decided that there's going to be a separate one for House Flipper 1, which still gets new updates and even has a new DLC on the way!
But getting back to the new HF2 roadmap, here it is:
Instead of months, we decided to group all the incoming content into quarters, and as you can see, quite a few things are currently in the making! We still have a couple of aces up our sleeves to reveal this year (oh yes we know you love pools! 🌊)
Let us know if you have any questions about the future of House Flipper 2, and of course, check out our HF2 Ideas & Feedback board on Canny.io where you can propose and vote on any features you'd like to see in the game. Once again, keep in mind that this is just a House Flipper 2 roadmap, as House Flipper 1 is going to get its own in the near future.
Thank you guys for being an awesome community, and have a wonderful week! 💓
🏖️ Steam Summer Sale! 🌞
One of the mightiest sales on Steam has just started!
Grab any DLCs you're missing or just straight up get that House Flipper 2 you wanted for so long!
No need to hurry as the sale lasts for quite some time, but keep in mind that discounts like those are not gonna come back too soon!
Have fun with any new additions to your Steam Library! ❤️
✨ New Community Contest + Previous Contest Winners! 🏆
🌋 The "Floor is Lava" Community Contest was an amazing experience!
Even though we know that the theme was very specific and not exactly for every House Flipper builder out there, we had lots of fun with experiencing your creativity and going through all the different Lava tracks!
If you'd like to see all the submissions that our contestants uploaded to Mod.io, just follow THIS LINK! 🌋
Now, let's take a quick look at the winning projects:
✨ New update brings a brand new contest - The Fairytale Contest!
The Fairytale Update is here, and the currently ongoing contest (until the end of June) strictly relates to the new theme! This time we also made sure to avoid any restrictive rules!
Just stay within the theme and simply... "Build a house straight out of a fairy tale!" 🧚
🩵 The rules are simpler than ever!
1. Create a new property in the House Flipper 2 Sandbox Mode. 2. Build a house fitting the theme of the contest - "A house straight out of a fairy tale!" 3. Upload the finished property to the Mod.io website with at least 3 screenshots best showcasing the project, as well as check the “Fairytale Contest” tag in the upload process. 4. Make sure to submit your entry by June 30, 2024, 23:59, Polish time (CEST)!
To see the official contest page which contains all the additional details, click HERE or on the image below:
We will be rating the entries by their visuals and intriguing build ideas. Show us how creative the army of Flippers is when it comes to using the Sandbox Mode! Create a visual masterpiece, throw in some unique design ideas, and become one of the 6 "Fairytale Contest" winners!
1st place: The House Flipper 2 Microsoft Controller 2nd place: The steelbox version of House Flipper 2! 3rd place: Bessie the Beaver plushie! 4th to 6th: place: House Flipper Supporter Pack
Good luck Flippers! 💙
🎂 House Flipper Birthday: New Updates, Discounts, and Contests! 🎉
🗓️ It's this time of the year Flippers!
Today all the Flippers are celebrating! This is the event where we throw a bunch of stuff at ya! Sales, content updates, bundles, and community contests! All of the above can be found here!
Let's start with the STAR OF TODAY'S SHOW:
✨ The Fairytale Update!
New:
“We found a lost child in the forest“ - a brand new job!
”A fairytale house” - a house you can buy after completing the job!
The long-awaited Before/After feature is here for Story Mode!
190 new items! (details below)
2 new furniture assemblies - a wardrobe in two parts.
Loading screen tips!
The Flipper tool now has different screens for different modes (to make them easier to distinguish).
Newly unlocked jobs, assemblies, houses, and perks are now marked!
3 additional cut patterns.
2 paint textures: "Rough plaster" and "Sand faced plaster".
“Bessie's Cup” - an award item for unlocking all achievements!
Wagons can now be attached to toy trains! 🚂🚋🚋🚋
The ability to choose autosave frequency for Sandbox Mode appeared in the settings menu!
New items: - 2 new wood materials to use as panels and on furniture - 9 new patterns for furniture and wallpaper (including cats!) - An assortment of air vents - Even more shoes, bags and a cute straw hat to shield you from the blazing sun - A blanket and lovely picnic basket - A modular beehive for the garden - A mushroom table and chair - Cleaning accessories including a mop, broom and ironing board - A shower without the shower cabin and shower drains to match - 3 hot tubs - Loft-style decorations including bookends, wall decor and a typewriter - Gardening tools including seed packets and a wheelbarrow - Tall cabinets with built-in ovens for every kitchen set - Ceiling fans - 15 new lamps (look for Waxwing, Durham, Cressida and Kari) - Sword lilies, sunflowers, basil, mint and marjoram - Magnolia trees - Wall mailboxes - Accessories for sports - earbuds, a smartband and reusable water bottle
Changes:
Copying the style of a lamp will also copy its light properties (brightness, temperature).
The “Sleeping in beds” perk now allows you to choose when you’ll be waking up! (4 options)
Sleeping is now possible without the “Sleeping in beds” perk.
Patching irregular holes in walls is now easier - select the whole hole and watch!
Hiding the HUD also disables highlights (keyboard only).
A visual upgrade for fridge magnets (items)!
The vacuum cleaner suction area has been calibrated.
The large paint roller now marks a 3x3 area instead of a 1x1.
Fully painting a selected area automatically deselects it.
Empty paint buckets can now be thrown into the trash bag.
Changed the way game brightness correction works: "exposure" replaced with "brightness" and "gamma"!
The experience cost for unlocking Flipper skills perks has been reduced.
Cleaning with the “Faster cleaning” perk got even faster!
[UI] Unified UI for elements where custom text can be entered, e.g., carpet Limestone.
Fixes:
Fixes to fence placement mechanics.
Items that cannot be edited should no longer display the edit options.
Fixed DLSS on Ultra settings.
[Architect] V button tooltip in Surface Finisher Tool takes into account key binding changes.
🎁 The House Flipper Franchise Sale!
click the above image or HERE for a full list of discounts and bundles! ⤴️
We've just selected the winners for the previous "Floor is lava" themed community contest! (All the details and a full video on this coming VERY soon!).
Now, it's time to start a new one, full of your most epic, magical, and pixie dust infused build ideas! Click the image below, or simply click HERE to go to the main page of this community contest!
As mentioned, we will be talking more about the previous and the new community contests in another announcement, this or possibly next week!
For now that's all we wanted to share, soon we'll be surely showing you more of what's coming in the future regarding House Flipper and House Flipper 2 in new roadmap is already in the making!
Stay tuned, and have a lovely rest of the week! ❤️❤️
📢 Get your access to HF2's CO-OP Mode! 🖥️🖥️
🛠️ House Flipper 2's CO-OP Mode is finally here!
🚧 Well... almost... we need your help Flippers! 🚧 With your support, we hope to greatly improve the CO-OP Mode based on your feedback and suggestions! For now, we've been testing it for quite some time, and we know that there are lots of things we'd love you to take a look at and tell us what you think about them, and what kind of new ideas you'd like to see implemented into this long-awaited feature.
Take part in our new giveaway, in which you get the chance to win access to the first-ever HF2 CO-OP Mode Public Test!
To do that, simply click on THIS LINK, or on the image below ⤵️
Best of luck to all of ya, can't wait to see you in House Flipper 2's CO-OP Mode! ❤️
🗓️ All that happened since the release of House Flipper 2!
Feeling lost in all the news, announcements, posts, and updates?
You're a veteran flipper but have other games to play too and simply can't keep up??
You love watching YouTube videos where all the details are handed to you on a platter???
SAY NO MORE FRIEND!
Enjoy this quick rundown of all the crucial information! All the links mentioned in the video can also be found here:
Mod.io: https://mod.io/g/hf2
House Flipper 2 feature board on Canny.io: https://houseflipper2.canny.io/
The latest Dine Out DLC development blog: https://steamcommunity.com/games/613100/announcements/detail/4170970930010780279
📶 The BIGGEST visual / performance boost in House Flipper 2!
We're super proud to announce that our cooperation with AMD led to some new spicy results! Today, House Flipper 2 receives one of the biggest updates in terms of visuals and performance.
AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) is a big step towards making House Flipper 2 much smoother without having to step down on your preferred quality settings. It offers both upscaling and frame generation to help you achieve a new level of visual fidelity!
Check out the video preview showcasing this new feature:
Along with that, we also brought a couple of new maintenance changes, some of them specifically aimed at improving the situation for people experiencing motion sickness symptoms when playing HF2! If you're one of those flippers, please let us know if that helped you even a little bit! ❤️
📑 Lets take a look at the patch notes section:
Maintanance:
FSR updated to version 3 - enabling this option should improve the game's frame rate.
Head camera position adjusted to reduce motion sickness.
Default field of view changed from 60 to 70 - this adjustment should be better suited for people experiencing motion sickness.
Instances where houses lose materials from walls and floors should no longer occur. However, materials that were lost before the update will not be restored.
Damaged house files should no longer cause players to become stuck on an endless loading screen.
Optimization of larger plots.
🔴 Join our live broadcast TOMORROW!
🎥 3... 2... 1... ACTION!
It's nice to chill out with the House Flipper community, answer some questions, share some sneak peeks, and generally just stay in touch with you guys!
That's why we're hosting another stream, no specific occasion, just thought to make it more of a regular thing!
As always, you can hop on, join us on Twitch and YouTube, and chat with us for the whole duration of the live broadcast!
We will talk about:
A huge HF2 performance boost coming in!
Roadmap info, there's some updating to be done!
Let's sum up everything that happened recently in a nice condensed news summary
Loved by many of you: Marbles!
Be there on May 16, 06:00 CEST!
Cheers! ❤️❤️
🌋 REMINDER: Floor is Lava Community Contest ends soon!
📢 The second official House Flipper 2 Community Contest!
Yup, the contest for the best Floor is Lava community-made houses lasts till the end of April! This is yet another chance to prove yourself when it comes to Sandbox Mode skills, and to win some amazing HF2-themed rewards for 6 winners (top 3 in each of the 2 categories!):
click on the image to visit the contest's page on mod.io!
🔍 We will be rating your entries in 2 categories:
Enjoyable Gameplay - in this category, it's ALL about the gameplay! Show us how enjoyable, interesting, and surprising your track can be! The difficulty of the track can vary, as we love both the casual and easy tracks, as well as the more challenging and harder ones! Bring it on!
Visual Masterpiece - in this category, we will be rating the entries by how visually creative and appealing the entries are, within the theme of “Floor is Lava” of course! Go totally ham with unique designs and show us how awesome your lava track can look like!
📋 A quick reminder of the rules:
1. Create a new property in the House Flipper 2 Sandbox Mode.
2. Build a track / course fitting the theme of the Contest - “Floor is Lava”:
a) Your "Floor is Lava" project has to contain the Lava surface finish (found in Sandbox Mode's Surface Finishes/Other)
b) Remember that your project also has to contain the following items:
A Start gate
At least one Checkpoint gate
A Finish gate
These can be found in the House Flipper 2 in-game item store, in the Sandbox Only/Minigames category
3. Upload the finished property to the Mod.io website with at least 3 screenshots best showcasing the project, as well as check the “Floor is Lava” tag in the upload process.
4. Make sure to submit your entry by April 30, 2024, 23:59, Polish time (CEST)!
Today we're bringing you the ABSOLUTE HOTTEST update! You better check out the new content for some FIERY additions to House Flipper 2:
🗒️ Take a peek at the patch notes!
New:
A job (Don’t bother looking for any BLAZING HOT content, nothing to see here, just some boring cleaning!)
A new interaction with the “VR goggles” item! (No need to check that either, NO HIDDEN FEATURES, just move on!)
A collection of items fitting a new theme! (Some weird stuff referring to HIGH TEMPERATURES or something… no clue.)
Mod.io houses and jobs can now be browsed from inside the game! (Ah, at last! This WARMS my heart!)
Changes:
Optimization tweaks for the “Coast” environment!
If you’re playing on a controller, you can now enjoy a bunch of navigation and quality-of-life improvements!
UI visual enhancements.
If your PC was struggling with window cleaning, now it’s gonna be smooth as butter! (at least we hope so…)
🏆 The second House Flipper 2 Community Contest starts NOW!
Oh yeah! With this update, it's much more than just new content prepared by us, the devs. You can create your very own lava tracks and levels, share them with us, and even compete in the Community Contest for the best lava track in the Flipper community!
📝 The rules are simple!
1. Create a new property in the House Flipper 2 Sandbox Mode.
2. Build a track / course fitting the theme of the Contest - “Floor is Lava”:
a) Your "Floor is Lava" project has to contain the Lava surface finish (found in Sandbox Mode's Surface Finishes/Other)
b) Remember that your project also has to contain the following items:
A Start gate
At least one Checkpoint gate
A Finish gate
These can be found in the House Flipper 2 in-game item store, in the Sandbox Only/Minigames category
3. Upload the finished property to the Mod.io website with at least 3 screenshots best showcasing the project, as well as check the “Floor is Lava” tag in the upload process.
4. Make sure to submit your entry by April 30, 2024, 23:59, Polish time (CEST)!
Enjoyable Gameplay - in this category, it's ALL about the gameplay! Show us how enjoyable, interesting, and surprising your track can be! The difficulty of the track can vary, as we love both the casual and easy tracks, as well as the more challenging and harder ones! Bring it on!
Visual Masterpiece - in this category, we will be rating the entries by how visually creative and appealing the entries are, within the theme of “Floor is Lava” of course! Go totally ham with unique designs and show us how awesome your lava track can look like!
When it comes to the rewards, three participants in each category, so six participants in total, will win exclusive House Flipper goodies!
1st place in each category: The House Flipper 2 Microsoft Controller! 2nd places: The steelbox version of House Flipper 2! 3rd places: Bessie the Beaver plushie!
🎥 Last but not least - a developer stream!
April 3rd, 6:00 PM CEST! We'll be streaming on: - Twitch - Steam - YouTube
Everyone's welcome to come and chill out with us for a bit! We will surely talk a bit more about the update, hopefully get a chance to play some of the first "Floor is Lava" community maps on Mod.io website, as well as have a chat about the Floor is Lava Community Contest!
I hope you'll love this update as much as we do here in Frozen District. Had a great time working on it, and as long as it catches some of you off guard during this year's April Fools' Day, we're glad we tried to deliver such a different idea!
