Hello all, long time no see! It appears that in true political fashion, I have failed to keep up my promises of getting an update out to you all on the 7th. Once again, I apologize for the delay. My semester doesn’t end until this Friday, and I’ve been much busier than originally anticipated.
So, while I have only been able to add a bit, I do still have some exciting updates to share in this post!
The Updates
First and foremost, we have officially hit the 200,000 word milestone!
In Chapter 4 you will need to choose between your family and the party as a difficult decision comes your way, the consequences of which could be major
There are also two more major characters who will be entering the storyline in Chapter 4; both will of course have original character pages that have been written
Both of these new characters will be playing large (or small) roles as the story progresses, how significant they become will largely be a decision put in your hands
As I said, due to finals I haven’t been able to write as much as usual, but am still very happy with the progress so far. Once I have more of Chapter 4 written, I’ll be releasing the new bits of the story mentioned above to the demo on Patreon. I just also have to thank you all for your incredible support one more time. It has meant the world to me that you’ve all stuck with me for the past few weeks while I finished up the semester.
Going into the summer, I’ll likely keep my same upload schedule – a Writer’s Diary every other week with demo updates as often as I can get them out. As a brief heads up – for my summer travel I will be on a camping trip for about a week at the end of May and will be on another week-long trip starting the third week of June. For the sake of spending time with my family, I will not be writing for those two weeks.
Lastly, and in other incredibly exciting news, the demo of TPH turns one year old on May 17th! The first rendition of The People’s House went public on May 17th, 2022. I’ll put out a mini post next week with a quick poll – I’m interested to see how long a lot of you have been following the story!
I know it’s been a while, but remember what I said about the Air Force? Well that lead to what might have been one of the craziest 4 months of all time. So that’s why I took a break from here, and later I tried to replay it with the updates later on, but unfortunately my browser had an issue, and by the time it was fixed it would have probably been too late to be useful. I don’t think I’ll be able to say as much as I originally did for a while.
While I cannot currently speak on the quality, congratulations on writing 200,000 words. You did more (useful) work in a year than most government employees do in a lifetime.
I am incredibly happy to announce that as of today, May 17th, The People’s House is one year old! I remember first posting about this idea a little over a year ago and having a lot of doubts. I truly didn’t believe that many people would be interested in this idea of mine, and I doubted my own ability to write a story that people would want to read. Before this, I certainly had never stuck with a writing project for so long, and definitely had never written anything close to 200,000 words in length.
I, in the event that I don’t say it enough, truly have to thank all of you for your continued support one-year out. Without it, I definitely would not have stuck with writing this story for as long as I have. I also need to thank my incredible testers @Snowflower and @11110, they’ve been a huge help in making sure that all my demos are playable, and have given incredible ideas and suggestions throughout this entire process.
While I won’t be detailing writing updates until my next Writer’s Diary, I will announce that I’m planning on adding the ability to play as a non-binary character and the ability for your spouse to be non-binary as well. Frankly, it’s something that is long overdue – I had only not included it prior as I was unaware of the “Mx.” title that existed, and there are many points in the story that required an honorific for the dialogue.
In all, I’m so incredibly proud of how far the story has come. It’s insane to think that just a year ago, the story was only a few thousand words and you didn’t even have the ability to select which state you were from. While we still have a long way to go before TPH will be ready for publishing, we’ve made a great amount of progress, and here’s to hoping that in year two we’re able to get even more written.
Lastly, I’d love to see how long all of you have been following along, so please do feel free to select whichever option in the poll below best matches!
I’m really glad to see you still in here, i honestly already thinking about the worse the project gone but I’m glad I’m wrong
Happy anniversary, my first impression when i first see the WIP before playing is i though the game gonna be bland but I’m glad I’m wrong because after i play the game is fun and i mean fun is funny we can act really crazy as president and more. To be honest my target if this game finish someday, i wanted to make nuclear war lol
The middle initial has been expanded to a middle name in the Patreon demo. I am not sure yet if there will be an option to not have a middle name at all. @RFKramer , your thoughts?
I suppose this could be somewhat easily fixed, I’ll certainly make note of it.
The demo is on dashingdon! There’s a link to it in the first post on this forum page, and for subscribers to my Patreon, there’s also a demo posted there with more of the story.
Damn,time really flies when you’re having fun
All i gotta say is congratulations for making this masterpiece man, I’ve seen so many great and ambitious political intrigue stories vanished through thin air because of stress, life’s problems etc etc,but yet here we are a year later and you’re still going strong with that massive 200K words and I’m glad I’ve been here since day one…to many successful days ahead
After around the discussion regarding the Progressive caucus’s bill for education, the scene cuts to Moderate Republican Caucus talking about moderate unemployment bill, instead of something relating to education.
Question: Is suposed to not load the next chapter after the speech ‘State of the Union’? Most WIP put the classic ‘play again’ menu, so just want to confirm.
I read old thread comments and even though the subject has died, I would like to give my opinion on the issue of creating a party, honestly I think it’s a terrible idea.
Being able to become a Maverick president is already making the protagonist the greatest recent statist in the history of US. For there to be another party with the strength to win the presidency in like, least then 10 years? The biggest American crisis in history would be necessary for a sudden change, the protagonist would have to have 200% charisma, the second American civil war would have to happen. The Soviet Union need to come back and the second black friday happen on the same time.
Maybe in a future game similar to another country, maybe in a fictional world like Suzerain to not have any problems and throw the limits of reality down the drain.
But pigs fly before there’s been another party in America with the strengh to win election this decade if not century.
There is bound to be some friction between people and media if president approval rating are high and media outlets represents MC as a bad president ( for the most trivial of things like the way he way, eat, stand like the stupidest of thing it can give the player some amount of power as people will be generally more distrusting of the media.
And favourable media outlets who favours a popular president bounty to be more popular and more influencial as people will trust them to give the truth over everything, even if it’s not the case.
