congratulations on reaching, 200.000 words and reaching first year anniversary for the thread .
It’s kinda relief a great story doesn’t get abonden ( It happens a lot).
And good luck on exams results.
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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.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TPH!
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!
How long have you been following TPH?
- Since the beginning!
- Approx. 10 months
- Approx. 8 months
- Approx. 6 months
- Approx. 4 months
- Approx. 2 months
- Just recently!
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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
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When I was giving my name, the game asked what my middle initial was. What if you (or your character) don’t have a middle initial?
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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?
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This is so good. Is now saved on my list of WIP, looking forward to this project.
I don’t know if your game is on the dashion, but if it isn’t, you should put there
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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.
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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 
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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.
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Is that why Republicans are supporting child labor? Is it a bug in the system?
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Can you please post screenshots?
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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.
The public demo is current to Chapter 2.
@Iukan Chapter 2 has the PC trying to get Congress to pass a bill and ends with “Address to a Joint Session of Congress”.
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Where the 2 chapter start? I just remember the ‘Next Chapter’ buton after the ‘State of the Union’ speech
I’m talking about this page
Chapter 2 has the title a House divide or something.
The first chapter is about you setting up your cabinet and goals and issuing executive orders.
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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.
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So, it end there, thank you
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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.
You could say Trump already managed it…in the worst way possible. To pull off my mc’s maverick mayor run to the presidency I figure you just need some real accomplishments (finally making progress on Portland’s stubborn homeless problem may do it for my mc) a compelling biography, charisma like Obama and of course a bit of luck (in my mc’s case I figure none of the more established Reps were willing to challenge a relatively popular incumbent like Hoffman allowing my mc to quickly wrap up the primaries against the C team). A very rare but far from impossible combination even if that does always make mc one of the great political talents of their generation I am okay with that.
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