Hear me out. Multiplayer?

[adel]

Do you know how much easier, fun and interesting it would get if you could play it with friends? Or even build a whole house together!

[Reczberg]

Well, that is probably right but going for a multiplayer feature at this stage would be a major challenge. House Flipper wasn't built as a coop game, therefore there's a lot of code that would need to be completely changed to deliver a fully functional multiplayer mode.

One day we're probably going to try implementing it regardless, but that's going to take a long time to finish. 😰

[StormyHeather]

I think it would be super fun to have a multi-player with this game. It's easy for us as players to co op but I know for the developers it would be quite a challenge.
The only problem I could foresee is the friends element. I currently have one. LOL

[dark_haunt]

Personally, I think it would be more of a headache than a delight. It's hard enough trying to work out what to do with a house when it's just my decision. I can't imagine trying to make that decision with other people :D Also, not everyone has friends on Steam, or friends who play the game, or want to play this game with other people at all. On the other hand, a completely new version of the game that's multiplayer... that might work.

It is possible to play the game with multiple people as it is, incidentally. It just takes a bit of thinking 'outside the box'. Multiple people gathered around the one computer. Chat on while playing the game with input and screenshots from the ones you're chatting with. Or there was someone last year who did a house with other players via sharing the save file for the house. Every person did a different room, if I recall correctly.

[Hodiefar]

Originally posted by Reczberg:

Well, that is probably right but going for a multiplayer feature at this stage would be a major challenge. House Flipper wasn't built as a coop game, therefore there's a lot of code that would need to be completely changed to deliver a fully functional multiplayer mode.

One day we're probably going to try implementing it regardless, but that's going to take a long time to finish. 😰

I'd REALLY REALLY REALLY love if multiplayer would someday be implemented. I'm a fan of House Flipper since I saw it being published. This is basically my favorite game of all time. It's relaxing and fun to design houses.

BUT my boyfriend and me would love to build our own dreamhouse together in a multiplayer mode. This would make it possible for us to find out how we want our real home to look someday.

Yes, with random players it would be a pain to build cause there are many different opinions about what looks good and what doesn't. Also there would probably be people that just like to annoy others.

So... my idea and recommendation would be, to make multiplayer ONLY by inviting friends to your game session. No public servers or anything. So every player can decide themself if they want to play alone or with a friend.

I'm begging, PLEASE make this possible someday. It would help my boyfriend and me so much to come up with ideas for our real future house. And I bet other friends or even couples would love to have this experience.

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

I don't think this is the type of game for multiplayer, to be quite honest about it.

[awesome gummy worm]

There's very few legitimate gameplay drawbacks from multiplayer; saying you barely know what to do yourself let alone with other people isn't a valid reason to not have multiplayer. It seems its mostly, as the developer above said, an issue with having to do a lot coding wise to make it work.

I hope they're taking it seriously, because everyone I know who has played this game has said "I wish there was multiplayer / coop" at some point. There's no way the multiplayer would just be random queueing into other people's lobbies to ruin their house, so that isn't something you'd have to worry about. And if you don't want multiplayer, then just don't play it. I really don't understand the stigma a small portion of the house flipper playerbase has against it, it's very odd and counter intuitive. Multiplayer would massively benefit the game.

[Fireana]

I don't think this game requires a multiplayer option...

[awesome gummy worm]

Originally posted by Fireana:

I don't think this game requires a multiplayer option...

Then don't play multiplayer when it's released.

[Oz Gaming]

Originally posted by Ormais:

Originally posted by Fireana:

I don't think this game requires a multiplayer option...

Then don't play multiplayer when it's released.

There won't be any multiplayer LOL

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

Originally posted by Ormais:

Originally posted by Fireana:

I don't think this game requires a multiplayer option...

Then don't play multiplayer when it's released.

You mean "IF" not when.... and it's a BIG IF....

[Hodiefar]

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

Originally posted by Ormais:

Then don't play multiplayer when it's released.

You mean "IF" not when.... and it's a BIG IF....

Did you read? They said it probably will come someday... it's just gonna take a long time to make.

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by Hodiefar:

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

You mean "IF" not when.... and it's a BIG IF....

Did you read? They said it probably will come someday... it's just gonna take a long time to make.

Yeah. PROBABLY being the important word here.
That's an "if".
For a game like this MP would just be a waste of time, money, manpower, resources and everything else.

[Hodiefar]

Originally posted by JocularJosh:

Originally posted by Hodiefar:

Did you read? They said it probably will come someday... it's just gonna take a long time to make.

Yeah. PROBABLY being the important word here.
That's an "if".
For a game like this MP would just be a waste of time, money, manpower, resources and everything else.

I don't think it would be a waste... I heard many players would enjoy multiplayer. Only a few are stubborn and not wanting multiplayer for selfish reasons. Ignoring all others that would really want multiplayer.

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

Originally posted by Hodiefar:

Originally posted by JocularJosh:

Yeah. PROBABLY being the important word here.
That's an "if".
For a game like this MP would just be a waste of time, money, manpower, resources and everything else.

I don't think it would be a waste... I heard many players would enjoy multiplayer. Only a few are stubborn and not wanting multiplayer for selfish reasons. Ignoring all others that would really want multiplayer.

"Probably someday" is an if... and I don't see any thing "selfish" by stating facts, this game was not created for multi-player in mind, not only that it just wouldn't really fit.

There is a lot more potential for DLC etc. for this game, I think worrying about multi-player should wait until they pump out some more DLC etc.

[Hodiefar]

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

Originally posted by Hodiefar:

I don't think it would be a waste... I heard many players would enjoy multiplayer. Only a few are stubborn and not wanting multiplayer for selfish reasons. Ignoring all others that would really want multiplayer.

"Probably someday" is an if... and I don't see any thing "selfish" by stating facts, this game was not created for multi-player in mind, not only that it just wouldn't really fit.

There is a lot more potential for DLC etc. for this game, I think worrying about multi-player should wait until they pump out some more DLC etc.

How would multiplayer not fit this game? Ever seen a construction side with just one person? I doubt it. Also it would make more fun with friends and would also be faster to get all rooms finished.