Hello friends! It's time for the official public release of update 0.7, the Greek life update, which we're calling "Sigma Epsilon Chi."

This update adds four Greek houses, a new more exclusive weekly party, new party games and activities, a pledging process including numerous pledge tasks your character can pursue, and an initiation ceremony.

While this update adds a lot of the structure of Greek life to FK-U campus, I have my eye on several extensions to it for the next monthly update. In particular, I want to emphasize characters and storylines, involving your fellow pledges in more complex pledge tasks and bringing rival houses more into play. I also want to work on unlockable benefits for joining a house, more uses of the Troublemaking skills, and extensions to the party events.

A special thanks to the volunteers who contributed to this update, and to the supporters who, as ever, make all of this possible. Please give a round of applause to StealthyLewds, who diligently fixed a whole bunch of bugs for this update, and offer a warm welcome to HeartsDmise, whose art features in our new weather images on the sidebar and the location images for each Greek house's main room. She's working hard on the remaining location images for each house, and they'll be added in as they're finished!

If you're not aware, we're maintaining two parallel development cycles:

The monthly update might contain new event sets, new locations, or new mechanics, but usually focuses on extending existing content or polishing existing systems. It comes out once a month with whatever we got done in that time period... hence the name!

The roadmap update checks off one or more items on the roadmap, adding extensive new mechanics and a bunch of related new events in one go, often fundamentally changing how the game can be played. It usually takes multiple months.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy!

Release notes

• Added Greek life and Greek houses to the game
• Prescott Road is now home to two fraternities and two sororities. Or if you prefer gender-neutral Greek houses, you can set this as an option in world generation options
• In a new save, rush week will begin late in the first month, where the houses will introduce themselves and open themselves up to be visited (in an ongoing save, this will occur the next Friday if you’re already past this point)
• You can speak to a house’s rush chair during rush week to express your interest in pledging to the house
• At the end of rush week, you’ll be invited to your chosen house where your pledge will officially begin!
• Once accepted as a prospective member, you will be given the goal of earning points through completing a number of pledge tasks, ranging from tame tasks like serenading somebody at the quad party… to, well, the far less tame
• Upon earning enough points, you will be invited to an initiation ceremony where you will become a full member of the house
• Each house trades off on party hosting duties, and will host a party every Thursday night
• You’ll be invited to the weekly Greek party once you’ve pledged to or joined a house, or if you don’t want to participate in Greek life, then aim for party popularity at the weekly Friday quad party
• Like the quad party, the Greek party involves mingling, socializing, hooking up, and various random events
• Each Greek party will feature one main activity: beer pong, strip poker, trivia, the oral contest, a racing video game, or pussy roulette (strip poker contributed by noonycurt)
• Greek party games each involve unique events and mechanics, and participating in them generally helps your pledge progress
• Greek parties build up “heat,” causing them to become more wild over time and unlocking new activities (if you would prefer this process to be faster, there is a new slider under Storyline Options)
• After joining a Greek house, you can talk to the president or rush chair about living there, in return for an increase in your weekly payments
• NPCs who are members of a house have a high chance (depending on their year) of also living there
• Added the Troublemaking secondary skill to properly represent things like getting past locked doors and successfully annoying people
• Some events that previously used the Dominance skill have been changed to use Troublemaking instead, where it seemed more fitting
• Added a new skillbook to learn Troublemaking (contributed by Meat Glacier)
• Unified the UI of the section of the prologue where you pick your starting skills
• Consolidated the time of day, weather, and temperature indicators into single images (original art contributed by HeartsDmise)
• Revised Boho style, added Country style, and added a bunch of new clothing items (contributed by Hee Ho)
• Special world seeds have gained some new mechanics, and you can now specify the odds each seed you’re using will apply its effects — read the world seed help in the game for details (contributed by StealthyLewds)
• A bunch of fixing and optimizing (contributed by StealthyLewds)
• Many fixes and tweaks

A reminder that if you participated in early access, that version will no longer be updated until the next early access period — it's time to move to the public version!