Paint enough walls and you can plump points in to using less paint or painting more than one section at a time. Clean up a certain amount of other people’s mess and you can spend your points on a better brush and a faster clean up rate. You can use these to make your life a little more bearable. Performing tasks over and over will eventually award you skill points. It is all straight-forward stuff, mind numbing stuff, but it is oddly compelling. Gradually you get more complex jobs: a lady wants her house repainting a man has seen a neighbour knock down walls to create a more open space and he wants the same another client wants their child to have their own bedroom so could you please erect a wall and buy some furniture. The first has you cleaning up a bit and replacing a stolen radiator. You will receive emails from potential clients asking you to do odd jobs for them. Your laptop is your main way of obtaining work. Not that you need to spend much time in your shack come office, it is merely a location for you to pick up tasks and browse the housing market.

You can’t do much in the beginning, you can clean up and move stuff around, but the more complicated stuff only comes to you as you progress through your list of jobs. Your “office” is a essentially a shack that requires some sprucing up. No matter, it seems that I really like painting walls and arranging furniture. By doing so I think I missed some essential tutorial work that the odd job stuff is disguised as. I went straight to buying houses the minute I could, my desire to be some kind of landlord with a massive portfolio of houses driving out my desire to be known as the best “odd job man” around. I also wonder if I have been playing it the wrong way, if that is even possible. One where you do odd jobs for clients to raise money so that you can purchase dilapidated houses to do up and sell for massive profit. It’s also stupidly addictive and I cannot stop playing it.įor the uninitiated, House Flipper is a simulation game. The kind of boring that has you drifting off, not really focusing on anything in particular, your mind wandering as you fix radiators to walls and clean up other people’s mess.

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