![]() What Pumpkin puts Hiveswap on formal hiatus.Tech Coast Angels side-channel fundraising.January 2016: Secret side-channel fundraising.December 2015: WP NYC Dissolve & A New Look.Hey Poor Player: Hiveswap’s Jess Haskins.Review Fix: Jess Haskins talks Hiveswap.What Pumpkin is now the development studio.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter.I dug through every page, announcement, interview, blog post, FAQ, and tweet I could find, and the culmination is this the most comprehensive - as far as I can tell - explanation of Hiveswap to date.Īll additions and changes are posted in Appendix IV. I’m documenting the story so far so that the Hiveswap Story isn’t lost to time, and so there’s a decent summary of events so far, and maybe even so new Hiveswap fans can catch up. There is also significant pressure on people in the know - even people who just lived through backing the project - to keep quiet about all this, for reasons I’ll get into. This is probably due to the fact that a lot of the key sources are ephemeral - and most of them have been deleted - but it’s also because it feels premature to write up a “postmortem” on a game’s development before it’s even an eighth of the way finished. Right now, this meta-story mostly exists in the form of oral history. The story of how Andrew Hussie burned through a $2.5 million dollar investment over eight years to produce almost nothing is fascinating, convoluted, and poorly understood even among Homestuck fans. Rather, the conversation “about Hiveswap” is dominated by stories about the development and history of the game as a project - starting as a Kickstarter success story but then bouncing from scandal to scandal for years. Continue your save from chapter to chapter, then from game to game, to carry your story, choices, friendships and frenemies across them all-then do it again! Once released, HIVESWAP and Hauntswitch will be playable in either order.The real story of Hiveswap isn’t about the game or the universe. HIVESWAP: ACT 1 is the first of a four-part series set in Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck universe, with a companion series, Hauntswitch, to follow. Play as XEFROS TRITOH, ALIEN REBEL, wait. ![]() Play as JUDE HARLEY, BIZARRELY, her kid brother, trapped in his treehouse. Play as JOEY CLAIRE, EXTRAORDINAIRE, a teen trapped in her room *and* in 1994. Also featuring at least one pseudo-revolutionary garage rock duo, with regrets of their own. Come take a look!Īn eclectic, ambitious, genre-spanning soundtrack, featuring contributions from Undertale’s Toby Fox and, regrettably, at least one third-wave ska song. The world of HIVESWAP is beautiful and alive, from its hyper-detailed environments to its gorgeous fully-rendered animations. Strange homes to explore, every room brimming with secrets. Learn about the characters by exploring their homes! But like, in a good way! No audio logs split up and scattered around - GUARANTEED. Spend hours trying everything on everything, if you want to - but not because you have to. HIVESWAP has unique responses for everything you can try. No dream-logic solutions, no hearing the same “those items don’t work together” message over and over. As fun and well-paced as you generously remember them being. That's for, uh, cowards.įirst things first. But where did they come from? How are you supposed to deal with this? Well, certainly not by cowering in your room. You're going to have to get yourself out of this. Your brother's trapped in his treehouse, so he’s not gonna be much help. Monsters in the hall, beating on your door.
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