Hiveswap just came out for the backers. What are your thoughts on it for being the prequel of Homestuck?

Hiveswap just came out for the backers. What are your thoughts on it for being the prequel of Homestuck?

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It's shit.

I thought it'd be like 15$ so I'm pleasantly surprised at how cheap it is

Downloading now.

The reviews have been convincing but I'm waiting a bit. I don't hate Kotaku but their recommendation is not strong enough for me.

It isn't great so far.

It's Paradox Space State Sponsored Historical Revisionism for Wrigglers and Monkeys in Pants
>AI Deep Sanchez
>Hey *burp* Kizuna can I stay at your place for a while? Not a question, I'm already here like that fake ass gangster Caliborn

Newspost update

Hiveswap has been released. You should go play it!

Huge thanks to the entire What Pumpkin Games team for all their hard work on this project. Everyone involved has much to be proud of. Personally, I think the game is VERY GOOD! Really, better than I imagined it would be when scribbling notes for it years ago. Credit is owed to the fans for their patience while the necessary time was taken to build a studio capable of making a game like this. And above all, credit is owed to the great team that brought it to life. If you happen to spot any contributors out in the wild, on social media or such, I hope you will extend your appreciation for what they have accomplished.

What Pumpkin and Homestuck are partnering with Viz Media to work on a lot of cool stuff together in the future. This will include projects based on both the Homestuck and Hiveswap worlds. The possibilities are wide open, but here are a couple examples of things we know we're going to work on already...

Viz will begin releasing the Homestuck books again, starting next year. These will be nice new hardcover editions, and the plan is to just keep turning out volumes until the entire story is in print. Each volume will be full of my Secret Notes just like the previous ones were. Viz will also be involved in the release of the mysterious epilogue project I alluded to a while ago. Details on format, release date, etc, will remain undisclosed until further notice, but you can expect more information about that to surface next year too. I wanted to do something a little unusual for it, something existing outside the confines of the web story. Working with Viz struck me as good opportunity for this.

Aside from that, anything can happen. Take a look at the sorts of things Viz has already published or produced. These are all examples of things on the table for future consideration for either Homestuck or Hiveswap. I've got plenty of ideas, and so do they. Maybe you do too??

Why should I give a fuck about Shelby's Homestuck?

>working with viz for the epilogue
is.. is he actually going to make an anime?

No, he'll produce the amineigh we were warned of by the Caesar

Do you need to have read Homestuck for it to be good?

It might even be better if you don't read HS

Don't. I can't even play this game without feeling like shit and remembering the good times of Homestuck.

The reviews have all been from backers who were already Homestuck fans.

Is this Hussie speaking?

Yes.

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Do any comrades have a stream set up? I'm curious but don't really want to give it money, and I don't want to watch some fag on youtube play it.

But a twitch stream with anons who browsed hsg could be kinda fun.

so being a furry runs in jake's dna?

Fucking canon

>Joey is an actual breedslut
I can't believe it.

It's fun and Joey is cute!

Well I mean
Jade and Joey are furries
And they only share one common parent

yes. that's why I said what I said. But jake is really only into blue skinned girls... and spider-girls

Jake's retarded, it's hard to tell if anything about his full, not-brainfucked self.

Joey and Jade should have a breeding contest.

with each other?

...

No, against each other, that's why it's a contest. First to ten puppies wins.

And people kept whining that my fetish had no basis in canon, hah!

but jade has a dog dick

That's not a nice thing to call her husband.

jade isn't married. the only ones who got married were the lesbians

HEH

>jade isn't married
Are you implying that Jade would let her puppy platoon grow up as bastards? That's just cruel user.

>Unzippable wombs.

hmmm

bitches don't get married user. they fuck any male and give birth and then move on to have more pups

I honestly thought Hussie had abandoned all thoughts of putting out more Homestuck books at this point. Maybe we can hope for some classpect/Sburb lore, or just maybe, a whole book devoted to it. yeah I know it's not happening, just let me imagine for a little while

>no new info till next year probably 4/13
>whatever the epilogue is it won't come out till all of the books do

I'm pirating it now. Do you guys think that some kind of reference to Equius is too far-fetched? Could it happen in the next episodes? If they come out at all that is...

>implying Jade isn't a good, loyal dog

Now you're just being slanderous!

>Equius is too far-fetched? Could it happen in the next episodes? If they come out at all that is...
he wont have landed yet

What fucking references? Musclebeasts and horses?

Or maybe something related to Doc Scratch

There IS a doc scratch reference

When the head kicks in Jade'll let any man nut in her.

I just want to see if they put kid!dad in. He'd be a kid about now right? I don't think we've ever seen that.

Why would they do that? It's not about them, just jake's family.

If you are around, nepetadoodler, I sent you my game link via guerrilla mail.

>Why would they do that?
They showed young not roxy mom in a photograph. Why not show kid dad in the background just for giggles?

Roxy was specifically raised by Grandpa Harley.

Also does this confirm Jake was an all-around shit parent now?

He's a shitty parent who ran off and had another family who he cared about more. And probably countless boys on every continent he explored

>boys
Dirk had to manipulate him into being gay, Harley was a man's man who went around impregnating the native women, don't sully his name you putrid cunt.

there's an oblique mention to musclebeasts in an item description
there are implications that doc scratch set these events up, because of course he did

Wow. Just reads a lot differently from his old newsposts.

That's because he no longer has his skill or enthusiasm. And he's hung out around too many tumblr bitches. Remember how he said his writing style is easily influenced if he reads other works, especially fanfics.

>A LOVE LETTER TO '90s ADVENTURE GAMES...without the accompanying frustration.

Has that tagline ever ended well?

If the rest is anything like this it looks not half bad to me. I am laffin

who the fuck are these people

Terezi and Aradia's dumbass cousins.

queers

where do i pirate?

Man, I just realized that Karkat is the only guy who has a unique shirt symbol. And maybe Vriska with her Mindfang Ancestry thing.

Check /vg/.

Nah, only Karkat, as only his ancestor was truly signless before his execution. The shackles were repurposed into his sign.

>took 5 years to fucking come out
Not even a homestuck fan, but this is a worse blunder than Mighty No. 9.

I'd say it's better than MN9 but like, that's not saying anything

Isnt so much of homestucks early comfy comedy found in emulating those frustrations anyway?

>joey is an array modus user
fucking casuals

>anything homestuck
>better than even fucking MN9
MN9 is shit, but Homestuck is cancer

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I am interested...

oh 88y

Fucking christ Joey.

1. I got an email, but no backer key despite contributing the 10 bucks to this thing 4 years ago.

2. Where the hell do I contact What Pumpkin about this? These websites are giving me the run-around.

I beat Hiveswap in two hours and unlocked 23 achievements.

Why the fuck did they literally give me an achievement every 5 minutes.

Man, I know "a love letter to..." shit is usually a red flag, but if pre-A5 Homestuck wasn't a really fucking well written love letter to interactive fiction, SNES RPGs and the AOL days, then I don't know what it was.

To distract you from the fact that it's two hours long.

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Where'd you find it?

user you need to close and reopen your game, it's not supposed to be that broken

>prequel
There's already a prequel to homestuck. It's called act 5 part 1

Don't miss out on the "fun"
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This is so weird. Aren't symbols only shared between trolls with the exact same genetics?

...maybe they're assigned based on horn type. I'm going to go with that.

Thanks user

>Joey wants to get gangbanged by five guys at once and give birth to a lot of puppies

Joey stop!!

Joey and Jade bonding over their freakish porn tastes!

I think Joey's probably a lot weirder.

I thought the symbol was tied to your blood color, and each new symbol we see is a different shade of color.

Hey, what's that shitty artist's name? Gestialcat or something right?

Gelasticat

Thanks my god this shit's gross. I kept putting in different variants of "Gestialcat".

Yep, it's awful.

music team members
toby fox james roach clark powell

No wonder Joey was bullied in school. She's fucking weird.

Just beat it, took 3 hours with moderate dialogue hunting, ganna go back for achievements.
I give it a 5/10, the animations were jarring and not polished. The game was 5 gb and i have no idea how. The art was obviously done by different people at different times and certain things pop out in the background but for no reason. Dialogue reminded me of homestuck, made me giggle a few times. RIP Frohike, he was too pure for this world. Game had a few grammatical and coding errors (pic related).
Overall I'd say it was worth the $8
Xefros is going to be moiral-zoned

Another really jarring line. How did they miss something like this?

actually thats not clark thats malcolm brown

I can see why Hussie trusted Cohen with this project

HOLY FUCK I THOUGHT IT WAS A MEME
THE BREEDSLUT PANTHEON HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER