Yeah, but it's nothing compared to the predicted length of the actual game (4-5 hours!)

yeah, It kinda reminds me of undertale. With an annoying toriel around but yeah.

what is....hives swap?

*springs out of coffin*
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED

Hiveswap is an upcoming video game set in the Homestuck universe. The story involves a human girl, Joey Claire, switches places with a troll on Alternia after she finds and accidentally activates a mysterious device in her attic. To return home, she must work with a group of troll rebels to prevent the activation of a doomsday weapon that threatens both of their worlds.
Hiveswap will be released for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux as a four-part episodic game. The game is the first project from What Pumpkin Studios' game development division in New York, which took over development following the departure of original developer The Odd Gentlemen.
The project was announced by Andrew Hussie on September 4, 2012, and a Kickstarter campaign was launched to raise $700,000 to fund its production. The funding goal was met after just 32 hours; when the Kickstarter concluded on October 4th at 2:26pm EDT (18:26 UTC), the final total was $2,485,506 from 24,346 backers. Hours later, What Pumpkin launched a PayPal option for pledging that ran for two weeks and closed on October 18th. With the additional funds from the Paypal campaign, the total funds raised surpassed $2,500,000, however an exact figure was not given. However, it likely isn't that much higher, seeing as Hussie still used the value "2.5 million bucks" to refer to the entire funds.
Game development was initially scheduled to begin following the conclusion of Homestuck, then projected to end sometime in 2013. However, as the initial pre-development work began, Hussie learned that the game's release would have to be delayed significantly unless he began to write and plan it as soon as possible. As a result, Hussie put Homestuck on hiatus after finishing Act 6 Intermission 5 so he could devote his full attention to working on the game. The hiatus lasted about two months, beginning on April 14, 2013, and ending on June 12.

Andrew Hussie has mentioned that the adventure game was one of the projects he would be working on during the gigapause which started following the October 16th, 2013 update, and in the January 24th, 2014 news post, he mentioned that, during the first 3 months of the gigapause, he had been focused on writing for the comic and adventure game.

The Odd Gentlemen issued a press release on their Tumblr on June 21st, 2014, revealing two pieces of concept art and one character model.

However on the 30th of October the same year, Hussie released an updateMspa icon stating that the game would 'continue production in-house' under What Pumpkin Studios, with the aforementioned Odd Gentlemen press release having since been removed. 14 pieces of concept art were revealed as well as three gifs of a new character in the game. In this update Hussie also revealed the plans for another game and to release the games episodically.

On December 25, 2015, Hussie posted an update on Kickstarter, showing lots of new art and explaining that the art style had changed from 3D to 2D, to make the production faster and less expensive.

On October 6, 2016, a new trailer was released, confirming a January 2017 release date for Act 1.

Although it was planned for release in January, it still hasn't been released. (It is speculated that Andrew Hussie spent all the money on a very expensive ring that belonged to a ghost)



It has been Greenlit on Steam and people are still waiting.


The main characters are speculated to be:

Joey Claire, Xefros Tritoh, Trizza Tethis, and some other supporting cast that we really have no clue about.

Joey Claire a girl who is the biological daughter of Pop, a character from the original work (Homestuck). She is a teen and has a brother named Jude, who will be in the second series of games (Hauntswitch). She is the character that is going to be the main main character.

Xefros Tritoh is a boy who will most likely be Joey's partner in crime. He'll probably help her out with some navigation i dunno? He seems nice. He also has a band and one of his songs has been released on the official YouTube.

Trizza is the main villain(?). She's a dictator who enjoys memes. That's it thats all we know.


(also theres some other guys like Rebel Marshall but idc about her)

(My theory is that they all get blown up at the end like this)

ok then....

I never got into homestuck, but it certainly sounds cool.
Luck be with you Skunk.

oh..

oh my






enthusiastic ranting...

haha, i remember that blowing up scene.

two lucky people got their trolls into the game, only to be disintegrated a couple panels later... hussie they paid a lot for that...

I just heard some betas were released for the kickstarter backers!

that was a lie, i was lied to.

*sighs*

WhatPumpkin Studios' Steam was online yesterday.

In better news, there's gonna be a cute Mutie magnet-pawed thing on WeLoveFine soon!