Listen to HIVESWAP SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create. 430 Followers. Stream Tracks and Playlists from HIVESWAP on your desktop or mobile device. 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. 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!
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But the day has finally come: Hiveswap, the Homestuck adventure game, is on Steam. With numerous setbacks in the past and changes in design, how well did it turn out?First thing to note is how the game is rated 10+. Though there is mild swearing, it certainly isn’t up to par with such classic curses such as “boy shitting howdy” and “shitsponge”. In this case, the only way future instalments could get away with using harsher language is to use alien vocabulary like “IT’S GOING TO FONDLE MAJOR SEEDFLAP”.The beginning of the story is simple, much like the comic it was based off of. However, instead of it starting off with a young man in his bedroom, it’s about a young girl holed up in her room because there are otherworldly abominations with green mouths plaguing the house. You’ll have to click on everything to find out more about Joey, a young girl torn towards being a dancer and a vet, and her relationship with her huntsman father. You’ll also be introduced to her younger brother Jude, the conspiracy theorist with a decked-out treehouse and a serious attitude towards walkie-talkie etiquette.
While exploring the home of our main character, you will see some familiar faces from the internet-famous webcomic and decorations involving blue women.While searching through Joey’s room, it’s refreshing to see what classic games the young teen was into. Like the creator of Homestuck, she is a fan of Mother 2. Sorry, I meant to say Second Mom. On a different note, Bubsy’s glorious face can be seen plastered to the wall. It’s quite unfortunate for the cartoon cat that the main character we’re looking at has quite a hatred for him.
Valkyria chronicles wiki characters. Whether it’s a simple (yet different) nod to the franchise or a sneaky way for the programmer to voice their opinion on the recently-resurrected feline, at least he hasn’t been forgotten.At certain points, combat will be essential. Fortunately, there are no HP bars: it’s just you, the enemy, and all the items you have at your disposal. It can take some time to figure out what needs doing, but there’s no serious consequences for doing the wrong thing unless wasting some time is that dire to you. In some cases, you’ll need to look around and search for items that will aid you in your mighty quest to not get eaten.The art style is what ties it all together in a bow. The characters are simplistic and in block colour, much like the characters of Homestuck. Similarly to the comic, it has detailed backgrounds that make you question “how much time went into making this hallway?” and “where did these children get the money to buy so much takeaway and toys?”.
Compared to Homestuck’s cutscenes, it’s certainly a great improvement. The partially-animated ones retain the feeling of one of the pages in the sense that there is animation but not a lot. The fully-animated ones, however, blow some of the more memorable Flash animations out of the water.The music was composed by wonder duo James Roach and Toby Fox, notable musicians for Homestuck. Though a large bulk of his work was sound design, it’s quite clear that Roach’s musical skills shined brightly. If you enjoy catchy music that also has atmosphere and ska mixed in, I recommend you seek out the soundtrack. Sure it’s a little bit extra, but it’s definitely worth it for all 30 songs. And if that’s not enough, there’s by a band that exists in the Hiveswap universe.The most noticeable “issue” is that the hint button doesn’t work at all.
If anything, it’s telling you to figure things out for yourself. If you grew up playing point-and-click games, this isn’t a problem for you; if you didn’t, then keep clicking things until something clicks in your mind. The flavour text certainly is amusing at times.If you enjoy exploration, have wide music tastes, and are a sucker for top-quality animation and art, then it is highly suggested that you take a look at Hiveswap.Hiveswap is.Review copy purchased.
Let me tell you about Homestuck.Homestuck is a webcomic that ran from. It was a story about a young man’s journey to adulthood and self-discovery, with the added plot points of alternate timelines, godly powers, alien creators, Nicolas Cage and murder. Lots and lots of murder and death. It has spread across the four corners of the internet, spawned popular fan collaborations such as the Land of Fans and Music series and has become popular enough to find at least one person at a convention cosplaying as one of the numerous characters. It can be considered quite large.The plot might have been complex and there might have been a lot of delays, but it made up for it with amazing soundtracks and Flash animations. In fact, one of them, known as S Cascade, was so long and large that it was hosted on numerous sites including Newgrounds to handle the traffic. How did it go?.In 2012, the author, Andrew Hussie, had an idea so crazy, so bizarre, so mind-breakingly drastic that it was uncertain how it would ultimately end.
What he did was put up a for a Homestuck adventure game.At the time, the premise of said game wasn’t exactly clear other than, “hey, it’s a game set in the world of this comic I made”. How did it do? Well, it originally asked for $700000 and hit the target in less than 24 hours; by the end, over 24000 fans had given almost $2.5 million to the project. Yes, that’s not an over-exaggeration.Now let me tell you about Hiveswap.In 2014, it was announced that the game was going to be called Hiveswap and was going to be set sometime before 2009 (the beginning of the webcomic the Internet has grown to love, hate and steer clear from).
A year later, more concept art, a trailer and some screenshots of the game were provided along with some rough estimation that development was almost finished. Many backers at this point were far from happy about not getting the game they.Near the beginning of 2016, there was another announcement: Hiveswap’s art style was changing from 3D to 2D. As a result, there were even more delays for a title that was already a few years overdue.
If you think that these setbacks are mainly due to lack of coordination for Andrew and his team, you’re mistaken: the main contributor to this problem lies with the original developers.It was revealed on Tumblr by a close friend of Hussie (known as ipgd) that he reached out to a group known as The Odd Gentlemen to work on Hiveswap. All seemed well at first, until two problems arose: they produced a demo that included the bare minimum (composed of a room and a glitch character), and it was revealed that they used a majority of the money to make another game known as King’s Quest. That’s right, TOG stole the money. In an interview with Polygon, they admitted that they chose to abandon an unnamed project in favour of King’s Quest. In the end, all Hussie could do was break off from them for the project and was bound by a non-disclosure agreement; ipgd has since taken down the post as per request of Hussie and is no longer present on Tumblr.Ultimately, he decided to gather a team and set up offices in New York for the game.
However, according to some former members of the team known as WhatPumpkin, a majority of them. All that could be done was for him and what remained of his small team to move out of New York and work on the game.That’s essentially what happened.It wasn’t until December of last year that there was more news.
This time, it was big. Hiveswap had appeared on Steam Greenlight with a trailer. The game is depicted as a point-and-click adventure with colourful backgrounds and simplistic characters. Those who still remained in the Homestuck community rejoiced and shrugged as they learned the game they had been waiting for was going to come out sometime in January 2017.It didn’t happen. People remained hopeful as they were certain it would be released on April 13th (the date is the birthday of the webcomic, with the numbers 413, 612 and 1025 being important recurring numbers within the story).
There was more news on the game, but sadly it wasn’t news of a release date. Instead, the community was treated to a new trailer with no release date. Since then, WhatPumpkin has been posting interviews with those involved in the development of the game. As of writing this, at least two more interviews are to be expected (one of them with musician and creative success Toby Fox, known for hit works of art such as the album The Baby is You and Undertale); the release date for Hiveswap should be announced by the end of these interviews.Hiveswap is a game that has gone through a lot of obstacles and rebranding over the years.
Andrew Hussie could have just announced the game was cancelled after the incident with The Odd Gentlemen and continued working on his most popular comic, but no. Since then, he and WhatPumpkin have been trying their hardest to deliver what the promised.
If you want to see what the will of a man (who people know barely anything about despite being a creative influence) looks like, play Hiveswap when it comes out, the game that cost one man a large portion of his fanbase.