NEW HIVESWAP CHARACTERS UPDATE

At worst, you’ll just miss out on a few inside jokes and clever references. Given the absurd length of the entirety of Homestuck (see above), you’d be waiting around a long time before getting to the game. In fact, I would NOT recommend attempting to tackle it before playing. You don’t need to understand Homestuck to get what’s going on with Hiveswap. Whether you’re a long-time Homestuck fan or someone completely new to the confusing series, you probably share a single question: What’s in it for me? So, as a fandom adage goes, let me tell you about Hiveswap. Five years later, Hiveswap’s first of four acts is finally here. The campaign garnered a massive $2.4 million in funding, but it also received a healthy dose of skepticism - for its source material, for the seemingly outsized amount of funding compared to the tiny team handling it and for behind-the-scenes drama as fans waited for the game to arrive.

In September 2012, Hussie announced a Kickstarter for Hiveswap, a video game companion to Homestuck.

NEW HIVESWAP CHARACTERS UPDATE

Though daunting, this multimedia project fostered a massive fandom-community, one as rabid for each new update as it was completely baffling to anyone outside of that culture. This “comic” spanned across nine years, 8124 pages, 817,925 words, dozens of Flash videos, several albums of officially-sanctioned fan-made music, a few “games,” four hours of film and more. In 2009, Andrew Hussie, who creates webcomics in “point and click adventure” format, began the journey known as Homestuck. Homestuck has attracted an air of confusion from many people.

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