2020 (Act 2)Hiveswap is an developed by What Pumpkin Games and overseen by and Cohen Edenfield. Based in the universe of Hussie's, it focuses on a girl who is accidentally transported to the planet of Alternia—home of the seen in Homestuck. It is the first of two games, with a planned second, future installment titled Hauntswitch featuring a male troll who was swapped onto Earth in her place.The game was the subject of a campaign on, raising over US$2.4 million in funding. While development initially began with developers, it was eventually moved back in-house under What Pumpkin's own newly formed game development studio.Act 1 was slated for release in mid-2015; however, this release date was postponed until January 2017.
It was further delayed in January to an unspecified date. On September 14, 2017, What Pumpkin Studios released Act 1. This was the release date previously announced on August 29, 2017, accompanied by a new trailer. Contents.Story Hiveswap tells the story of a human girl named Joey Claire, who gets swapped with a troll boy named Dammek from the planet Alternia, as she tries to get back to Earth. A second game, Hauntswitch, will feature Dammek's adventures on Earth.
Which HIVESWAP Character are you? Senkus wife killchiyo. How likely are you to do something if someone tells you to? Um, probably Xtremely likely. You're not one for confrontation. Not at all likely. You don't care who they are, you don't wanna listen. Depends on the person, you suppose. If they're your superior, then sure. I don't know much about these characters unfortunately so I tried my best. Thanks for watching!:) All the art used does not belong to me, credits to their owners. The songs used does not belong.
While set in the same universe as the Homestuck comic, Hiveswap and the sequel exist in a separate storyline with only 'loose relation' to the comic, and involve a new cast of characters. Development On September 4, 2012, Andrew Hussie announced a Kickstarter to raise funds for a video game based on his MS Paint Adventures webcomic Homestuck. Development was to begin in 2013, with the finished product expected in 2014. Noted that the project had raised 'more than $275,000 in hours'. More than 80% of the $700,000 goal was pledged in the first day.At the time the article went to print, the Kickstarter had been running for just over one day. The game reached the full $700,000 of funding in fewer than 32 hours.
The campaign also reached certain 'stretch goal' amounts, whereupon Hussie added Mac and Linux support onto the proposed game. Writer Graeme McMillan commented that the campaign was approaching, at the time, the record for most successful comics-related Kickstarter campaign, whose previous record was held by the campaign with $1,254,120. The Kickstarter eventually raised $2,485,506, making it the 'fifth game on Kickstarter to pull in a full seven figures' and the third highest funded video game in Kickstarter history at the time. An additional PayPal-based fundraiser was created to accommodate those who could not donate via Kickstarter's available methods.In December 2013, new details, a projected release date of June 2014, and concept art were posted on the game's Kickstarter blog. In the post, Hussie revealed that the game would effectively be a spin-off from the comic, with a new plot and characters that will only have loose ties to the original storyline, making it more accessible to those who are unfamiliar with the original story. Hussie also indicated that the game will not include any voice acting; he considered voice acting 'too easy to do badly', and stated that he was 'personally not that big on VA in games like this anyway'. On June 21, 2014, it was publicly announced that the game would be developed by —known for their game.
New concept art, including that of another new character, were also revealed.In an interview with Game Informer show, developer, who has worked with Hussie in the past, announced that he was contacted to write music for 'the Homestuck video game'.On October 30, 2014, it was announced that the game's official title would be Hiveswap, and that production of the game had been taken back in-house 'alarmingly well' under Hussie's What Pumpkin studio. It was also announced that the game would be the first of two distinct stories: each will be an episodic story, but there will be parallels between them, and they can be played in either order.On December 26, 2015, updates were posted on the project's Kickstarter page stating that the game was going to be using a 2D system rather than using the 3D graphics shown in the teaser trailer, asset reel, and other footage. It is stated that this is 'to make things a little more cost-efficient, and more rapidly producible over the full span of the series'.On October 6, 2016, a teaser trailer was released showcasing the game's changes to the 2D system and other various elements of the game, including combat and interactive objects. A release date for the first act was set to January 2017, but was delayed for a non-specific number of weeks.
The game was greenlit on on December 15, 2016, and showcased a number of in-game screenshots. On April 13, 2017 ( Homestuck 's 8th anniversary), another trailer for the game was released, this time showing parts of Alternia as well as more gameplay.On September 14, 2017, Act 1 of Hiveswap was released for Windows and Mac. A patch added Linux support on October 16, 2017.Promotion for Act 2 includes the 'Troll Call,' a feature of troll characters slated to appear in the installment, and the 'Extended Zodiac', a feature of 288 symbols, including the original as used by Homestuck characters, as well as symbols used by Hiveswap characters, complemented by a to determine the quiz taker's Extended Zodiac sign. The characters from the Troll Call were later featured in a spinoff video game called Hiveswap Friendship Simulator. Starting on September 4th 2019, a sequel to Hiveswap Friendship Simulator called Pesterquest began. The story picks up where Hiveswap Friendship Simulator ended and it follows MSPA Reader (the playable character) as they interact with the kids and the trolls from the original webcomic Homestuck, such as and Karkat Vantas.On October 31, 2019, the first teaser trailer for Hiveswap: Act 2 was unveiled, with a targeted release date in 2020.References.
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Your name is ____ and you are ____. (Age usually goes here, but if you’ve established with another character the ages that all the characters share, you can put something else.)
You are currently ____. (If something important is going on at the moment- OR) Your interests include ____. (Fill in paragraph with other pertinent information about the character’s hobbies, interests, etc.)
[Another paragraph about something important to the character- beef with the parent, where they live, something that’s on their mind that will shape their actions throughout their story, or if nothing is pertinent, expound upon their personality.]
Your chumhandle/trolltag is ____ and you write in a way that _____. (Make a small phrase that explains the character’s writing style/quirk while also using characters that allow for the character’s quirk to be shown off- for example, if your character uses puns or replaces a certain letter with a symbol, make a pun or use that letter several times here.)
EXAMPLE FROM MY OWN OC
Your name is QAGIRO WENFIN and you are a DECEASED TROLL. You absolutely love QUESTIONABLE FASHION that you find in other troll's GARBAGE or in the DUMP. You do not care about your reputation if someone ends up seeing a VIOLET BLOODED SEADWELLER in the midst of some land dwellers TRASH. Besides clothes, you also like to collect RANDOM SHIT, you call it 'LOST AND FOUND' however, your trolls fronds call it 'FORBIDDEN LOST THINGS'. They don't know what they're missing out on.
Your other interests include REGGAE & BLUES, MAKING FRONDS, TENTACLE HENTAI and being a SHOULDER TO REST ON. You like to listen to music when you are bored or wandering around the OCEAN, which also leads to meeting new trolls! No wonder you're so darn charismatic, man if you had an exact copy of you RIGHT NOW you would make out with it IMMEDIATELY.. You are so heckin' irresistible, despite what other trolls think about your FASHION TASTES.
You used to have a hive so long ago, when you were just a young troll, but there's so much TRASH in the world to discover, so you often adventure out in URBANISED places. Every single troll you know does not approve of your lifestyle or choices but you don't LISTEN to anybody but YOURSELF because you are your own INDEPENDENT TROLL
Your trolltag is FishyFashion (FF) and you write in a way that iis tohtally layeed back, beecause you'ree a chill dudee. Usually the only time others pester you is when they have problems or troubles, because you're just so darn easy to talk to, and you accept everyone for everything, even if they just murdered a dude. You sometimes wish they'd actually try to talk to you and ask how your day was for once, but i guess no one really cares. Being so SWAG and HIP is hard sometimes, you don't know how you do it, you think everyone sees you as a GOD, but you know that you're way above and superior than that stupid old title.