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Freak Futanari posted:I would have probated you for that, too. What's your favourite ship, Freak Futanari?
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Android Blues posted:What's your favourite ship, Freak Futanari? HICs ship is pretty rad. Too bad it got blown up.
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Android Blues posted:What's your favourite ship, Freak Futanari? I shall not answer this question unless a moderator guarantees my safety.
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Freak Futanari posted:I shall not answer this question unless a moderator guarantees my safety. Does it have a special shipping name? 
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My favorite ship is that one the main kids all rode on for like a few years or whatever a while back. Y'know, when they were going between windows in Andrew Hussie's house I think. edit: vvv i don't remember anything about this comic CJacobs fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Oct 30, 2014 21:04
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That was only John and Jade (and Davesprite). Hardly all of the main kids. 
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Oct 30, 2014 21:06
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New update for the Kickstarter game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game/posts/1035099
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Oct 30, 2014 21:10
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That concept art looks REALLY nice. It's interesting that they moved dev in house too but I guess it makes sense if you have the money to hire some solid people? Also, scheduling-related newspost from Hussie: Huss gon give it to ya posted:Homestuck continues this Saturday, with A6A6A4 posted in its entirety, resuming with the true focus of Homestuck, Caliborn's incredible journey as an artist. Then A6A6I4 starts on Monday, and will continue in a semi-regular manner thereafter, until it is done. I will find some horse calendar pages and illustrate the schedule for your convenience. You are, as always, welcome.
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Quick Summary: Development has been changed to in-house. What-Pumpkin is now a gamedev studio, and apparently recently hired a bunch of talent. The game will be episodic. There will possibly be a second episodic game released afterwards. One game will be about a human kid sent to alternia, and another will be about a troll sent to Earth. Both games take place before the destruction of the two planets. Also there's a bunch of concept art, as is par for the course.
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quote:Over the last several months, we've been shifting the development operation from the previous studio over to What Pumpkin. Yeah.
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Oct 30, 2014 21:15
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Cat Mattress posted:Well that certainly fills me with confidence that real work has been done for real in a really real fashion. That was real. I can only imagine some poo poo with down with Fartbangers Anonymous or whoever they had working on it before and they got tired of dealing with it. edit: It's entirely possible that whatever happened was involved in derailing Hussie's work on the comic during the gigapause as well?
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Oct 30, 2014 21:17
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What do you know, everyone who had reservations about the studio Hussie picked was right
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JT Jag posted:What do you know, everyone who had reservations about the studio Hussie picked was right I must've missed this: Was there juicy internet drama?
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Oct 30, 2014 21:22
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He hired a game studio of his own??? Dangit I just finished a search for engineering jobs in Massachusetts, some of which were in the games industry, a month or so ago. How did I never hear about this???  (it's actually quite possible that I got a LinkedIn email or something about it, saw the word "Northampton", and immediately went "hell naw DELETE")
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WAR FOOT posted:I must've missed this: Was there juicy internet drama?
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I, personally, am really excited about more Homestuck. 
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The real question is how much of ARE MONEY these guys hoovered up before being ditched.
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I dunno about the rest of the internet but they got 0 dollars from me. What Pumpkin will probably get 0 of my dollars too.
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quote:Since it fits into HS canon, there is the obvious question of "when", especially given that HS is about "end of the world" scenarios (both on Earth and Alternia), so unless there's some goofy alt-universe stuff going on, it can't take place after 2009. But there isn't goofy AU stuff going on. So it does take place some time pre-2009 on Earth, and pre-present day on Alternia. Beyond that, I won't be more specific. I'll let the games tell the story.
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Episodic gaming is the loving worst.
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Freak Futanari posted:Episodic gaming is the loving worst.
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CJacobs posted:I dunno about the rest of the internet but they got 0 dollars from me. What Pumpkin will probably get 0 of my dollars too. yeah but you gave away for hot naming tips for free, sucker.
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I like episodic games and thought it'd make sense for the Homestuck game from the start. Pretty skeptical that Hussie'll ever pull off the game, though - I mean, it was funded two years ago and they're still at the "putting together a team, drawing concept art, playing with pre-pre-alpha models" phase. It's all starting to sound a lot like Broken Age, actually. An adventure game about two teenagers involved in separate but interlaced stories, plus the game being broken up into two halves (and maybe some development anxiety mixed in).
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Freak Futanari posted:Episodic gaming is the loving worst. I'm still waiting for Half-Life 3
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I think the concept of 'kid and tell switch places' is a good one for a game, for a couple of reasons: - Fish out of water. Inexperience with the environment lets the player character learn about a place at the same rate as the player. - Kid meeting switch-troll's troll friends is more interesting than reestablishing a third group of kids that knew each other long before the story started.
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Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game. Then again, we all deserve this for actually funding a Kickstarter.
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Freak Futanari posted:Then again, we all deserve this for actually funding a Kickstarter. I think we all like worse for being fans of Homestuck.
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So how much time do you think this comic has left, weeks? months? Somehow a year?
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Freak Futanari posted:Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game. you can do way better then this if you really want to interpret things in the worst possible light
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Fat_Cow posted:So how much time do you think this comic has left, weeks? months? Somehow a year? My guess? A year or more.
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Freak Futanari posted:Then again, we all deserve this for actually funding a Kickstarter. Speak for yourself.
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The only thing I dislike is that it's being released episodically because every single time this happens there ends up being absurd amounts of time between episodes. I'd rather just wait the extra time to play the whole thing at once.
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Regy Rusty posted:The only thing I dislike is that it's being released episodically because every single time this happens there ends up being absurd amounts of time between episodes. I'd rather just wait the extra time to play the whole thing at once. There is one advantage to episodic content: audience feedback. Since, as Hussie notes, this is A Thing in mspa, it will probably work out here.
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Freak Futanari posted:Episodic gaming is the loving worst. Chapter 1) Does it really count as episodic if it's just cut in two? Chapter 2) Oracle of Ages/Seasons was loving incredible
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Episodic games are fine on the rare occasions that they are actually episodic, like for instance with the Strong Bad adventure game series. It sounds like a pretty good premise. I'd be more interested to read about the development process, however.
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Freak Futanari posted:Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game. I got my slickpack, I'm regret nothing. NOTHING!
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Freak Futanari posted:Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game. The same thing happened with Sonic 3 and the only bad consequence of that was the thousands of Sonic fans that were created in the process. Homestuck fans already exist, so it's not like the world can get any worse on that front 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Chapter 1) Does it really count as episodic if it's just cut in two? That's not what's going on. The game (singular) is now an unknown number of episodes about a human sent to Alternia. Afterwards, there may be a sequel/companion with an unknown number of episodes about a troll sent to Earth in that human's place. I agree that episodic gaming is annoying and doesn't have a great track record, though I see why developers like it. Renaissance Robot posted:Chapter 2) Oracle of Ages/Seasons was loving incredible Truth.
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PS read my webcomic about the adventures of me and Sonikar, my grey-blue trollsona who is also my son e/ vv well, poo poo. I had extremely low expectations to begin with though, so long as Hussie's writing is on form I'll probably be happy. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Omnomnomnivore posted:That's not what's going on. The game (singular) is now an unknown number of episodes about a human sent to Alternia. Afterwards, there may be a sequel/companion with an unknown number of episodes about a troll sent to Earth in that human's place. The update says the first story (girl with flashlight in trolltown) will probably be four-ish episodes. ...I have no idea how to convert that from Hussie to English, considering Homestuck was supposed to be a year long.
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