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Those don't seem too contradictory in context. WP has apparently failed to communicate honestly about any of this, including what patreon funds were being used for and how they are paying for the development of hiveswap in general. Hiveswap being funded from leftovers of their HS2 patreon isn't a good look for prioritizing development, even if it does suggest it's ongoing. I haven't been paying attention to that so I only mostly have his take on it though. The game not being made in and of itself isn't the issue for me anyway. I honestly wasn't that interested in it when I backed, it just seemed like something Hussie wanted to do and I was glad for a chance to throw him some money after how hard he'd been working on homestuck. I would have been perfectly fine with him blowing it all on a fancy race horse or whatever. What makes it upsetting is the way people (particularly employees) have apparently been treated during development. Certainly they never took communication with backers very seriously (though the extent of that was much more than I'd realized, as a moderately invested fan paying a moderate amount of attention over that period), but the apparent mistreatment of employees seems unconscionable. But if that's inaccurately depicted I'd like to know.
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Hello. I'm the goon what made post #8 on this thread nine goddamned years ago. Today, I discovered there is Homestuck content post Act 7. Guess I better breathe deep 'cause I'm jumping back in.
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Roger Explosion posted:Hello. You're making a horrible mistake. You should have run while you still had the chance.
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https://twitter.com/homestuck/status/1320458355098460160 Highnotes: * Has Friendsim trolls * Drops in NOVEMBER 2020.
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Plom Bar posted:Some one needs to tell them what a "Launch Trailer" is Can you unpack that? I think of this as a teaser trailer; what should it be?
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It’s pretty meaningless at this point since Hiveswap has had so many false starts. Act 1 was given a January...2017 release date a month prior and missed it completely. Act 2 was given a Steam page a year ago with no further updates, and we already knew the Friendsim Trolls were going to be in Hiveswap because they were originally revealed as a countdown to an Act 2 release that never happened. I’d say the release is the natural 11/11 date, but that’s just over two weeks away. If they were that close then I’d imagine the trailer would have just said the exact date. Of course, another red flag is being no more than a month away and still not having an exact launch date in mind.
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I unironically wish the kickstarter never happened
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Clawtopsy posted:I unironically wish the kickstarter never happened Yeah, turns out that was a real "Icarus flies too close to the sun" moment for everyone involved.
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I dunno, I think it would have been fine if he had done it in 2016 as the comic was winding up, or afterwards. Instead, he once more underestimated how much story was left to to tell which forced him to split time between the comic and the game. And honestly, I imagine that may be why the ending feels so off since he likely had to make some aggressive cuts to just get the stupid thing finished. It also leads to a massive what-if, since the epilogues were announced in response to the reaction Act 6 and 7 got. What if the Kickstarter hadn’t happened until later, and Homestuck’s ending got less of a mixed reception? Would there have been two weird novellas and a sequel comic?
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Imagine the Ghostbusters MMORPG, only it's all Sonic Forces-esque Trollsonas. Forever.
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Clawtopsy posted:I unironically wish the kickstarter never happened 
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I went in at the bare minimum to get a digital copy of the game, and I enjoyed Episode 1. Having read the allegations of what happened to the Kickstarter money all those years ago and knowing the non-backer sales of Episode 1 couldn't possibly have funded another one, I would have been okay with Episode 2 never materializing, and this new announcement is basically a pleasant surprise for me.
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Did the digital archive thing ever happen? For all I spent on the Kickstarter, that's what really motivated me.
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Bell_ posted:Did the digital archive thing ever happen? For all I spent on the Kickstarter, that's what really motivated me. this just made the rounds https://twitter.com/Bamboshu/status/1320575188073734144?s=19
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How does it handle the Flash stuff, since Flash is basically End-of-Life as of this post?
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Flash is officially dead at the end of this year. Most of the animations have been converted into videos, which lose something in the process but are at least there. The games, however, would require conversion to html5.
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Clawtopsy posted:I unironically wish the kickstarter never happened I wish Viz had put more effort into porting Homestuck. They seem to have made no attempt at all to make the window size changes happen in Cascade, for one.
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XkyRauh posted:How does it handle the Flash stuff, since Flash is basically End-of-Life as of this post? apparently it just runs them natively. sick
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Death Bot posted:apparently it just runs them natively. sick Does it have flash packed in?
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MatchaZed posted:Does it have flash packed in? From the page: "The Unofficial Homestuck Collection is a heavily customised browser, built from the ground up to support Homestuck and its related works. Flashes? We got 'em. The collection runs Flash content natively, providing the most authentic Homestuck experience possible." it also has (optional) enhancements to the visuals and audio. i just watched thru cascade and it was so good!
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I find this really interesting. A group of animators got together and redid [S: GAME OVER] . The camera angles are the same, it's just different artists doing the work, and almost entirely full-motion animation. It's really cool to see different POVs on the same work. It's not trying to be "GAME OVER but done right", it's just "Here are some other takes on GAME OVER". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQkKaeWvIQ
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[S] Game Over was actually really loving good in hindsight.
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GunnerJ posted:[S] Game Over was actually really loving good in hindsight. I will argue that it was the peak of the comic, or at least the last peak of the mountain range.
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In the thing you posted I actually really dig the few artists who drew trolls "realistically" because that's all it takes to hit home how scary they are supposed to be. Every semi-real shot of Gamzee, yeesh.
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I got that same vibe towards the end with Caliborn depicted more as an actual skull-headed kid. Game Over is good, but undermined by a lack of tension. By the time a third character dies, you know enough about how low-stakes death can be in Homestuck to go from “oh poo poo” to “oh, how will this be undone”. It doesn’t help that how it was undone was one of the steeper valleys right after the peak of Game Over.
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Pants Donkey posted:I got that same vibe towards the end with Caliborn depicted more as an actual skull-headed kid.
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Yes, well. I did enjoy the period during which the RetJohn was taking place, though. Being bopped back to old pages and seeing them change was lovely.
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I read the comic serially, and after witnessing Murderstuck, I had no particular expectations that Game Over would be undone. People reading it on the archive see that there are hundreds of pages left and go, well, of course, but at the time the Retjohn poo poo had only been hinted at. Agreed that the raw emotion showed by everyone during the flash went a long way towards selling it.
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Wow the offline browser is shockingly competent. I can't believe I can play loving Namco High on this thing E: Owns to live in a future where I can finally 1) experiences the Flashes 2) get xbox game bar to recognize Homestuck as a videogame app and record gameplay Nina fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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New chapter, and some prime Karkat.  though i don't remember when Dave died, was this the universe where he had a robot body or no?
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Yup. And even roboDave has hied him off with this universe's Calliope. I can only quote. "JOHN: (oh poo poo.)"
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