And there is also the critical challenge of how to distill the complicated world of Homestuck into something accessible for newcomers. There is a challenge to make the humor work, timing jokes and commentary with gameplay.
The humor in this adventure game centers on adventure game traditions, lampshading them and showing them off, focusing on, as Haskins put it, “how challenging and arbitrary video game systems are.” How does life work in a world where “your inventory” is a tangible reality for people, not just a game abstraction? What if the game’s narrator, or even its hint system, was a character with his own agenda?Īlready, with this proposal, Hiveswap has a few tightrope walks to pull off. Hiveswap is a game about Homestuck, but more importantly, it’s a game about games. Later I followed up with her on Skype to ask some questions about the New York-based What Pumpkin, and what we can expect from this game, called Hiveswap.
The Kickstarter for the game gathered almost 2.5 million dollars, just one example of how extremely motivated the Homestuck fandom is.Īt GDC, I got a chance to talk to Jess Haskins from What Pumpkin Studios, the game development team that is working on the Homestuck Adventure Game project. Homestuck began as a riff on adventure games, starring a basic character in an adventure game world… but slowly morphed into an internet epic, spawning its own fanworks, full animations, music albums, cosplay, and more.Īmong the “more” was an extremely successful Kickstarter, to bring everything full circle and fund an adventure game based on this comic based on adventure games. You’ve heard of it, maybe? If not, a little background: Homestuck is the fourth and longest chapter of an online comic series titled MS Paint Adventures. Let’s talk about a little thing called Homestuck.
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