Hiveswap
| Hiveswap | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | What Pumpkin |
| Series | Homestuck |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OSX, Linux |
| Release | 2017 (Act I) |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
Hiveswap is an upcoming episodic adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Studios NYC and overseen by Andrew Hussie. Based in the universe of Hussie's MS Paint Adventures webcomic Homestuck, it will focus on a girl who is accidentally transported to the planet of Alternia—home of the troll species seen in Homestuck. It will be the first of two games, with a second, future installment featuring a male troll who was swapped onto Earth in her place.
The game was the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, raising over US$2.4 million in funding. While development initially began with developers The Odd Gentlemen, it was eventually moved back in-house under What Pumpkin's own newly formed game development studio.
Act I was slated for release in mid-2015; however, this release date was delayed until January 2017. It was further delayed to an unspecified date.
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. Kotaku 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.Digital Trends 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 Order of the Stick 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.
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