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Hello once again folks (another really busy day haha) Here’s some concept art and screenshots for an upcoming episodic adventure game by the creator of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie, and his indie dev studio What Pumpkin Studios called Hiveswap, a Homestuck based game.

Below you’ll be able to find some information about the upcoming game.

Hiveswap — Episodic Adventure Game Based on Hit Homestuck Webcomic — Will Debut This Spring
Funded by $2.4M Kickstarter, sci-fi / fantasy Hiveswap will
release in four Acts on PC, Mac, and Linux

NEW YORK – February 17, 2015 – What Pumpkin Studios is announcing that
Hiveswap, a point-and-click adventure game based on the cult webcomic
Homestuck, will debut this spring with the first of four episodes for
PC, Mac, and Linux. The game’s development has been funded with proceeds from a
$2.4M Kickstarter campaign completed in October 2012.

In Hiveswap, a young human girl named Joey gets sucked through a
portal to the alien planet of Alternia. There, she joins a band of scrappy troll
rebels and embarks on an epic journey to save the world and find a way home,
discovering the true meaning of friendship along the way. This point-and-click
adventure has 3D graphics, puzzle-solving gameplay, and an original story
spanning four content-packed Acts that will release throughout 2015.

Hiveswap is a spin-off of Homestuck (http://mspaintadventures.com) — an
irreverent, 7,500-page webcomic started by Andrew Hussie in 2009 to parody
classic adventure games. Though it’s based on and loosely related to
Homestuck canon, the Hiveswap adventure game has a completely
self-contained story that does not require any familiarity with the
webcomic.

“Homestuck itself has always been sort of a mock adventure game,
one the reader ‘plays’ by navigating the story, but what started relatively
simply has developed into a huge world with its own lore and backstory,” says
Hussie. “Bringing all this to an actual adventure game is a natural next step
for the license — one we hope existing fans will love, but that should also
appeal to anyone who enjoys the point-and-click style games I grew up playing,
even if you’ve never heard of Homestuck.”

Hiveswap is being developed in-house by Hussie’s production
company, What Pumpkin Studios. The game will be shown to press for the first
time at next month’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, with public
demos to follow at Emerald City Comicon, Denver Comic Con, and other conventions
this spring.

For more Hiveswap details, visit the archived Kickstarter page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game)
to learn about the project’s origins, or sign up for email alerts (http://hiveswap.com) as the first episode
approaches release.

About Homestuck and What Pumpkin Studios

Homestuck is a hit webcomic, created by Andrew Hussie and heavily
influenced by audience participation, involving four teenagers who get sucked
into a beta version of a computer game and end up saving the universe. The
sprawling story is told with static images, animated gifs, Flash animations, and
dynamic text across approximately 7,500 webpages at http://mspaintadventures.com, with
around 1M daily unique visitors. Multimedia entertainment production company
What Pumpkin Studios (http://whatpumpkin.com) creates Homestuck
related merchandise and is developing the property’s first commercial video
game, Hiveswap, for PC, Mac, and Linux.

Happy gaming folks!

-Shaun Meyers (Kyo Akiara)