Status of Hiveswap: the game is just about done. It could still use some more testing to be absolutely certain we are not releasing a buggy piece of shit! To that end it will be worth waiting another several weeks or so. Perhaps more intriguingly I should mention that I've been working with some people on another thing, which will need to be announced when it is ready. I think it would be best to coordinate the announcement of the thing in question with the release of the game. So I'm not sure which will be done first, the thing or the testing, but neither will be unveiled until both are good and ready.
I’m super hyped for Hiveswap like everyone, but personally I’m also super interested to find out what this is, especially considering that it was/is apparently important enough that Hussie would delay the game release to co-ordinate it with its announcement.
THERE IS NOW A HOMESTUCK EPILOGUE DONE AO3 STYLE AND ONLY THE PROLOGUE IS OUT BUT IT’S ALREADY OVER 7300 WORDS LONG! ANDREW HUSSIE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE ALL BURN FOR THE SIN OF READING HIS COMIC
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purified-zone replied to your post:do you think any more changes are going to happen...
I’d just hate to see original readers and archival readers ending up reading a different story.
Yeah, I think Hussie's worried about that too...
I haven't really talked about it(though now in retrospect I realize this is the point you've been trying to get through to me for weeks now; gomen for the slow uptake orz) because I LOVE Bullshit Metaphysics and deconstructing them to figure how they work and it didn't occur to me, but to portray John's powers directly as we see it done in his Interrupt Retcanon and with the arms and oil would completely change the story from what it was to something else and make it basically incomprehensible to archive readers in the future. As interested in narrative experimentation and deconstruction as Hussie is, I don't think I've ever read anything of his that refers to works as things that exist "in their particular moment" or anything like that which would suggest he has the sort of "art is transitory" mindset that would be cool with something like that; in fact, he's frequently said things expressing the opposite desire to preserve the archival experience despite his zen for weird Plot and Form shit.
I'm thinking that's the primary meta reason for the password system(which is also one reason why I like the theory about John's Retcanoning that I do). Hussie wants to show John changing canon, but he doesn't want archival readers to see it because he wants to preserve the narrative of John's progression, and of the story generally. Archival readers are still going to be perplexed by the password-protected links, and they might even spoil themselves by looking up the passwords and jumping ahead, so it's still a risky approach, but it seems to me like a compromise between maintaining the integrity of his vision re: John's abilities and the integrity of his story. I guess we'll have to wait to see if it works :/
I think my boyfriend underestimates the power of the Homestuck fandom...
I'm pretty sure if Hussie hopped on Tumblr one day and was like "Take over the White House and I'll make GamTav canon" you know that shit would be burned to the ground within the hour.
