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IT’S SNOWING

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i had a very specific vision in my head last night so take this

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Out of Touch

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Art from my project! Background for the third one drawn from reference.

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Oh wow I really haven’t posted since summer, huh?

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Hi, everybody! With Steam’s Summer Sales event, OneShot is on sale! It’s a great game and you should consider picking it up!

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Oh wow, I haven’t posted in a while, huh? I have no excuse for that to be honest. This blog’s still active!

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High quality pics from the upd8! Well, two of them, anyway. Tumblr’s being a butt right now and for some reason really doesn’t like the tegiri gif? You can still see it in the original post though, apparently I just can’t put it in a photo post.

May 9, 2019

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many thanks to the lovely @ahugevriska​, @hypeswap, and @sanctferum​, i now bring you the full kickstarter backers-only upd8!

So it’s been a while. There are a lot of reasons for our silence, and honestly it’s a whole tangle of stuff that maybe one day we’ll get into. But right now the good news is we’re in a stage of development where we can start sharing some things and are committed to talking with you more frequently.

ACT 2

We know you’re eager to find out something, anything, so let’s cut to the chase - yes, Act 2 is in active development. While we don’t want to start throwing out release dates until we’re a little further along, we’re happy to say that the script, art and design work is nearly complete, and programming is underway.

You might gather from the above description that Hiveswap development is a little unusual. Let’s just say we learned a lot of lessons during development of Act 1. For Act 2 we have built a staggered development process where the script and design come first, followed by the art. Then our programming team will put it all together while the writing, design and art teams move on to Act 3. Once we have all the Act 2 content and programming together, we will move into a play-testing and iteration phase before release.

This approach is working much better for us but one downside of this approach is that there isn’t much gameplay footage to show for most of the development. We can’t show you any gameplay yet but we would like to share a few snippets…

We will have more to share on Act 2 soon and we want to share it with you first. For our next update we’d like to invite you to submit questions about Act 2 via this google form and we will aim to answer as many of them as possible in the update.

LUDONARRACON

You may also have seen that we will be attending LudoNarraCon this weekend, a digital convention for narrative games that is taking place on Steam from May 10-13. We will be “exhibiting” at the event and streaming on the Hiveswap Steam store page.

We do want to let you know in advance that we will not be sharing any further info on Act 2 during the stream beyond what we have posted above. Any new info on Act 2 will be delivered here first, when it’s ready.

That said, we would be thrilled if you can join un for LudoNarraCon. The Hiveswap development team will be playing Act 1, chatting about the story, Homestuck as an inspiration, and channeling their inner 90′s teenager! The Friendsim team will also be taking part in the stream and we will be making a demo of Act 1 available for the duration of the convention.

The indie game label Fellow Traveller is running the convention, and we’re really excited to be taking part alongside so many great developers like Inkle and Weather Factory.

Thanks again for your patience and support. We’re so happy to be back talking about Act 2 and can’t wait to share more info soon.

May 9, 2019

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Happy 413!

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Homedstuk

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Hi what the fUCK

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Ever seen a hedgehog stretch?

You’re Welcome! 🦔

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every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. the people it kills, get up and kill!

Happy Birthday Clint Eastwood! 

released 5th March 2001

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no one:

my brain: oh my gosh there is literally soap EVERYWHERRRrrre i dont know what to do no ones home. the paper towels are gone i can’t use anything to wipe it uUUUuuUUUuuup. ohhhh my gosh its literally just dripping look at it its disgusting its like an ice cream DISPENSERRRRrrrrRRRrrrrr

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I wonder if the tongue monster Peridot bubbled got reformed in the fountain. It would have still been in the barn when Lapis threw it, right?