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@revolutionaryduelist​ they laid off everybody making the game, including key art and writing talent, and all of those people have found other jobs. I don’t know how much more dead you can get

Hiveswap was considered “dead vaporware” for years before it actually came out because of the delays and rumors swirling around it, and now here Act 1 is, being great. If Hiveswap was ever going to be canceled, I really think it would’ve been back then.

Hiveswap will be dead when and if WP is dissolved entirely, or WP/Hussie says so themselves. What they’ve said at the moment is:

First, the most important thing to address is, Hiveswap’s
development absolutely will continue. The approach to its development
will evolve as this transition goes forward, but ensuring the release of
the full Hiveswap series remains our priority. We should have more
specific information about what exactly this means for Hiveswap in
coming weeks.

In the more immediate future, WPG is shifting focus to making smaller, fun, lightweight games that can be produced more quickly.

We don’t know what Hiveswap’s development will look like yet, but those smaller fun games have been coming like clockwork since. If WP were dead, they wouldn’t be.

The friendsims are really good, too, and going criminally underrated at the moment, so this kind of fearmongering nonsense is worse than useless-it’s actively harmful to a small indie studio going through a rough time and trying it’s best.