Joey Claire is SO good, you guys. Joey’s a stellar depiction of growing up in the 90’s, and she’s taken a very special and personal place in my heart. I really hope this video helps draw people in to her story.
This is a look at Joey’s arc in Act 1, using only one guess at her potential Hero Title: Maid of Light. Our lack of canon confirmation of Joey’s actual Aspect or Class combined with my personal thoughts on Roleplay mean that this is really just a guess at her title, even moreso than the Xefros or Dammek videos.
I can think of one other potential Classpect for Joey based on the evidence we’ve seen, but this one contextualizes her struggles in Act 1 best in my opinion, so I wanted to share it here. Whenever new information comes out, I’ll probably release a follow-up video, especially if it turns out this interpretation doesn’t tell the full story.
Todays’ question is: Did Joey’s story make you feel like you understand what it might’ve been like to grow up as a nerdy girl in the 90’s a little better? Did it mean something to you?
If you’d like the full-length article this video is based on, nab the link here:
@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.
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.
I’ve had this mentioned to me before I think, but there’s so many little details to keep track of I think I forgot it again lol, so the reminder was helpful. Thanks!
I talked about this briefly on twitter but a handful of the characters in friendsim have “canon” music that we don’t use because it doesn’t fit the mood of the route. A great example is Konyll’s music.
In Hiveswap Act 2 there is a significant interaction with her that I won’t spoil, but it involves Azdaja as well. When you overlap their two songs, it becomes a full melody. (kind of like their trollcall card, two sides of one coin etc)
With characters like Remele, who have tracks made for them for Friendsim, it follows what I’ve been referring to as the established “Musical Canon” in that the instrumentation choices are largely based on blood caste. Homestuck has a tradition of doing this whether it wanted to or not a lot of the time and I spent a great deal of time reverse engineering the existing canon to make hiveswap feel like it fit. A good example of this is something like Tagora’s and other tealbloods tracks being the only ones allowed to use harpsichord. “But what about Tri-” shh!
anyway the established musical canon in hiveswap is something like: Burgundy: Synths/Percussion Brown: Trumpet/Horns/Brass Yellow: Chiptune ???: ???? Olive: Mallets Jade: Harps/Bells + Airy/Ethereal Sounds Teal: Harpsichord Cerulean: they just… steal other castes instruments so its complicated to explain. Indigo: Overwrought and Orchestral Purple: Honks lmao Violet: At this point they are so individual that each one has its own musical motif Fuchsia: Whatever they want.
none of these are hard rules so those of you out there doing fantroll stuff can just do whatever you want, this is just what we came up with.
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly – not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
HELL YEAH, this is awesome to hear because making it easier to get and stay into Homestuck is my biggest motivation. Thanks so much for the message! ^^
Bonus video for the month! This isn’t any sort Homestuck or Hiveswap lore post, just a rough overview of the current state of Homestuck, Hiveswap, What Pumpkin, and their relationship with VIZ media.
If you’re feeling down about things as they stand, I hope my contribution makes you feel a bit better about things. And maybe even makes you consider checking out Hiveswap and the Hiveswap: Friendsims! They’re both fascinating and add a lot to the Homestuck universe, in my opinion-Alternia has never been more interesting than the last couple of weeks!
All things considered, I am quite excited to see where things go from here. Hope you’ll join us!
I’m gonna queue this one to keep going up every so often, because I think it’s particularly important to the current fandom sentiment and I want to see as many people be better informed as I can.
Feel free to blacklist #video-boost if you’d like to dodge it.
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