However, there was one big report I got that was too significant to just edit into the article. A number of people took me up on that, which I am thankful for. When I wrote the Hiveswap article, I left a note asking for people to contact me if there were any facts I got wrong or major events I missed. Claims and established points of fact are different, and I am careful to always treat them as such. I have always presented my source's claims as-is, and encouraged readers to take everything here with healthy scepticism.
The announcement does its best to make it sound like this post was me somehow being hoodwinked into regurgitating slander against WP, which is simply false. In the same Kickstarter update, though, they explicitly confirm a significant amount of the news I broke, including multiple major points in this very article! I have also noted those cases.
It is entirely possible some of this information was provided in bad faith, but some of still holds up. As with everything else, I will note which claims are dubious. Some of the later ones seem incorrect semi-informed exaggerations to make a point. Many of the claims made here early in the timeline turned out to be correct, and even verified by What Pumpkin later on. In addition to the obvious - that a whistleblower doesn’t like the practices they’re whistleblowing - this would mean they were not privy to the events of 2014 or later, making anything they said about that only semi-informed speculation.
#HIVESWAP GAME BACKGROUND UPDATE#
There is a detailed analysis of this update in The Hiveswap Fiasco, but to summarize:Īccording to What Pumpkin, this is a disgruntled ex-employee who left the team in early 2014, meaning anything they said later than that is speculation. As this individual was not present during the end of the development contract with GC, nor the WP NYC development period, all of the information they have shared is based on speculation and conjecture. WP has been aware of a pattern of false claims this former employee has made since the end of their employment at the beginning of 2014. More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen DebacleĪs of Kickstarter Update #36, What Pumpkin made the following statement about the accuser from this article: (They didn’t tell you it was the source in this article, I’m telling you that)Īs an addendum, WP has identified the primary source of a disclosure to a well-circulated document of the Hiveswap development process. I dug through every page, announcement, interview, blog post, FAQ, and tweet I could find, and the culmination is this the most comprehensive - as far as I can tell - explanation of Hiveswap to date. I’m documenting the story so far so that the Hiveswap Story isn’t lost to time, and so there’s a decent summary of events so far, and maybe even so new Hiveswap fans can catch up. There is also significant pressure on people in the know - even people who just lived through backing the project - to keep quiet about all this, for reasons I’ll get into. This is probably due to the fact that a lot of the key sources are ephemeral - and most of them have been deleted - but it’s also because it feels premature to write up a “postmortem” on a game’s development before it’s even an eighth of the way finished. Right now, this meta-story mostly exists in the form of oral history. The story of how Andrew Hussie burned through a $2.5 million dollar investment over eight years to produce almost nothing is fascinating, convoluted, and poorly understood even among Homestuck fans.
Rather, the conversation “about Hiveswap” is dominated by stories about the development and history of the game as a project - starting as a Kickstarter success story but then bouncing from scandal to scandal for years. Everything can be found on The Spriters Resource as well.The real story of Hiveswap isn’t about the game or the universe. If there’s something missing from the list, let me know and I’ll upload it.
#HIVESWAP GAME BACKGROUND FULL#
Below the cut is a full directory to every post, which I will continue to update. Here you’ll find a full collection of every sprite, texture, background, and music track found in Hiveswap Friendsim.
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