So while we sit here with Vol. 11 finished, in hand and ready to publish on Steam … we won’t be able to release it there today. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to us and without anyone letting us know, it seems you’re not able to publish games on Steam after 5:00 p.m. PDT on Friday anymore? Which threw us for a loop because we’re certain we released Vol. 10 at 6:00 p.m. two weeks ago. So it seems to us like this is just a new publishing schedule. We’re fine with that, but it means that Vol. 11 won’t be released on Steam until Monday morning now as we couldn’t prepare for a schedule we didn’t know.
BUMMER!
Friendsim Vol. 11 was released as usual for Android on the Play Store, though, so you can still play it there. It’s just not on Steam yet.
Steam(Check here on Monday, yo. Or not. It’s cool. We’ll remind you! That’s why it’s cool.)
Remember: head on over to For Fans By Fans and participate in the HIVESWAP/Friendsim Fan Forge with your Friendsim artwork and share with all the other talented folks sharing theirs!
We’ll be back Monday morning to let you know once Vol. 11 is officially released on Steam. Until then … have a great weekend!
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Hey y’all! Here’s a little side-project I made in a couple days earlier this week. It takes a random Homestuck panel and applies some random amounts of various random corruption filters. It’s written in Python and utilizes ImageMagick for its image-editing.
I’ve been a bit surprised myself at some of its creations, here’s a few of my favorite so far:
For the first time, Friendsim this week has TWO new uploaded DLCs according to Steamdb. It’s impossible to tell what they are, but one is certainly going to be “Volume Twelve: Of Know-Nothings And Know-It-Alls”. They’ve haven’t uploaded two volumes at once before, so the other one might be something interesting….
Some speculation: maybe a soundtrack release? Or something special, considering that the next Friendsim volume releases on the one-year anniversary of Hiveswap Act 1?
For the first time, Friendsim this week has TWO new uploaded DLCs according to Steamdb. It’s impossible to tell what they are, but one is certainly going to be “Volume Twelve: Of Know-Nothings And Know-It-Alls”. They’ve haven’t uploaded two volumes at once before, so the other one might be something interesting….
Some speculation: maybe a soundtrack release? Or something special, considering that the next Friendsim volume releases on the one-year anniversary of Hiveswap Act 1?
It’s probably so they don’t miss their release schedule again.
This does sound plausible. Maybe keeping a second copy of the volume thats just “Hidden” and not “Unreleased” will let them bypass the weird new rule about not releasing on weekends
Of the book previews, this one is the most readable. Which is to say, still not very. But with the help of waifu2x, here’s as much as I could make out of the author commentary:
Left:
“Because the animation went up on 4/13 it aligned fortuitously __________ There were always huge announcements ___ around what one might refer to as ___ to the fact that I kept getting significant ____. For example, something significant happened on just about every 4/13 after this, right up until the final page. Which was released on 4/13 of Year Seven.”
Right:
“You should be proud of me. I made it an entire year before I put myself in my comic. And not really just a jokey self-insert making fun of the idea of self-inserts, though this is, in a stranger way, a legitimate character with a role to play in this story. It’s probably premature to start ___ to bear witness to a lot more of this tomfoolery before beginning to reflect on what educational merits there are to having a character in the story who bears the face of “the author” of the story. It’ll take a while longer to start to care what it means to examine and distort the meaning of that title. And the ___ with the fictional ___ who holds it. And to be perfectly clear with you, we may never start to care. But I WILL start to talk about it. You have been warned.
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It is my great pleasure to inform you that Hiveswap Friendship Simulator, Volume Twelve: Of Know-Nothings And Know-It-Alls, will be launching on Friday, September the 14th, 2018.¹
This volume of the Hiveswap Friendship Simulator will feature two entirely new trolls for the befriending: Galekh Xigisi and Tirona Kasund².
We hope you join us tomorrow³
for the newest⁴
adventure in the Hiveswap Friendship Simulator series!
1. Exact time to be determined. Midday in the pacific time zone, most likely.
2. Written by yours truly!¹
3. Or today, depending on your time zone.
4. Note the phrasing “newest” and not “final”. For some reason, rumours suggesting such have been swirling around. Don’t worry, there’s still more.
There are several new .txt documents in the steam files for volume 12 (specifically, the file labelled “formatter”), that, in addition to a full script of the volume, appears to include notes for the artists on the backgrounds and end cards. (To be clear, this is just like. readily available in the files. I didn’t rip or hack anything to find this, you can literally just click on it.)
Special thanks to @eldritchdraaks for letting me know about this!
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the announcement post is RIGHT NOW and the artist is ME*
Can’t wait for you all to play through another GORGEOUSLY ILLUSTRATED Friendsim, with LUSH BACKGROUNDS and LOVINGLY DETAILED characters and POPPIN’ COLOURS, WITH A U, BECAUSE I’M CAUNAUDIAUN
Release date is TOMORROW, PROBABLY and release time is WHEN IT’S READY. brb making 1000 more sprites
here it is folks. i think this song was in every hiveswap trailer. shout out to the four people that still wanted to hear the full version. luv u guys.
this was going to be in act 3, then i got impatient and made it the EOA2 cutscene but it still cut off too early to be a full release and i just really liked it so i wanted you guys to hear it now instead of later.
i used it for boldir because it fit her whole aesthetic, but this song was originally written for a scene where joey and xefros are on the run. having been hardened by their journey they hit the streets. it was meant to be a really sort of somber realization of just how terrible alternia is. like when you’re in the uber on the way home from the bar and one of you almost died and its like we… should stop doing this…
I LOVE the mood of the transistor soundtrack and you might notice this drum beat and title are a very obvious nod to the song “Old Friends” (though someone else named it, years ago) I was specifically instructed “make it sound like this song” but since then I have worked to make it sound like more my own thing. you can see the influence of that soundtrack on all my work, though. the slow driving half-time beat. the airy reverb on chordal tones. the dirty bass. originally meant as a placeholder i never got over how the beat drops the backbeat on every other 4. I could dweeb out about this for hours.
theres some nonsense about how im getting replaced or w/e. i will never die actually. we’re basically just on hiatus rn, which is implied by the announcements, but when production starts again it will still be me. in the mean time gotta pay those bills though. so. anyway don’t worry. i love this series and the fans too much to give up on it, but i know how impatient everyones gotta feel so i’m… trying to give as much of it to you as i can. thanks friends.
I was able to read some of the unreadable text in Stelsa’s room and fill the gaps in the posted translation. The visible text under the “SUNRISE” poster says “SHADES BAN”. On the filing system, the second box from the right is WT-WV, the one below it is WV-WW, and the box on the bottom left is D-E.
