Also, don’t forget to head on over to For Fans By Fans and participate in the Friendsim Fan Forge with your Friendsim artwork and share with all the other talented folks sharing theirs!
For those making the move to twitter, and in case Tumblr gets a bit trigger happy with its banning (Homestuck-Corruptions has already had at least 3 falsely flagged posts today), we do have a twitter that will likely be seeing more activity now:
Never! I mean… as long as we hold the license for Hiveswap, we will continue to accept fan submissions! We love the work you guys come up with and luckily this is the party that doesn’t stop!
Fan Forge is always open for submissions and we’re constantly pushing out new stuff. :)
Here we are at the finish line. Eighteen long volumes later, and you’re on the verge of befriending every last troll in the Troll Call. There’s a lot of sappy stuff and a lot of meta I could discuss but that’ll come later. Now? There’s trolls to meet.
It’s hardly going to be a surprise, but I’m pleased to present L–
Oh come on. Every fucking time with these clowns. You two, you’re supposed to be sharing. Baizli, get over there. Or, uh… Barzum? Which one are you again??? Whatever.
Okay, good. That’s much better. Now where’s Lanque? What did you two do to him. I swear, if you… Oh. He’s just fixing his makeup? Come on. LANQUE. YOU HAD LITERALLY SEVENTEEN VOLUMES TO GET IT RIGHT.
That’s much better. Are you going to do up that tie, young man? No? Okay. I’ll deal.
SO.
This eighteenth and final volume will take you on one final trip across Alternia. One location old, and another new.
You’ll get to join Lanque at a raging, utterly out of control teen party*.
*Degree to which party is raging and out of control may vary based on player choice
And you’ll get to meet the Soleils at…
Uh…
Well, good luck, folks!
Volume Eighteen is expected to launch about a few hours from now.
this would be true for every volume but I’m gonna put extra emphasis on
it for this one: you don’t wanna go datamining into the files until
AFTER you’ve finished playing all the way through, okay? and definitely
don’t post spoilers without a warning. we cool? we cool
It’s finally here: the last volume of Hiveswap Friendsim. We’ve
had a long, memorable journey together, haven’t we? Around now is
typically when we’d play a slideshow highlighting all your best moments,
but we aren’t Facebook. We don’t feed off of personal information, just
your tears. Your sweet, sweet tears. So instead we’ll invite you to
take a second and visualize within your mind’s eye snapshots of you
being cradled close to the bosom of a massive murder clown. Or how about
accidentally killing a guy with your ass? Good times.
What will
you do now, without a new volume to play every alternating Friday?
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to check out that “outside” we’ve
heard so much about. Or to take up a new hobby, like stamp collecting.
But
before you embark on your new, Friendsim-less life, we’ve still got two
(three?) more new chums for you to pal up with. What better time to
party like it’s the end of the line? Or enjoy some, uhh, other
non-specific yet quality entertainments that definitely aren’t dangerous
at all?
Maybe the real friends were the injuries we accrued along the way.
Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
One of the game’s two story routes contains blood as well as mentions
of gore and non-explicit torture (which is not shown visually
on-screen).
The other route contains mild violence, drug/alcohol use, heavy
profanity, sexually suggestive language, non-explicit sexual situations
(not shown visually on-screen), sexual coercion, misogynistic language,
and allusions to abusive behavior.
apologies for the wait. we discovered a last second bug that literally
crashes the game no matter what? which. is antithetical to letting y'all
play it. it’s being worked on!
Depending on when you log in to buy it, you may only be able to buy it and not play it just yet. At least not until we upload a new build for it, which will be soon-ish. Unless we already updated it. Then you can just ignore me. And go buy it. And play it. And maybe even love it?
And don’t forget to head on over to For Fans By Fans and participate in the Friendsim Fan Forge with your Friendsim artwork and share with all the other talented folks sharing theirs!
… and many more! Order yours now … here! (psst it’s really good)
Our What Pumpkin Tumblr is retiring
On another maintenance front, in a few days we’re going to retire the very What Pumpkin Tumblr we’re posting this on. We will continue posting future news, info and updates on our HIVESWAP Twitter account. That’s not going anywhere. Unless it’s revealed that Twitter is just a figment of our collective imaginations. But really … would it be any less real if we all imagined it?
Hiveswap.com has a new look, with links to the new friendsim and troll call pages that were found a couple weeks ago. They also, of course, left out all links to the now defunct tumblr blog.
Hiveswap.com has a new look, with links to the new friendsim and troll call pages that were found a couple weeks ago. They also, of course, left out all links to the now defunct tumblr blog.
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