Hussie just released a press statement on the official Homestuck Kickstarter. While the privacy is set for Project Backers Only, I have procured a copy of the statement, in full.
So itβs been a while. There are a lot of reasons for our silence, and honestly itβs a whole tangle of stuff that maybe one day weβll get into. But right now the good news is weβre in a stage of development where we can start sharing some things and are committed to talking with you more frequently. ACT 2 We know youβre eager to find out something, anything, so letβs cut to the chase - yes, Act 2 is in active development. While we donβt want to start throwing out release dates until weβre a little further along, weβre happy to say that the script, art and design work is nearly complete, and programming is underway. You might gather from the above description that Hiveswap development is a little unusual. Letβs just say we learned a lot of lessons during development of Act 1. For Act 2 we have built a staggered development process where the script and design come first, followed by the art. Then our programming team will put it all together while the writing, design and art teams move on to Act 3. Once we have all the Act 2 content and programming together, we will move into a play-testing and iteration phase before release. This approach is working much better for us but one downside of this approach is that there isnβt much gameplay footage to show for most of the development. We canβt show you any gameplay yet but we would like to share a few snippetsβ¦ [gifs] We will have more to share on Act 2 soon and we want to share it with you first. For our next update weβd like to invite you to submit questions about Act 2 via this google form and we will aim to answer as many of them as possible in the update. Thanks again for your patience and support. Weβre so happy to be back talking about Act 2 and canβt wait to share more info soon.