#HIVESWAP GAME TIME UPDATE#

A number of people took me up on that, which I am thankfulВ 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 asВ 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 thoseВ cases.

It is entirely possible some of this information was provided in bad faith, but some of still holdsВ 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 doesnвЂ™t like the practices theyвЂ™re whistleblowing - this would mean they were not privy to the events of 2014 or later, making anything they said about that only semi-informedВ speculation.

#HIVESWAP GAME TIME UPDATE#

There is a detailed analysis of this update in The Hiveswap Fiasco, but toВ summarize:ДЄccording 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 andВ 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 GentlemenВ DebacleДЄs of Kickstarter Update #36, What Pumpkin made the following statement about the accuser from this article: (They didnвЂ™t tell you it was the source in this article, IвЂ™m telling youВ that)ДЄs 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 toВ date. IвЂ™m documenting the story so far so that the Hiveswap Story isnвЂ™t lost to time, and so thereвЂ™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 IвЂ™ll getВ 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 itвЂ™s also because it feels premature to write up a вЂњpostmortemвЂќ on a gameвЂ™s development before itвЂ™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 HomestuckВ fans. Rather, the conversation вЂњabout HiveswapвЂќ 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. The real story of Hiveswap isnвЂ™t about the game or the universe.

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