Looks like another possible Kickstarter disappointment. The game Hiveswap: Act 1, by Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie, set a fundraising record back in 2012, making a whopping $2 million when it only asked for $750k. Linux support was one of the early stretch goals, which was smashed on the very first day. The game was set to release in 2014.
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Over the following years the game saw setbacks, mostly due to the team contracted to work on the 3D graphics going off to work on King's Quest instead and leaving Hussie in the lurch. So he retooled, made a strategic alliance with Viz comics, and made a 2D adventure game instead. The game released today on Humble and Steam — with no Linux support.
In response to my inquiries on Twitter, here's what they said:
Linux support is not yet available, but currently our top priority.
It remains to be seen how much delay there will be, or why Linux support wasn't provided in the first place. Given Hiveswap is a Unity title, there's unlikely to be many barriers for a Linux release. They haven't responded to give any reason for the delay.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I wish they would just say it will come later than the windows release rather than make empty promises.
Well, people who were fans are still fans, even though it's been on hiatus. If there's one thing Andrew Hussie knows how to do, it's create a loyal following.
Well, 1.25 more than they asked for, which doesn't mean it wasn't needed. From the start, Hussie was quite realistic about how much game development can cost, and considered the original target was basically a shoestring. The fact that he managed to come out with a game at all after that, and a good one from the responses I'm seeing, is the result of a lot of hard work on his part, no question.
Hiveswap had an unpleasant history.
Well, as far as i know, they contracted gamedev called The Odd Gentlemen, who took the money did little work and then ditched them taking the money and working on King's Quest instead. Also, game was originally planned to be in 3D (like grim fandango i think), but "technical issues" made development process slow down to a crawl, so they decided to remake it in 2D. All that delayed game by an enormous margin, fans considered hiveswap to be the new duke nukem forever or half-life ep3. And when it got released we only got like first chapter of story, not the entire thing. So it's kinda reasonable to get SOMETHING done, instead of delaying it even further with reasons that affect like 2-4% of userbase, it would get the majority mad.
I'm a backer for that game. Some t-shirts i got as rewards are already got holes in them from use and age.
Homestuck is a web comic that has adventure game style narration, and it does include interactive content like minigames etc but it's not actually a game series. If you can take a gazillion levels of meta on top of meta, and have a high tolerance for weirdness and memes, go take a look at mspaintadventures.com. I haven't read it all, but it's definitely worth a look.