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lmao I’m sorry for the frustration. I may have made that part too difficult, everyone has trouble with it. So what you want to do is press the buttons in each cave in the order of the eastern zodiac. The animals on the walls help indicate which room is which, as well as who calls you there. Basically, just press a button any time you get a phone call and you should be fine. 

thought it already had them! Guess not lmao. I’ll fix that. 

I made it to 8427 points! Still haven't managed to get the big diamond... I think it's really interesting how much more challenging this is than regular suika because the shapes have flat edges and don't move around as easily.

Oh I Love This

I made it so it tells you the story every time you mess up a certain number of times, ten I think. So if you mess up and get reset a few more times it should loop back around and tell you the story again. But also the story is literally just the standard story of the Chinese zodiac if you wanted to just look it up.

But, if the problem you're having specifically is you're going from Sheep to Rooster, that's the trickiest bit. If you look at the zodiac, there's a certain animal missing from the caves. And there's a particular cave that has no animal associated with it...

thank you! Volume two is almost done, I’m still working on some art assets, but it shouldn’t be too much longer!

The writing is very charming and the art is delightful and I'm just in love with this mysterious trash fish of a troll. Extremely good work!

yeah im surprised there isn't more tbh. youd think homestuck would attract more people who like to make videogames, what with the themes and all.

12/29

guess who got hit by the flu and has got nothin done lmao. It's cool tho. We'll get there.

12/19

I'm glad I didn't set myself a hard schedule for any of this because it's going to take longer than I expected lmao. Just been doing real bad for the past three months honestly. Thought I was coming out of it, but I guess not. I'll keep working and I'll get the next section done eventually.

12/15

Been working more on the Teal Turnabout script and I'm really beginning to feel it's too ambitious for me right now. I'm switching tracks and doing the "Anime Club" route first. It's much more straightforward, but still includes a small gameplay section to continue pushing my scope forward. It's a good thing I answer to no one and can just make these decisions!

12/10

Well, I didn't finish the script today as expected. But I got a good chunk of it done and solidified my outline. I'll keep working on it tomorrow. Slightly worried that I've bitten off more than I can chew with this route in terms of length, but I can't turn back now! It'll just have to take as long as it has to take.

12/9

Did some rough outlining work today!

I want to add Ace Attorney style mechanics to this route, just to push myself, so I've been figuring out how that will play out. I think I should be able to code it with basic flags? Not too complicated, but a little more involved than the straightforward first route. I want to keep evolving it this way.

Tomorrow is my day off so I'm going to try and blitz through the script for the next route. It's going to be a lot longer and more complicated than the first one, so I probably wont be able to finish it in a day, but it's worth trying!

NewGame+ is a fan made continuation of the hiveswap friendsim games. 

Fanfiction, basically, but I slapped it into renpy with some reused assets. 

The first route is already complete and playable, but here I'll be updating my daily progress on new routes.

Current route in progress: Teal Turnabout

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Current released routes

• Let's Go Fly a Kite (Galekh and Vikare)

Update Roadmap

• Anime Club (Tegiri, Polypa, Azdaja, Kuprum) Currently in Progress!
• Christmas Special (Wanshi, Karako, Amisia, and Tirona)
• Business Casual (Stelsa and Marsti)
• Teal Turnabout (Tirona + ???)  
• MSPA Reader gets their Chakras Fuckin Blitzed (Charun and Cirava)
• Probably more?

Next  tentative update: 12/22

There's no set schedule, as I have a day job that has to come first, but I finished the first route in about four days so I'm slightly optimistic.

NewGame+ is a fanmade sequel/expansion for the Hiveswap Friendsim game that focuses on spending time with the trolls introduced in the original. 

Like the original, it's a straightforward story focused branching visual novel, though in future releases I hope to add small gameplay segments/minigames. If you enjoyed the Friendsims but wanted the chance to spend more time with your favs, well here you go! If you're a fan of Homestuck and you haven't played Hiveswap Friendsim yet- what's wrong with you its only .99 on steam??? Go bask in the glow of beautiful friendships formed with weird bloodthirsty aliens! Then once you're hooked, come back here and get more of what you need!

The assets are reused, but the writing is all new, including brand new end cards that faithfully match the style of the original. 

The current alpha version has one route with three complete endings in which you hang out with the overly formal intellectual Galekh and flight obsessed madcap inventor Vikare. You've arranged to take them both kite flying, but there's an early bump in the road when their disparate opinions on science clash. Can you smooth things out and get this friendship kite airborn? Or is it doomed to land in the powerlines of alienation and despair?

 Coming up soon: Teal Turnabout!