
To leave a trace of their situation should they can't get out alive, she gets her journal's key from a stuffed animal, as well as a strange key-shaped object owned by her late mother. Inside, she establishes contact with Jude by scavenging the batteries of an old Simon to power her Walkie-talkie. The monster chases her until she reaches her bedroom. Tesseract also flees for her doghouse, leaving Joey running for safety inside the manor. A snake monster suddenly appears from the bushes in the yard, chasing Jude who scrambles for his treehouse.
On the evening of November 11, 1994, Joey Claire plays with Tesseract in the yard of Harley Manor, while Jude Harley observes the other manor nearby with his binoculars. The credits of the game revealed the title of Act 1 as Kansas City Shuffle.Īct 1's sequel, Hiveswap: Act 2, was announced the following November to be planned for release in the Spring of 2018. Eventually, at the end of August, the final release date for Hiveswap: Act 1 was announced as September 14th, 2017, and it released successfully on this date. However, this deadline was not met, due to a need for further polishing. In October of 2016, What Pumpkin announced that Hiveswap: Act 1 would debut in January 2017. Hiveswap itself would consist of four acts/episodes, and would be followed by a second game, Hauntswitch, also in four episodes. The game was originally to be developed by King's Quest developer The Odd Gentlemen, and to be released in 2014, but after a series of production changes the game development moved to an in-house production by What Pumpkin, and it was announced that the game would be released as a series of episodes, of which Hiveswap: Act 1 became the first. In October of 2012, What Pumpkin Studios and Andrew Hussie announced the start of a Kickstarter campaign for a Homestuck adventure game, a project that later became Hiveswap.