[HN Gopher] The Hiveswap Fiasco (2020)
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       The Hiveswap Fiasco (2020)
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-07-06 06:10 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.giovanh.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.giovanh.com)
        
       | theogravity wrote:
       | I'm a Homestuck fan, but this article is just as lengthy as the
       | comic itself. Is there a high-level overall summary of this
       | fiasco?
        
       | klodolph wrote:
       | Homestuck is a phenomenon that I see at the periphery of my
       | experience on the internet... it's always a source of interesting
       | _reading material_ about internet culture even for those of us
       | who never participate.
       | 
       | This followup article has some interesting speculation about a
       | key reason for the Kickstarter's failure:
       | https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/01/14/more-on-the-hiveswa...
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       | > ... Andrew and The Odd Gentlemen committed to a development
       | schedule that started with a design document Andrew needed to
       | write. However, he failed to produce that document on time, which
       | wrecked the schedule.
       | 
       | > ... This period of limbo lasted for nearly two years of
       | development time because Andrew wouldn't deliver the cornerstone
       | design document. ...
       | 
       | > Eventually, TOG decided they had wasted too much time making
       | comic assets for Homestuck and needed to work on [King's Quest]
       | 
       | To me it looks like Andrew Hussie successfully created a
       | moderately successful IP, but never developed the necessary
       | management skills to run a business based on that IP of that
       | scale.
        
         | jszymborski wrote:
         | > To me it looks like Andrew Hussie successfully created a
         | moderately successful IP, but never developed the necessary
         | management skills to run a business based on that IP of that
         | scale.
         | 
         | There's a lot to support that idea. The lawsuit threats from
         | What Pumpkin and the subsequent email chain between Hussie and
         | this creator betray a very poor communication style.
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsM9bQvpt_c
        
       | Lammy wrote:
       | HN's audience may not be familiar with what a gigantic deal
       | Homestuck was to a particular generation of people at a very
       | particular point in time. This write-up is really interesting,
       | but starting it at the time of the spin-off makes it hard to
       | appreciate the sepulchritudinousness of it all.
        
       | nepeckman wrote:
       | Interesting drama associated with this article. The story
       | documented here was used in a video essay about Homestuck in
       | general, and the inclusion of this article lead to (empty,
       | frivolous) legal threats to the creator. In a follow up video,
       | pretty much all details of TA are corroborated
       | https://youtu.be/gsM9bQvpt_c
        
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