Homestuck: the hell is this
It's time for me to confess: I like Homestuck.
I started it in Dec last year as a reward for finishing NaNo. I plowed through until Act 5 and was all starry eyed about it for the next few days. I didn't start on Act 6 because I didn't want to get into the Alpha kids yet just. (Noooo my old cast) I even sekritly put up a tag.
Then my dearest friend himawari asked me to pimp explain Homestuck to her. So here's my attempt at summing up Homestuck!
The way Homestuck starts boils down to this:
A Group Of Four Friends got together to MULTI play this COOL NEW GAME
Ok it doesn't look very cool there but you get to beat up things like this. Sometimes. After you get a better understanding of the game. Unless you hate Flash animation, in which case you are SCREWED because the Flash is half the fun of reading Homestuck. And it's got bitching music too.
Since the kids are quite far away from each other and the game is played over the internet, the kids communicate through CHAT. It's called Pesterchum in their world. Full chatlogs are under the button below the gif.
Because a lot of the conversation takes place in chat, the characters all have different font colours to differentiate them, and later also develop typing quirks. Here's another example. And since the conversations take place in chat, you kind of need to read them. YMMV on whether the colours are irritating (I love 'em).
So while chatting, they figured out GAME MECHANICS. This includes a personalised inventory system, weapons and a more typical control menu.
Then they found out that the game had IMPACT ON THE REAL WORLD and shit hit the fan
But wait! You say. I saw that there were more than four characters in Homestuck. You are right! Eventually the kids make contact with OTHER PLAYERS
and the rest are spoilers
Don't just sit here staring at me! Go read HOMESTUCK.
I started it in Dec last year as a reward for finishing NaNo. I plowed through until Act 5 and was all starry eyed about it for the next few days. I didn't start on Act 6 because I didn't want to get into the Alpha kids yet just. (Noooo my old cast) I even sekritly put up a tag.
Then my dearest friend himawari asked me to pimp explain Homestuck to her. So here's my attempt at summing up Homestuck!
The way Homestuck starts boils down to this:
A Group Of Four Friends got together to MULTI play this COOL NEW GAME
Ok it doesn't look very cool there but you get to beat up things like this. Sometimes. After you get a better understanding of the game. Unless you hate Flash animation, in which case you are SCREWED because the Flash is half the fun of reading Homestuck. And it's got bitching music too.
Since the kids are quite far away from each other and the game is played over the internet, the kids communicate through CHAT. It's called Pesterchum in their world. Full chatlogs are under the button below the gif.
Because a lot of the conversation takes place in chat, the characters all have different font colours to differentiate them, and later also develop typing quirks. Here's another example. And since the conversations take place in chat, you kind of need to read them. YMMV on whether the colours are irritating (I love 'em).
So while chatting, they figured out GAME MECHANICS. This includes a personalised inventory system, weapons and a more typical control menu.
Then they found out that the game had IMPACT ON THE REAL WORLD and shit hit the fan
But wait! You say. I saw that there were more than four characters in Homestuck. You are right! Eventually the kids make contact with OTHER PLAYERS
and the rest are spoilers
Don't just sit here staring at me! Go read HOMESTUCK.