Homestuck
Homestuck is a story on the internet made of pictures, words, and videos.[1] Andrew Hussie released Homestuck from 2009 to 2016.[2] The story is about four children who start playing a video game that causes the end of the world.[3]
Homestuck has over 8000 online pages and 800,000 words.[4] It is a webcomic, but also uses animations, music, and video games. People in the comic often time travel to the past or the future. This creates many possible or imagined stories that all happen at the same time.[3]
At first, Hussie wanted his fans (people who are interested in something) to make the choices for the story. He later decided that this was too complicated, so he made more of the choices himself. Many fans wrote their ideas for Homestuck on blogs and internet forums. Hussie sometimes added these ideas to the story.[5] Fans also made a lot of the artwork and music for the comic. In 2012, Hussie said that he was in control of the comic, but he was not in control of the "movement" of Homestuck.[3]
Homestuck was very popular, especially among teenagers. About a million people came to the website each day. Fans gave over 2 million dollars on Kickstarter to make a video game for the story.[5]
Homestuck Media
Sburb's "beta" logo prior to the Scratch, a cataclysmic universe resetting event
A recurring symbol throughout Homestuck is the spirograph.
Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie at a fan convention in 2010
References
- ↑ Weldon, Glen; Mayer, Petra (July 12, 2017). "Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels" (in en). NPR: Homestuck. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/533862948/lets-get-graphic-100-favorite-comics-and-graphic-novels. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- ↑ Macy, Seth G. (April 13, 2016). "Webcomic Homestuck Ends 7 Year Run". IGN. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Min, Lilian (February 24, 2014). "A Story That Could Only Be Told Online" (in en). The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/a-story-that-could-only-be-told-online/385895/. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Cavna, Michael (October 29, 2018). 'Homestuck' creator explains how his webcomic became a phenomenon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/homestuck-creator-explains-how-his-webcomic-became-phenomenon/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Faircloth, Kelly (October 3, 2012) (in en). Stuck on Homestuck: How Andrew Hussie Turned a Tumblr Craze Into a Teenage Empire. Betabeat. http://betabeat.com/2012/10/tumblr-andrew-hussie-homestuck-kickstarter-game-adventure-text-teens-young-adult/.
