MSPA Wiki:News

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2015
The scheduled horse updates have come to an end! Hussie will announce the horse situation on the sixteenth.
 * July 11th - Out of horses

No, we're not Troll-ing you: While there may not be an update for the fifth anniversary of Hivebent, there is a pretty decent sale happening at Whatpumpkin, so head over to the site and check it out!
 * June 12th - 26.12% off!

We've hit our second update break! We'll get to see what happens next when it's the fifteenth in a European country.
 * June 4th -

Turns out the horse for tonight has gone out to pasture and will not be appearing. Your finger can relax for one more day.
 * May 24th - Hold Your Horses a Little Longer

Hussie has confirmed on Twitter that edits of Star Trek: The Next Generation are returning after almost five years!
 * May 22nd – More TNG edits!

With today's update, we've hit the first week-long break in the horse calendars. Your F5-pressing finger can take a vacation until it's the 25th in some European country in a little over a week.
 * May 14th - Hold Your Horses

While this post is a little belated, Hussie has announced that he will no longer be updating at midnight EST. He will now be updating at midnight in some European-ish timezone. Which timezone will it be each night? It's a surprise!
 * April 28th - Update times

Not only has the beginning of A6A6I5 finally been posted, with us seeing the ramifications of John's retcons, we have also gotten horse calendar updates. Starting next week, Homestuck will update on the days Monhay, Tuesnort, Wedsneigh, Thursclop, and Frihorse, with some weeklong breaks in-between up until mid-July when more horses will be scheduled. It looks like the end of Homestuck is going to be an exciting ride, so stay tuned!
 * April 22nd - Horse Calendars

A6A6A5, otherwise known as Caliborn's Masterpiece, has officially begun, and trust us, it is. Wow. It sure is something. In other news, has finally come to its touching conclusion, and PXS as a whole is on hiatus for the time being. Also. What Pumpkin is having a 41.3% off sale for the 13th, 14th, and 15th, so don't miss this incredible opportunity. Pick up a calendar, some books, maybe finally get the last of the SBaHJ books for cheap.
 * April 13th -

Three cool updates happened today! We went into it more on our, but here's the gist of it:
 * April 11th - Hiveswap, Homestuck, PXS
 * Hiveswap has an official YouTube channel now, and they posted a new teaser trailer on it.
 * Homestuck, obviously, returns on 4/13 with Caliborn's masterpiece, A6A6A5. It'll be 40 pages, and run through 4/15. Starting the following week will be our last "normal act", A6A6I5, with apparently upwards of 400 pages!
 * Although the first book for it is coming out soon, Paradox Space has been running from a buffer since January, and will be "pausing for a good while" after Summerteen Romance concludes on 4/13. More news on this coming soon on the PXS site itself.

Did we mention? Since our last news post here, there have been three Hiveswap updates on the original Kickstarter page - go check them out! The first one was just after that last news post, and the last two were just before a neat little development. Remember how What Pumpkin Studios was making a game dev branch to create and release the game? Well, as of a few days ago, their official website is up and running! Also, today marks t minus two weeks until A6A6A5 hits, so get ready. With the game on its way, Caliborn's masterpiece imminent, and likely to end on the same day given the current trend, 4/13 is looking pretty exciting this year!
 * March 30th - What Pumpkin Studios NYC

Done relatively under the radar, promotional content for Hiveswap has begun cropping up on the web. This includes a twitter account and an official website. Both sources announce that the first of four installments of Hiveswap, "Act 1", will arrive in Spring 2015. The other three are scheduled for release throughout the year, but this appears less concrete. The website contains some brand new screenshots and concept art from the game, as well as a press release, confirming the upcoming press preview of the game at next month's Game Developer's Convention in San Francisco, followed by public demos at several spring conventions. Check out the website yourself for more info!
 * February 17th – Hiveswap is nigh.

One of our finest editors has been promoted to moderator! Long overdue, really, I think we can all agree.
 * February 9th – Congratulations to Ylimegirl!

A news post of moderate length, fun to read as always, has been added to the site. A6A6A5 is actually done, but it's so completely awesome that Hussie thinks we can't handle it yet, especially if it'd leave us hanging until the next pages after it come out in three months.
 * January 20th – PAUSE OF INDETERMINATE NAME

Speaking of which, the rest of the story, as previously mentioned, has been written in its entirety, Hussie simply needs to start drawing the panels. That, on top of responsibilities relating to the development and production of Hiveswap, means he needs to take quite the break to catch up. So when can we expect the comic to return? 4/13, naturally. Until then, have fun being productive!

A brief news post has been added to the website: due to the combination of previously laid out updates, A6A6I4 will end on January 19th, as opposed to the initially planned January 26th. Looking forward, Hussie has stated that he has mostly written everything that comes after that, but he's still working on it, as he has not yet begun drawing. This means we will almost certainly be seeing a pause after the 19th, but it's currently unclear how long that will be.
 * January 7th – CRITICAL HORSE ADJUSTMENT

Sadly, the new MWF schedule of Homestuck precluded there being an update on New Year's Day itself. As such, anyone who was hoping for the customary event of some form of ball drop in the comic is doubtless disappointed.
 * January 1st – Comic Sans MS

You could say... Hussie dropped the ball there. Comic Sans MS

2014
As revealed in a new Kickstarter update, the project formerly known as the Homestuck Adventure Game has received a title: Hiveswap. The game will tell the story of a human girl who is sent to Alternia and must find a way to get back to Earth. Hiveswap's development has been moved over to a newly-formed What Pumpkin game studio and, once completed, it will be released as an episodic title likely consisting of four installments.
 * October 30th – Adventure Game title, more details announced

Unquestionably the most important Flash page since [S] Cascade, as is only appropriate to being released on the anniversary of it. Go and watch it. Now.
 * October 25th – HS 8801 ([S] GAME OVER)

The next update will be on November 1st.

The servers are back up, apparently in a stable state this time, now with the previously attempted update, and this time with the correct Caliborn site theme. Along with the update came a news post, where Hussie explained the update plans for the near future (and please note, he expects more server crashes, implying the issue isn't entirely solved):
 * October 17th – End of Gigapause
 * A test page, which is what yesterday was.
 * A bunch of pages on the 17th and 18th 18th and 19th.
 * No updates until the 25th.
 * No updates again until 11/1, at which point regular updates will resume according to a schedule Hussie will reveal on that day.

Welcome back, everyone. We hope you enjoy the ride.

Despite the earlier indication, the update actually came at about 4:22pm GMT-4 today. It was a single page depicting the start of A6A6A3, wherein Caliborn welcomed the readers back, with the visual focus on the manga book he had earlier. MSPA crashed within five minutes of the update being posted, and it is still down. The image, however, can still be accessed via the cdn server.
 * October 16th – End of Gigapause

While not technically the gigapause commencement anniversary, today is the anniversary of the last update. In addition, certain seems to indicate that the gigapause will finally end tomorrow, Friday the 17th. While we cannot confirm or deny this, it might be best to prepare yourselves regardless, as the hype alone will likely be enough to impact your day.
 * October 16th – Happy Gigaversary

Hussie has posted on the MSPA site news for the first time since April, and here's the gist of it: He didn't get as much work done as he wanted (approximately three out of twelve months were spent on Homestuck), and he plans to return to serial updates in mid to late October. However, it should absolutely be noted that the implication is that this is not a return to a daily update schedule.
 * September 27th – Gigapause coming to a close

The MSPA server migration has now been carried out. And no, before you get all excited, this does not mean the gigaupd8 is imminent.
 * September 26th – Server upgrade

Hussie made a tweet on the 17th casually indicating he had made progress on the remainder of Homestuck. Using some numbers he gave us, we were able to estimate that he's made approximately 2300 new pages over the duration of the gigapause. We made a more detailed explanation of this in a.
 * September 24th – Homestuck progress

Our gigapause duration tracker hit 314 days today, a landmark we thought you all might enjoy!
 * August 26th – Nothing important is happening

It had a six and a half month run, but with the closing of ShiftyLook, the plug has been pulled on Namco High's severs.
 * July 1st – Namco High has been shut down

While most of the information in the update is restricted to Kickstarter backers, what we can confirm for everyone is that writing and planning for the Homestuck Adventure Game is officially finished, and Hussie has handed over this framework to the developers. From here on out, it's all in their hands to complete the rest of the game and make it a reality.
 * June 19th – Kickstarter Update #15


 * June 12th

...but happy 6/12 anyway, everyone!

As of today, the wiki is now essentially the Hussie Wiki, with its scope covering all of his works rather than just MSPA and projects directly related to it. But don't worry, MSPA is still a major focus, and we aren't changing the wiki's name!
 * June 1st – Wiki scope expanded

The mystery thing has been revealed: a new website, paradoxspace.com, which is intended to allow Homestuck to expand beyond the limitations imposed by the canon webcomic. Which is good, because the canon one kinda relies on this one dude churning stuff out, and as you might possibly have noticed, is kinda slow lately.
 * April 13th – Launch of paradoxspace.com

Happy 4/13! While everyone may be excited about the possibility of something from Hussie, it is worth remembering that back in January he said that Homestuck would not end today, a statement he recently reiterated. While the end may not come other things may come, back in his January announcement came the announcement of another "secret project" which he recently revealed would have new information "soon", while we can't guarantee new information today we can say that today would be a good day for such a thing.
 * April 13th – End of Year Five

We have no idea what it is, but, Hussie says he definitely has something planned for the End of Year 5.
 * March 23rd – Looking forward to 4/13?

What Pumpkin that Hussie will be attending Anime Boston on March 22 and 23rd. On a more unfortunate note, last month it was announced that Namco High was being shut down, this has since been revealed due to the closing of ShiftyLook as a whole.
 * March 19th – First con revealed and the closing of Namco High

Hussie has announced that the What Pumpkin crew will be attending several conventions this year; a total of 11 at the moment. These include: In addition, Hussie has stated that he will be attending two or three of these cons himself, although he hasn't decided which ones yet, and he seems to imply he'll visit unannounced.
 * March 5th – Constuck
 * Anime Boston / Boston, MA / March 21-23 / Booth # 233, 234
 * MegaCon / Orlando, FL / March 21-23 / At WeLoveFine's Booth # 74
 * Emerald City Comicon / Seattle, WA / March 28-30 / Booth # 1420
 * Salt Lake Comic Con (April) / Salt Lake City, UT / April 17-19 / Booth # 1001
 * WonderCon / Anaheim, CA / April 18-20 / Booth # 1500, 1502
 * Calgary Expo / Calgary, AB, Canada / April 24-27 / Booths BF 3726 and BF 3725
 * C2E2 / Chicago, IL / April 25-27 / Booth # 268
 * Anime Expo / Los Angeles, CA /July 3-6 / Booth # TBA
 * Florida Supercon / Miami, FL / July 3-6 / Booth # 911, 913, 915
 * Dragon Con / Atlanta, GA / Aug 29-Sept 1 / Booth # TBA
 * Salt Lake Comic Con (September) / Salt Lake City, UT / Sept 4-6 / Booth # 1001

WeLoveFine has launched its Homestuck merchandise shop; the first items for sale are a Lil Cal backpack and dream self tunic tanks.
 * February 5th – New Homestuck merch at WeLoveFine

On the 24th, Hussie made a rundown announcement of current events. 4/13 will not be the end date of the comic, it's implausible for him to finish it in such a short amount of time. All of the time during the gigapause so far has been spent solely on writing, both for Homestuck and the Adventure Game, and Homestuck likely needs another month of writing before he actually starts drawing panels. In other news: A system has finally been set in place for Paypal backers of the Adventure Game to receive the same updates as Kickstarter backers, Hussie has officially announced a Homestuck Design Contest in conjunction with We Love Fine, the beta kids vinyl figures are now available in the What Pumpkin store, and Hussie has taken on yet another secret project. All that has been confirmed about the secret project is that it will be Homestuck related.
 * January 30th – Comic Sans MS

2013
Having reached the 64 day mark, the gigapause is now longer than even the combined Cascade hiatus, thus making it the absolute longest in MSPA history.
 * December 19th – Longest MSPA hiatus, and counting

Namco High has finally launched and is now playable on the ShiftyLook website. Note that, while the base game is free to play, the three Homestuck characters are premium datelines that must be purchased by buying dateline paks at Crunchyroll, with each 3-pak unlocking a random Homestuck dateline and the deluxe pak unlocking all three of them.
 * December 17th – Namco High is here

At 61 days long, the Gigapause has surpassed the Year 4 Megapause and become the longest continuous hiatus in MSPA history, although technically the non-continuous Cascade hiatus is just a bit longer, at 63 days.
 * December 16th – Gigapause becomes longest (continuous) MSPA hiatus

The final group of new items this season has been revealed, including three snazzy retro lunchboxes, a veritable rainbow of new scalemate plushes, and two new art prints.
 * December 11th – More stuff, part 6 (Andrew Hussie ruins Christmas)

The Namco High website has updated its character list one last time, revealing that Davesprite will be the third and final dateable Homestuck character in the game.
 * December 9th – Davesprite joins Namco High

Having reached day 50, the gigapause has now overtaken the (second) Cascade hiatus. The megapause from earlier this year remains the longest hiatus at 60 days long.
 * December 5th – Gigapause becomes second longest MSPA hiatus

The Namco High website has revealed that Jane Crocker will be the second dateable Homestuck character appearing in the game. Along with this news, Andrew Hussie has announced that the game is currently targeting a December 17 release date.
 * December 2nd – Jane joins Namco High

What Pumpkin's pre-holiday merchandise rollout approaches its end with today's release of a large quantity of items, the penultimate wave of new product for this year. Included in today's releases are the tarot cards and scalemate plush toys from the Homestuck Adventure Game Kickstarter, plush toys of all four consorts, two new art prints featuring the kids, Aranea apparel (T-shirts and a hoodie), and beta kid Baffler puzzles. This year's final new items, to be released on December 9, will be Homestuck lunchboxes, vinyl figures of the beta kids, more varieties of scalemates, and three more art prints.
 * November 27th – More stuff, part 5 (Buy NAK)

Hussie has revealed that he was the one assigned to pull together the entire team for Namco High, and announced that the game will come out sometime next month.
 * November 23rd – Fast times at Namco High

The website for Namco High (the upcoming dating sim from Namco Bandai and What Pumpkin Studios) has been updated, revealing that Terezi Pyrope will appear in the game as one of the many dateable students. She will be joined by two other dateable Homestuck characters, but their identities have not yet been announced.
 * November 15th – Namco High to feature Homestuck characters

Even with the gigapause still in effect, What Pumpkin continues to release new merchandise. Items released last week include the 2014 Homestuck calendar, four art prints depicting the beta kids' lands, alpha kid Baffler puzzles, and a limited edition Becquerel and GCat hoodie. This week's releases include "Crocker Tier" Life clothes (T-shirts and a hoodie) and enamel-filled god tier pins and charms.
 * November 13th – More stuff, part 4 (CONSUME)

Andrew Hussie has announced one final hiatus for Homestuck. Instead of posting the remainder of Act 6 Act 6 in serial update form, he will complete the rest of the act and Act 7, then release all the content in a final mega-update that will conclude the story. He did not provide any release date estimate, only saying that it will be "a while."
 * October 17th – The gigapause

The "Month of Stuff" continues with TopatoCo's release of the next two MSPA books. Homestuck: Book Three collects the complete third act, while Problem Sleuth Volume 5: Sepulchritude collects all chapters not previously released in print form. Additionally, now that all of Problem Sleuth has been released in print, a complete five-volume box set is also available for purchase.
 * October 12th – More stuff, part 3 (the stuff pile doesnt stop from getting taller)

As promised, What Pumpkin has added more new merchandise to its store. This time, the new merchandise includes troll pullover hoodies and kid icon embroidered patches (sold individually or in beta/alpha sets of four).
 * October 9th – More stuff, part 2

There is more stuff in the What Pumpkin store, and there is also the promise of more more stuff in coming weeks, and later, even more more stuff. The current batch of more stuff is alpha kid shirts and a limited (!) supply of hand-crafted God Tier Bafflers.
 * October 1st – More stuff

HS 8331 (Canonical confirmation at last) that things will never stop from keep happening constantly.
 * August 13th – I warned you dog

Andrew Hussie's side-project with Namco Bandai has been revealed: Namco High, a dating sim where characters from Namco Bandai games attend high school. The game is scheduled for release on ShiftyLook sometime later this year.
 * July 19th – Namco High

Andrew Hussie has departed for SDCC, he has announced that after he returns Homestuck will not resume until sometime in August.
 * July 16th – San Diego Comic-Con, several week hiatus

ShiftyLook has announced that they have been secretly working with Andrew Hussie to "create something new". Andrew Hussie will be taking part in a ShiftyLook panel, Video Games-Webcomics Amalgam Extraordinaire!, at SDCC on July 20th. Rachel from What Pumpkin has stated that this is a side-project unrelated to the Homestuck Adventure Game.
 * July 3rd – ShiftyLook announcement, San Diego Comic-Con

Andrew Hussie has announced that the megapause might not be entirely over. There will still be updates, there just might be a few scattered weeks without updates. Hussie will also be at Florida Supercon between July 4th and 7th, and at San Diego Comic-Con between July 18th and 21st, so expect no updates on these dates.
 * June 30th – Year 4 Megapause redux, Comic-Cons

And a happy wriggling day to Karkat.
 * June 12th – Happy 6/12

Oh yeah and this totally unimportant HS 8143 ("update") thing also happened.

The current hiatus has now overtaken the second part of the Cascade hiatus for the title of longest continuous hiatus to date. However, Cascade was preceded by two hiatuses, divided only by a three-page update; if these are counted as a single hiatus instead of two, it remains the longest non-continuous hiatus.
 * June 2nd – Record broken for longest continuous hiatus

There now remain only two chapters left in the story: Act 6 Act 6 and Act 7. However, Andrew Hussie has announced that, in order to ensure that the Homestuck Adventure Game is released on time, he will be taking a multi-month break from the comic to focus on writing and planning for the game.
 * April 14th – End of Act 6 Intermission 5, Homestuck on hiatus

As we reach the end of year 4 we await for the highly anticipated anniversary update.
 * April 13th – 4 years of Homestuck

How do you expect to outrun John's arm, when HS 8004 (it is already everywhere?)
 * April 5th – John Limblish

But never fear, you can always relive the day of boners, forever.
 * April 2nd – April Fools!

To celebrate, Hussie has given us the thing everyone had been waiting for, HS 7907 (exposition) on leprechaun romance!
 * March 17th – Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Aranea's HS 7897 (exposition) covers Caliborn's encounter with Yaldabaoth.
 * March 13th – First actual appearance of a denizen

Things are looking very troubling indeed.
 * February 16th – End of Act 6 Act 5

CALIBORN,
 * February 2nd – HS 7720 (OH NOOOOOOO)

Calliope and Caliborn's jujus HS 7602 (have finally) HS 7604 (been revealed), along with their wondrous powers when HS 7607 (combined).
 * January 9th – Cherubs' jujus

2012
MSPA Wiki would like to wish our readers and editors Happy Holidays!
 * December 24th – Happy Holidays!

People have begun receiving their rewards for donating to the Homestuck Kickstarter.
 * December 8th – Kickstarter rewards

As of 13:00 (UTC), the MSPA server was approximately 27 hours into "30 minute scheduled maintenance". The site was finally back up by 19:00 (UTC).
 * December 8th – Server downtime; now resolved

Marking the one-year anniversary of the start of Act 6, Act 6 Act 4 has begun – and has already ended. The act consists of a single Flash page showing the Alpha kids exploring and fighting in their new lands over the course of several months.
 * November 12th – HS 7338 (Act 6 Act 4)

Power has been restored to the servers, and the awaited update HS 7327 (has arrived)
 * November 3rd – MSPA servers back up; End of A6I3

There is currently no telling when they will be restored; obviously, webcomic servers are far from a priority after this kind of event.
 * October 30th –

The total raised was $2,485,336, sadly just short of the $2.5 million stretch goal. However, there will be an opportunity for PayPal donations before the campaign ends entirely.
 * October 4th – Main Kickstarter campaign ends.

People who have pledged over $50 to the Kickstarter have received access to the beta of the second part of Openbound, many spoilers abound.
 * September 23rd – Openbound Part Two beta released

The Kickstarter has reached its $700,000 goal ! Any additional money raised between now and October 4th will be used to increase the game's production values and port it to other platforms.
 * September 5th – Homestuck Adventure Game funded

The future of Homestuck : after the comic concludes next year, work will begin on a video game set in the same universe, currently scheduled for release in 2014. A Kickstarter campaign for the project has been launched and is trying to raise $700,000 to fund the game.
 * September 4th – Homestuck Adventure Game announced

Homestuck finally resumes with HS 7163 (another interactive walkaround page), though not strictly a Flash, as apart from the opening sequence, it is coded in HTML5. The update features Meenah exploring a dream bubble in the aftermath of 's attack in the EoA6A3 Flash, and introduces about half of the pre-scratch trolls.
 * August 31st – [S] Act 6 Intermission 3

Two further updates for this walkaround are expected soon, not entirely unlike the start of the previous act.

. Consequently, A6I3 is now expected to arrive shortly before the end of the month.
 * August 20th – Weekstuck

In other news, the second solo album,, has been released on Bandcamp. Additionally, Problem Sleuth Volume Four and Caliborn's shirt design are now available on TopatoCo.

July will have. However they are going to be big ones.
 * July 1st – Hiatus announced

Her name is Calliope, and she's sort of adorable. In her own special way. No, come on, she is.
 * June 17th – uranianUmbra finally revealed

HS 6903 (The first page of the latest update) brings Homestuck up to 5000 pages long. The landmark was reached as Meenah hears about her post-scratch self. It's been quite a journey, and it's still far from over!
 * June 1st – Homestuck reaches 5000 pages

The third anniversary of the beginning of Homestuck (and the first to have an official activity, the ), with the accompanying beginning of Act 6 Part 3, including a point-and-click Flash game. Also, we now have 777 pages on this wiki.
 * April 13th – Happenings

2011
Hee hee hee hoo hoo. Just try to document all of this stuff. Haa haa hee hee ha!
 * 10/25/11 – [S] Cascade.

The first flash animation since the disc was ruined. We shall be seeing the closing of Act 5 in well over a month, according to the Homestuck news update.
 * 8/22/11 – [S] Attempt rare and highly dangerous 5x SHOWDOWN COMBO.

You guys. He did it again. Another Flash animation. Come on. We need some contributions.
 * 3/30/11 – [S] Seer: Descend.

Go here to help.

Another big flash to document. Article is currently here. Contributions much needed.
 * 1/23/11 – [S] Kanaya: Return to the core.

2010
We're doing this. We're making this happen. It is time to document this ridiculously huge flash.
 * 10/25/10 – [S] Past Karkat: Wake up.

Yes, the whole thing. It's going to take a while.

See here to get started.

The default wiki skin has officially changed, meaning that non-users will see the new skin instead of Monaco. A redesign is being worked on that will give the articles much more room to breathe. Please see here for information/discussion.
 * 10/22/10 – The new skin has arrived.

Wikia is moving out their mandatory skin change, and we're going to have to deal with it one way or the other. Please see this blog post for information/discussion.
 * 10/12/10 – Wikia skin changes

Seeing a lot of new editors to the wiki! This is fantastic! Do your best and work together to create those new articles. Don't forget categories, as well! There should be sufficient categories to categorize everything in MSPA. If this doesn't seem the case, please message me.
 * 3/1/10 – Hello there!

Don't forget that Sloppy is fine and that Arranged is fine too. Use the tags instead of the stub tab to make it more obvious that a particular article needs a little bit of that Wiki attention. Happy editing!
 * 1/26/10 – Friendly reminder

2009
A new skin for MSPA Wiki is under development! Discuss.
 * 7/26/09 – New skin

A new MSPA Forum Adventures Wiki has been created! Check it out here.
 * 6/3/09 – MSPAFA Wiki

A new story, called Homestuck, has begun!
 * 4/10/09 – A new story

Problem Sleuth has been completed!
 * 3/10/09 – End of Problem Sleuth

Andrew Hussie linked to this wiki from the main MS Paint Adventures, so there have been a lot of edits lately. That's awesome! Please be bold in your edits.
 * 1/19/09 – Super welcome

Welcome to the MS Paint Adventures Wiki. Since MS Paint Adventures has gotten so complicated, we thought a wiki was in order to help keep track of all the awesomeness going on it. If you are psyched about MS Paint Adventures, please help pitch in and document it!
 * 1/10/09 – Welcome