Disparities between Homestuck and Hiveswap

Despite being set within the same universe, and featuring many of the same locations and characters, there exist many disparities in how certain events and concepts are presented and function between both Homestuck and Hiveswap. These disparities likely have many causes; Hiveswap was developed at a later time than Homestuck, was created by a large team as opposed to almost solely Andrew Hussie in the case of Homestuck, and required the developers to take into account the practical gameplay requirements of an actual adventure game that were not a consideration for Homestuck's webcomic format.

Some of these disparities are merely stylistic, but there are also some differences in how canonical universe mechanics, such as Strife, the Sylladex and Kind Abstrata, are presented and implemented. Often, it can be difficult to tell if a perceived disparity is due to different presentation of a consistent system, as Hiveswap's UI is very different to the equivalents in Homestuck, or whether certain mechanics work differently as implemented in the two works, or at least for their main characters. This is exacerbated due to the fact that, while Homestuck deliberately goes into detail about the workings of many of these mechanics, Hiveswap tends to leave the player light on detail, presumably to avoid confusing them when they are required to actually interact with said mechanics. This leaves a lot of missing information with regards to various Hiveswap concepts.

Generally, this wiki is written from the standpoint that conventions and norms as established in Homestuck are regarded to also apply to Hiveswap, except where otherwise specifically confirmed to not be the case. Differences in presentation and UI are usually regarded as being just that, and there are often hypothetical solutions to disparities between the two works. However, as some of this reasoning is merely hypothetical, or else relies on assumptions that have not been specifically confirmed, it is valuable to keep in mind that there may potentially be differences between the two works and to be aware of specific disparities and their potential implications.