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Freelance rates for Hiveswap, Pesterquest, and future What Pumpkin projects increased for all workers after success of Homestuck Patreon
🕑 Added 2019-11-24 21:19:28 +0000 UTC
The level of support for the Homestuck Patreon has been overwhelming, and What Pumpkin couldn't be more thankful this Thanksgiving. Fans want to support the independent artists behind their favorite works, and What Pumpkin has gotten to business making it happen.
In early November, What Pumpkin founder Andrew Hussie and the freelance creative and technical team behind WP's projects agreed on a significant increase in rates for the art, writing, music and code that makes the expanding Homestuck and Hiveswap universe possible.
Too often, the comics and games we enjoy – even big-budget corporate media – are made in unhealthy and unsustainable "crunch" environments. The direct support and generosity of Homestuck fans helps to ensure better conditions for everyone.
"The point of the Patreon wasn't only to fund HS^2. There are dozens of people working on Homestuck games and projects, and almost all of them came from the fandom originally. So they're spread across everything we're doing, like Hiveswap, Friendsim, Pesterquest, and now HS^2, contributing art, writing, music and programming. The Patreon is a good way for fans who love what they're doing to contribute to their overall compensation outside of game sales alone. Before the Patreon existed, there really wasn't a coherent means of showing more support for the people working on all this. Unless you wanted to buy multiple copies of the games? Which I certainly don't discourage. But I thought maybe we could come up with something better, which is also attached to a cool new project. The better the Patreon does, not only does everyone at the studio benefit, but the more you'll see HS^2 start to pick up the pace," said What Pumpkin founder Andrew Hussie.
"It was important to the Homestuck^2 team that fans' enthusiasm and support was shared with everyone working with What Pumpkin, and Homestuck's community has again proved itself the greatest fandom around," said Homestuck^2 co-director Aysha U. Farah.
The workers that benefit from these contributions are active on the following projects:
- HIVESWAP: ACT 2 is the anticipated second entry in the four-part series of narrative adventure games from the universe of Homestuck. Hiveswap has something for you, whether you're a dedicated fan or just now discovering the fandom phenomenon.
- Embark on a quest of epic importance in PESTERQUEST, a grimsical episodic visual novel set in the darkly funny Homestuck/Hiveswap universe. Dive deeper into Homestuck lore in this rich visual novel with an unapologetically irreverent story.
- HOMESTUCK^2: BEYOND CANON is an official continuation of the cult-classic webcomic Homestuck and a follow-up to The Homestuck Epilogues, dropped as a major event in April of this year. Homestuck 2: Beyond Canon takes a combination of Andrew Hussie's original writing and plot outlines and concepts and joins him with a team of new, diverse voices to expand the compelling narratives of Homestuck's most (and least) beloved characters.
2019 has been an incredible journey, with numerous releases for our fans. With this support, expect even more announcements from What Pumpkin in 2020 and beyond!
What Pumpkin is an independent studio founded by Andrew Hussie, author and artist behind cult classic webcomic Homestuck. It brings together a diverse team with a passion for telling new stories in Homestuck and Hiveswap's vast universes and a love for the worldwide community and culture that surrounds their work.
Comments
Tess
Will the bonus chapters be released eventually or are they just patreon only?
LowBurn
"This Patreon supports What Pumpkin and all authors and artists on this project. Additional funding beyond what's required to create the project will support new projects from What Pumpkin, and a portion of the proceeds will be directly shared with the creative contributors to this comic" comes directly from the front page, of course it was clear
Your Resident Homestuck Guy, Gumba Masta
That and two millions really doesn't make a adventure game nowadays. I mean there are people who singlehandedly make em but they usualy work for five to 10 years on it while sustaining themselves on instant ramen fumes and being too stubborn to die when their body gives out from the stress
Dewdrop
Ugh, damned if that doesn't sound accurate. I won't shy from saying Hussie's a brilliant creative mind, but I hope the team has some good money managers now.
FrankenFlora
I hope so, tho I'd still like it confirmed by an official source cause its worded strangely.
Maggcat
Honestly the main arguement from people is the claim that this is admitting the Kickstarter money for Hiveswap is gone. But if certain sources are to be believed, it was for reason's out of hussies control, and the culprits have made it impossible to speak out about what happened for the forseeable future. Expect a big revelation or outrage in 20 or so years.
lordoffantasy
Good to see some communication. And hopefully it alleviates some fears some peeps have over the project.... No quieting the naysayers though. But let them naysay. And make sure they aren't in any way right >_>
kevin kamau
I think it's a double update every month just we have to wait 2 months for them to start after reaching the goal. Example we reach November's goal we get our 2 updates in January and if we still have 2000 in December we get 2 updates in February but if we don't have 2000 in January we get 1 update in March
FrankenFlora
just wanted to ask regarding the 2000 patrons for double updates, does that mean an extra update every two months, or double updates every month?
Madame Hardy
Seize the Hussie of production!
ThatOneEnder
Ah, that really wasn't very clear, thank you for the clarification.
What Pumpkin
Right on the main description! "This Patreon supports What Pumpkin and all authors and artists on this project. Additional funding beyond what's required to create the project will support new projects from What Pumpkin, and a portion of the proceeds will be directly shared with the creative contributors to this comic. "
ThatOneEnder
Wait, why the hell is Homestuck 2 patreon money going toward other projects? Isn't this supposed to be a Homestuck 2 patreon where all the money goes only toward Homestuck 2 and nothing else???
Darel Halgarth
Thank-you a lot for this update! It wasn't clear from the patreon introduction exactly what this patreon was supporting; it sounded like it was primarily HS^2, but this clarifies that the patreon is more about funding all the HS projects What Pumpkin are working on. This also makes it clearer that the people working on HS^2 are also busy working on other HS projects, not just HS^2. So thanks!
Ena-Malika Børve
Thank you for this update!! : ) It's good to see What Pumpkin Studios taking their artists and creators seriously, and compensate them fairly (and well) for their work! Keep up the awesome work!!
Sam MadamMelonMeow
Hell yes. This is a company i feel good about supporting. Its an amazing team of diversely talented creators, and i hope our funds help keep them going
Of Winter
Love you guys. <3
Ashley Martinez
All of this is honestly so good to hear. Bring able to support the artists and minds behind the homestuck spectrum of projects and endeavors is so gr8!! Love whats being made and always excited for whats next ❤❤
Kayla Ryan
That's gr8 to hear!!!!!!!!
Gab
Happy to help <3
Cyberbun
unionize homestuck
hailvera
Thanks for giving us a detailed breakdown of what's going on and where our money is going! It means a lot to keep your community informed on things like this. Good luck in the future; excited to see where this all goes!
Fer
Yaaaaaay
exoskeletalVoidist
i’m really happy to be able to support the team, and to see that the patreon is doing well. i’m so excited to see future content from you guys :)
Madame Hardy
That's lovely news. I like the idea of you guys all living better.
erin
Yes!!!! Im so happy to be able to support you guys!!!
NeoTermina
Awesome! Hopefully this quietens down the "omg we paid for 24 pages" crap that has been going around.
