cassandraooc:

Hey guys! It’s the Steam Game awards, and I saw this category

and immediately thought of the amount of detail and storytelling in every

single

background

in the entirety of hiveswap. I mean, these were a few I had grabbed before for something else, I didn’t go look specifically for good examples (though literally every screen would count.

Homestuck has always been great at using the environment and what’s around a person’s room/house/etc to tell about them, and Hiveswap took it to the next level, not only making lush and detailed environments that are gorgeous and very evocative of the time period that things take place in (at least in the human end), but also making almost every single part of it interactable with everything, giving you tons of unique dialogue that further fleshes out those characters if you delve.

I know it may be too small to stand a chance, but it sure as fuck deserves a win much more than any game I can think of… especially as most are vast, empty expanses of repeated elements, an afterthought that exists because the characters that need a place to stand, not full of character all their own.
So, um, if you see this, please signal boost and vote for Hiveswap, because it’s definitely deserving.