I don't know how to feel about The Genesis Project (so I read Steam reviews instead)

you can fight the homestuck, but you'll never win
This was intended to be something quick and fun so that I'd have more time to work on a video for next week, but I ended up spending more time on this than I had anticipated. Call it my desire to deliver a decent level of quality. :/
MUSIC, in order of appearance:
Menuing - [Unknown, taken from The Genesis Project OST]
Schrödinger's Harbinger - Noisemaker
Harley-Claire Retro Time! - FlareDragon
Solar Momentum - Nicholas Nakano
confinis - horizon
Grimbark - Willow Ascenzo
Black (Electro Swing Remix) - Spad3s

[@Number1Arbiter]

The best part of this game has to be the bug where If you jump attack and an oger punches you, you fly back extremely far and land on the planet but take no fall damage for some reason.

[@roxygaming6372]

this happened to me like yesterday i was losing it

[@kazzy2974]

what is binah doing on a homestuck video

[@Zedryx69]

that's not intentional?????

[@TomoLamp]

thats not a bug , the same happened to john

[@ToasterOfToasting]

oh my god yes i love that one

[@allamalad]

THIS GAME IS SO FUNN!! even though it's buggy I'd say it's very accurate to the source material. When me and my sister were playing for example, she accidentally deleted my computer and I couldn't help her session 💀

[@Crystalkitzoku]

Bro made a void session

[@af2547]

Doomed timeline

[@maedae69]

1:40 GUYS I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO BUILD STAIRS i genuinely had no idea how to build stairs bc in the earlier versions you had the option to revise with stairs right and then youd just build a platform and make more stairs, but like they changed that so now you have to be accurate to real life and build a support for the stairs

[@hsd6716]

if only someone had warned you about stairs, bro

[@Zedryx69]

@@hsd6716 underrated reply

[@hsd6716]

@@Zedryx69 thanks :)

[@billyrob612]

This game is the pure essence of Homestuck. glitchy, confusing, annoying, and somehow fub

[@moss_fetttt]

i model for this game! we're working on it. not a lot of us work on it full time (though thats expected for a non monetized fangame :B) so it'll be out when its out. great video!

[@0whatman]

I love the genesis project and hope it succeeds and becomes great it's an early access that keeps getting updated, and sure it isnt worked on as a main work thing so it's not like it's getting progress 24/7, but like, it's a community project that's worked on for free and for getting for free so you cant demand someone dedicate all days to it lol

[@aegisScale]

Learning about this game through these reviews and this gameplay is simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to me in my life. Thank you Cratmag 💀☠💀

[@Cratmang]

BTW, I installed a Warhammer 40k mod through the Steam workshop, and I forgot about it until I found a Space Marine helmet.

[@eridanampora3024]

now finally something worthy I can waste my precious time on

[@LucidWeedy]

Can't wait to come back to this game in like 5-10 years and see how far they've expanded the recipe list for the alchemiter. Its not TRUE sburb until youve got 90 different swords that all SUCK. Lol.

[@tylercunanan8255]

i hope they add an incomprehensiably thin stairway. and looking forward to see more denisins added in soon

[@thelemonwiththumbs4560]

6:15 Thank god for that robot because I was about to quit playing the game after logging in and seeing all of my cool slhamcre's dissapear

[@maverickREAL]

People do realize that this is early access right

[@glajm6231]

My introduction to the game ended with one of the early versions when I teleported into the medium while I was at Dave's house and then accidentally fell off the roof. Since Dave lives in an apartment on the top floor, he obviously doesn't have outside doors, so I just couldn't get back up💀

[@weatherman1504]

I will say this as someone who has played it. It has potential, it has interesting adaptations of Homestuck's "mechanics" into something that can be played. I'd even say that, to date, it's probably the closest we've gotten to a proper Homestuck video game (this is either happy or sad depending on the next part). Unfortunately, it is very glitchy and there are several game breaking bugs I've found that basically make it unplayable. The biggest that I've seen is that there is a bug that makes you get stuck in the ground, then when you try to get out you are no longer able to move. There's also a bug I encountered where one dungeon replaced all other dungeons for some reason, that was weird. Overall tho, I'm hoping that this game does improve and while it is buggy, it has fantastic potential.

[@Mudkipf4n]

as a newer homestuck reader i say i like tgp even though most sessions i couldn't get past the first gate

[@spyril]

oh the saving thing! that's about multiplayer, it will break things if anything about the save conditions and load conditions are different (for example; somebody's game crashes, so you save and quit so they can rejoin, and now the save is broken forever)

[@charlessmith3756]

We got another fangame on steam! Friendsim 2

[@Cratmang]

Well, fuzz cakes. Now I gotta go download it. I do recall hearing about a fanmade continuation to Friendsim/Pesterquest, but I can't remember whether this was the one I heard of, or if I'm confusing it with another similar project.

[@Fangria]

i really think the games graphics should stylize more. make everything look like its done in the mspa style, draw it all isometrically with no paralaxing and let people manually swap what angle theyre looking at

[@destinypurpley]

I feel like the main drawback to the game that could be causing a lot of the issues is the dedication to keeping the homestuck art style. the 2d characters/3d objects probably causes a lot of issues, especially with clipping and controls. I feel like spurb would work better as a first person game, with the third person being used for building. but that's a personal opinion.

[@Cratmang]

I mostly disagree with your opinion. The camera and controls could use some tweaking (I would love it if I could turn the camera only 90 degrees instead of 180), and there are some issues coming from emulating the source material that I feel is better left out. But these are mostly technical issues that could be ironed out. Part of the appeal behind TGP (if not the entire point) is how it emulates the experience of the webcomic, minus the walls of chatlog text. If you were to look at a screenshot of any moment in the game as it is right now, you'd almost instantly think, "wow, that looks just like Homestuck!" Having a first-person view could work, but then you would lose part of that appeal (very few panels throughout HS, if any, were in first-person). Not to mention, having the game in first-person comes with its own set of issues. How would the player see and navigate the world? How does it limit the player? What do other players and npcs look like? Are they still sprites, or would they be 3D models? We have seen a glimpse of 3D Homestuck (or HS adjacent) once before. Suffice to say, it was not a flattering look.

[@destinypurpley]

@@Cratmang I suppose you could be right, I see the appeal in wanting to keep to the original style, and emulating the whole aesthetic of the webcomic, I suppose I just believe that a game like spurb would work better in first person, since a lot of it relies on moving around and combat with creatures all around you, espcially since if it were a real game irl it would be first person, since you're actually going around and "doing" everything. although now that I say that I have had the horrible vision of Spurb being an AR game. I by no means dislike this fan game though, I think it's very fun and with some more time spent I think it'll be a great experience! But I do feel like the combat could be reworked, the combat was definitely the part of the game that felt like it needed the most work, since it was hard to tell if you were even hitting the enemies at some points

[@antonberkbigler5759]

While I don’t think making it ask person would help, I feel like mashing 2D and 3d makes things, confusing in a few ways. Such as proprioception and spatial awareness, and visualizing hitboxes. While idk if the sprite art style can be maintained when translated to three dimensions (see the gmod models as an example), being a 2D sprite creature moving through a 3d world and interacting with other 2D sprite creatures just makes things complicated on the front end and likely the back end.

[@trickytraveller3272]

The base structure of the game I love for how much it feels like you're really experiencing sburb in it's buggy, annoying glory, such as how it took me a very long time to figure out how to make platforms for the medium and my client player was stuck at home ( ;) wonk), or how I first reached my planet by getting superpunched into the ocean by an ogre, but I understand that others might not appreciate that. Another thing is the simple lack of content, but that's just a given, and will slowly disappear as the game grows

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

I wonder if they can make the cartoony lines more pixelated, and make better, more accurate landscapes.. it just needs more time, that’s all.

[@Nightfruitt]

Saving does not function in multiplayer and it glitches quiet a bit but I usually finish it one sitting because it’s short

[@tiildeath]

the smuppetland review was mine this is bizarre to see

[@axeburningfire2507]

Moral of the story: Homestuck fans are insane. ... So, nothing new, really.

[@agamerfan6647]

Honestly summed my thoughts up on the game

[@platannapipidae9621]

i have ~40 hours in this game and i know how i feel about it. would be an amazing game if all playthroughs wouldn't be streched from 10 minutes to 40 by trying to walk around the game breaking bugs.

[@darqdail]

great game. ruined my life

[@darqdail]

not even a joke btw

[@marcosogatinho4151]

it game is epic

[@embryodemocracy1275]

How many people do you think have actually met up ingame

[@pr2747]

hi, the captions are broken. a wall of text is displayed in the first three seconds and then nothing after

[@aidenlilley1319]

I cannot recreate this issue. There's both manually written captions and automatic captions in English.

[@Cratmang]

I think this might be an issue with your web browser / KZbin app. I've checked this video on Firefox and iOS devices, and the captions are working as intended. It might also be possible that your app just randomly tripped and failed to load the captions - similar to how web browsers can occasionally load a Page without applying any formatting (I dunno, I'm just spitballing ideas for what the problem is). Have you tried reloading?

[@pr2747]

@@Cratmang i use firefox on a laptop. ah, ultimately i did figure out that the problem was caused by youtube assuming "English (Canada)" was a foreign language and automatically turning on CC autotranslate from English (Canada) to... English. TLDR youtube's fault

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

holy hell you have 413 subscribers

[@Cratmang]

QUICK MA, GET THE CAMERA!

[@hermodmaxxing]

yiu have 413 suvscribers at the time im commenting and i think thats pretty funny