If you are a mobile/Chromebook only reader, you have no recourse but to use the half-assed aforementioned official website, .) To restore the comic's Flash features, a couple heroes named Bambosh and GiovanH created a downloadable executable called the Homestuck Collection, available for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. When Flash stopped working, the animations and games on the official website were replaced with low-quality YouTube recordings. (Why is this? Until 2020, Homestuck used a now-dead technology called Flash to display animated or playable content.
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Most fans use the Homestuck Collection, a fan-made downloadable archive app which is endorsed by the author, Andrew Hussie, and which includes almost every bit of content listed below. To beat the game, they have to interact with the game world’s characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. The plot of Homestuck is infamously convoluted but boils down to: four kids who know each other online play a video game together, inadvertently causing the apocalypse. People call Homestuck a multimedia masterpiece because it’s got musical segments, playable set pieces, cool animations and everything the World Wide Web will allow an artist to put in it. Homestuck is a very long webcomic with a quirky style of narration and presentation that makes it look like an old text adventure game-but really, it’s just a linear story that you read and watch, barring some of the flash games. New Reader's Guide to Homestuck A guide for new Homestuck fans-how to read the comic, what Homestuck is, a complete reading order, and more.