Proto:HIVESWAP: Act 1

This page details one or more prototype versions of HIVESWAP: Act 1.

A prototype from February 18, 2014 was released on April 13, 2021. This build is from when the game was still under 3D development and being done by another company.

Overview

• The prototype starts at Joey's bedroom with no title screen or cutscenes. Only this area and a blank room can be accessed.
• Joey and a drone are the only modeled characters, and the only models with textures.
• Models are not animated and have static poses. Joey's model is named jody_model, although her face and animations are named with joey.
• The prototype has the menu and several unused assets from the Adventure Creator toolkit, such as voice files, a robot's model, and a human's spritesheet.
• The save system is not implemented.

Prototype	2015 Prerelease	Final

• Joey's bedroom has less and some different objects to later builds, and its door faces another direction related to the outside.
• Objects only have one option to be interacted with, and not all of them are interactable.
• The cursor only shows custom sprites when hovering on interactable objects.
• Joey will only move around to get next to interacted objects. She can temporarily clip in some locations by selecting some objects, and trying to interact with the 90's console softlocks the game.
• If Joey tries to exit the room, she will be hinted to obtain the walkie-talkie first, the only item that can be added to the inventory and has a sprite. An unfinished dialogue with Jude starts when this is performed.
• Joey's captchalogue cards were red and the inventory had an unfinished layout.

• By exiting the room, Joey will strife a black drone (drones are only seen in the final build on Alternia) at supposely her room's hallway. The "win" condition is by selecting Sidle, which is the end of the demo and allows the player to aimlessly move Joey around the room by clicking in the screen.