What would the BEST way to adapt Homestuck be?

[101Leafy]

There's already a thread for the worst ways, but some of them seemed kind of good! That's why we should all share our good ideas for adaptions here!

AlterniaBound for 3DS Eshop would be awesome; we could play 12 different stories as the different trolls, and there could be multiple endings using doomed timelines! Not to mention different unlockables such as decorating your hive and costumes.

[Darth GW7]

Homestuck as a Video Game has potential. Would be REALLY difficult to make good, though.
A Co-op mode with a "Server" and "Client" player could be really cool.

[allHailZillyhoo]

I've put a lot of thought into this, some of which can be found at my blog here. Here's the short version: I would break Homestuck up into three movies.

Part 1: Acts 1-4
Part 2: Act 5
Part 3: Acts 6-7

Each part begins with a kid stuck in his/her room (John, Karkat, and Jane respectively). Part 1 is a slightly difficult ending to pull off in that very little wraps up, but the journeys of the bunnies and the exiles are significant enough to pull everything together. Part 2 is Hivebent, paired with the long leadup to Cascade, which satisfyingly wraps up most of the beta universe stories. Part 3, or Act 6 and beyond, would work very well as its own self-contained story.

[dustyDesperado]

A Homestuck game for DS would be unbelievable. Maybe instead of trying to follow the complex comic, you start off in a two-player server/client game and have to switch between them, using the touch screen for building and alchemising and the like while the top screen is constantly active in the Medium. You'd have to switch between the two and eventually fight with them as the heroes of Time and Space. Maybe an unlockable second story or sub-chapters with different Aspects or Trolls.

[Kuyan J]

There is already a thread for this:

http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php...ll-Rock-Operas

[KaziKoiwai]

The best way to adapt Homestuck would be a cartoon series for Adult Swim, that's several seasons long, as well as some mini-series and TV movies dedicated to the trolls, with

Neil Patrick Harris as John
Rob Paulson as Dave
Tara Strong as Jade
Grey DeLisle as Rose and Roxy
Dante Basco as Dirk
Hynden Walch as Jane
Greg Cipes as Jake

AND

Tom Kenny as Karkat, Gamzee, and Sollux
Olivia Olson as Aradia and Vriska
Vic Mignogna as Equius and Eridan
Wendy Hoopes as Terezi and Kanaya
Larissa Wolcott as Nepeta
Tara Strong as Tavros
And Cathy Weseluck as Feferi

[Zaprika]

A Vocaloid song series, preferably by someone like Akuno-P, Putin-P, or someone of the like. It could be awesome.

[Whimsical_Dollmaker]

I would probably go for an animated series. It could air on a network and time that would allow some language though it would be mostly bleeped. Then uncensored DVDs. The debate then turns to a voice cast.

[proserpine]

Oh gog, no. No homestuck movie could ever work. The only type of adaptation I could kind of get behind would be a video game version. Actually, a homestuck video game would be awesome if it were one of those genre mashing types where the game play changes according to story: like, starting out as kind of an old school rpg, then branching into platforming when John starts exploring LOWAS, fighting games for the strife sections, etc. It would be frickin sweet.

[Tirgo]

Neil Patrick Harris as John
Rob Paulson as Dave
Tara Strong as Jade
Grey DeLisle as Rose and Roxy
Dante Basco as Dirk
Hynden Walch as Jane
Greg Cipes as Jake

AND

Tom Kenny as Karkat, Gamzee, and Sollux
Olivia Olson as Aradia and Vriska
Vic Mignogna as Equius and Eridan
Wendy Hoopes as Terezi and Kanaya
Larissa Wolcott as Nepeta
Tara Strong as Tavros
And Cathy Weseluck as Feferi

>nph as john

you must be toking up

also bro can't be anyone but this guy

otherwise, hussie directed and written animated web-series using all the voices from let's read homestuck

except bro

who is that guy.

also every episode would be like an hour long

[proserpine]

You are right, bro can't be anyone other than that guy.

That was pretty awesome.

. . . Sugoi.

[Centimani]

The main problem with a movie is length, I am afraid. Homestuck is just too goddamn long to be distilled into three hours of screentime without absolutely butchering the thing. And it would be five years before the damn thing gets done. No, no, hell no, and hell the fuck no. And also, quite possibly, no.

If somehow I had an ounce of talent and somebody foisted the responsibility on me... I would probably end up trying to do a series of web animations that could later be strung together as part of a continuous whole. The Huss kills himself every time he tries one of his lengthy flash animations but, then again, he doesn't have shittons of zealot minions each working on one little aspect of the project like soulless robots on an assembly line. Voiceacting suddenly becomes a real option. I'll agree there.

Videogame-wise... yeah. I could see it. The series is more or less made for Visual Novel stuff but you could support all sorts of oddball material.

[Tirgo]

yeah a homestuck movie would be basically horrible and ruin my life

DIRECTED BY M NIGHT SHYAMALAN

i like web series because no network would ever pick up this piece of shit property

i believe this genuinely

also it doesn't fit in with adult swim's programming in the slightest

[Centimani]

One major requirement would be for the script to not be nailed down to the exact way the story played out in the existing materials. Dialog that is acceptable in, and perhaps one of the best parts of, Homestuck would absolutely murder an animation. The same comes down to the way that the story flickers all over the place every few panels more than occasionally. Staying coherent for fifteen minutes at a time is a necessity.

[proserpine]

Dude, I figured out how the video game could work: each kid has a different style of play.

John: 3-dplatformer
Rose: JRPG
Jade: FPS
Dave: hack and slash.

trolls:
visual novel since that section goes so fast

and then for the B2 kids:
Jake: 2-d platformer
Jane: Cooking Mama
Roxy: rail shooter
Dirk: SRPG

It could totally work.

[Panda-s1]

Dude, I figured out how the video game could work: each kid has a different style of play.

John: 3-dplatformer
Rose: JRPG
Jade: FPS
Dave: hack and slash.

trolls:
visual novel since that section goes so fast

and then for the B2 kids:
Jake: 2-d platformer
Jane: Cooking Mama
Roxy: rail shooter
Dirk: SRPG

It could totally work.

Wouldn't Roxy be more of a beat 'em up— no wait, you got a point.


for that matter, anyone else notice that amongst characters with gun-kind specibi, only one kill has ever been shown, and it was an own goal, too?

edit: oh wait no, Grandpa did something on LOWAS, but we don't know if he has a strife specibus, so meh

[Qmark]

Okay guys, just hear me out on this one...

Homestuck: The Munchkin Game.

First one to get all the levels wins.

[proserpine]

Okay guys, just hear me out on this one...

Homestuck: The Munchkin Game.

First one to get all the levels wins.

That would be Vriska: the Munchkin Game, right?

[metaphysics]

As entertaining as it is to imagine a HS movie, in reality, it would never work. Homestuck is too long and complicated to ever have a good (keyword here is GOOD) movie adaption. But that doesn't stop me from casting actors as characters (Vriska would be played by Nic Cage).

Being serious now: I think that an amazing thing to do would be a SBURB video game. It would not involve the canon characters or storyline; it would be a game in which you are the player. You make your own apperance, design your room and house. Possibly answer some kind of personality test to further determine how the game is going to organize your specific adventure, in-depth enough to have no two sessions completely identical. You would choose what to prototype, enter the Medium, fight imps, gain experience and ascend your ecoladder (or whatever it's called), find your denizen, ect. ect, and then, finally, ascend to God Tier. If you win, that is. Because the game would be difficult enough that only a fraction of players actually "win." The vast majority of players would die in some way, and there's no "retry" button... you have to start from the beginning.
Basically, I want a highly personalized, incredibly challenging game of SBURB that I can play myself. Multi-player option exists, but adding more players in real-time would make it twenty times more complicated to program and organize, so I would be fine with just a one-player PC game.
But being realistic, I realize that this kind of game would take forever to create and program, with all the details and gameplay stuff, and be insanely expensive. It will probably never happen. But I can still dream...

[Teltaur]

I don't know, I don't think a movie adaptation would be impossible per-se, just very, very easy to butcher.

The flow of the story would probably have to be altered in a few places to be made a bit more linear, if not just to avoid confusion, and some of the more anecdotal bits would likely have to be cut out for time purposes, but the overall storyline and characterization/character interaction could be mostly untouched and have it still work. Like someone said earlier, have a first movie follow Acts 1-4, ending with Descend, have the second be both parts of Act 5, ending with Cascade, and have the last movie tie it all up with Acts 6 and 7.

It might mean that a few of the more complicated concepts would have to be watered down just a bit, or one bit of funny dialogue might have to be cut out, but that's the nature of adaptations. It happened with Harry Potter, it happened with Lord of the Rings, but both adaptations were still quality works in their own right and made changes where they made sense from a movie perspective. If I wanted to see Homestuck exactly how it is in the webcomic, then I'd just read the webcomic.

[Alli]

To be honest I would actually probably go the route of a more visual novel type game.

[Druplesnubb]

We already have a thread for this, it's even on the first page. http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php...ll-Rock-Operas

Edit: Wait, this thread is several months old. Someone necro'd this rather than using the thread that was on the first page.

[GaMaGu]

It's way too long to fit into a single entry, so movies without sequels and non-episodic games are completely out of the question. IMO an animated series would work best.

[Panda-s1]

btw, Hussie talked about movie adaptations here and kinda here

That would be Vriska: the Munchkin Game, right?

jesus FUCK why didn't I think of that, that's perfect goddamn

[Wiwaxia]

Homestuck, the Greek tragedy.

The trolls are the chorus.