Early works Andrew Hussie first began posting
webcomics under the alias "S_O" on the website
Team Special Olympics, which would go on to run from August 25, 2003, until 2008. The site would host comics, art tutorials, and articles maintained by Hussie. A variety of short
comic strips, casually sustained blurbs and
Scribblettes created by Andrew (S_O), his brother Byron Hussie (Byrobot) and Cindy Marie (Betelgeuse) were exhibited on Team Special Olympics alongside Hussie's better known, longer comics
Whistles: The Starlight Calliope, ''And It Don't Stop
and Neon Ice Cream Headache
. Hussie formally announced the discontinuation of Team Special Olympics'' on August 10, 2007, in a news post where he would state that he would no longer post comics on the website and that it would serve as a "static archive for all the comics [he's] done over the years", as Hussie's focus had begun to shift towards maintaining
MS Paint Adventures and its associated works. Moreover, Hussie would begin to maintain a personal
blog for his activities on a separate website.
Team Special Olympics was shut down in 2008. Hussie began posting
Jailbreak in 2006. This was posted on a
discussion forum and took the appearance of a text-based graphical adventure game. Hussie would post simple drawings with text, and other forum users would suggest commands for the game that Hussie would quickly respond to with a rapidly drawn image. In 2007, Hussie created the website
MS Paint Adventures to host his comics; its first three works were
Jailbreak,
Bard Quest, and
Problem Sleuth.
Problem Sleuth would run for over 1,600 pages produced over one year, and during this time Hussie was creating up to 10 pages a day. Initially, Hussie updated
Homestuck regularly, usually about three times a week. However, there were often long gaps between updates, including a pause of over a year starting in 2013, and another long pause starting in 2015.
Vice noted that
Homestuck was "wildly popular during its seven-year run"; Fans contributed to the final work in a number of ways, including producing all of the music. Over a hundred musicians and artists contributed to the final work,
Homestuck sequels and spin-offs The Homestuck Epilogues was a text-only work released in April 2019. It consisted of 190,000 words in a nonlinear novel that was co-written by Hussie and four other creators; Cephied_Variable, ctset, Lalo Hunt, and Aysha U. Farah. A sequel to
Homestuck, titled
Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon, began in late 2019. While the story was outlined by Hussie, it was to be written by a team of writers. According to its website, it was updated regularly for about a year "until it was paused indefinitely", with the rest of the comic to be released when it was completed. In 2024, the comic was renamed simply to
Homestuck: Beyond Canon, and resumed regular updates, being created by a new team. A videogame based on
Homestuck, called
Hiveswap, was first announced in 2012 and raised over $US2.4 million through a
Kickstarter. Initially, its release date was given as 2014, but had a troubled development, including switching from 3D to 2D years after development started. It was later broken up into four episodes: the first episode of
Hiveswap was released in 2017 and its second episode was released in 2020. A second sister series, titled Hauntswitch, is also planned to have four parts. Two other videogames were based on
Homestuck,
Hiveswap Friendsim and
Pesterquest. Hussie has been a managing member of What Pumpkin, LLC. According to What Pumpkin's website, Hussie officially left What Pumpkin in early 2020 to work on projects unrelated to
Homestuck. According to the notice, Hussie still retains ownership of the
Homestuck intellectual property, but has discontinued all creative involvement in any future
Homestuck projects.
Other works Hussie produced a visual novel called
Psycholonials. It was first announced in December 2020, and its final episode was released in April 2021. Hussie has described it as a commentary on American politics and on his perception of uncomfortable cult-like atmosphere surrounding the
Homestuck fandom. == Personal life ==