Important for Hugginsverse audience

It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with this blog, really. I’m sure most of my followers have gone away and a bunch of folks straight up think I abandoned Hugginsverse completely (I haven’t), but I feel it’s important to put some stuff out there.

This isn’t a vent, callout, sob story, or anything like that. I just want to say a few things that are very important to me, and if you enjoy Hugginsverse, they might be important to you, too.

When I was 15, I dabbled in RPG Maker and made a game called ?????. It got a major facelift when I was contacted by potential assistants and this remake was called UNKNOWN. I had no idea it would become what it did.

I’ll be 23 in less than a week, and no longer live in the house I grew up in. When I look at UNKNOWN, and the games that followed in its trail, I simultaneously see the happiest point of my life and the cringy doodle in the middle school sketchbook (but in a loving way!...mostly). I hold nothing but appreciation and love for both the stories I had created and the people I had in my audience.

However, I’d like to take a moment to look back on this series through the eyes of an adult, and point out a few things that are going to change now that I’m a bit older and my life experiences have shifted. There will be Cool New Hugginsverse News, too.

The first thing I want to put in here is an apology. I know, I said this wouldn’t be vent, but this is important. I’ll try to make it quick. There will be fun stuff later on, I promise.

The first big change is that in UNKNOWN, the entirety of Zone 2 is hereby removed from canon entirely. No UNKNOWN-related material (I’ve been questioning remakes for a while) I ever release in the future will contain any part of Zone 2 for any reason. I have more than one reason for this, and it leads into my apology.

The main reason for Zone 2′s removal is that it contains a scene depicting assault that was handled in a very insensitive way. In the interest of keeping my promise of not telling sob stories or doing callouts, I will keep it short and say that Zone 2 was not written by me, and this scene was put into the game without my full consent. (If the full story is really needed, feel free to message me on Discord at  The largest bee you've ever seen#9642, as this is where I’m most active.)

However, this does not mean I’m not responsible for the scene being in the version of the game that was released to the public. Beyond all else, UNKNOWN was my own project, and everyone on the team was aware of this. At any moment I could have made the choice to remove this scene from my game. I feel insulted that such a scene used a character of mine that I love so dearly, that my favorite OC I’ve ever made is depicted committing such an action, but I had every power in the world to prevent it. I did not do so because I was worried the assistant involved would drop their support -- even though the game was pretty much complete at this point and their refusal to continue would not have mattered.

I want to apologize to anyone who may have been insulted, offended, or triggered by this scene. There was no excuse for it being left in the game. It should be considered non-canon, and will never appear again.

I also want to apologize for an ableist slur used in FastForward. This was used in an attempt to emphasize a character being unforgivable levels of mean, but looking back, it is now clear that my usage of the word at all was in incredibly poor taste and horrifically irresponsible. Any FastFoward related materials I release in the future will have this line removed entirely.

Ok, that was the most serious part, I swear. Let’s do these in ascending order so we keep getting happier.

The second retcon I’d like to introduce is actually a spoiler for 365, so if you haven’t played it, and intend to do so, please do that before clicking this link. I’d also like to warn anyone who is sensitive to animal harm before reading, although it’s non-descriptive. This one is short because it involves a traumatic event from my own life, and I don’t want to upset myself or anyone who reads this.

Third, I’d like to announce a few characters that are no longer canon in the Hugginsverse universe. These include CHARLOTTE THE OBSERVER, BANDIT THE ELSEN, LOUIS THE ELSEN. These characters are no longer included in the universe because permission to use them has been revoked by the owner. I am a bit sad, as I have seen many of these are popular characters in the fandom, but I would like to respect the original creator’s wishes.

Okay! Time for more fun stuff.

An announcement I’d like to make is that I’m working on another game. It will not be an OFF fangame, as I no longer have interest in building off that world, but it is still included in the Hugginsverse canon and features Seneca and the Puppeteer as protagonists. I intend on divorcing the franchise from OFF from hereon out by instead focusing on Seneca and the world he comes from.

I do not know a release date. Hell, I’ve been making, scrapping, remaking, rescrapping this thing for a few years now, as is made obvious by scrolling even just a little on my blog. (The images and news provided there are, unfortunately, outdated and no longer represent the game.) Do not scroll down my blog. I’ve been informed my Tumblr was taken over by sex-related spam bots in my absence. Please message me on Discord using either the server in the link below or my ID above if you wish to contact me or see what I’m up to. Perhaps posting every now and again will motivate me to create the best product I can. I’ve learned a lot since my last Hugginsverse adventure, both from a game design side and technical side, and I want my growth to show as best as it can.

One more thing... I have a Discord server where I post information about games (uncommon) and the world Seneca originated in (common). If you would like to hang out there and discuss Hugginsverse, as I am no longer in the OFF or spinOFF servers, or simply learn a bit more about Seneca’s species and the world he comes from, this server would be a lovely place to do so. I spend most of my time online nowadays on Discord, so anything sent to me there will be seen quite quickly.

Thank you for bearing with me through this very very long text post, and most of all for enjoying the series I put all my little teenage heart into. All of you are wonderful, and I am blessed to have had the experience of making something people loved and were inspired by. I can only hope, and try my best, so my future projects can achieve the same.

UNKNOWN was fun.

@ your tags: you’re welcome :) /j

FUCK Seneca, all of my homies hate Seneca.

Off Liveblogging Correct Order Masterpost

OKAY SINCE APPARENTLY TUMBLR COULD NOT HANDLE A MASSIVE POST DUMP-- future vindictive prankers take note-- I’m just gonna put this in order of how it SHOULD be read before continuing

The Votes Are In! What The Fuck Is An Off/The Hugginsverse

A Cute Game For Fun Children

What Is Lore Even

CAT!!!

No Wonder You All Have Asthma

Wah wah waaaaaaah

Pepper Steak

Metal Or Moo

Horrible Real World Facts

Baby’s First Trigger Warning

THIS FUCKING BITCH

Sure Why Not

An Accurate Summary TRUTH! JUSTICE! MAIL!

Zacharie Spit That Out You Don’t Know Where It’s Been

Take A Fucking Sip Babes

Some of you seem to like my Seneca voice for some reason.

For the previous two tries, I used dialogue that I wrote myself. This time I tried saying some lines from the actual game.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I hope you’ll forgive that I played with his “ih ih ih” laugh a little bit.

Hi! I'm too lazy to open tumblr from google cuz I'm super sick, so just pretend this ask is from rainbowcolorsparklersonfire. I'm confused about the lore of your OFF fangames, but I've only watched playthroughs. I'm assuming they've been updated? Is there anything i can look at for more info, like posts or playthrough videos? Thanks for reading!

Hugginsverse was created when I was very young and production was heavily dictated by what I was feeling at the time. While I currently have no intention on revisiting the games outside of potential remakes, I have a few new projects in an adjacent universe that may make things a bit more clear. While production is slow, and there is no release date, anyone is free to ask questions on my Discord, which can be found in the “Important for Hugginsverse fans” masterpost I made a few posts back.

EDIT: Hugginsverse isn’t going away or ending, I’m just shifting it away from being a series of OFF fangames.

Off: A Cute Game For Fun Children

Mmmmmm listen to that sweet, sweet soundtrack! Guys, if you’re not gonna play, at least do me a favor and listen to the soundtrack. Alias, if you’re listening, you did fan-fucking-tastic

And to start us off on the right foot, we get an OMINOUS DISCLAIMER! Surely nothing can go wrong! I mean, that maybe not says there’s a chance things aren’t fucked! Spoilers, things are fucked

Speaking of fucked, I encounter my first bug; lag. Indeed, it lagged so hard the game crashed! Truly we are off to a wonderous start.

After about 10 minutes and some dial up noises I finally get the card I was trying to read and, yeah. Like I said, Off has an amazing soundtrack which you should absolutely go check out. Besides, Alias’s name is fly as hell. Just say it out loud; Alias Conrad

Coldwood

Don’t you feel cooler just saying it? 

Speaking of names, time to choose ours! Or rather, the name of your puppeteer. See, due to the nature of the Hugginsverse it’s often easier to just name the “player” something else and let them be a character all on their own. Luckily, if anyone remembers my ancient fangirling, I already have one.

Hey there, Juby. I missed you.

Lea Liveblogs Off And The Hugginsverse Fangames; The Prequel To Shenanigans

Okay kids, before we set off to our fieldtrip to fucksville, it’s time for EXPOSITON in the form of me not shutting up for several paragraphs while I tell you why this is a good game, the fangames are good games, an all ya’ll punk asses need to listen to Mama Lea and play these dang games. Off itself was created in 2008 by a cool Belgian dude, one @mortisghost. Originally in French, we’ll be playing the 3.0 English translation as I hear that’s the most accurate (though sadly, removed all the swearing). Off was one of the first Earthbound-like indie games that used surrealism and horror to deconstruct the concept of well, Earthbound-like RPGS! It also created the proto-Sans Undertale in the form of the Zacharie fandom but we’ll get there when we get there While it never truly became popular like it’s thematic descendant Undertale, Off has a rather quirky cult following (myself included), many of which happened to be surprisingly good indie developers themselves! While there are a plethora of fangames, we’ll be focusing on the ones made by @theclaudehuggins, aka The Hugginsverse. Claude Huggins has made multiple OFF fansequels, fan-interquels, and fan prequel-sequel-god-what-the-actual-fuck-is-evens, as well as a couple of mods for Minecraft and Don’t Stave. There’s even a new one in the works which I will ABSOLUTELY be liveblogging when it comes out! The basic gist of a Hugginsverse game goes a little something like this; Temporal Shenanigans, Body Horror, Someone Playing With Powers That Perhaps They Should Not Have Been Given, and Well I Guess Zacharie’s Dead.  For the Liveblogging, we will be playing, in order; Off, CLUELESS, Fastforward, and UNKNOWN. We will not be playing 365 because it’s sad and the last link I saw for Decode was a demo, and I’m not yet ready to include it. Now, as a fair warning; Off and it’s fangames, Huggins and otherwise, do include (as mentioned) body horror, along with some other severely unpleasant phenomenon such as suicide and cannibalism. This is a horror game series after all. I will be tagging as needed per post with tw: (Whatever), but if the whole thing puts you off it’d probably be best to blacklist the tag Jubiel Raham, my personal pupetteer who’s tag will be on every post from game start on. Now, without futher ado, let’s get this shitshow on the road!

question! I just yesterday finished HOME and I'm curious, will you liveblog it too or you're planning to cover only Hugginsverse?

I will probably NOT play HOME, in part because I’m more used to the Hugginsvere and in part that if you play HOME after UNKNOWN, while it looks like a second chance you reset for also the Batter is an even BIGGER asshole and good christ just let the man flounder in purgatory and then go see his wife

Okay so the first thing you gotta know about the Hugginsverse is that it’s much, much, much, much, much, M U C H gorier than Off, and sometimes more depressing depending on what game you’re playing