The company revealed that they were undergoing a period of transition, but that development of Hiveswap would remain the long-term focus. In March and April 2018, a number of high profile employees at What Pumpkin Studios confirmed that they had parted ways with the company, including Hiveswap director Cohen Edenfield, composers James Roach and Toby Fox, and artists Shelby Cragg, Poinko, and Rah Bop. Two months later, in November, it was announced that Hiveswap: Act 2 was projected to release in Spring 2018. In September 2017, after five years due to frequent production delays and changes, What Pumpkin Studios successfully released the first episode of the Homestuck Adventure Game, known as Hiveswap: Act 1. However, the video announcing these was removed by What Pumpkin on October 24th, 2016, and many of the initiatives described in it appear to have been shelved. In May 2016, a new suite of projects in development were announced in collaboration with actor Dante Basco, under the name Homestuck 2.0. This iteration of the website has since also closed. In April 2016, following the release of Collide, the website was relaunched, primarily to sell prints, but also to sell other items previously available on the old site. The What Pumpkin site was redirected to the Homestuck group on We Love Fine. This partnership handed the merchandise production side of company over to We Love Fine, though What Pumpkin would still be involved with the process.
In July 2015, it was announced that What Pumpkin would be entering a partnership with We Love Fine (now known as Forfansbyfans), a popular online retailer that the company had worked with before. It can be assumed that What Pumpkin was split into two separate branches, with What Pumpkin Studios Florida which handling retail orders for MSPA merchandise, and What Pumpkin Studios New York handling video game development. In October 2014, Andrew Hussie announced that What Pumpkin had taken the reins from The Odd Gentlemen in the development of Hiveswap, thus effectively becoming a game development studio. What Pumpkin's Director of Business Development George Rohac and Andrew Hussie both took part in the project as co-producer and creative director respectively. The studio also had a hand in developing the HTML5 web based game Namco High. Once the Homestuck Adventure Game Kickstarter concluded, the fundraising campaign for what later became Hiveswap, What Pumpkin was left with the arduous task of shipping out over 7000 packages to their backers. Eventually it grew into an online store, producing and selling god tier hoodies, plush dolls, vinyl figurines, poster prints and much more. The website launched in June 2010 as a record label to represent the musicians that composed the music for MS Paint Adventures. 1.5 Homestuck Epilogues and What Pumpkin Games.
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