History VideoGame / Furcadia

* LongRunner: Amongst [=MMOs=], one of the (if not ''the'') longest. It was put out on December 16, 1996, and while it's slowing down, it's still going, almost 23 years later.

* HeroicArchetype: Painfully common and overwrought.

* All forms of MarySue

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* PromotedFanboy: Furcadia has a scripting language known as DragonSpeak which has an editor meant to be as user-friendly as possible. It's also been around for more than 20 years--long enough for a fan to learn some of the very basics of programming with DragonSpeak, grow up, learn more complex programming languages--and join the team of Dragon's Eye Productions.

* LongRunner: Amongst [=MMOs=], one of the (if not ''the'') longest, having run for more than 22 years now.

* LevelEditor: Furcadia is ''huge'' on User-Created maps (called Dreams) (in fact, that's a major point of the game), so it comes with a graphical map editor, a script editor (the programming language is called [=DragonSpeak=]), a program that lets you make your own sprites, and a program that lets you edit how the window itself looks. Graphite's Dream [=ColdFusion=] revealed that you could use these tools to really, ''really'' [[InterfaceScrew screw with how Furcadia worked and looked.]] Also, the first programming language that some of the newer programmers of Furcadia learned was [[ChekhovsSkill none other than DragonSpeak]]

* PettingZooPeople

The Olde-World is a "[[EarthAllAlong Mock Earth]]" focusing mostly on Europe and surrounding countries. Airships powered by coal and made from Bugge body parts are cannon, as are other SteamPunk accouterments. The well-established noble families known as the Greater and Lesser Houses are somewhat segregated by race and allow others not of the same race to marry in or join said house only if they follow the ban on carnivores marrying herbivores.

%%* FantasticRacism

%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Tallus

%%* VideogameCaringPotential

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: For the longest time, the only way to keep someone out of a dream was to use the "eject" command, which kicked the player out of the dream but didn't explicitly ban them, letting them keep coming back over and over until they got bored or got the message. There were lines of code a dream maker could use to permanently eject someone, but it required reuploading the dream in the same spot, which also kicked every other player out. This was eventually resolved with the "banish" command, which not only kicked a player out, but prevented them from ever coming back.

[[http://www.furcadia.com Furcadia]] is a player-based MMO centered around {{Funny Animal}}s created by Dragon's Eye Productions in 1996. While it’s free to play, [[{{Freemium}} though certain features such as larger map sizes or using a mythical animal species such as a Kirin or Phoenix cost money.]]

[[http://www.furcadia.com Furcadia]] is a player-based MMO centered around {{Funny Animal}}s created by Dragon's Eye Productions in 1996. Play is free, [[Freemium though certain features such as larger map sizes or using a mythical animal species such as a Kirin or Phoenix cost money.]]

[[http://www.furcadia.com Furcadia]] is a player-based MMO centered around {{Funny Animal}}s created by Dragon's Eye Productions in 1996. Play is free, though certain features such as larger map sizes or using a mythical animal species such as a Kirin or Phoenix cost money.

* ChekhovsSkill: A very meta example--some of the programmers working on Furcadia now first learned programming via [=DragonSpeak=], Furcadia's scripting language. One user of it said that its very simplicity and niche use made it an excellent language to learn with.

* LongRunner: Amongst [=MMOs=], one of the (if not ''the'') longest, having run for more than 16 years now.

* ChekhovsHobby: A very meta example--some of the programmers working on Furcadia now first learned programming with [=DragonSpeak=], Furcadia's scripting language.

* LevelEditor: Furcadia is ''huge'' on User-Created maps (called Dreams) (in fact, that's a major point of the game), so it comes with a graphical map editor, a script editor (the programming language is called [=DragonSpeak=]), a program that lets you make your own sprites, and a program that lets you edit how the window itself looks. Graphite's Dream [=ColdFusion=] revealed that you could use these tools to really, ''really'' [[InterfaceScrew screw with how Furcadia worked and looked.]] Also, the first programming language that some of the newer programmers of Furcadia learned was [[ChekhovsHobby none other than DragonSpeak]]

* ChekhovsHobby: A very meta example--some of the programmers working on Furcadia now first learned programming with DragonSpeak, Furcadia's scripting language.

* LevelEditor: Furcadia is ''huge'' on User-Created maps (called Dreams) (in fact, that's a major point of the game), so it comes with a graphical map editor, a script editor (the programming language is called DragonSpeak), a program that lets you make your own sprites, and a program that lets you edit how the window itself looks. Graphite's Dream ColdFusion revealed that you could use these tools to really, ''really'' [[InterfaceScrew screw with how Furcadia worked and looked.]] Also, the first programming language that some of the newer programmers of Furcadia learned was [[ChekhovsHobby none other than DragonSpeak]]

* BrainBleach - Especially in Furrabian Nights, Club Dusk 2 Dawn and Drakoria.

* CaptainErsatz - Especially in non-adult oriented maps.

* FireForgedFriends - Usually combined with other combat/angst tropes.
* HalfHumanHybrid - Or sometimes "Half-furre Hybrid" for extra {{Squick}}.
* HappinessInSlavery - Especially in Kasuria and Furrabian Nights.
* HeroicArchetype - Painfully common and overwrought.
* ImprobableWeaponUser - Especially SinisterScythe type weapons.

* MementoMacGuffin - Usually introduced in a character's description and never really used.
* MixAndMatchCritters - [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Horse/Wolf/vampire/dragon/wizard....]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness - Drakoria, Club Dusk 2 Dawn and some areas of Furrabian Nights.

The Olde-World is a "[[EarthAllAlong Mock Earth]]" focusing mostly on Europe and surrounding countries. Airships powered by coal and made from Bugge body parts are cannon as are other SteamPunk accouterments. The well-established noble families known as the Greater and Lesser Houses are somewhat segregated by race and allow others not of the same race to marry in or join said house only if they follow the ban on carnivores marrying herbivores.

* AuthorAppeal - Furrabian Nights (Talzhemir, Emerald Flame), Felorin's Truth or Dare Pool, the forms of the Primes.
* AuthorAvatar - Watch the game carefully and you will find the staff sitting there, usually not in-character, commenting. They even have a chat channel for this!
* BarbieDollAnatomy - Especially in any map that is not rated "adults only".
* CarnivoreConfusion - Avians are considered non-sentient and acceptable as food for furres, yet the Phoenix is a playable race...
* DarkIsNotEvil - Out of Character, the Dark Primes are used as plot devices to stimulate roleplay. In-character, however, Tallus, was an "evil" god of prophecy and [[spoiler: only considered evil because he could see the apocalypse and refused to talk about it]]. Taglin Tigh is considered the king of the Dark Primes and the god of Nightmares, but [[spoiler: actually is friendly and helpful to anyone not a light prime. His main problem with the light primes is that they murdered Tallus in cold blood for no reason.]] He also is renowned as a "good father" to his many children [[spoiler: and often his own brothers and sisters. When seen in public with his less-sane family members, he is always taking care of them and preventing them from hurting anyone.]].
* [[GameBreakingBug Dream Breaking Bug]] - Line 5:2000 is supposed to reset a dream. Unfortunately, it does not take custom maps into account, but "resets" it to a map that is referred to by the server, still keeping the custom map's appearance. This results in rather surreal behavior, and has been a known bug virtually since the line was introduced in 2004.
* DueToTheDead - The Purrwing update of March 2012 was dedicated to one of the major coders of Furcadia, Douglas "Ryhn" Martens.

* DysfunctionJunction - Many of the Primes, especially the Dark ones.
* {{Fanservice}} - Female Noble Buyables
* FantasticRacism
* {{Freemium}} - Possibly the UrExample; as you could buy wings since 1997. You need a flying character to enter one of the main maps (Zephiroth), but some of the special freebie digos can fly anyways.
* GayOption - Homosexuality is the main theme of some user maps. It is frowned upon (but not stigmatized) in Kasuria because it interferes with the widespread noble custom of arranged marriages.
* ImAHumanitarian - Drakorians think nothing of eating Furres, as do Unseelie Fay Furres and other intelligent "magical" races. This is considered "taboo" to illegal in most other lands.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice - Tallus
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence - A surprising number of small items such as certain small plants and waist-high hitching posts can block your path.

* InterspeciesRomance - Although different species may marry freely, and (with aid of a potion) reproduce, an important law now bans carnivores marrying herbivores or omnivores if they are members of the nobility.
* LightIsNotGood - Most of the light primes aren't all that nice, especially if your character has any traits that go against their major themes.

* TheMultiverse - Occasionally you will find player-generated maps with all human characters and jarringly realistic settings.

* OneHitWonder - ''Furcadia'' is the hit, Dragon's Eye Productions is the wonder. Their first game, Dragonspires, went offline more than 15 years ago.
* OutWithABang - Male Bugges die after mating
* OurDragonsAreDifferent - Wyrmmes.
* PerpetualBeta: It's been in Alpha stage since it started in 1996, and wasn't expected to go into Beta stage until sometime after the end of the world (according to [[WordOfGod Joke Of God]]). However, ''without'' this information, you think it might be a finished game that gets regular updates.
* RetCon - The original terms "Half-Prime" and "Quarter-Prime" were changed in 2005 to "Demifane", a term which formerly referred to half-fey only. Now the term includes all "half-breeds", not just those who are descended from Primes, with "half primes" being marked as "mythological" and removed from character creation rules. Several of the Primes also changed species which was written in long after the initial material's first release to cover the "new species" in the game.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin
* SteamPunk - Airships are canon in the Olde World
* VideogameCaringPotential
* WingedHumanoid - You can purchase wings of varying types to go on default characters and most other buyable avatars have wings already.

* DueToTheDead - The last major update (The Purrwing update of March 2012) was dedicated to one of the major coders of Furcadia, Douglas "Ryhn" Martens.

Kasuria is ruled by a king or queen. Prejudice due to species is very rare, but the current ruler belongs to a political faction that has revived a taboo against herbivore/carnivore intermarriage. Non-addictive substances such as alcohol are common but addictive drug use/production/sales is brutally persecuted. In some ways, Kasuria is a {{utopia}}n land. Limbs can be regrown; debilitating diseases can be cured. Mind-magery, a sort of magical equivalent of psychiatry exists. This is the only continent where magic exists.

* {{Altitis}}: Up to ten characters can be registered to any email account. They expire if their owner fails to log in after enough time, provided that character also has no paid content attached to it.

* AGodAmI - Half Primes, Quarter Primes, and even the Primes themselves.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude - Ferians

Incidentally, the webcomic ''[[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'' was created by a Furcadia player called Mab as a reward for a favor received from another called Dan, but has since gone its separate way.

* BarbieDollAnatomy - Especially in any map that is not rated "adults only"

* LongRunner: Amongst MMOs, one of the (if not ''the'') longest, having run for more than 16 years now.

* Freemium - Possibly the UrExample; as you could buy wings since 1997. You need a flying character to enter one of the main maps (Zephiroth), but some of the special freebie digos can fly anyways.

* ObviousBeta: Practically {{inverted}}. The game's fully playable, with no more [[{{Pun}} bugges]] than most releases. It's still in ''Alpha'' stage.