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3	[=FunOrb=] was a [[WebGames gaming site]] created by Creator/JagexGamesStudio as a sister site to the popular MMORPG ''VideoGame/{{RuneScape}}''. Unfortunately, it was shut down on August 7th, 2018. While online, it featured a wide variety of {{Casual Video Game}}s spanning multiple genres, ranging from simple board games like TabletopGame/{{Chess}} to more complex games like its most popular attraction, Arcanists.
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7	!This site contains examples of:
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9	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: For many of the achievements within Arcanists, the only thing you get besides the achievement is a lovely array of clothes to go with it.
10	* AsteroidsMonster: The pink Bunkatbots in Sumoblitz split when defeated. Stellar Shard is another example with literal asteroids (which is unsurprising, as it's heavily based on the TropeNamer).
11	* AxCrazy: River Trolls in Arcanists, which have an autoattack that causes CollisionDamage to ''whatever'' they touch first.
12	* BigDamnFireExit: In Hostile Spawn, there are fires and explosions all over the place in some of the missions, but it's always possible to find another way around them.
13	* BizarrePuzzleGame: Pixelate.
14	* BoringButPractical: For those lucky people who always seem to get the first turn in Arcanists there are many a strategy they like to use repeatedly in order to ensure their victory streaks. Be it trapping the enemy then repeatedly head stuffing them with brine bolt, persistently knocking them off the edge with Shock Bomb or using a Conductor Rod the moment they get the chance to kill them with one hit.
15	* BreakingOut: Brick-À-Brac.
16	* BribingYourWayToVictory: In some of the multiplayer games, subscribing members can be pitted against free players, where their access to more powerful and diverse abilities from the ExpansionPack gives them a huge advantage, even after accounting for CompetitiveBalance.
17	* CastFromHitPoints: Familiars in Arcanists require life payments.
18	** Also, if you suffer a RingOut while your [[{{Teleportation}} Arcane Gate]] is on cooldown, you have to cast it this way too.
19	* ChainLightning: Subverted; a spell by this name existed in Arcanists, but it was actually a kinetic projectile that bounced off whatever it hit several times, dealing damage in a small area-of-effect with each bounce; whether it hit targets or the ground didn't matter to its function.
20	* ChargedAttack:
21	** Wizard Run lets you charge up your attack. A fully-charged attack [[FloatingInABubble traps enemies inside bubbles]].
22	** Sumoblitz has a charge meter that gradually fills, granting you a special burst attack when it's full.
23	** The Verne Cannon in Dr. Phlogiston Saves the Earth must be charged up.
24	** "Ball", "Arrow", and some "Bomb"-type spells in Arcanists had their distance flown after launching decided by how long the fire button was held when casting them.
25	* CollisionDamage: PlayedStraight in some games, Averted in others.
26	* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Used in several games.
27	* CompetitiveBalance: Possibly true in some or all of the multiplayer games.
28	* CosmeticAward: Used in several games.
29	* DeadCharacterWalking: A minor programming oversight causes mecha to not die until their hit points are negative- meaning that mechs with precisely zero hit points will cling to life with an empty health bar until they are felled by a stray point of damage. Although this glitch isn't much use against [[MoreDakka machine guns]] or [[DeathOfAThousandCuts lasers]], it is immensely satisfying to complete a [[PlayerVersusPlayer Fleet]] CaptureTheFlag objective while technically dead.
30	* DeathCourse: Tomb Racer, complete with [[IndyEscape Rolling Boulders]], BottomlessPits, SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom, [[LaserHallway Deadly Lasers]], [[{{Troperiffic}} and more]].
31	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Tomb Racer. [[HaveANiceDeath A snarky message]] and [[InstantGravestone a tombstone on the spot where you died]], and you're back at the start of the room.
32	* DifficultyByAcceleration: Several games, including Bouncedown, Pixelate, Deko Bloko, etc.
33	* DirectionallySolidPlatforms: In Vertigo, and possibly other games.
34	* DragonHoard: In ''Dungeon Assault'', you play as a dragon who has to create a labyrinth of guards and traps to protect your hoard while sending out raiders to steal treasure from other players.
35	* ElementalPowers: Arcanists has spellbooks for [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[DishingOutDirt Stone]], [[MakingASplash Seas]], [[GreenThumb Nature]], [[CastingAShadow Underdark]], [[LightEmUp Overlight]], [[AnIcePerson Frost]], [[ShockAndAwe Storms]], and [[TimeMaster Cogs]].
36	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Avoiding this is the goal of [[InvokedTrope Invoking]] OrcusOnHisThrone on [[OurDragonsAReDifferent the dragons]] in Dungeon Assault.
37	** Also [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] by the Armageddon spells in Arcanists: Hardly likely to end the world (depending just how large a scale you imagine the matches to take place on) but they'll ''certainly'' mess up the arena as you know it.
38	* Every10000Points: This is how you get a OneUp in Wizard Run.
39	* ExpansionPack: Arcanists, Armies of Gielinor, and several other games have received them.
40	* FallingBlocks: Lexicominos, Deko Bloko, and Geoblox.
41	* FantasticRacism: Every time a Dwarf Renegade raider is selected in Dungeon Assault, he'll yell, "Don't trust the elves!"
42	* {{Fireballs}}: The basic offensive attack in "Arcanists".
43	* ForeverWar: The backstory, and [[OrcusOnHisThrone arguably]] the present, of Dungeon Assault.
44	* {{Freemium}}: Most of the games.
45	* GaidenGame: Armies of Gielinor is a TurnBasedStrategy set in the same universe as ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}''.
46	* GameLobby: Used for all the multiplayer games. A unified lobby system to unite all the games was planned, but remained in DevelopmentHell until the website shut down.
47	* GraveHumour: Miner Disturbance's GameOver screen is a gravestone with a witty epitaph about your cause of death. Tomb Racer plants gravestones and treats the player to a snarky farewell on every death.
48	* {{Greed}}: The dragons of Dungeon Assault.
49	* GreenHillZone: Arcanists has "Grassy Hills". Armies of Gielinor has Misthalin.
50	* HaveANiceDeath: See GraveHumor.
51	* HomeRunHitter: The primary purpose of arcane flash and vine whip in Arcanists. Several other spells also have heavy knockback, like the [[GameBreaker infamous]] Shock Bomb.
52	* HorizontalScrollingShooter: Dr. Phlogiston Saves the Earth
53	* HumongousMecha: Steel Sentinels.
54	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Arcanists allows you to attack with fireballs, bombs, meteors, and...cuckoo clocks?
55	* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: One of the obstacles in Bouncedown.
56	* InstantGravestone: A gravestone appears along with a HaveANiceDeath message every time you die in ''Tomb Racer''.
57	* ItCameFromTheFridge: The premise of Bachelor Fridge.
58	* JustifiedExtraLives: Star Cannon has "rewind modules" that turn back time to before your ship was destroyed.
59	** And Escape Vector has an Emergency Teleporter with limited charge.
60	* LifeDrain: Drain Bolt in Arcanists.
61	* LightningBruiser: The Chaos Champion in Dungeon Assault has max stats in every category. However, he has no special abilities, and he's the most expensive unit in the game.
62	* LimitBreak: Sumoblitz has one.
63	* MadMarbleMaze: Torquing!
64	* MagicMissileStorm: Several Arcane-book spells in Arcanists. The Arcane Arrow spell allowed you to cast one directly, firing off four homing projectiles with weak individual but acceptable total damage, while Arcane Bombs exploded into a cluster of three Arcane Arrows, and Imp Destruction caused all Imps present on the map to turn into barrages of Arcane Missiles, the quantity determined by their health, and could thus play the trope straight or to a very exaggerated degree.
65	* ManEatingPlant: You could summon one in Arcanists.
66	* MatchThreeGame: Geoblox, Monkey Puzzle 2, Deko Bloko, and arguably Tetralink.
67	* NewGamePlus:
68	** After unlocking all the spells in Arcanists, you can reset your progress to gain a Prestige Hat, erasing all your unlocked spells and starting you over with the default spells plus the Book of Cogs, which is only available through a reset.
69	** Dungeon Assault lets you charge orbs that give permanent powerups. The only way to obtain them is to destroy your dungeon and start again from scratch; however, you do retain the ability to buy any higher-level raiders and traps that you've unlocked.
70	* OneHitKill: Arcanists. The second stage of a fissure, a fully charged volcano, thorn bomb or flurry with a fully charged nature familiar, a dark knight or most famously the Conductor Rod before it was nerfed. Take your pick. There's also the Imp Explosion nuke created by charging an Arcane Imp (a spell literally everyone has access to) to 250HP using Arcane spells, then detonating it. The attack deals damage equal to the Imp's HP at the time and players have a maximum of 250HP without use of a tower or shield.
71	* OneHitPointWonder: Sumoblitz and Wizard Run. [=StarCannon=] arguably also qualifies: you have a shield that recharges over a short amount of time, so you die if you get hit twice in quick succession.
72	* OrcusOnHisThrone: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]/[[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by ThePowersThatBe in Dungeon Assault in order to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
73	-->'''Narrator''': The Land of Dungaria, home of the Dragon. [[ForeverWar Once it was a battlefield]], where [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[YeOldeButcheredEnglish did wage war upon each other]] for [[{{Pride}} pride and dominance]]. [[TheEndofTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The world itself was in danger of destruction.]] [[OrcusOnHisThrone Now, the ancient dragons sleep]] [[DragonHoard in their subterranean lairs.]] [[CosmicChessGame But still they battle, still they fight.]] [[CombatByChampion Through the life and death of]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractors others]], they seek [[{{Greed}} gold]] and [[{{Pride}} renown]]. [[VillainProtagonist Take upon yourself the mantle of dragonhood.]] Defend your hoard. Send forth your raiders. [[ToBeAMaster Become the Dragon King!]]
74	* {{Overheating}}: Steel Sentinels.
75	* PacifistRun: Several achievements.
76	* PersonOfMassDestruction: Arcanists. Well capable of nearly levelling the arena with their stronger attacks, even before [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]] spells come into play.
77	* PressXToDie: Some of the games will naturally mock you for this.
78	* {{Pride}}: A large part of the dragons' motives in Dungeon Assault.
79	* PointBuildSystem: Sumoblitz and Steel Sentinels.
80	* PowerUp: Many games include them.
81	* RealTimeWithPause: Shattered Plans has simultaneous turns.
82	* RecursiveAmmo: The Arcane Bomb in Arcanists is a grenade that releases three smaller projectiles when it explodes.
83	** Indeed, several spells act like this - Lava Bomb, Disruption, Meteor, Comet...
84	* ReviveKillsZombie: "Overlight" spells in Arcanists deal less damage than some of their elemental counterparts against normal targets, but against TheUndead, their damage is doubled, and the healing spell becomes a damaging spell with [[HomeRunHitter enormous knockback]].
85	* {{Roboteching}}: Arcane arrows in Arcanists will change direction in midair to home in on their target.
86	* ScoringPoints: Possible in many of the games.
87	* SoulJar: The AutoRevive "familiar" of dark magic users in Arcanists.
88	* ASpaceMarineIsYou: Hostile Spawn.
89	* SteamPunk: The premise of Dr. Phlogiston Saves the Earth is an alien invasion in 19th-century England.
90	* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Warriors, rangers, mages, and flying units in Armies of Gielinor.
91	* TeleFrag: The AwesomeButImpractical special ability of the Crystalline Shape-Shifter in Armies of Gielinor.
92	* {{Teleportation}}: The Arcane Gate spell:
93	--> Teleports the Arcanist to the target position.
94	* TempleOfDoom: Tomb Racer.
95	* ThemedCursor: Dungeon Assault has a dragon's claw.
96	* ToBeAMaster: [[BadBoss A dark version of this]] is the ultimate goal of Dungeon Assault.
97	* TowerDefense: Orb Defence.
98	* {{Troperiffic}}: Tomb Racer takes every TempleOfDoom cliche the creators could think of and plays them totally straight. The game that results is proof that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.
99	* UnitsNotToScale: Armies of Gielinor.
100	* VerticalScrollingShooter: [=StarCannon=]
101	* VillainProtagonist: Zombie Dawn, Zombie Dawn Multi, and Dungeon Assault feature the player as these. Several other games also feature morally ambiguous heroes, or protagonists with [[ExcusePlot room for interpretation]].
102	* VirtualPaperDoll: Arcanists, Armies of Gielinor, and Kickabout League.
103	* WorldInTheSky: It is possible to destroy parts of the map in Arcanists, but even when there's nothing under the pieces, they remain afloat. This applies from the hugest chunks to the tiniest specks.
104	** Also, the Sky Castles map is implied to be this from the start, although [[GameplayAndStorySegregation there is still water directly beneath it]].
105	* YeOldeButcheredEnglish: Briefly used in the intro for Dungeon Assault, and possibly in other games.

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