Furcadia

Furcadia
Login screen for Furcadia
Developer(s)Dragon's Eye Productions, Inc.

Catnip Studios
Publisher(s)Dragon's Eye Productions, Inc.

Catnip Studios
Designer(s)Dr. Cat
'Manda
Ben Jans
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and others)
ReleaseDecember 16, 1996 (1996-12-16)
Genre(s)Massively multiplayer online game
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Furcadia is a free-to-play MMOSG/MMORPG or graphical MUD,[1][2] set in a fantasy world inhabited by magical creatures. The game is based on user-created content with emphasis on world building tools, exploring, socializing, and free-form roleplaying. Furcadia hosts a large volunteer program called the Beekin Helpers,[3] allowing players to help with community moderation, welcoming new players, handling in-game technical support, running in game events, creating art for the game itself, accessing and updating the game's website, and bug hunting.[4] Furcadia holds the Guinness World Records title for the longest continuously running social MMORPG and, in addition to being one of the first games to heavily encourage modding and let users build virtual worlds for themselves,[5][6][7][8] it was also one of the first freemium online games.[9] In 2008, Furcadia was reported as having over 60,000 players.[10]

  1. ^ Koster, Raph (1999-10-13). "Recent News". Raph Koster's Website. Retrieved 2010-05-01. Also, I have to say that I think Furcadia is probably the most successful non-gaming, socially oriented graphical mud I've seen.
  2. ^ Carson, Bryan M. (2007). "Virtual Copyright: The Applicability and Ownership of Copyright in Second Life", Against the Grain, 19:5, p.80.
  3. ^ Dragon's Eye Productions. "Help Beekins". Dragon's Eye Productions. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
  4. ^ Dragon's Eye Productions. "About The Beekins". Dragon's Eye Productions. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
  5. ^ "8 Games That Changed How We Play". rog.asus.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  6. ^ Guinness World Records (2010-11-28). "Longest-running social mmorpg". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
  7. ^ Dragon's Eye Productions (2007-12-15). "Furcadia Celebrates 10th Anniversary". Multiplayer Online Games Directory. Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
  8. ^ "2006 Town Meeting transcript". Dragon's Eye Productions. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
  9. ^ Issues in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management: Articles from SAGE Business Researcher (First ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc. 2018. p. 114. ISBN 9781506381381. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. ^ Syam, Kathryn; Scialdone, Michael. (2008). "Where Dreams and Dragons Meet: An Ethnographic Analysis of Two Examples of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)". Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet 3:1. p64. Retrieved January 20, 2013.