The Death of 2000's Neon Deviantart Furry MMOs

[@Izzzyzzz]

YES I KNOW THE MUSIC IS FROM CATZ originally all the music was from FH but I had to cut a decent portion out bc of copyright and I forgot to change the description. Smh y’all thinking I don’t know my Petz Catz 2 music... shame on you

[@DonutToast]

I hope everyone is just excited to have such a specific song in the background lol,, I know I sure am

[@andyellis8490]

omg my heart STOPPED when i heard it thats so funny

[@Nel9870]

anyone remember cooking with Abigail by Jackstauber?

[@dreamcat2693]

that's so weird because I just discovered catz and couldn't stop listening to the theme of it thinking how nostalgic it sounds.

[@adelefurness4021]

OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED THE MUSIC

[@Fish-mc2gs]

I always pretended I was a chicken on feral heart, and people got mad at me for interrupting their intense roleplays so they pretended to kill me.

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

based

[@valentinanunez3708]

................Henrietta?!

[@Man-ej6uv]

AMAZING

[@adenmitchell7633]

*kills you epicly*

[@HenriettaHen]

@@valentinanunez3708 that would be me

[@oreo_6206]

furry history class

[@thanatoast]

Finally, the 'tumblr school' posts have been vindicated.

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

yes

[@feh_x3]

💀💀💀

[@fishboi6051]

:)

[@lampylover]

@@feh_x3 i forgor 💀💀

[@ghostie._]

I never thought my cringy childhood was going to be a small youtube documentary and here I am watching it, god this makes me itchy and teary eyed, I miss impressive title, feral heart and aro'kai...

[@shiruki8974]

This makes me crave the good times when I'd RP creepypasta characters every minute of every day

[@bijouxx1749]

The amount of sleepless nights I spent on FH RPing bc some of my friends were in different time zones, gosh I sure do miss those days

[@M0THD0G]

Guess what? It's back as Feral Heart Unleashed and is open to play right now!

[@lightningmcqueen1514]

@@M0THD0G hello i am from the future! nobody is playing feral heart unleashed anymore but feral heart still has ~10 players playing daily.. thats still somethin

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@lightningmcqueen1514 I'm from even more of the future than you, and I have no idea what the games are up to these days, because I don't play them.

[@nquisitiv3471]

Remember those "ADOPT A PUP" or "FIND A MATE" people who just sat there

[@scyntheachannel]

Yes I used too name a character adoption center and sit down surrounded by littles ones.

[@raninaventura6653]

The matchmaker groups around the bonfire lmao

[@HeyHebi]

@@raninaventura6653 I used to go to those just to chill with people

[@MotnuT]

I loved memeing and adopting every single one and running them back to my friends

[@monsterhighgal101]

YES I PLAYED ANIMAL JAM BUT THEY WERE THERE TOO

[@Rachel-zf2wm]

I have suddenly become interested into this extremely random topic which I will litterally never need to know about

[@angrypaparazzi8530]

Me too pal

[@shibainufriend]

I used to play these when I was a kid. I miss them.

[@kovyvuri]

UPDATE ABOUT FH! Kovu has released the source code to what can be described as the rebirth of classing FH; FHU! Feral Heart Unleashed is currently up in beta, and improvements are being made.

[@xxemopixiexx]

I used to be a mod for an IT based game called Glasmar, and it's actually still running fairly strong with a wide playerbase including some IT originals like Nala_91, Sacura Shadow and more that i forgot the names of

[@liamvautier944]

That's great news tho!! I wish i had my own pc yo play that game, it would be fun to roleplay and make some friends out of boredom when i'm sick in bed or tired from work.

[@vamppanic]

are the old maps back with feral heart unleashed? i feel like the thing that lost the remaining playerbase on FH was the complete overhaul of the maps.

[@GOOSEFLAVORED]

@@vamppanic from what i've read on their update log on their sit, theyre recreating the old maps in a way that still respects em, and also making a second set of maps to explore that is entirely new. both seem pretty good looking!

[@GeorgeG59]

FHU dc server is currently at 4.5K, open to patrons at this moment. I suggest everyone check it out it's looking very hopeful.

[@Haiylin]

Shout out to all the kids with little to no parental supervision that played Impressive Title, Feral Heart, Arokai, Cereal Soup, Alicia online, Wolf Quest, Furcadia, Endless forest and Warrior cats game

[@CircusCuties]

Wolf Quest has a new version called the "Anniversary Edition" which is still being developed to this day. The fanbase is small, but it's a wonderful game all the same. I love it. :)

[@novakami935]

Oh man, wolf quest and endless forest, you are sending me back in time my guy

[@sethrodrigues399]

Wolf quest slapped

[@Hale-ir8ns]

EEEE I LOVED ENDLESS FOREST

[@quicksilverchaos4122]

@@CircusCuties anniversary edition is amazing! they rehauled all that old gameplay and old old graphics and made essentially a new and improved game based on the same premise. they're even working on a Tower Fall sequel where people can raise the pups! gah i can't wait :3

[@indiji]

Honestly we need more silly, customizable furry MMOs again

[@morrigan0103]

Fer.al is pretty similar

[@lovewingdovewing]

Fer.al

[@perfidiousprophet]

Fer.al is blocked behind several paywalls, though. It's very expensive if you want easy access to everything...

[@itsalex1315]

Wolfs life on roblox is preaty popular

[@furthings]

Ma'am, that's VRchat

[@flfb]

My favourite one was The Endless Forest. You couldn't actually do anything in the game, and it was notorious for the dev team's decision to restrict all communication between players to emotes - absolutely no chat function. You played as a fawn that, after about a month of irl time, would age into a stag. You couldn't customise your stag unless you managed to convince another player to use forest magic on you for an effect- difficult when you can't chat, but not impossible. It was so relaxing and quite lovely to look at. The dev team was massively into hands-on development: they'd host events on the server where their avatars (in-game Gods) would make incredible magic happen that was never seen otherwise. I think I remember a concert happening once in game. It was kinda more of an art piece than an MMORPG. From what I remember, it actually was featured in a few art galleries at its height.

[@BrennaDraws]

I was going to bring up Endless Forest. I loved that game so much. It was such a beautiful game and weirdly fun in a rp aspect considering you couldn't use words. I can remember the god events where to two deer gods would bring in the seasons or something?

[@ashentoast]

Oh! It's one of my favourites as well and I still have my accounts from it! I was present for one of those "Abiogenesis" events years ago, where the two devs would move the twin statues and do all sorts of wacky effects that lagged my little crappy computer or give players special skins. I was perhaps too young and dumb to understand the more artsy side of it, but there was something so unique and captivating about the concept of the "game" that it made me stick around for several years. The fact that players made up an entire way of communication based on the limited set of gestures or the fact that if you weren't "in the know" about the RP community, interactions with others felt so ephemeral and strange... The forest has sort of a liminal feel to it, specially if offline or during special events. I still have dreams about the game and remember it fondly.

[@flfb]

@@ashentoast I'm so jealous you got to be there for Abiogenesis omg. It was always scheduled in the early hours for me and I was at school at the time. Did you see they're remaking it?

[@ashentoast]

@@flfb Oh yeah, I was lucky that one time, they would usually host the Abiogenesis when I had school I did! They seem to be rebuilding it on the Unreal engine from scratch. I've considered supporting their IndieGoGo, which seems to be doing pretty good. They're on their 20th "Step" apparently.

[@flfb]

@@ashentoast I'm vibrating with excitement truly

[@Anvandiel]

"the reception was... Bad" Listen, I've never heard about this game in my entire life and was never really into anthropomorphic animal roleplay and even *I* felt betrayed by that return announcement from Kovu lmao

[@Ang3lic-P]

Smh same

[@numpty7501]

Fr 💀

[@_sharkgarden]

Only thing I'd like to add is that they weren't anthropromorphic 😭

[@extrapathos]

saaaaame

[@PinkWolf_YT]

Same here never played or heard any of them but it was low of loving to just abandoned feral hearts for some Facebook game after being gone for so long

[@rancidgoat1549]

Man, this is a trip. I used to play Feralheart every single day after school. I wasn't a scene kid, but I was a Warrior Cat kid, and that's ALL I roleplayed. I still draw my character Wildstar once in a while for nostalgic purposes, haha.

[@sunniwithani]

I’m still a warrior cats kid at 18 haha! Those funky cats just don’t leave ya.

[@bobtheball5384]

@@sunniwithani Same here bud! But I'm 16

[@manboy4720]

you just cursed yourself by being named 'wildstar', you do know that?

[@cmae03]

Omg.... I had a character named Wildstar as well

[@byrnetdown6076]

i used to roleplay warrior cats on roblox everydayyy i had this oc called Shadefire that people used to get mad at me for rping because i was 11 and insisted that he was half fox and half cat :p i could not be stopped though

[@Reblod]

I was there when FeralHeart died...I watched it happen I remember that slowly, over time, there were less and less people and where you could once find huge groups of people and chat with them it was basically a ghost town. T'was a simpler time, staying up late on a school night on my parent's computer roleplaying my little heart out. I remember it feeling so lonely after everyone left

[@rizskoch4391]

Oh god, me too. I've lived through the death of all my favorite online games. Webkinz and Animal Jam becoming entirely pay to play, feral heart becoming a ghost town, and the fateful day flipnote hatena shuttered, ending a four year chunk of my childhood. It's depressing but at least I have some great memories.

[@colorinmymoods]

me too :(

[@cooldudemanbro]

Never played but oh my god that was so sad to read.

[@marrmaladee]

all because they removed general. that really started the downfall lol didnt help the mod / staff team were creeps and corrupt as hell

[@JustFern]

FUN FACT!!! "Kovu" dont remember his real name was looking for someone to do music for Impressive title back in like 07,08 and was sent my way by a mutual friend. I sent him over some demos and he basically reamed me, saying about the demos "I can tell he is self taught" and then had the audacity to ask me to keep sending more over. BTW this was a free job. LOL. Needless to say, I didn't send him anything else. I forgot about the Lion King rip off game for years and years until now. Peace!!!

[@Anophis]

All they did in the end was rip half the music from Skyrim and other sources anyway. Your music would have at least made things original.

[@JustFern]

@@Anophis lol! Fail

[@kovyvuri]

kovu always was a dick. I agree with Red on that one. So is Raz so like....I'm glad FHU is the new FH.

[@danpaxton3535]

@@Anophis Totally agree. Originality in a game, even if it's tacky, is at least respectable. But instead, the developer decided to pull a Gabbie Hannah smh

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@danpaxton3535 Gabi who?

[@puppychan9875]

The comment section is filled with scene kids, warrior cat kids, and furries and I'm living for it XD

[@claudiothewarrior]

*Yes.*

[@growingup15]

Hell Yes

[@futuristicgirl14]

I feel like I’m the only person who read Warrior cats and didn’t turn into a furry lmao

[@claudiothewarrior]

@@futuristicgirl14 I became a furry because of other things lmao

[@growingup15]

@@futuristicgirl14 I Never read Warrior Cats and I'm a furry. Shows/Movies like Disney's Robin Hood, Goofy Movies, Arthur, Max & Ruby and Chowder turned me into a furry

[@faunengold1690]

Funfact: I met a special person in feral heart and now we live together and are engaged. Also I would totaly pay for a good/high quality animal MMO, so pleeeeaaase let there be something like this in the future ;-;

[@pythonindigo]

There's a sequel to Feralheart in development called Feralheart Unleashed, you can play it right now by becoming a Patron or you can wait for the free version to come out (which should take about a month) it even has Kovu's blessing and the OG source code

[@moth300]

@@bats5472 dont

[@loading7496]

That may be the cutest thing I've ever heard

[@maverick2560]

@@pythonindigo Thank you so much, just looked it up and man I hope people come back and populate it, it looks so good already! Can't wait to try it out, as someone who grew up with FH

[@pythonindigo]

@@maverick2560 Glad to hear it! They also have a Discord where they regularly update their progress and show sneak peeks of new features :)

[@sonianevermind7221]

I've never heard of these games but I'm interested

[@shoifu]

me neither lmao

[@lst4604]

MiSs SoNia

[@acidminx03]

Same here. I'm not even a furry or emo but I would have loved this kind of game when I was younger. In fact I'd probably still enjoy something similar now!

[@E.Hizeman]

Same 🤝

[@knight671]

How old are you guys? These were standard back in the day!

[@PaintedMagic]

throwback to my massive neon blue wolf named “ADOPTION CENTER” only real ones know 😏

[@thehollyraven]

*t-poses into chat* the Adoption Centers™️ were an experience... that I. don’t really remember except for i think I had a pure black “””””fox””””” with the bubble markings (colored in an obnoxious cyan lmao) who I threw at them sometimes to get Adopted™️

[@cas9029]

I REMEMBER YOU

[@Skandranon50]

omfg I remember you xD This is amazing

[@thehollyraven]

👁👄👁 wait what the fuck really???? oh damn can any of y’all describe your characters or whatever to help jog my memory? in my defense, it’s been like 7 years

[@thehollyraven]

oh wait are you guys talking to OP im. stupid fkhdskbdksmskmsl

[@rexberkova7328]

Shout out the the Link Drowned roleplayer who spent the entire day hanging out with me even with my poor english, the patchwork eevee-evolution creepypasta. I always waited for you at the spawn following that. Never seen you again but I hope you're doing well. Your writing is surely still superb! 💚

[@PrinceLearStan]

Yo, anyone got any updates on this shit?

[@Sugarsugarkittycat]

hearing the word "arokai" for the first time in a decade physically flung me backwards like the shout in skyrim instant subscribe

[@ireallylikeinigo2300]

FUS RO DAH

[@Sugarsugarkittycat]

@@ireallylikeinigo2300 thank you sir

[@gabs1131]

this is late but …. noodle pfp 😯‼️

[@lucyl697]

for real

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@ireallylikeinigo2300 : "FUS RO DAH" Their comment getting mistranslated: "FUSE RO DAH"

[@iamperish]

I recall being able to start civil wars in the servers despite being a very young kid at the time. A simple question of "Are Lions or Wolves better?" and that would turn into a whole argument.

[@dweeeb6668]

Wolves are objectively better but if you can make the lions look good, you’re an elite player

[@WildVee]

@@dweeeb6668 tbh you can make either look good by simply *not* choosing pure black or neon colors. Lol

[@franklyfeline]

lions are superior

[@atanaZion]

@@WildVee Althought black lions sounds badass

[@speedmixcb]

everyone know that hybrids are the best

[@rustheart9532]

15:52 is my screenshot of my old school computer, you can see one of the tabs open of a class assignment I wasn’t doing. I was too busy being the grey wolf in that picture. I remember making it and having to keep remaking it because someone took my color before I could so I went with grey because no one else wanted it. I also had to temp block a ton of people to get a clear pic because everyone was jumping around us.

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

Took your colour? How? What do you mean?

[@beeIovely]

i was part of the original friend group that KovuLKD created IT for, as well as a concept artist on aro'kai. honestly i thought these games and their absolutely wild history was going to disappear completely, so it's nice to see a solid compilation. makes me feel like it really did happen and i wasn't crazy LMAO. fun vid, thanks for putting it together! some wacky tidbits that weren't in here since it concerned specific people (me lol), but might be fun for anyone interested: - kovuLKD had me and a friend create a custom item that was meant as a gift for just us two. he later leaked it on IT. the absolute height of drama for me as a little kid LOL - somewhere in the middle of the superfeesh bait-and-switch, me and my friend (same as above) were fired from concept artist positions on aro'kai on account of being "too bossy." we were both stumped as superfeesh previously had been very excited whenever we balled ideas, and now was extremely hostile. we found out much later that they were in fact not feesh. - there definitely was an ongoing rivalry between arokai and FH LMAO. you can see remnants of it in the glowing crystals that were added into FH later. they were a concept i coined for arokai, and were to be plot important. somebody who was reading the mod forums was definitely leaking things - not really wack but it was a cool older feature: you used to be able to tame pets on IT. the fanciest one was a manta ray which you could only get by defeating a giant manta ray boss who spawned in a designated cave. you needed several people to take it down, or else its health would refill. was always bummed they removed this!

[@jazzmuppet9230]

wait so did anyone ever find out what happened to superfeesh?

[@wyndigod]

I just discovered this KZbin video and you bringing up the Monster Ray is fulling sending me into outerspace Me and my friend group even made one of those post-IT servers, Sanctum of Eventide, if anyone remembers that weird limbo of time where all those IT servers existed in that downtime while we waited for FH to release, then that Aro'kai character creation demo dropping and getting us so excited.. These memories are powerful 💀

[@beeIovely]

@Lavandouce yeah exactly! i drew a concept for it and everything! so weird to think about all these years later hahah

[@vixymix101]

Did you ever find out what happened to keesh?

[@cactoyote]

Some Feral heart fans are creating an offshoot of Feral Heart called Feral Heart Unleashed! It's going pretty well right now, but we'll see eventually!

[@prehistoricorchid3455]

I honestly really hope it takes off. I loved feral heart so much when I was younger I need the happy nostalgia. Atleast now im older and more mature so I can voice creeps and have actual rps lol

[@Code_Ax0]

can they make it apple compatible bc I have a fucking apple computer and I'm about to lose my mind.

[@puppymaul4651]

Interesting, i hope they get big one day!

[@Nympheau]

@@PROWL.Q although, fer.al is more about collecting all the materials and you need to buy characters etc...

[@CvndyClvb]

Hey, I had a comment related to that haha! Coincidence. Also, here's the link to Feral Heart Neighborhood, it's basically there until FH Unleashed comes out. feralhe.art/

[@kaillah]

Here is a short story about how I became -kinda- infamous on FeralHeart: So I was somewhere around 10-12 years old. I just started playing FeralHeart and had discovered their map maker. I made a few maps for my friends to enjoy including one with giant butterflies that had portals on them. (we roleplayed that they would fly you over to next map) The issue was the butterfly model couldn't be placed low enough on the ground to be reached without wings without it clipping through. So I added collision boxes to the tree model that came with the game so players could easily climb on them and jump over to the butterfly. Little did I know that doing so would actually affect models on the official maps. Needless to say I abused this new superpower alot and climbed onto the parts of the said tree model where you usually could not. I of course shared my methods with everyone who asked and shortly after I was not the only one doing this. Few days later I was contacted by mod through chat, but I did not know how to respond to them as they were ignoring (or not seeing) messages I sent to regular chat and I did not know which channel to use to speak to them. The got angry, accused me of "hacking the game" and I got permanently banned from the forums and had a pretty long ban from the game. I think I remain banned on the forums to this day. And that is a story of how a little child hacked FeralHeart and caused a lot of trouble. In all fairness, if your game can be hacked by a 10 yo with 0 coding skills, you deserve it.

[@levibest2409]

That's so cool! Sorry its late

[@2yearoldeastercandy935]

They’re aren’t completely dead! There’s a whole lot of these sort of games with a big community on roblox!

[@kysbasil]

Roblox always comes in clutch^^

[@lattekatt326]

Fr fr

[@TheLostJammer]

liiiiist?

[@mezzopiano222]

pretty sure there’s one called wolves life if you want to check it out

[@seventyclowns5905]

yeah was gonna comment ive seen a lot of this genre on roblox!

[@riccardoleone4265]

I missed so many things. So many memories that cannot make me cringe.

[@RaveRaptor7]

I remember trying to get into Feralheart for a while. They locked registration for some reason for months on end. By the time I was able to finally register I was already losing interest. Then the terrible community didn't keep me coming back. If you weren't around from the start you were just ignored.

[@Schros_kitty]

Yeah like wth was with the registration? I could never understand why you weren’t allowed to register. Different forums always said it was because they had ‘too many members’, but like, I never saw the active player counter go above 500 when I tried to register.

[@jordana123able]

Oh, yeah, to me was the same, I tried to register for months

[@ChernoRebel]

@@Schros_kitty From what I remember the weird signup situation was because according to I think Razmirz and the other mods when they would keep registration open consistently hordes of people would sign up and the "game couldn't handle it" Or something along those lines, I haven't checked out Feral-Heart in years but thats what I vaguely remember.

[@abigailfowler1843]

@@Schros_kitty If I remember, I think it was because without Kovu, they had no way to expand the limits of players allowed into the game/game's database. Kovu had the code and then vanished, leaving them to deal with an already struggling game without any means to fix it.

[@CvndyClvb]

The registration isn't like that anymore thankfully. But I agree. Plus the community is hella toxic. I still play it with my gf though.

[@randall6383]

how did i not know about this when i was younger?? dkjlfghkdhg 12 y old 2015 me wouldve LOST their mind

[@justanothergoth6544]

Same dude.

[@撲殺]

same ;-;

[@BobBelchersLeftBoob]

I'm so salty I grew up without internet because 12 year old me would have also lost her shit

[@Thesmithsfan82]

I actually played games similar to these on Roblox back in like late 2014~2015 because it was the only game I was allowed to have. I'm pretty sure I would flipped if I found these games though.

[@mythhalftail65]

SAMEE 😭

[@reign.deanna]

This is a little bizzare and off topic, but your channel has really helped me find inspiration for art again. I just finished my senior AP portfolio about a month ago and I've just been feeling horribly bored with my art and uninspired. Something about the combination of your makeup, the nostalgic topics you discuss, and the retrospective you give really reminds me of everything that inspired me to make art when I was a weird little middle schooler. I feel motivation to create, and honestly I just wanna say thank you! :^D

[@Sleipnirseight]

Somehow, I also feel this. Love this channel

[@Flavershum]

Yes! You put it into words! I was feeling the exact same thing. So glad I've entered my "cringe is dead" phase.

[@gracesanchezreviews]

This is exactly how I feel. Something about the topics just brings out the middle schooler “I’ll draw whatever and everything I want to” type of thing for me

[@extravirginoliveoil4227]

SAMEEEE

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@extravirginoliveoil4227 : "SAMEEEE" The mistranslated version of the comment: "DO IT"

[@sweetheartsmisery]

feral heart was where i spent most of my time during 2012-2016, I actually met my best friend there and we still talk nine years later! it brings back so many fond memories of running around in different custom maps and role playing.

[@Retired20244]

Aye! My best friend to this day we met in 2011 on Impressive Title Returns, still hang out!

[@claudiothewarrior]

So nice!

[@Fluffabyss]

I miss feral heart, even after all these years. I hope the game can get revived some how. I can only be optimistic XD

[@iwaffle727]

god, i remember how much feral heart looked so cool when i watched people play them, i wanted to play it myself too back then but i didnt have a pc lol

[@SlyfyGummy]

@@iwaffle727 I played it in 2017 and it was empty with some warrior cats profile names. I don’t have access to that Gmail account unless I boot up the computer at my late father’s house. Which is pretty much impossible due to the avoidant energy of my family and my incompetence. But yah empty barely anyone was in the more expansive/unique maps as they all congregated in the main area. No one bullied you or picked fights it was just empty conversation and low low role play People did appreciate a creative character. Most of mine were based on food like croissants or milkshakes

[@rgbow_]

if u have a PC or mac animal jam has an app called "fer.al" which is basically th same thing

[@prageruwu69]

same...

[@LovebugsLab]

Some of us are still here. Most of us have legendary markings and items now, but the game ranges from 10 players to 200 within hours.

[@sindalari]

This video reminded me of a 2D wolf chat I used to "play" back in the day. After some digging I finally found it: Wolfhome. And IT'S STILL GOING.

[@sirsomeone2408]

FINALLY SOMEONE! Don't forget Cats Paw Island!!!

[@sindalari]

So I was watching this video again and went to check on Wolfhome again and it seems like some shit went down and the servers are currently offline and they have this big old statement on the front page lol.

[@olivep3485]

OH MY GOD WOLFHOME WAS THE BEST

[@YunieSheMusic]

that BIG WAVE OF NOSTALGIA after hearing the FH opening god DAMN

[@WolfofWhite]

SAME

[@xst0rmiliacx]

The graphics remind me of imvu

[@christophg.6339]

Same

[@L3cargo]

RIGHT that hit me like a bus oh my gosh

[@thetoffeetiger4200]

That opening theme makes me feel a certain way every damn time, that game was my entire early teen years

[@eebusbeebus9493]

Forgive if this is long, but I think there needs to be an explination on the IT/FH side. Raz has never been a good person, as someone that's been in the fandom/in staffs for 9+ years he's turned a blind eye to pedophillia, abuse, and many other things under his watch. He was also the reason Kovu took off from the project as Raz has a habit of manipulating and abusing those that reside in his staff, even those that were technically above him in rank. He has never been a victim here. He's gone as far as taking over accounts of/asking others their direct competitor Feral Heart Unleashed and posting very obscene images and generally trying to make the life of that staff living hell. This is a burner account as well, the people in the IT/FH community have been known for being outwardly drama-centric. I'd rather not be dragged into that (again). I'm free for people to reach out to as I'm an old dog in this community, and if anything I've learned that nothing is what it seems.

[@Retired20244]

Hey, mind if you contact me in Discord? I'm a long-term past user of IT/ITR and FH between 2011-2013, it'd be great to catch up on and get more context on drama mutually that doesn't need to be aired out publicly. It's CITY#3624 but it's up to you! Have a good one!

[@Alliniska]

I wasn't a forum goer but I remember the drama and I definitely remember the community being filled with it too within the smaller circles but I feel like that's what happens in any group of people

[@Opalca]

isnt he the one who put a dick and balls on his lion in the game once

[@una1764]

@@Opalca ummm w h a t

[@Anophis]

@@Opalca for everyone to see? cos people have been modding that on deviantart for years

[@Arctikah]

My friends sent me this and I feel the INCREDIBLE need to get this out there: I was a part of the mod team for Aro'Kai, and a user of Impressive Title since its release, but I was one of the ones that wasn't heavily involved and just kept the forums sane and offered concepts/art to the team. Why I was allowed to be staff when I was 16 now perplexes me as a now 26 year old, but that was about standard for the userbase with the oldest being maybe early 20s. No one EVER told me that Superfluous, someone I was friends with for years and talked to often, was replaced by another user after their disappearance and I had to find all of that out in 2020. The lack of communication and coordination in the team is still wild to think about. It's actually very upsetting looking back on all of this and feel retroactively hurt lmfaooo early internet was buckwild. Anyway Impressive Title was gr8 and I miss the good times. Thank you for sharing

[@Arctikah]

For the OGs, my username was Kuroi/ KuroiTsuki

[@thegreatlucario]

"This genre of furry games is dead"... Whos gonna tell them about Fer.al by Wild Works?

[@franknfurter5336]

and these kinds of games on roblox

[@Anophis]

And Secondlife is still going, and Vrchat..

[@thegreatlucario]

Fer.al is good, fight me lolz

[@noodleraptor]

and feral is by more than one developer so it might be easier for them to update

[@thegreatlucario]

Fer.al is actually made by the same people who made Animal Jam and I believe they made it specifically for the people who grew up with Animal Jam, loved it but are now too old for it, so I have full confidence in them making a good game that lasts many years

[@SirGhostee]

all these games: exist Animal Jam: I’m gonna ruin this man’s whole career

[@juice3287]

@@pillbugmilk it was made since animal jam died :-( (like not literally but its like never talked about anymore)

[@cloudywillowshome]

YESS I sometimes play it once in a while

[@pacrat190]

@@juice3287 it’s cause they took out a lot of fun stuff, changed to 3D graphics and it’s veryyyy pay to win cause most things are very expensive in game and u have to put for currency to get a lot :( I checked it out recently and it’s just no fun, the graphics are interesting but the 2d was better imo

[@gabs1131]

I CANT EVEN PLAY ANIMAL JAM ANYMORE COS I DONT HAVE AN ACTUAL COMPUTER HRHNRNFRN😭😭😭

[@user-jc8by2wj8g]

@@gabs1131 Do you have a phone or tablet? They have a mobile version, It doesnt work with the pc account tho from what i know

[@olivep3485]

I'm very excited for FH unleashed. I feel like a 13 year old girl again. At a time when I had very little good friends, I spent hours on FH either chatting or role-playing lion prides, wolf packs, warrior cats, etc. My best friends at the time were people I met on FH. Even if it isn't the same, I hope I can get some of that same excitement even now as a 21 year old. Hearing the music again gave me warm memories 💓

[@felix-oh4de]

Feral heart died when they got rid of pride rock

[@monstaxxiv7163]

Seriously though. I logged in a few months ago because I was feeling nostalgic and was very, very disappointed that everything I knew FH to be was gone :(

[@MilkDestroyer]

Same, it's so sad. I really wish those old maps were archived ;_;

[@claudiothewarrior]

It's still alive, but barely

[@leftxansuzukimethod]

i miss the old bonfire island 💔

[@MilkDestroyer]

@@leftxansuzukimethod YO so I read the comments, and apparently Kovu gave the original maps and game code to another person. Look up "Feralheart Unleashed", it has maps like Bonfire Island!!!!!!!!!!! You can revisit ALL of the old maps!!!

[@Lucienchol]

I just checked Feral Heart and apparently there's 44 people online atm lol man it takes me back

[@Elias-ce7jl]

Something makes me think this video got a few people to remember the game and hop on for old times sake

[@Lucienchol]

@@Elias-ce7jl yeah I wouldn't doubt it! I'm honestly tempted to hop in myself haha

[@rvaem]

what? i thought the registration was closed..

[@dragonfire7965]

I’m not convinced this genre ever died, I played so much wolf/warriors role play on roblox, and I logged back in recently and they’ve got some really great character models and animation

[@caramel7050]

it didn't the issue is that now they're all limited to roblox and it's extremely restricted chat mechanic instead of trying to do independent development. games like these are still some of the most popular on roblox

[@gs4458]

Impressive World was legit the ONLY game i'd play for like a solid year after school...One day it just shut down and moved to another server (?) and all the friendships i'd made through that game were just gone.. so many memories with that game :(

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

i feel you. i loved impressive title... and it shut down so suddenly. i still mourn it a little bit, haha... all my friends and roleplays, gone overnight.

[@stray8829]

same!! i was so heartbroken when impressive world changed ownership, bc the ppl who bought the name and stuff didnt even use it as an IT server :-(

[@stray8829]

and they didnt even keep the name either, so it kinda got sold for no reason imo

[@greentea5090]

If it'd help, an Impressive Title server called Dragon's Den still exists, maybe you guys could try it out? I haven't had any experience with the actual Impressive Title or Impressive World but it looked like a substantial improvement to the original based on what I played years ago, and then just a couple months ago to bop around n check out the new stuff. There were less people playing the game compared to a few years ago, but maybe the time I got on wasn't when the peak amount of players are usually on.

[@Squishy_yhsiuqS]

I miss IT/IW too, brothers and sisters.

[@EmpressWolf]

hey, former feralheart content creator here. you did a very impressive job of researching and compiling a broad sense of the wonderful "furry mmo" timeline. breaking it down to a generalized level that's easy to understand. as someone who unfortunately was a member of three out of the four of these communities for almost a decade, there's a small bit of misinformation. 1. FeralHeart was made by KovuLKD along with a few other developers(Slycan, Nala91 to name a few). While he primarily worked with the code, from my understanding the modellers and texture artists were separate people. However as he had the main source code - that's what they had to work with. 2. The source code did 'disappear' with KovuLKD, however a 'corrupted' version of it was kept with Razmirz the server host. Since at least a portion of it was required to keep the game running. I don't believe he could exactly read the code(From what I've been told it's a bit nutty, even for something on Ogre engine), much less how to 'fix' it. The Staff team & Raz had it in their pocket for a while, although public knowledge of them even having it vanished sometime in 2013. I know it was mentioned that Raz had it, but apart from that no one said anything and perpetuated that it was nonsense. 3. There was an update to FeralHeart. A few, actually. Within the last 3-4 years it has received updates regarding the map as well as a few customization options. However they were done without the source code, so while bugs remained at least there was new 'content'. Most of it was unpopular with the community for a variety of reasons, but I could personally go on for hours about that. Oh wait, I have. Oops. You actually showed game footage of one of the most recent versions of the game - not the original from 2012 where KovuLKD vanished. Most definitely not the one where a lot of these posts were made/revolved around. There are much older videos on KZbin that show what it used to look like - and there's actually a 'throwback' fan-made version of FeralHeart ran by Feral Neighbourhood that restores the game to that version. They have a discord and use the 'FeralHeart Unleashed' website to keep that version of the game going. 4. CeralSoup did allegedly have ties to a security hack to the FeralHeart server itself - granting themselves basically admin accounts and being able to edit the game code on the fly. It behaved similarly to how the Impressive Title 'hacks' were done - editing models and making them look funny. It was also more than the call-out blog you mentioned -- As I was unfortunately part of the FeralHeart blogger scene. It took that entire community by storm and might have SOME credibility behind it. But that's drama from five goddamn years ago so even if it was, it doesn't matter. 5. The Feral Tales game is back up. I think. 6. The Aro'Kai 'was that the real superfeesh' thing was something perpetuated by Razmirz at some point. At some point I was on acquaintance terms with Kahara, but have never really heard much on that story apart from what you already said. All I can recall is that I believe both sides were incorrect on who it was, or the reasons for them being there. that's about all i can conjure up at the moment. you documented the fall of IT fairly well from my understanding, lmfao. in all honesty that was the biggest red flag and worst omen for this entire saga. if it had stopped at IT, who knows what other games could've taken over the niche that FH filled.

[@Saber-ez5vl]

That made me remember a funny story about Impressive title, lol. Back in the day, I was having tons of friends there and i think we were hanging out for like... 2 years, I guess. So there was a girl, who started talking to me and basically being sticky for like 1 year. I never told anyone about my age or that I was a girl, because nobody really asked. Turned out she was in love with me and wanted to meet me so badly, but then suddenly disappeared for a while, because one of our mutual friends told her I was actually a girl. Some days later she came back texting me that she wanted to have a family with me and that I was awesome and she loved me and etc, but couldn't be with me because I was a girl. The only thing I said was "It doesn't bother me to be with a girl". She answered "O.O" then forever disappeared and never was online since xD If that particular person reading this, I'm sorreh for your broken heart back then. XDD Peace.

[@amoixtlapaltic4690]

- sighs -..... - opens wattpad - /j

[@yeet1066]

Furry discovers lesbians

[@chaosarpeggiating7060]

the genre isn't entirely dead, with the uprise of fer.al slowly coming out of it's beta i think there's a new uprising coming in these

[@franknfurter5336]

not to mention scenecore and nostalgia-based aesthetics getting more recognition as of recent- I really think there's more of these games to come

[@river4283]

And there's a lot of similar games on Roblox as well

[@antichristcomplex21]

I miss playing FeralHeart as a kid so bad, this video almost gave me a nostalgia induced heart attack when I saw it pop up in my feed

[@Lightstorm786]

I met a girl on Free Realms that introduced me to Feral Heart, I never played on it as much but I'll never forget how she showed me around. My name on Free Realms was Nikita Shadowshield, Kiera Foxheart if you're out there, I'll always remember you ;A;

[@gkotta_kedamono]

I'm not a furry, but duuude... these games were hella nice. Now it's very nostalgic. And the soundtrack of Feral Heart, maaaaan. This one have a very special place in my heart. The wole game actually have. That was a nice time...

[@WarriorCats4EverFan]

i remember the source code for FeralHeart being rediscovered two or three years ago, which lead to some excitement in community and plans to improve the game but sadly it was too late to make any significant impact considering the fact the community wasn’t what it used to be. that game was a huge part of my childhood. i hope one day it can be revived. edit: turns out the source code was discovered literally last year lol. man it feels like years!

[@altair5240]

There’s actually a ‘revival’ of sorts happening right now, an argument between the moderators caused some to leave and essentially make their own server, checked out their patreon and the progress they’ve made is pretty damn good, redoing the entire old map collection, new modelled manes and tufts, working on updated character models, markings, items, just a general overhaul.

[@CrowleyTheVampire]

Jesus when you played the title music for Feral Heart a wave of crushing nostalgia flooded my entire body.

[@canopenerassociation]

Dude, can we stop talking about this for a second and talk about her makeup? Because I personally think it looks awesome.

[@BBWahoo]

yeah that's always something I look forward to

[@maywalker997]

Her makeup seems very inspired by Jazmin Bean, kudos to her for sporting the look

[@willowdown3028]

Fr

[@colaestrella]

If you’re still interested in playing Feral Heart, there’s a complete remake of it (basically FH 2.0) with the older maps called Feral Neighborhood and it’s pretty active with roleplay groups and such

[@karneez]

is it still alive after flash shut down?

[@cubeparty_]

just downloaded it...sadly its completely empty :'''/

[@AwesomeYena]

The original Feralheart is still up though

[@oxin1099]

how do I find / download it?

[@orkestrations6316]

you know, one thing i've never really seen talked about is the straight-up plagiarism of music as done by feralheart. while a couple of the songs used in the original feralheart game (i haven't played it since before the maps changed, so i don't know if the situation has changed) were royalty-free music (and to the best of my knowledge went uncredited in-game), two were low-quality midi rip-offs of Alexandro Querevalu's version of Last of the Mohicans and Alborada's White Buffalo. ultimately this isn't something i think a lot of people care about, i'm just a music nerd and so this one crappy thing in particular stands out now that i'm old enough to notice and care

[@The_Olive_Dragon]

I used to play one of these games, it’s called Wolfs Life, and it’s on Roblox as well It’s still very much successful to this day

[@jayjamo9135]

that, isnt rlly one

[@The_Olive_Dragon]

@@jayjamo9135 I mean I technically is, the gameplay and nearly every aspect of Wolfs Life is the same to the MMO games, Roplay, open world exploration, character customization, feral animals you can rp as, etc.

[@gothbimbo9470]

ayyye!!! Same!

[@zeppelisteel]

@@jayjamo9135 same!!

[@aaviiann]

@Spooky Loves Noodle didnt everyone

[@caramelfrapz]

FERAL HEART WAS SO FUN FOR NO REASON- IDC IDC I never even roleplayed on there I literally just ran around like an idiot talking to people

[@froo1357]

I sitting around Pride Rock and just observing people's roleplays when I was too lazy to do my own... good times

[@Euqoram]

@@froo1357 Pretty much, I never roleplayed myself, but I did enjoy running around and listening to people

[@Octohug]

Same here! I never roleplayed and barely talked to anyone because I'm shy and introverted, so I didn't have any friends there. But I would still play FH a lot to run around and follow convos!

[@azucar1237]

FH is actually making a comeback! (Sort of) They have a discord channel you can join if you wanna stay up to date :3

[@wolfincrocs6284]

Would love to see you dive into Furcadia, a furry RP MMO that came out all the way back in 1996 and is still active to this day!

[@dontlook742]

I almost cried at the feralheart music - a memory just unlocked

[@blu-_5442]

I’ve been playing cereal soup for around 2-3 years now and can say that the discord is still somewhat active in terms of development. The game hit a road block at the start of quarantine when something happened with the server hosting system. A ton of shit broke, but as of yesterday, the lead developer has been attempting to roll back the game to see if she can fix some of the major bugs and make it playable again. Just figured I should share~

[@St4rbits]

God I'm so glad you covered this. I've always felt crazy when I tried to talk about this with people. Feralheart was beloved to me for so long. After 1.17 everyone just seemed to drop like flies. I remember the days of "marshmallow" players and the endless line of buttswingers. I do not know if this was mentioned in the video. (as I am stil currently watching) however the source code for FH was indeed found (although years later, perhaps sometime after the 1.17 update) and the team does have it to my knowledge. As for what is being done with it? I'm not too sure. I had (kinda)left the community early 2021 and haven't visited it's forms since then. As for Ceral Soup, the game is still thriving and even has a discord and website. The steam download has been fixed to my knowledge and the game is being "updated" (slowly) Update: There is another FH rendition called Feral Heart Unleashed (It uses Kovu's original source code, it is not being developed by anyone from FH itself (that I'm aware of)). They have their own discord and patreon. Since it is still being developed- only patreons have access to playing it. They do, however, have a server called Feral Heart Neighborhood that is basically pre 1.17 update version of FH. Old maps, old everything (even buttswing!!). However it will be shut down once FHU is released to the public UPDATE 2: FHU IS NOW OUT!

[@lawevadingrock]

just got an ad for something called "Feral" lookin quite the same... I'm sweating

[@canamegirl52]

fer.al is WAY different then feralheart,, it's like an animal jam for 16 year olds with a ton of crafting and great maps

[@ddjsoyenby]

i need to look for science.

[@sweetzeyraa]

@Raggy123 animal jam is for children, feral is 13+ :)

[@ransomsavampire]

feral is like 3d animal jam + the ability to swear

[@milkteabbie]

its really really good in my opinion and the customizable options are fantastic

[@MonsterTaming420]

nothing makes me sadder than dead furry mmos where you can play as sparkle dogs.

[@tippy7831]

These remind me a bit of a really simple deer game I used to play called Endless Forest. The biggest flaw of EF was that there was no means of chat or communication, so it got boring really fast. All you could do is follow other deer, dance with them, and "moo" at them.

[@tarbanouch]

I'm 13 is it weird I find the scene aesthetic weirdly nostalgic I guess that's why scene core is so popular right now

[@zombiedd_]

I do to, except I played a roblox game similar to it when I played Roblox LOL

[@bythesilverlining8258]

If you’re 13 now then you experienced playing Minecraft online there were so many scene kid skins that’s why

[@tarbanouch]

@@bythesilverlining8258 I’m 14 now but yeah

[@zorubark]

I played this type of game on Roblox lol, also animal jam

[@stardoogalaxie9314]

This walked so breath of the wild and Genshin could run

[@hiraffe]

no lol

[@dance_ofThaDEAD]

Bro you kinda right

[@clogger112]

Botw and GI are literally the human touch deprived weeb versions of these games

[@hiraffe]

@@clogger112 these games didn’t create the concept of on open world game, it’s a lot older than that

[@clogger112]

@@hiraffe I know lol, it's just a really sad attempt at making a joke

[@TrytheGreenOne]

My friend was a Mod for Arokai and got me in to briefly help out with the concept art. She mentioned there was a lot of pressure with the mods choosing the direction the game was going with superfeesh just going along. One person was putting a lot of pressure onto the dragon race being too OP (literal dragons? unbalanced) and their answer was to simply make the dragons all very ugly so less people would pick them, so the mod had been drawing a lot of aesthetically unpleasing bald swamp-thing type dragons. I thought it was poor game design to intentionally make a product uglier. I submitted art for a slender wyvern race instead, so it was same number of limbs and not the size of a house. The artwork was shooed into the arokai DA gallery and my friend tried to pull for it. But the other mod was closer to superfeesh, this is like some weird royal advisor stuff. The likes racked up in DA and we tried to let that speak a little but it didn't go anywhere. I wasn't directly involved in the project I just sat in on a few meets, but from what little I heard and what my friend told me, it was extremely dense with politics. My friend was actually good at playing it, but I was a very simple person and was not. The attitude of the development and moderation community was so stressful. I think that is common for indie games, but I cannot stand how it mirrors a royal court sometimes, and like quest to get closer to superfeesh I watched this vid to see what happened to all of it afterwards. xD I remember playing Impressive Title and hearing of Feral Heart. The rest are a surprise. I'm sad to hear none of the games took off. I do think there is a big empty void where a social MMO could comfortably sit, just a good one hasn't been made yet. My favorite other game to haunt was The Endless Forest, which came very close in spirit and was a finished effort but is also dogged by terribly AFK developers who don't see the value of what they got, TEF being their biggest playerbase success, but eschewed for their more short-lived concept pieces that only manage to look good on headlines as provacatieur art games and then the trail ends

[@rainbowdashplaynove]

THE FERAL HEART SONG GAVE ME HEART PALPITATIONS IT AWOKE A MEMORY I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I HAD

[@tree9032]

I almost failed school because of Impressive Title and Feral Heart. 👁👄👁 It’s been such a nostalgic trip, damn. Oh and I was superb excited about Arokai, but was quickly bullied off from their forums after sharing my anatomically incorrect peacock-gryphon. I was around 12-13, drawing with a damn touch pad.

[@Rexdrinksredbull]

Going back to one of your "older" videos (even though this one is just over a year old) really shows how much your content has evolved! Keep it up!

[@Snowdowning15467]

Hi I wasn’t expecting to find a video about this small niche community i’ve been in since i was young (that is yeah, dying), especially not one that went over Cereal Soup and the weird Arokai... thing. So that’s fun lol. I have a few things to add if ur interested! Kovulkd did actually come back... sort of. In 2019 he gave the source code to a guy named Xspirit. I don’t ENTIRELY understand everything that went down, but Xspirit was a coder for feralheart, and left due to i assume staff drama and started development on a new version of Feralheart with Kovu’s permission, called Feralheart Unleashed. They also released a temporary server with the old maps n stuff that split the already small community up between the two. Another thing is that Cereal Soup... ISNT being developed by a small team? It used to be, I was a beta tester in 2017, and in 2018 Blackmailchan (CS’s creator, and now only dev) kicked all the staff out (actually did this like, twice). Rip. CS makes me the saddest because the player base in its hay day (when it was still playable...) was a really great and welcoming community, and was really dedicated for how small it was, you could make a lot of friends there. Also another thing about Impressive Title that wasn’t mentioned is it not only spawned a lot of clones, but the source code was released a lil while after it shut down and it spawned a bunch of different “Impressive Title Servers” which tended to be just like og IT, but with extra customization options, new maps, new models, etc. Although there were a few that added cool new mechanics and really tried to change it up.

[@ghost-fs7th]

bro i was legit an emo furry in 2010 HOW. DID I NOT KNOW,???? ? ? ABOUTTHIS I'm so upset with myself rn

[@SKWUID]

RIGHT??? I USED TO LOOK FOR GAMES LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THOS

[@p_eanuts_x]

This commen low key gave me flashbacks. Gosh what's wrong with my past self lmfao 😭

[@StarlightPrism]

Have you heard of a game called WolfQuest? It was developed as an educational game to teach kids about wolves. The wolf customization is realistic to the population portrayed, you need to mark and keep territory, hunt prey, find a mate, and protect your offspring from predators and rival wolves. But there is an online multiplayer feature too, and many players use it for roleplaying.

[@Chloe4656.]

I never played it vause I wasn't a big online mmo person but I do remember hearing about wolfquest.

[@meganlouise978]

the use of the old FH music made me so nostalgic. i should be sad that the game is mostly dead and i sort of am, but at the same time just hearing the music from certain maps makes me flash back to the roleplays i used to have on there for hours after school. i still have some of those ocs to thisday, which is wild

[@ratboialex7628]

Me: now sad and nostalgic, I press "F" and a single tear is shed

[@Tokyozillla]

Incredibly trippy to see screenshots my friends took used in this video, I owe a lot to these games as well as helping me get involved within communities online! My current sona even I owe Feralheart the credit of creating in first, this was also before I fully accepted I was a furry lmaoooo Despite its underground reputation and only getting to know of it through deviantart, a colleague of mine was a moderator at one point or another for feral heart and it was mad crazy. She found out I played after one of my professors showed my deviantart page in front of our classroom in a means of teaching not only I, but all my other classmates to 'not use stupid ass online usernames in your renders'. It was very nice to have this brought back, I loved and miss these games hard core. I've definitely moved on to more advanced pastures now and have even stepped away from deviantfart, but I still owe credit to it for my experience on the world wide web thus far

[@OpalsRealm]

I’m newly 22 and have recently been missing feral heart, which I played when I was 12/13. The role play was amazing, just an animal mmo with no fighting or storyline. And your character could be anything. Anime rps, warriorcats, creepypasta. I really hope another animal mmo comes soon but this really was a thing of its time.

[@donutsandgravy3150]

You should check out fer.al ! It’s really good

[@sandsand9403]

@@donutsandgravy3150 I agree

[@ultrabyssal]

yknow, there’s an impressive title server with some interesting drama. dragon’s den was (and still kind if is) one of the most popular impressive title servers and in 2018, there was a huge drama following the transferring of ownership after controversy happened between the owners obeythefist and lazyzim. basic rundown is that lazyzim lied about who he was (being that hes MUCH older than he said) and several ex-mods and even obey herself made claims of weird behavior from lazy, i believe one of the ex-mods said that lazy asked them what school they went to and where? there was a MASSIVE schism in the community and a good chunk of the playerbase had left thanks to what went down. but yeah, im pretty sure the posts from obey on the subject are still on the forum. lazy still operates the game and theres even a discord server which can only be accessed if you ask a mod.

[@Opalca]

i think theres also a lot of rumors that lazyzim is not only older, but some of his moderators were like, underage and being actively groomed by him. it all sucks since dragons den is the only IT server i really became fond of :c

[@ultrabyssal]

@@Opalca yeah, that as well. its honestly really fucked up and i'd love to see a video on the subject at some point because i was there when the drama was unfolding and *man* it was a fucking mess.

[@ilikebugslol]

I played dragons den for a brief period of time and I think I remember talking to lazyzim, nothing weird happened but I was underage and knowing that some rando adult was talking to me is weird esp if there's claims like that sounds like I dodged a bullet.

[@gayrurumon]

Gosh, I remember FeralHeart. I downloaded it at played a couple of times because a creator I followed in the Spore community had mentioned it (there's another really niche online community for you there). My most vivid memory of playing it, other that just a lot of time spent jumping around, was of the time I tried to join a bunch of other players in doing a Warriors rp. I was still pretty unfamiliar with the controls at this time, so when the group set off to convene who-knows-where in the map to start playing, I accidentally pressed the key that made my character autorun in one direction and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. My poor cat got separated from the squad and in a panic I remember asking if someone could please tell me how to stop running in the game's chat. My pleas were tragically ignored by the other roleplayers, in fact I'm pretty sure one of them even "lol'd" in response, and they all ran off and ditched me. Socially anxious teenage me was so mortified by the experience that I'm pretty sure I never logged in again after that. Looking back, I think those people were just kinda dickheads, but also it is very funny in retrospect. Despite that laughable ordeal, this video still made me weirdly nostalgic for the game. I never heard about what happened to FeralHeart. Looking back on it, I'm pretty sure I played it either right before or a little while after the update that added wings to the game, because I remember reading a post about it on the front page of the website. So all this Kovu stuff could have been happening behind the scenes at the time and I just never realised it... pardon the pun, but that's wild.

[@irljayce]

So, I watched this video in it's entirety and I gotta say, well done on the history of all the games, except for Feral Heart. KovuLKD has recently been active, talking to very specific members of the FH community via e-mail. We know it's the real guy and not some fake because both the source code for Feral Heart and Feral Tales are in the hands of 3 chosen people so they can revive the Feral Heart/Impressive Title community as there has been a lot of staff drama and in general bad staff from original game. There's a discord and everything for one of these Feral Heart servers called Feralheart Unleashed and theres hundreds of people in it that talk everyday. Feralheart Unleashed is the old FH and does not have the newest update with all the old maps thrown away. They plan on expanding more with it like adding shaders, redoing models, adding quests (they did stuff like that for their Halloween event recently), and updating the old maps instead of doing what the original game did by tossing them out completely. But, in all, Feral Heart isn't as dead as you think, people have simply moved from the 'original' game to the other one that is run by a better staff team. If anyone is interested, this is the url; feralhe.art/

[@rainyheart895]

FeralHeart was my LIFE back in middle school, it helped me improve my writing skills and led me to discover Warriors, my favorite book series at the time. Without it I definitely wouldn't have found such a passion for storytelling, and I will always remember the good times I spent on there with fellow roleplayers. Long live The Great Forest!

[@olivep3485]

Oh my god I attribute my amazing writing grades back in middle school to FH role-playing.

[@katicopter]

seeing the feralheart character creation screen gave me absolute whiplash. thank you so much for reminding me of facets of my childhood i had completely forgotten about

[@thatclassypenguin]

I nearly started crying when I saw the thumbnail I miss these games so much

[@Alliniska]

I feel ta fam

[@bunnie6994]

i never played any of these since i was too young to play some of the older ones, but i was obsessed with playing wolfquest (i think thats what it was called??) when i was like 9/10/11 probably. it was super fun, although it wasnt really a game you could play online with other players, i just loved being able to run around as a wolf and hunt stuff lol

[@allisonfink8883]

Wolfquest was my shit dude

[@nm2873]

maan i used to play WQ and gamevial.com (it's dead now) multiplayer animal/creature sims a lot. Fly like a Bird 2/3, Knight of the Dragon, Lif etc.. all i did was look for games where you didn't play as anything humanoid or anthropomorphic. they used to be so populated too. you'd have your fair share of trolls and hackers but everyone's minding their own business in the end, whether it was trying to glitch through a hill or laying eggs in a trash can. good times.

[@crypticcorvid]

@@nm2873 Yooooo!!! Gamevial and Animal Jam were my life when I was 9~12! Despite how awful the hacking was, it was always fun when you found someone to hang out with. :)

[@lilithium3940]

yup yup yup

[@WarriorCats4EverFan]

wolfquest has actually improved a lot in the past few years, as a matter of fact the game has been re-made in a way! it’s still in development and is in alpha release on steam, but i’d highly suggest checking out the game’s youtube channel :)

[@a.kitcat.b]

🖥As someone who missed out on a lot of internet culture I am glad this video exists because it helps me see into the past so well! I think I would have loved to play these games!💻

[@vicentehelianthus8339]

if i'd had access to this as a kid i'd prob be a furry now, as i pretended to be a cat to the point where my parents were worried and LOVED wolfquest

[@ross3015]

Same I would straight up lick water from a bowl off the floor.

[@caitlynstarrparrish]

My daughter is going thru her 'I'm a cat' phase rn. Are there still any good games I can let her live her dream in?

[@ross3015]

@@caitlynstarrparrish Not really a game but the warrior cat books were my shit back then

[@sandsand9403]

@@caitlynstarrparrish She should 100% read “Warriors,” which are books all about clans of cats. The first one is “Into the Wild.” They’re amazing, and even though I’m 18, I still like them to this day.

[@sergeantsnicker9657]

@@caitlynstarrparrish fer.al

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

i played Impressive Title religiously. it was my favorite thing to do after school and on weekends, the wild roleplays i had with people that only a 10 year old could possibly have... when the game shut down, i was totally devastated. i was really, really excited for feral heart, but by the time the game had come out, i was already past the phase. it really upset me, too, stepping into feral heart for the first time and not feeling that magic i felt with impressive title. realizing that, i had grown up just a little, and this didn't appeal to me the same way, not to mention it lacked a lot of the things i REALLY liked about impressive title (lacking the expansive maps IT had, not to mention the incredibly nifty 'world' system where you could essentially have your own private little layer of the server to roleplay on which FH could have used) out of them all i miss impressive title the most. i wonder about the kids i met there, sometimes, and i hope they're doing well. i think about the what-if, and wish i could have kept roleplaying there. and god, arokai, i haven't heard that name in ages. still as an unfortunate story now as it was back then, it would've been such a cool roleplay game haha.

[@chloestorm19946]

god same!! i used to come home from school and IMMEDIATELY bolt to the computer so the friends i met on IT and i could roleplay as simba & nala in one of the savannah maps lmao

[@pasteldreams5413]

Feral Heart was my whole ass childhood and hearing that menu/background music again gave me so much nostalgia. Not to be dramatic but that game really did shape a lot of who I am today. Even though I haven’t played it in like 6 years it will always remain a fond memory for me.

[@sharpytown]

Impressive Title games/Feral Heart was my life, man! Time's were simpler back then! I want the community to come back!

[@Xebrem]

I was very, very big into Feral Heart. I made presets, maps, items and animations in my later years on there; it was basically my creative dream. When FH was in its 'revival' stage shortly before I left, I was even approached by one of the mods asking how I did my animations so that they could redo the butttswing and headbang animations to something 'more child friendly'. I've left it long, long ago- my DA for it, Aquachocobo is still up and has my stuff for it, but I've stopped checking it since I'm usually bombarded with 'this 8 year old link doesn't work anymore'. despite that, I hope Animal 3D chatroom-like games make a come back. I had some hope with Cereal Soup, but I guess they've gone belly-up now too

[@AwesomeYena]

Hey! I know you, I love your animations.

[@clementinepinkerton1969]

Golden Chicken haha I remember using your animations :D

[@gloomyPoltergeist]

I'm born in 2007, but looking at these videos and these prints of old games with simple graphics made by small developers gives me such a nostalgic and magical vibe, it makes me happy somehow, because it reminds me that people who were in these games were happy and managed to make a lot of friends in it, it's a shame that i was born so late because if i had been born earlier i would have fully experienced it

[@grand1415]

this is too true nowadays

[@pinchetii6555]

Fellow 2007-er here, but I feel like we have our own unique and nostalgic games that are specific to us when we were all little. I feel like it’s a matter of perspective

[@Chloe4656.]

Being born in 1999, 2007 was a time when I first heard about and started using KZbin.

[@eustace6046]

THIS IS OFF TOPIC BUT GOOD DARN I LOVE UR MAKEUP

[@feelingkoii]

I swear I saw Skylandy in one of those screenshots. She always had this custom glowing skin and I remeber being in awe of her. She had some angelic pink glowing ones and I still am inspired by her to this day. I miss falling out of touch with her. She was a good friend.

[@vampkisser18]

just a moment of silence to appreciate her makeup in literally every video

[@allisonfink8883]

Hearing the FH opening screen literally kicked the wind out of me oh my god

[@cookiesandpudding8485]

WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO SPENT YEARS TRYING TO GET A FERAL HEART ACC 😭

[@river4283]

Omg I used to do the same thing I just couldn't figure it out because I was like 10 or something... I never actually made one but I have a lot of sketches of my characters I wanted to make in it

[@cookiesandpudding8485]

@@river4283 I used to legit have dreams about playing the game lmao, at least I wasn't the only one trying super hard

[@river4283]

@@cookiesandpudding8485 Ikr actually same!! I also used to obsess over Feral Heart music videos

[@cj9341]

I used to play Last Moon and like 4 years ago I was on there chatting with a friend about Feral, and they told me how they were opening registration a bunch throughout the day and when I finally got an account I was like YOOOOOOO

[@NirvaSan]

I would try sooooo hard to get a account just for it not to work 😭

[@DeadlyCaprinae]

Im still waiting for a furry MMO just like this that's up to date in videogame standards. It's like my childhood dream. Anyways im so glad other people had this experience as until lately i've felt like the only one who played these games.

[@Brandon_Brando]

I haven't played it but people in the comments are saying far.el is that game

[@DeadlyCaprinae]

@@Brandon_Brando nah I tried that game out and it's too similar to animal jam for me. I don't have the time to keep up with the economy in feral. I'd rather play a survival game like the isle but with mammals.

[@camel8599]

feral heart unleashed is currently in development and available for patreon release. its just like Feral heart but 10x better, with new models. it should be coming out soon, but i believe this will truly revive the community.

[@KonekoJira]

i wanted to make one but its super hard.

[@yeet1066]

Warrior cats ultimate edition on Roblox is similar to what you're talking about, although it's warrior cats

[@slasherslxg1316]

i was a huge part of both impressive title, impressive world (and other spinoffs), and feral heart’s communities from like 2011-2015. i do miss these games, and they’re a huge blast from the past. if it’s alright i’d recommend you do a video deep diving into impressive world spinoffs like dragon’s den. there were a lot of spinoff games and servers but dragons den actually got in trouble with blizzard for ripping models from WoW if i remember correctly.. idk some fun stuff to look into even if it’s just for shits n giggles

[@rovennxoxo178]

Now that brought back a memory of a spinoff i played, Sanctum of Eventide, which used the druid models from WoW as tamable critters, maybe thats why it got shut down?

[@umbilicalcreature1529]

I still to this day spell it "deviantArt" when I infrequently refer to it.

[@dusty2663]

you need to talk about all those roblox roleplay games!! i had no idea how to use the internet when i was little so i was stuck with my dads ipad and roblox bird life or smth edit: my fav game of them all was furana, SO many fnaf and edgy rainbow wolf rps. it was my haven and the one thing i spent robux on, then it got a reboot and nobody plays anymore 😢

[@Dream_Sweet_In_Sea_Major]

Only shit, Dragons life, wolf life, howling heart were my childhood

[@varlen]

I forgot that FeralHeart and all the other Impressive Titles servers existed after I left. Honestly, a game called Feral reminded me of them with its character customization. I remember FeralHeart and Dragon's Den begin my main source of entertainment and inspiration for character design at the time and have a couple of characters that escaped from that pit. I've wanted to go back to playing both but FeralHeart seems to be bleeding now and I feel like Dragon's Den would be the same way.

[@rvaem]

god, i loved dragons den