The Death of 2000's Neon Deviantart Furry MMOs 

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

furry history class

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.

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...

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 ;-;

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

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

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

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.

Honestly we need more silly, customizable furry MMOs again

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

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.

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.

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

"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

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! 💚

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

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

This walked so breath of the wild and Genshin could run

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 💓

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

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

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!

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;

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

This video gave me major nostalgia feels for Furcadia. It's a bit older, from the late 90's rather than the 2000's, isometric rather than 3D. The main draw, and the place where most people played, were player-made maps called Dreams that were fully customizable including the ability to script objects and import your own assets. There was no 'gameplay' really, it was pure roleplay. People designed Dreams with beautiful, elaborate maps and self-contained roleplay continuities that had continuous storylines for years. The subject matter people chose to roleplay wasn't always your usual furry stuff either, it was very creative and engaging. Unlike the ones you covered this had a semi-professional development team. In my admittedly fuzzy memory it was still going strong with many active continuities all the way up to the mid 2010s. It's kinda of a sad husk of itself now, tons of gorgeous Dream maps with absolutely nobody in them, the only active area left being the 'adults only' zone where people go to text hump. I don't know if any one particular thing did it in - people grew up and moved on, better options appeared, the game itself failed to change and evolve from it's late 90's origins, and a big promised revamp went on for a long time but didn't deliver much. It was a big part of my online life for some 15-odd years (I think). Lots of great and not-so-great memories, along with friendships and relationships that will outlast it.

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!

Feral heart died when they got rid of pride rock

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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 RU-vid 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.

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

This just unlocked a deep buried memory in the back of my brain

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

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 :(

fun fact: this genre is alive and well on roblox

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

🖥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!💻

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!

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

Feral heart is so so so nostalgic to me. I miss the old maps it had on there like Ficho Tunnels. I’d spend hours on there. Also whatever that map was called where you had to climb all the way up and make save points constantly to get to a portal where everyone would go to roleplay dragons. I actually miss those days. I can even hear the theme music in my head. I’m only now realising how big of a part of my life that game was. I actually have it downloaded still, I just don’t really play it. I don’t like the new maps. They’re okay but they’re not what I knew. Oh also for feral heart they didn’t update it in YEARS and suddenly they were like BRAND NEW MAP ;-;

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

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

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...

hello! telluric here, i've seen my name in a few passing screenshots in the video and am currently serving as a member of the season for feralheart. i saw some of my pals in the footage you took playing in game and i gotta say it tickled me. just figured i'd pop in to share a couple points because i actually really appreciate this video and want to drop some clarity for those who may have fallen out of the know. 1. around 2016 was the big decline for feralheart, the login page had been introduced after a slew of hack attacks and even though it was supposed to be a temporary measure, it was never removed throughout the three updates it saw through. this year also saw the addition of all the new maps you see, the old ones all removed in a patch that everyone including even raz it seems agreed was mishandled. 2. 2017 was when a lot of drama started between fh and cs. while i can disprove the claims of fh banning people for even mentioning it, things still were ugly for a while. i knew a person who got onto the staff only to get immediately banned from the entire game for not changing her username from the one she used on feral-heart. the biggest issue with cs has and always likely will be shitty management and a hostile community, if there's much left, that is. 3. 2018 in october saw us some drama that had all existing moderators removed and new ones added very suddenly after a proposed new moderation system, subsequent map leaks and a huge ingame protest. the old mods were all restored after some time, but for a while the game had essentially two seperate staff teams. 4. 2019 saw a lot of the new staff leave. there were seven or so? all of them got kicked after the tail slider patch. 4.1. oh! yea! the tail slider patch! SIKE to y'all, but fh does have its source code! it has all along and raz admitted it, saying there was no other way to keep up security measures without it. 4[cont]. the tail slider patch saw a lot of drama after the fact. a running podcast in which a mod disclosed information raz didn't want her to was just. gas on the fire from the get-go. then the leaks from the mod discord dropped and all the "new" staff were gone. there were four new staff trained in and added after this. 5. 2020 saw a huge chunk of the community leave for feralheart: unleashed. a former coder for the tail slider patch in feral-heart, xspirit, said he got in contact with kovu after almost ten years and had obtained the rights to the source code. after a forum post about helplines on the forum was taken down and there were poor decisions made all around, many fed-up individuals migrated with xspirit and started donating to xspirit's feral-heart unleashed patreon. he also has set up feraltales and has, on the fhu website, the emails he shared with kovu as evidence that everything he's doing is legit. i can't verify anything he said and you just have to choose for yourself whether you believe him or not. 6. fhu and feralheart are very sore with each other and for good reason, each community having their share of hostile history and stupid choices made on a whim. it's a not-talked-about-but-widely-agreed-rule that we just don't talk about each other if we don't have to. we aren't competitors, we're just people playing a furry game on the internet. 7. i, for one, still play a lot and log in at least once a day. while the forums have delved into a pretty well-rounded but small group of people who all know each other pretty well+an unofficial discord, i'm happy to say that i'm a mots for them, i'm glad they think i represent them. 8. the map/item/etc makers still slap to this day, i learned to very slightly kinda code because of them. lmk if you've got questions about this, i'm happy to answer anything here if i can! owu

Surprisingly, this genre has actually picked up again on Roblox of all places. I used to play a game (around 2 years ago) called Wolves Life by Shyfoox Studios and now checking the game, it has become massive along with some of the other similar games made by the company which involves dragons. It’s not big on customisation as some of the older mmo’s but it’s nice to see how this genre has evolved and is still relevant.

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

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

Thank you so much for this video so much, the music is so nostalgic and I miss these days so much ❤️ this was really well put together

This was such a blast from the past man. I never thought ANYONE would make a video mentioning Impressive Title in this way, I'm surprised none of the IT servers made it on here considering the amount of drama that went on in those alone. I'm also curious to reconnect with any old Impressive Title/Sanctum of Eventide users! I was a user on IT and a mod on Sanctum of Eventide under the name Icestar147 if any old pals are lurking on here, it'd be cool to talk about the history of those games again, even if we never knew each other personally.

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~

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

I used to play IT spinoffs (my favorite one being Sanctum of Eventide) and I would just blast my way through with almost no contact with anyone else. I just loved to sit around and wait for the rarest mobs to spawn. That, or I'd spend the whole day trying to gather specific items or skills, then tame mobs. Taming was so fun. I'd always spend most of my time gathering healing and taming skills, then slowly making my way up, taming weaker mobs for extra damage to take down stronger mobs and substitute my own. That would go until I had one of the strongest mobs available. SoE was my favorite one because it let me tame an Earthshaker, which was a giant elephant that upon attacking would cause the whole map to shake. It was so cool. Haven't seen tameable giant elephants since the server went down. :(

You are so great like your research is absolutely unmatched and you pick the best topics , I love your channel thank you for taking the time to make these videos

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

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

you, my good lady are a woman of culture. i have just stumbled upon your channel and you are unlocking so many lost memories. i thought i was the only person who played feralheart, nobody in my friend groups never heard of it, or played it! Its so cool to see a youtuber talking about a game that i felt was so underground ahaha thanks!

The music is really loud in this one & its hard to hear you later in the video BUT I love your videos & have already watched a bunch, keep up the great work! I really love your aesthetic & personality. :)

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

"security breach is, just around the corner." Scott: Well, yes.

I remember being in the snow map "South Pole" I think it was in Feral Heart as Vivian, a white wolf with black striped legs and out of no where other "baby" Vivians of various pastel colors but exact same markings came and hung out. It was pretty hilarious. Must have been like 5 different colored Vivians. Thank y'all. I still remember you.

i'm a new subscriber, but your videos are lovely. your dry sense of humor and calm approach to these topics is really refreshing. can't wait to watch the rest of your stuff.

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

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.

Bruh of course I know about Arokai and Feral heart but for me my jam was always Wolfquest. Miss the days when I was confused and was thinking Wolfquest was the game with all the animal types, and then the time before that when I thought it was an animal racing game..... Still stuck with it thick and thin even up to know though lol!

IT was made originally for the og creator's then girlfriend, before their fall out. The story that you played was GF's character's storyline. I swear I had heard that Kovu LKD wasn't the og developer, and instead took up the mantle after the og creator had a falling out with their gf. Eventually it became a hangout chat for fellow TLK fans before it spread in popularity. As for the copyright issues, KovuLKD's fursona is a good indicator. It's just Kovu from Simba's Pride with two black rings on its tail. So ofc it'd have been a problem with copyrights. But they also used audio from another game, which I can't for the life of me, remember. I regularly lurked the servers, made friends, laughed at bad roleplays, and just generally enjoyed the game for what it's worth as a hang out for friends and fans alike. The information I picked up, was from other friends who were closer to the source, and my memory isn't exactly clear, so don't quote me. I'm just sharing what I vaguely remember picking up.

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

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.

I legit wanted to play Feral Heart because all of the AMVS and role plays I saw... And the FNAF roleplays and amvs always made me want to download the game-

Fun fact: There are also dozens more of these games out there that are built on Impressive Title's source code. They're called Impressive Title servers. One I remember playing on is called Dragon's Den. It was pretty cool and had a lot of interesting species you could play as such as bears and horses.