Furshit is more popular now than it's ever been in its lifetime thanks to social media and its consequences, and about half of the community are either CS nerds with competent programming abilities or admittedly talented artists with a skill which could lend itself well to designing game assets - so how come no group of furries have ever attempted a small-scale MMO where all the playable races could be different furry species, and have extensive enough customization to let most furtwinks recreate their fursonas in-game? It feels like a total no-brainer that could rake in millions from their own suspiciously wealthy demographic, but for some reason I don't think anyone has even attempted or conceptualized the idea in recent years. I know there was Furcadia in the 90's but that was so barebones I'm not sure if it should be counted.
Why do you guys think nobody has pounced on the opportunity yet? At the very least I would expect a Kickstarter scam that proposes the idea and never releases, but there's not even anything like that around.
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I was very active back in fandom in the late 90s and there were loads of telnet based rpg like MUDs/MUSHes/MUCKs.
The combat one's with rpg mechanics were less popular than the pure role play ones. Furries back then seemed to enjoy more of a free form roleplay than a structured game for some reason. Probably horny reasons.
That's my guess why ask the furries are on VRchat and make spaces and avatars instead of making a full fledge games.
Edit: frick I can't write a coherent post while stoned
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In general I feel like theres a huge lack of furry games, off the top of my head I can only think of porn games, visual novels (porn games with story), or games that arent explicitly porn but are definitely a fetish (changed), and of those Nekojishi seems like the only decent one. I really like the character design of changed (mmmmmm latex tf creatures )but the gameplay kinda sucks. Theres also the inflation one but I never played it.
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Your brief mention of latex tf creatures now has me imagining a graphical furry MUD controlled by LaTeX commands.
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The inflation one is called Tribal Hunter, worth a try if you’re into it
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Two sides: first, I don’t think the numbers are quite there for a full-on furry targeted AAA game like that, either in size of the community or capability of groups looking to it as a market. + there’s less plausible deniability there than with media that just happens to use anthro characters. Zootopia didn’t need to target furries, it targeted norms and furries hopped along for the ride without further prompting.
Second: VRChat fills that niche quite well. Who cares about the gameplay trappings of an mmo when you can pay a hundred bucks to commission an avatar, then stare at yourself in the VR mirror all day?
…but yeah we’d all play it. I was pretty disappointed when cyberpunk 2077 avoided all furry options tbh.
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VRChat was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote this post, except it'd be cutting out the
part which would make it far more accessible.
I know next to nothing about game design, but even crypto nerds are able to set up small-scale 3D MMOs based around NFTs or whatever their latest grift is, and I figured a small crew of the right furries would be infinitely more capable and creative than that crowd. No need for an AAA budget or whatever.
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Yeah, I’m sure (or I guess I hope) something on that scale will happen someday. Always keeping a vague eye open for it. Maybe from Japan or Taiwan—a few of the Asian furries seem disproportionately willing to actually make furry games.
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Furry races are in pretty much every MMO. Guild Wars and WoW both have prominent beastman races, even FFXIV has a furry race plus bunny and cat girls.
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Yeah, but those are half-measures and usually restricted by having to fit into an existing fantasy world, so their customization is limited. I meant like, a full unabashed furry-centric type of MMO.
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I think they're called Myanmar now
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still chuckling at this btw. I’m a simple man
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Snapshots:
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Tbh if I were in charge of it I'd sink 90% of the budget into the character customization and social aspects. As long as it gives furries the opportunity show off their totally unique and speshul sparkledog fursona to other players, I'm sure the actual gameplay could be soulless garbage and they'd still reliably paypig for it in droves.
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What's stopping you?
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My art skills are garbage and I know next to nothing about game design, so there's nothing I could really contribute.
I assume the game would also involve 3d model designing and rigging, and finding a dramatard with that skillset seems very unlikely. Indie pixel shit would be skimping out.
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Basically this
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I'm sure if all those Korean MMOs can fill their games with coomer/waifu bait then furries easily could too.
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Korean/Japanese ones end up getting some furries, mostly because they all use the stereotypical kitsune or some magical funny animal people. Like, even the card games do, MtG just made a bunch of fennec kitsune cards.
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