Kovu is back, say what now?

[ZombieKitteh]

I'm not sure if this is in the right location, move it please staff if needed.

I never thought I'd see myself making a thread about Kovu and expected one to be made already, but see none. Apparently Kovu updated his Facebook page today with a update.



I guess his Facebook app game, Feral Tales was released and with some poking you can find it. It doesn't work for everyone as I guess a lot of people don't see it loading. (But he's working on fixing it)

Anyways I'm curious how you guys feel about this? What do you think this will mean for FH? Clearly he doesn't want to deal with it right now (I can't blame him). I guess this new game is similar to FH with map making and chatting, but.. I don't know how I feel about a Facebook app game. I know I probably wont be playing it for that reason.

I hope personally FeralHeart will continue to stay online and I'm very curious to know how all of this is going to play out over time. This thread wasn't meant for drama, please don't bring that here or any arguing.

[WhiteLightHeart]

The staff is aware of this, and we are.. About as intrigued as you are.

This thread was originally locked for fear of drama starting, but.. We're going to unlock it, and keep it this way so long as no "OMG OMG GO ATTACK KOV GO ATTACK THE STAFF FOR SOURCE CODES OMG" things start up, or anything that breaches game or forum rules.

This is unusual. It's nice to see he's waking up a bit, but he seems to not want much of anything to do with FH. I find this questionable, especially without giving us any access the source code, but either way this will not affect FeralHeart on a physical level. Razmirz is the server master, and so he has full right to keep FH open and running as usual. So this is no matter, and you guys have nothing to worry about in that respect. FH will be okay. c:

If he is working on Feral Tales again, then that's cool. It'll no doubt be a Facebook-ish version of FH, but I suppose we'll have to wait and see how this one goes. As with game development, as well, it will likely take some time.

Still, though. "Surprise?" Curious indeed.

[Delija]

I'd be lying to say that this isn't making me curious as well. It will certainly be interesting to see how this all plays out.

[Dirrane]

I am praying he doesn't make it opensource as he did with Impressive Title. It will ruin it all, in my opinion. You'll see a bunch of FeralHeart servers, and this standalone, unique game won't be as unique anymore. It's great to see Kovu back on track though. All the best wishes to him. c:

[WhiteLightHeart]

I am praying he doesn't make it opensource as he did with Impressive Title. It will ruin it all, in my opinion.

Well, if FH's code goes open source, if anything that does mean that the original FeralHeart will have access to it, as well, which means that it could be properly updated. So it's not necessarily a bad thing.

While it could mean that we'd have a few similar games like FH running around, I honestly don't think that it would be the same or as easy as it is to make an IT server. For one, FH's code is a lot more difficult than IT, and it's also stronger. So it requires more than your run-of-the-mill skill to run it. We also have a fairly large community backing us, so while there may be some games appearing if it were to go open source, I don't think it would be anything to genuinely worry about right away.

Although.. I think it would be fairest for the code to be given to the original game to begin with. We'll just have to see.

[AlphaEclipse]

I'd be lying to say that this isn't making me curious as well. It will certainly be interesting to see how this all plays out.

I have to agree with Del here, I'd being lying if I said I wasn't curious. x3

But anyways, it's quite a suprised seeing this topic here; It was very unexpected that is, unless you follow Kovu on Facebook. It's very nice of him to keep the community updated on what's going on and whatnot everyonce of while. I can't wait to see how his new Facebook game, FeralTails (or 'Feral Tails'), plays out. I myself am probably not going to play it as much because I don't use Facebook, but I'm sure many people will find it quite enjoable. 

It's up to Kovu wether he will release the source code, and everyone should respect that.

[ZombieKitteh]

Ah, thankyou for unlocking this. I appreciate it greatly. uwu I just really feel the need to talk about it.

I'm not sure what I think. I did manage to load this Facebook game, it uh.. wasn't my cup of tea? Like I said earlier, I wont be playing it really at all. The fact that FeralHeart will remain up makes me happy, even though I have my ups and downs I'd hate to see it poof. And do appreciate staff and Raz keeping it online and alive.

Really I'm very curious to see how this goes. I hope he does contact you staff and work something out or talk to you guys. Because it'd be nice to have him back updating the game, which doesn't seem like a priority to him right now. I'm very conflicted if I'd be ok with him making it open source. At one side it'd help staff update and grow the game in itself. In another sense other people would have the coding to do as they please, make their own servers and potentially spread out the FH community. As much as I'd love to see a working map maker on an IT like server, I just feel conflicted.

In the end I'm just glad Kovu has made an appearance. Everyone will stop rumors now and honestly nice to see he is indeed alive and well. In the end it's Kovu's choice what he does with the code or how he uses it.

I'd be lying to say that this isn't making me curious as well. It will certainly be interesting to see how this all plays out.

I have to agree with Del here, I'd being lying if I said I wasn't curious. x3

But anyways, it's quite a suprised seeing this topic here; It was very unexpected that is, unless you follow Kovu on Facebook.

I actually don't follow him on anything. I heard about it this morning on a IT server I play and figured everyone here on FH deserved to know about him being back. uwu

[Dirrane]

Ah, I see where yer' coming from, Whitey. I think it would be better to only give out the source code to FeralHeart staff though, to keep the game updated but also.. well, you get my point, right? c;

[Shally]

Arf just to be clear LKD isn't "back" on FH ^.^
I know that wasn't what you meant as the thread topic, but just to be sure if someone would missunderstand ;3

As for the source code, in the end that is up to him - and which ever decision he makes it might bring both good things and bad things I suppose. We'll just have to wait and see, he will probably be busy with his new FB-game-app for now :3

I understand many wants and needs to discuss this, just, as White mentioned, try not to go haywire over this subject it nor breach any of the forum rules c:

[Redlinelies]

I must say, it's great to see any actual post from him himself somewhere at all after all these years.

In here it's his words rather than contacts to go around and just talk crap all day long about how this game, staff and community isn't worth anyones time. Though some things said in this posts I hope he comes to senses with, especially after being gone all this time from the game and community itself, he's not really updated himself on any of the matters that has been going over the years and gotten a proper insight of what it has meant to keep this game running, as far as this post goes and what is written about FeralHeart, sounds more something like it's based on just plain information taken from certain people that jumped off the FeralHeart train long time ago to spend time on IT servers and create their own thing, so I hope He'd ask the right people about this eventually to avoid even further miscommunication.

You lots got in plain simple text from himself right there, he's there, he will be working and finishing up the other game on his own accord and left FeralHeart where it was. There's no plans for FeralHeart right now and things will remain as is, the functionality of the game likewise so. People can finally stop staff bashing for things that are simply out of their control and people from other communities hopefully will stop claiming things he said, done or will do without any proof because those could be driving people up the wall as he could speak for himself now. This has been an indirect issue for a long time on many levels and made keeping this game up and running in a good manner a more than difficult task.

It's a very mixed bag still about FH's future and what has happened over the years and I will simply try to hold to my senses for now, I could write too many pages about this subject alone. Meanwhile the staff will be here and take care of the community like they always have and make sure it runs as it should.