#Edits of extremely old title with unfufill goals from a successful Kickstarter

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mellow violet
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So i came across a title I haven't thought about in +20 years, and I'm trying to weigh the options of edits that probably need to happen.

https://www.igdb.com/games/furcadia
Furcadia is an extremely old and niche MUD/MMO that is highly editable with custom pixel and sprite art. Literally has been an ongoing and updated game/app since 1996. Think of it I guess as a pixelart and UGC version of PS Home or Second Life.

All the updates have generally been ongoing and minor, but there are some here and there that push it past the point of an Update entry. More to the point, they had a successful Kickstarter in 2012, "Furcadia: The Second Dreaming".
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1810822448/furcadia-the-second-dreaming/

Met vs Unmet goals since:
https://old.reddit.com/r/furcadia/comments/1as4yth/an_analysis_of_furcadias_kickstarter_progress_12/

Reached out to community/dev on the topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/furcadia/comments/1cpsum3/questions_on_updating_twitch_categoryigdbs_entry/

Now, I personally have no problem making a new Update page for Second Dreaming. The main obstacle I see right now is 2 fold:

  1. The main Furcadia entry is using the The Second Dreaming cover, which pretty clearly violates the guidelines. So trying to track down a proper cover for a 27 year old, PC only, F2P game will be a challenge, much less make one that comes off as accurate. Plus finding time-specific screenshots/videos.

  2. This "could" be a moot concern if I understand correctly that Update cover art is supposed to overwrite the root title's category on Twitch when I make the Update page. I just want to know if I have that understanding wrong and it's actually something Twitch does on their end for special cases like Fortnite?

Kickstarter

Furcadia is the premier Social MMO. Created from players' dreams, millions have already enjoyed it. Now we're making a web version!

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main ice
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Currently Twitch does not ingest update date from us. If we had a regular cover for Furcadia and someone submitted an update cover for it, that would be rejected, but as it's the only cover we have, it will have to do if an original cover can't be found, and the main page and update page will just have to share covers for the moment.

mellow violet
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@main ice Makes since. I found an old edit in the previous edits that went back and forth between this and the Second Dreaming cover, so that would explain why it went back. since the original image submitted was so low rez. I'll play with it and see if I can put something passible together, otherwise I'll leave the cover on the original and make the Update.

swift bison
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Wow yeah that's pretty small 😅

mellow violet