One of my tasks I have to complete prior to this site version launching is making sure our Games database contains all currently available and in development MMOG's. To that end, I've had to add some rather... odd, for lack of a better word, games to the list.
Take for example Darkwind: War on Wheels - a turn-based racing/vehicular combat game. If that description doesn't clash, I don't know what does. You might ask, "Well what's wrong with that game?" I'd obviously say nothing is wrong with it, but it's certainly an unusual combination of mechanics for an MMOG; especially a racing game.
Then there are Flyff and Furcadia. The former isn't really all that strange of a game, but the name is where its oddity is - and it's there in full force. The name is short for "Fly For Fun." Sure, you can fly in the game. And yes, it might be fun. That said, naming your game "Fly For Fun" and then trying to cover it up by creating an acronym called Flyff is rather tacky, to put it bluntly.
Furcadia on the other hand is a game that, from what I can gather reading up on it, is based entirely around visiting the dreams of other players. You create your own dream, and then you can either have players visit it, or visit other player-created dreams. You do all of this as a "furry" character; things like humanoid dogs, cats, etc.
The odd games aside, there are some interesting ones I've added. GoonZu Online, for example, has some great Fan Art.
It's definitely been a unique experience discovering some of these games, scouring their screenshots and videos, and eventually adding all of it to our database. I'm sure I'll find even more of them as this project progresses; I'm only about halfway done from what I can tell.
