Showing posts with label FunOrb. Show all posts
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Sunday, 15 December 2024

Six Fan Arts Entry


Author's Note: My apologies for being late to the #SixFanArts bandwagon. As an old saying goes, better late than never.

Characters in this #SixFanArts Challenge Entry: Fall Guy (Fall Guys), Hebereke (Hebereke), Ice Bear (We Bare Bears), Alice (FunOrb's Wizard Run), Lemming (Lemmings), Rit (Rod Land, Soldam).

The Fall Guys are titular bean-shaped player characters that take part in a Wipeout-style battle royale. They get involved in all sorts of wacky situations in various minigames.

When Hebereke was first released in 1991, the titular penguin became the face of Sunsoft. Recently, he had some new releases, namely Ufouria: The Saga 2 and Hebereke: Enjoy Edition.

Ice Bear from We Bare Bears is the third member of the bear trio. He is the least talkative of the three bears.

If you remember FunOrb, you might have played Wizard Run at one point in time when the website was still up and running. You play as an apprentice wizard named Alice, and your main objective is to take down the Harpy King and rescue your master.

For your information, the Lemming from the Lemmings game is drawn using the art style of the TerminalMontage YouTube channel videos for this #SixFanArts comic.

Rit from Rod Land and Soldam is definitely one of the best magical girls in the history of magical girls. In this #SixFanArts comic, she is portrayed in her appearance from Soldam: Drop, Connect, Erase.

P.S. There is an error in the positioning of Ice Bear's ears. While this seems unintentional, this could be a reference to all the production errors found in animated TV shows.

Friday, 11 May 2018

The End of Funorb


On the 8th of May, 2018, Jagex announced that the FunOrb servers will close down on the 7th of August, 2018.

Having played the games of FunOrb during its early years, it is sad that the website had to close its doors for good. However, with Mozilla Firefox version 52 terminating support for the Java browser plug-in, leaving the troublesome Internet Explorer as the only web browser to support the Java plug-in, it will make sense for Jagex to make a painful decision.

Also, the discontinuation of the Java plug-in by good web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome was one of the reasons that made me decide to quit Runescape on the 27th of March, 2017. Given that plug-ins have become vulnerabilities as well, I would also get rid of the Java plug-in, which I already did, if it means getting rid of software vulnerabilities.

FunOrb logo © Jagex.

Update: FunOrb did go offline on the 7th of August, 2018. The link to the FunOrb website now redirects to the Jagex website.

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