Feral Heart

LionCave is a realistic 3D lion MMORPG placed in an African setting. Players will be able to hunt, form prides, and raise young in a realistic environment.

Hunting will be realistic, and will involve using the stalk and then chase and kill mechanism. You will have to make sure you are close enough to have a chance, yet far enough away that it doesn't alert your prey. Bigger and more difficult prey, such as wildebeest and buffalo, will require a pride effort to bring down. The hunting animations will also be realistic, with actual biting and clawing animations. Yes, there will be a bit of blood. After the kill is made, the player can then eat the prey they brought down. You must hunt at least once every three days before beginning to starve. If you don't play the game for a month or longer, your character will die due to starvation and dehydration.

Now... onto the subject of mating. In order to have cubs, you must mate. However, there will be no actual mating animation due to the fact that I know people will be immature about it. Instead, the two characters will merely nuzzle, while the female will roll on her back and purr, pawing at the male's face while the male nuzzles her. There will also be an option in your bio to turn 'allow mating requests' on or off. To mate with someone, you must click on their avatar and send a mating request. There is an ability to make it so no one can spam you with requests by simply turning mating off.

Cubs will be actual players. When making a character, you have the choice to play as a newborn cub, or an adult. If you choose newborn cub, there will be a list of available pregnant mothers, with their activity and last login date shown. Pregnancy lasts 1 week, and the last three days are open for cubs to select the mother. The last day is the due date, but the cubs aren't born until both the mother and cubs are all online at once. If the cubs aren't born yet a week after the due date, it is a miscarriage.

Cubs must be nursed when first born, and they can't walk for the first three days of life. Just crawl. They will be weak and defenseless. After the days, they learn to walk and can play. The cannot hunt or kill until they turn into adolescents. If the mother does not feed the cubs, they will die. However, any other lioness can nurse or hunt for any cub, in the case of neglectful mothers.

Prides can be led by either a male or a female. If the leader doesn't log in for over a month, the pride is disbanded. Prides can have as many members as they want to, there is no limit. The bigger the pride is, the more successful they are. To join a pride, you can pull up a list that lists all prides that the leader is currently online in, and the pride's activity level. Select one, and send a joining request. If you are accepted, pride members will become blue dots on your minimap.

There will also be many emotes and actions you can perform, such as roaring, play-fighting, and snarling/growling.

PvP will be an option. You can have the option to turn PvP on or off. When it is off, no one can attack you. If it is on, anyone can attack you, unless they have PvP turned off. There will also be no health bar, as wounds will show on the character.

~WIP~

EDIT: Website added. http://lion-cave.freeforums.net/

UPDATE: We are thinking of using this model as the base. (Since it is a lioness, we can just add a mane to make it male, and downsize and add spots to make a cub. That's why I just want a lioness, instead of getting both.)


























The only problem with that model is... it's $50. Though... that is one epic looking model for $50, don't ya think? Wouldn't you wanna play a game with a lioness model like /that/?

You can find the model here: http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/lioness-animation-fur-3d-model/687139

If anyone interested in LionCave would like to help buy the model, we would be grateful. Plus... such a nice thing would not go un-repaid. We would definitely think of something to repay anyone kind enough to help us with the model, and thus the entire production of LionCave.

Vio is the alpha of a pack called the SpiritBloods. he is swift, calculating, and very intelligent. He is not the strongest, but he usually wins in battles due to his quick thinking and strategic way of fighting.

Looks: He is a grayish wolf with a soft violet hue. His paws are brown, and he has blue eyes.

Backstory: Vio was the runt of a litter of four. He was very small and weak compared to the others. Because of this, he was ignored by his mother for about two weeks after his birth. After those two weeks, she gripped him in her jaws and carried him away from the rest of his family. He was then abandoned by the Y River, and left to die. However, he was rescued by an old female wolf called Sage, who took him in and cared for him. This wolf was a shaman, or medic. When Vio was about three months old, Sage took him as her apprentice, teaching him many things about healing, and the world around him.
 He loved Sage. He loved her as if she was his mother, and she cared for him as if he were her son. From this kind old wolf, Vio learned many things, and it enhanced his intelligence and ways of thinking. He knew how to cure some diseases, help broken bones, heal cuts and wounds... and he also learned to calculate his enemy's movements in battle. He learned to be swift thinking, fighting with his head, not brute force like most.
 When Vio turned 8 months old, Sage got a severe illness that he didn't know how to treat. She was like this, in a lot of pain, for days. Vio could do nothing but watch, as Sage would writhe about in pure agony as she suffered.. until the last day. After a week of illness, Sage passed away in her sleep. Vio made a grave for the loving old wolf that had raised him, and stayed by that grave for a month.
 Soon, Vio began to wander away from his den, and became a sort of... traveller. It was on his travels that he met two other wolves, Ryka and Kolok. They became close friends, and hunted, played, and slept together each day. They became the start of his pack, the SpiritBloods. Vio was the alpha male, with Ryka as the alpha female.  Soon, his pack expanded and grew... though Ryka and Kolok both died in a failed hunting mission. Vio now leads his pack alone, but fearlessly, and strong-willed.
 Sometimes you can see Vio hanging out by the Y River, where Sage's gravesite is located.

~Hunting and Eating
Yes, I know the main idea for hunting has already been brought up several times. But, instead of suggesting that we HAVE hunting, I am suggesting an idea for hunting.

So, when we think of 'hunting', we probably think of hunting in IT, right? Well, what if it was more.. realistic? Like, say you had to stalk it, and chase it down. Then, you could use attacks to bring the prey down, and then maybe eat it when you're done hunting. Basically, it could be like this:
CTRL: Stalk mode. While in stalk mode, you can see the scent trails of prey.

When you get close to your prey, you can click on it. Your character will then begin to chase it, but it is up to YOU to attack it, with these controls:
1: Maul- Leap at the prey, clawing your way onto its back. Then, you can try to strangle its neck.
2: Pounce- Used on small prey, such as rodents or birds. You pounce on it, and it dies in your claws. Good for warrior cats.
3: Throat bite- Used when running at prey from in front. You can lunge at their throat and attempt to sink your jaws in, killing it.

After it is dead, you can press 'F' to feed on it. (I know F is 'fall' when flying and under water, but it should have land use.)

You could also drink water by going up to water and pressing R.

Carrying~
You could be able to pick up pups, and 'dead' or injured characters. However, they'd need to accept a carrying request. Click on them, and then click 'pick up'. Then press P to drop them.

Den making~
You could be able to dig into the side of a hill by pressing H. Or, you could collect sticks or stones or whatever and build a den.

PvP~
We could have a PvP system. Meaning.. you can fight other players. There's the chance you can be injured, and when you make your account, you could choose the 'blood' setting. Meaning, you could choose whether to show blood/injuries or not. Recomended for younger players or people who don't like blood. For people with the 'blood' setting on, you could SEE your injuries. Like you can SEE your enemy's injuries in Skyrim. PvP could reduce powerplay.
PvP controls:
1- Maul: Lunge at your opponent, scratching madly at them and lunging at their throats.
2- Scratch
3- Head Slam- Slam your paw into your opponent's head/
4- Skull grip- Grip your opponent's head between your claws.
5- Parry- Roll to behind your opponent, slashing at their hindquarters.

Tell me what ya think in the comments.

P.S. Please.. do not bring up the issue of not having the source code.

Summary: A war is rising between the two packs of the Dukai'Rikku forest, the Ru'Kixu and the Moriuko. The air is constantly filled with the sounds of battle howls and fighting, and four young wolves, training to be fighters, are caught in the middle of it! Vuri, Raiko, Lifei, and Maki must fight to survive in this wolf-eat-wolf world... will they make it? Or will they be lost to war?
Rain fell down from the dark sky, hitting hard against the forest floor. Thunder sounded overhead, followed by the howls of battle. Snarls, barks, and aggressive howls echoed through the trees, as the battle raged on. Wolf fought wolf, and many fell to the ground, never to re-awaken.
 "Zanatei!" came the bark of one white female, rushing to the side of a fallen rusty brown male. The fallen wolf slowly struggled to stand, but collapsed on the ground, casuing water droplets to rise and hit the other wolf in the face.
 "Moriuko! Retreat! Zanatei is injured! Someone, help me take him back to the den!" she howled. Other wolves threw down their opponents, rushing to the she-wolf's side, and gently began to lift their injured comrade from the ground.

-TBC, please do not post until I give the okay.-