WildWorks

In December 2014, WildWorks released a 3D mobile app in the Animal Jam universe, made with unity, upgraded graphics and items, and new story called [https://www.animaljam.com/en Animal Jam] (formerly "Animal Jam: Play Wild" before April 2020).{{Cite web |title=Animal Jam's Instagram photo: "Today is a special day in the history of Animal Jam! It has been nearly 10 years since the launch of Animal Jam; in recognition of this…" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B_fszdfFMnF/ |url-access=registration |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B_fszdfFMnF |archive-date=2021-12-24 |access-date=2020-06-28 |website=Instagram |language=en}}{{cbignore}} In 2016, it was announced that Animal Jam received over one million downloads despite having no paid user acquisition. Animal Jam has been the number one downloaded iPad game for kids 9–11 in 35 countries, the number one downloaded iPad educational game in 20 countries, and the number one top iPad game for kids 9–11 in 54 countries. As of late 2020, Animal Jam and Animal Jam Classic had 3.3 million monthly active users and a lifetime total of 130 million registered players in 200 countries.{{Cite web |date=2020-09-11 |title=WildWorks' Animal Jam online playground hits 130 million registered players after a decade |url=https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/11/wildworks-animal-jam-online-playground-hits-130-million-registered-players-after-a-decade/ |access-date=2021-01-17 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}

The studio's flagship title was Animal Jam Classic (formerly "Animal Jam" before April 2020). Animal Jam Classic is a virtual world for children, being developed within a partnership with the National Geographic Society. Users are placed in an online world called Jamaa, and are presented with a number of games, spaces to interact with other players, and light edutainment features in the form of games and fun facts within the gameworld. The game offers additional interactive educational resources for children, teachers and parents. In early 2016, Animal Jam Classic was named the fastest growing game site in the US with over 50 million users registered worldwide.{{cite web|title = Press Release {{!}} WildWorks {{!}} News|url = http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/animal-jam-named-fastest-growing-gaming-site-in-the-united-states-by-similarweb-2094049.htm}}

On April 24 2019, WildWorks announced Feral at UDEN #22 (stylized as "Fer.al"), a MMO game based around fantasy and myth. Unlike Animal Jam Classic and Animal Jam, Feral was going to be directed at a 13+ audience as stated at UDEN.{{Cite web |title=UDEN #22 - WildWorks Studio + Networking |url=https://www.guv1.com/jonblogs/2019/4/26/uden-22-wildworks-studio-networking |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=Jon Dean |language=en-US}} Feral was in Closed Beta from December 11, 2019 until May 20, 2020. It went into Early Access from May 20 but never reached full release.

On February 17 2022, wwadmin, the administrative account of WildWorks in the Feral Discord server, announced they were shutting down the game. The game was to reopen on February 19 for 24 hours,{{Cite web |last=Octokoi |title=Fer.al is Shutting Down |url=https://www.feralarchives.com/blog/shutdown |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=Fer.al Archives |language=en-US}} but due to violation of Feral's Terms of Service, the reopening was pushed to March 26 and shortened to 3 hours. Feral formally ceased operations on March 26 after a 3-hour shutdown period.{{Cite web |title=fer.al |url=https://fer.al/ |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=fer.al |language=en}}

Cinder is a 2021 Solana-Based NFT MMO game, created using the engine and assets of the now-defunct WildWorks title Fer.al. The game is populated with avatars referred to as the Cinder Fae, whose traits are procedurally generated for sale as NFT character tokens. At launch, the initial mint contained 4,444 Cinder Fae NFTs for sale on the Solana marketplace. According to the Cinder white paper, the Wildworks team began beta testing in April 2020. At some point, the part of Wildworks creating Cinder branched off and formed Cinder Studios.

On February 8, 2023, Cinder's servers suddenly shut down without warning, along with its website. An employee reported that Cinder Studios was shut down.{{Cite web |title=Mac McCann on LinkedIn: It has been 15 years, almost to the day, that I started as an intern in… {{!}} 29 comments |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mac-mccann-16b5063a_it-has-been-15-years-almost-to-the-day-activity-7026590411200610304-cF4s |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=www.linkedin.com |language=en}} There have been no official announcements about Cinder's shutdown.

• [https://www.animaljam.com/en Animal Jam] (Formerly known as "Animal Jam: Play Wild")
• Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
• Snoopy Flying Ace
• Animal Jam Classic{{cite web |title=Animal Jam Classic |website=www.animaljam.com |url=https://www.animaljam.com/en/classic }} (Formally known as "Animal Jam")
• Tunnel Town
• Animal Jam Jump
• Pac-Man World Rally
• Bee Movie Game
• Dash Tag
• Tag with Ryan
• Feral{{Cite web |title=Feral |url=https://fer.al/en |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=fer.al |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107055421/https://fer.al/en |archive-date=7 January 2022 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Makers of ‘kid’s first virtual world’ Animal Jam targets Gen Z teens with Fer.al debut|url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/08/makers-of-kids-first-virtual-world-animal-jam-targets-gen-z-teens-with-fer-al-debut/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}} (stylized as "Fer.al")
• Cinder

The studio also developed Bombshell, an engine and toolset for the development of high-fidelity interactive entertainment. The studio previously received first-round funding from the Canopy Group.

• {{Official website|http://www.wildworks.com}}
• [https://cinder.io/ Cinder.io]
• [https://animaljam.com/ Animal Jam]

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