Star Status/Crown Academy

Crown Academy is a roleplay game set in a school that was created by Star Status. It was released to the public on August 21, 2020, after a paid access beta that began on August 14, 2020.

Gameplay
In Crown Academy, players can participate in various activities, explore multiple worlds, socialize with friends, and customize their avatar.

Character Customization
In a "Wardrobe" menu, players can customize every aspect of their avatar and wear different types of clothing and accessories such as hats, wings, crowns, skirts, shoes, and more. Although many items for character customization are given by default, but players can additionally purchase more items using pearls, the game's main currency.

Classes
In the Crown Academy world, players may attend five different classes on any given day which are graded and additionally give pearls and experience to level up. These classes include Art, Etiquette, Fashion, Math, Pet Care, PE, and Potions.

Worlds
Crown Academy is split into four different worlds: Crown Academy, Dream Estates, Enchanted Gardens, and Crown District. Each of the four worlds has different activities and lore to explore. These worlds can be accessed through physical portals, or the "Map" menu in-game.

Controversy
A lawsuit was filed against Star Status by, a programmer for the game Royale High, for allegedly using stolen Royale High code and assets in Crown Academy's production from a previous Royale High developer that was now working for Star Status. In his post, he provided links to legal documents that included screenshots of alleged reused code, assets, and text from Royale High. Star Status later filed a counter-suit against Ice7, confirmed by, the owner of Star Status.

Although the screenshots are not confirmed to be real, their release triggered a very volatile response from the Royale High community. Upon the opening of Crown Academy's public access beta, it looked different from the screenshots presented on the legal document and did not contain any visibly stolen assets. While some changed their opinions based on these changes, others did not, and claimed certain assets' ideas or appearances were copying or stealing. Despite that these assets were not actually stolen, nor their concepts created by Royale High originally (though some being somewhat visually similar), some of these items were reworked and updated.

Crown Academy temporarily filtered various forms and abbreviations of "Royale High" from its in-game chat for a few weeks after its public beta release on August 21, 2020, to limit its players being harassed, as certain players were joining only to attack players for playing a "copy" of Royale High.

In February 2021, (QueenChroma), an artist that had been independently contracted by one of Royale High's 3D modelers to conceptualize the "Winter Guardian" item set for Royale High, had brought up that Crown Academy had released an item called the "Winter Guardian Cape" / "Blizzard Guardian Cape" around the same time that Royale High had released their Winter Guardian set. This was discussed personally with the Crown Academy developers and the name of Crown Academy's item was changed to the "Everwinter Cape", though the initial similar naming appears to have been a coincidence.