Crown Academy

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Crown Academy
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Creator	Star Status
Month created	October 2018
Visits	Around 76,890,000
Genre	Adventure
Page last updated on February 7, 2024

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.

Supposed theft controversy and Royale High community conflict

Ice7 shared on Twitter on July 21, 2020, that he had filed a lawsuit towards Star Status two weeks prior on the basing claim that their upcoming game, Crown Academy, had supposedly used stolen Royale High code and assets in its production from a previous Royale High developer that was purportedly 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 PixelatedCandy, the owner of Star Status.

Although the screenshots were 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. However, some Royale High fans still believed the game was stealing, and demanded certain items such as select skirts and shoes were removed or changed. Despite that these assets were not actually stolen from Royale High, nor their concepts created by Royale High originally (though some being somewhat visually similar due to the same references being used), some of these items were reworked and updated after the release of the public access beta.

As determined and filed on April 6, 2022, the prior mentioned lawsuit came to some result. The court determined that Crown Academy did not use any Royale High assets or code, nor did they instruct any code or assets to be stolen, therefore waiving them of the copyright claim. However, Ice7 states he still has existing claims in relation to the case on April 14, 2022, and that PixelatedCandy lost the opposing case against Ice7 for defamation, though documents relating to this have not been publicized, unlike the verdict on the plaintiffs' claims.

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 other players for playing a "copy" of Royale High. Many Royale High players also joined Crown Academy simply to be able to leave a dislike on the experience, which resulted in a low approval rating on Crown Academy, usually ranging between 60% to 70%, still persisting years after its release.

In February 2021, CHROMASTASIA (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.

Ceasing development

Crown Academy's official Discord guild's moderators announced on December 19, 2022 in the "#📢-announcements" channel that Crown Academy had ceased development:

No the game won't continue it's development further due to reasons such as one of them including the lawsuit that did not help with the game's reputation. For now, the devs are now working on other projects and are planning to make a new game project inspired by crown academy (we're not sure when it will be released but we know they're working on it)

"Presidento Neko", Crown Academy Discord guild moderator

As of January 2024, no additional information has been shared from any developers or associates on any channel for Crown Academy, including any details on the "new game project" that would be inspired by Crown Academy.