History of Woomy-Arras.io

The History of Woomy Arras.io spans over 2 years and literally thousands of updates, known as patches. While the changelogs officially begin on 29 March 2018, it is unknown whether the game was in existence before then or how long.

When it was first created, Woomy was a single small FFA server that could hold about 10 players at once. It began to quickly grow throughout the following weeks, months, and years. In 2020 it expanded 8-fold, gaining 7 servers and have player counts above 10 in many arenas. In 2021, Woomy-Arras.io expanded even further, with the purchase of a new Miami server and new gamemodes replacing old ones.

Creation and early developments
Woomy was created sometimes in early 2018 or possibly late 2017 by Hellcat. Originally an FFA server developed by a single person, it soon changed to 4TDM to liven it up and Cupcake was taken on as the first Co-Developer. It is unknown what her contributions were. Arras Controller, later named woomy.arras.cx, went live on 30 June; it has become an important tool for communication in the game. Cupcake resigned in September 2018 for unknown reasons, and replaced by Clarise in November of the same year.

Clarise as Co-Developer
Clarise was easily the most productive of the Co-Developers, designing and releasing hundreds of tanks; so many in fact, that Hellcat had to upgrade the servers and remove the upgrade tier list to cope with the large number of new additions. As well, new shapes, bosses, sentries, and crashers were added. In the Discord server, Clarise was similarly active, creating the Arras Committee for Reinstating Neutrality (ACORN), and actively encouraging everyone to suggest their ideas for the game. Clarise became more and more inactive in 2020, citing life issues and a growing disinterest in the game; she was largely replaced by Dogatorix in October. However, she kept a copy of Woomy in case of deletions since she had perceived that Hellcat was unstable. The creation of the Woomy-Arras.io Wiki in June 2020 revived her interest slightly, but she knew she was on the way out and only contributed a little to the wiki despite supporting it.

Dogatorix as Co-Developer
Dogatorix was also active as a developer, but was nowhere near Clarise in motivation and dedication. Mainly focusing on bosses and quality of life improvements, his tenure saw expansion to 8 public servers and more frequent developer events. Dogatorix's anger issues and refusal to implement legitimate suggestions from people he disliked made Hellcat replace him and officially fire Clarise in March 2021. He and Clarise were replaced by Absol and Oblivion.

Hellcat Resignation Crisis
In March 2021, Hellcat abruptly resigned and soft-deleted the game, citing rudeness and toxicity in the Discord server. Clarise convinced him to return long enough to appoint Absol and Oblivion, two very capable developers, as Co-Developers; and also bring the game back online. He made the necessary changes and ghosted the server, not leaving but being perpetually offline and unresponsive except to a very few people. Due to this, Absol called new Discord staff elections and applications, with Spencer gaining a high rank in the administration of the server. However the growing frequency of chaos and resignations among the staff soon grew too much for the community to handle.

Deletion of 2022
Sometime in late 2021 or early 2022, Woomy was deleted entirely by Oblivion during a rage incident. He ghosted Discord after that for several months, before joining the Arras development team in late 2022. In June 2022, the game was rewritten from old code that Clarise had saved for such an event, and released on a surge.sh server. Absol, CX, and Damocles, who were managing the reconstruction of Woomy, soon moved Woomy to arras.cx, which was more stable and more powerful, in anticipation of a resurgence of players. CX and Damocles left with the code after a couple poorly-made updates and left Absol to manage the server.

Revived Woomy Era
Absol has largely been unresponsive and offline, considering Woomy to be a permanently dead game. However, in November 2022, The Woomy Wizard returned from a long hiatus and soon re-immersed himself in the community. He soon discovered what had happened, and, remembering the "glory days" of old Woomy, asked first Absol, then Damocles, then CX, to be allowed to develop the game, but so far none of the requests have been granted.

Woomy has slowly grown in popularity once again, with a new community of players forming around it and new records being made, many of whom never knew the old Woomy. Time will tell if Woomy survives long enough to be developed once again or if it will slowly fade away as a dead game.