Summoned By Accident

Summoned By Accident (SbA) is a series of games set in a connected universe created by Azulookami (Furaffinity). The game series has evolved over the years and advanced from a somewhat linear HTML game to a more complex open-world CYOA game to the current version that is an open-world visual novel.

Origins
After first joining Furaffinity on December 18, 2016, it was some time before the first upload occurred on the account. It was on June 15, 2017 that the first HTML game titled A Story was uploaded and described the original story of Zorro in a modern apartment setting hanging out with his friends and meeting new people. While three different path choices are available from the beginning, especially in the subsequent version titled A Story Update, the canon outcome of the story presumes that Zorro unlocked his male pregnancy capabilities from interaction with goblins and officially met characters like Ferron, Duilio, and his old friend Trald, who would all go on to populate the primary world represented in later games.

Some additional insights into a very early version of what would become Zorro (formerly named Mist) were collected in an upload titled Story I Didn't Finish that represented drafted versions of him and other characters. In this version, titled An Alchy Story - Mist, the story is presented as Mist moving to a fantasy medieval town made up of other beings, both human and anthropomorphic animals, among other creatures. Several characters in this original draft, such as Longinus, have yet to appear in later official versions of SbA and it is unclear at this point if they have been kept as characters.

A sequel game titled A Story Decision was released within the following few weeks that had Zorro be transported to a different medieval world with a number of unique characters not seen before or after. This story introduced Zorro's ability to jump between other universes and described his encounter with a Dragon King that resulted in his later situation of having a dragon's soul within his body that gave him further magical abilities.

Original (2017-2018)
The first true version of Summoned By Accident was released on July 21, 2017 as an adaptation of a story from Writing.com that featured a CV Stadium. This was expanded upon to create the usual city setting common to all subsequent SbA games, though with a much heavier focus on the CV Arena and with a complete CYOA path split depending on if the player chooses to be a predator or prey in his interactions. The two paths would see the player interact with different parts of the city and have different primary characters to choose for relationships.

There were 12 total updates to this version, with the final update occurring on November 29, 2017. This version had to be abandoned at this point due to the limitations of the Twine engine being used, which was causing significant time delays in the editor for making any changes thanks to the large HTML file size.

A subsequent attempt to work on a smaller edition of this final version with new content was released on June 6, 2018 that was called Summoned By Accident 2.0, though only one update was made to this before a complete restart of the game was made with improved writing.

Redux (2018-2019)
A new version of SbA was released on October 16, 2018 and titled Summoned By Accident: Redux. This was a completely redone creation of the game with a greater degree of pathing revolving around choosing specific characters to romance. There was, however, only a single update to this version on February 5, 2019 before a year-long break until the newly made version was released. A final update to Redux was released much later on April 15, 2020 to add a final character path that had been written long beforehand.

Open World (2020-2021)
The longest-running version of Summoned By Accident was introduced as an open-world RPG text-based interactive on February 7, 2020. There were 14 total updates to this version and the pages of this wiki describing events and quests in the Open World version can be found in the Archive. The 11th update on January 28, 2021 also revealed a new game engine that would inform later work on the game and the art and game design direction that was desired. However, the final public update that is still available is Update 13 that remains on the Newgrounds version, with the only part of Update 14 remaining being the changelog on the game's Patreon page from March 8, 2021.

Visual Novel (2021-Current)
The most significant change to date in the course of the series came about in the first update to the visual novel version of the game made in the engine RenPy that was released on August 8, 2021. This new creation included both prior text and art assets from the Open World version and brand new backgrounds, missions, and other events in the game. The early portion of the game spread across three chapters were presented in a largely linear fashion that introduced players to the new mechanics and aspects of the combat system that was far more involved than in all prior SbA games.

Related Projects
During the creation of Summoned By Accident and especially during interim periods, author Azulookami produced a number of other HTML interactives. Many were their own separate and isolated short stories, often having their plotlines sourced from Patreon polls, but many of the longer running side games featured characters from the SbA universe. This included events resulting from Zorro transporting the player character to the universe or by playing characters that already lived within the main city setting of the game series. Though some of the more contained game stories make it difficult to determine if they are meant to be explicitly connected to SbA or not.

The first prominent example of this series interaction was the A Favor for Zorro game that went off the former premise and allowed the player to jump to multiple different bodies and interactions with characters around the SbA world and several characters that appear to be unique creations without any appearance elsewhere. This game was later renamed to Testing For Zorro in later updates, with the final update being released on September 25, 2018.

Several games also feature early versions of fan characters that were later included in the primary SbA games and timeline, particularly the sometimes taur, sometimes not character of who is to become "Doctor Professor" Darrius as seen in the games Study Date, Vore At The Con, Cruise Ship, and NeighBrohood Initiation. There are also occasional cameos, such as Zorro's limo butler in the game A Butler's Duty.

There were also several games that only had relevant characters in hindsight after the next large and directly connected game that is currently ongoing, Finding A Place, was released on February 17, 2021. This large game project is set explicitly in the SbA city universe and features character and relationship options for the human main character (who is not the main character from the mainline series, but someone who is originally from the SbA universe), such as Grisus, Aero, and Ed, among many others. But this series also tied together characters from prior games that were then revealed to have been set in Summoned By Accident all along, such as the rat dad Ritch from Helping The Neighbor and The Evening After. There is also the tanuki professor Roland who is working on transformative potions, who was earlier shown in the game Helping Out The Prof. Lastly, the medium sized game Broomies and its update featured professor Roland again and a number of other gym-going characters that would reappear as dating options in Finding A Place.