"Furcadia" was originally designed and programmed by David Shapiro (also known as "Dr. Cat", or "Felorin" in-game) and 'Manda (known as "Talzhemir" in-game). Additional people have since been included as part owners for their work: game executive producer Emerald Kaiten Catz (known as "Emerald Flame"), who coordinates new development on the game, as well as who developed (and still coordinates) the Beekin volunteers project, Aleksi Asikainen (known as "Fox", or "sanctimonious"), who created the game's editors and was involved in coding the client / server, though he no longer works for "Furcadia", Ben Jans (known as "Gar"), the game's design director, and Michael Vondung (known as "Cironir"), who manages the community. The other DEP staff are involved with the game's art and programming development, as well as community affairs.