Mudam is ending its support for The Endless Forest, after having hosted the game server for 7 years.

The Musée d'Art moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg commissioned us to make a work of art for their online gallery in 2003. In response, we created the original prototype for The Endless Forest. In 2005 we were ready to launch the first iteration of the game and Mudam agreed to pay for the server required for allowing all players to interact with each other. Thanks to their support, The Endless Forest has been available for free until today.

Now, however, the museum has changed its policies and is no longer willing to sustain the cost.

Even though we haven't been updating The Endless Forest as much as we may have wanted to, and even though we can't promise any changes in the foreseeable future, we do want to continue to maintain the game in its current state and offer it to the public as a place of peace and harmony, free of charge. To do that, we will need to find a way to pay for the server.

The monthly cost of hosting the server is 165 Euros. This is not a lot of money. And we already have a voluntary subscription system in place. All we need is a few more people who are willing to commit to sending us a few Euros every month. And then we can continue as before.

Click "Read more" to see how you can help!

We are getting too many requests from people giving and receiving pictograms. We don't have time to fulfill all of them. We will do our best to get to through the requests we have already received. But please stop sending these. Our time is better spent making more things for the game than swapping around pictograms.

I realize that this functionality could be automated. But as I don't consider pictogram swapping to be part of the play experience as we see it, again I'd rather program something that is instead.

Between now and All Souls Day (November 2), you can download a bundle containing our three games The Graveyard, The Path and Fatale for any price you wish to pay for it.

Click here for details.

We managed to get the real-time map of the Forest working again. It had been broken since our move to the new server. Please let us know if you notice any problems.

Please do not embed pirated movies on this website or link to them or any other pirated software or data. This is a community site for The Endless Forest. For anything not related to the game and its players, please go elsewhere.

Thank you.

Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey.
Tale of Tales

We had to cancel ABIOGENESIS because our servers can't handle the amount of people that showed up. We're very sorry about this. We're flattered that you all want to attend the show. And we wish we could have massive parties like this. But apparently we can't.

We'll need to find a solution for this if we're ever going to do ABIOGENESIS again.

With a new generation of pictograms.
Links here.

You need the new version 3.31 of The Endless Forest to see the new pictograms in game. Get it here

The community site is online!?...

We have published some preliminary results of the survey here.

Just Last Night… -

If you missed yesterday’s ABIOGENESIS performance, catch an eyeful of lovely screenshots on the forum in this thread started by Quad. As you can see, it was all quite chaotic, as usual

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