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TEF II = FUNDED!

I'm overjoyed to announce that the fundraising for the Second Decade of The Endless Forest is now complete! The whole game will be remade in Unreal Engine!

Fundraising continues on http://endlessforest.org/fundraising/ towards adding new features.

Thank you all!


Michaël & Auriea.
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TEF II step 5

We have posted an update on the remake of The Endless Forest in Unreal Engine here: http://olt.lt/ms/the-unreal-forest-step-5
Access is free for backers.
Join them if your haven't yet: http://endlessforest.org/fundraising/

TL;DR? Forest Magic! All of it. Implemented!

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Raising funds for the Forest

The IndieGogo campaign to remake The Endless Forest with new technology closed with an amazing 86% of its target collected. That's fantastic! Thank you all for your support.

This means that the remake will definitely happen!

I'm sure we can count on you to collect the remainder of the budget now that we have a bit more time. You can do that here.

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Fan art in the game!

Hello there!
I am Margo Putzeys, a student Game- and Digital Design and I am currently doing my internship with Tale of Tales. I am still studying but I will be entering my Master year next schoolyear.
For my internship Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn asked me if I wanted to work with the players and make models and concept art together. And with great pleasure I accepted this of course! This means you will be able to add art to the game!

But there are some 'rules' attached to this: If you make a 3D model, pleas send it as an .OBJ file to me. But a .Blender file ( Blender's file extension ) would be even better! But a .OBJ is good as well! As for the concept art you can send a photoshop file, PNG of JPEG.

So what can you make? Well it's like a set that the deers can wear in the game! This set includes: a mask, antlers and a pelt. Both made for the adult deer AND the baby deer. You can (if some of you know how and want to) texture these models by using a UV map. If you do texture them, send texture files as a PNG. ( PNG supports transparancy )
But of course you are never obligated to making more than you like. The meaning of this task is also for me to make stuff, so if you only would like to make the adult deer's models, that's fine by me. I can always texture them, add models, etc.

So if any of you are interested in putting your art or 3D models in the game. Send them to me and I can adjust them if necessary or take a look if something needs to be changed and so on.
You can of course also send your concept art to me and I can realise that concept art into a 3D model which may have a chance to be put in the actual game: The Endless Forest!

My e-mail adres is : Margo.Putzeys@gmail.com. I hope I will be hearing soon from you guys!!

Greetings,
Margo


EDIT: from Michael and Auriea --
To be clear, we want Margo to do ALL of the modeling and ALL of the texturing. Because that is what her internship is about.

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Is TEF alive?

Hey guys, I hasn't been logged in to the game like.. 1 year idk. So people still just sitting around in afk? Also I have a question, when I was playing there were many people and they just laying down, not moving. Were they offline or online? If they're online, then I don't understand the point of just sitting afk and doing nothing Laughing out loud (Stuped me complaining about old game and community again lol)

Wanna return to the game, maybe i'll draw some people that I'll find interesting (they're all interesting)


(Didn't used translator this time. Hope your brain and eyes still working after this blog)

Hello P! :3 Ive met you!

P!!! I found you! We've played together!!! Today! Is that you? https://postimg.cc/GTnQ3PwT :3

New around here, and not so sure how things work.

Hey! I'm glad to see this community has an active forum. I've had my eye on this game ever since I was very young, never really getting the chance to play it properly. Once, when I was 14 on my crappy laptop yearsss ago, and now as an adult with a PC. Unfortunately both times having trying to download and play it, it made everything on my desktop huge and impossible to navigate, and just never closed or ruined it for a good amount of time unless I restart.

About 5 months ago I had made this account, fully expecting it to run smoothly. But despite changing the graphics settings, resolution, etc., I couldn't get it to run past 2 to 5 fps, if it wasn't entirely frozen not allowing me to close it that is. So I'd uninstalled it shortly after.

Is there a fix for this? I've always been excited to play but it's a bummer I kept running into these issues. I saw a video of somebody recently trying the game out who had to go through the settings and mess with it for a good 30 minutes or so just to get his to run smoothly. (which is good to know it's possible!)

Is it just because it's an old game, or would it have something to do with my PC? Sorry this is such a long winded post. The TLDR of it is;

The past few years I've been attempting to try TEF, but I've run into performance issues and desktop layout issues each time. Not sure if there are any fixes or if it's normal...

But thank you to anybody who would have an answer..!

returning player

hello! I used to play yeaaars ago (omg over 15 years) and no longer have access to my old email.
so im back! I look forward to seeing the art and writings again <3

(soon to be deer page blog)

Hello to anyone reading this. The title will change later on.
Ignore the mess for now please, and thank you.

Scruffy
The Lazy Wolf.
(in game + Art position text holder)
The big bad wolf he is far from being. fawns could easily run circles around this fluff ball and the most movement they might get out of him would be him slightly turning his head.
When he's not sleeping, he's laying down watching the world around him. If he spots someone who's already asleep he might sniff them and join them in sleep.


Blaze
Brother to Noir.
(in game + Art)
Calm and polite when compared to his brother. He spends most of his time listening to the forest or slowly walking around in it. He loves soaking up the sunlight and enjoys snacking on any fruit or pinecone that falls out of a tree. However he has been known to get carried away at times when he's around his brother. This sometimes either leads into a bit of rough housing, racing around the forest, and someone getting their antler's stuck on a tree branch.

Noir
Brother to Blaze
(in game + Art)
Fun loving and a bit rough at times, other wise he's harmless. He enjoys being loud and running about the forest. Jumping over the little river rather then taking the bridge. When he's not being loud, he actually can be a bit calm. He loves the dark and eating the mushrooms that grow on the trees. If he's around his brother things don't stay calm for very long.

Yume
(in game+ Art)
A shy deer who hides out in the flower patches within the forest. They often cover their antlers in flowers. They love watching the bugs, even more so butterflies and fireflies.

???
(in game + art)
Something ancient will come to the forest soon.

???
(in game + art)
Something weird is in the forest now.
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