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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.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot logging in?

Hi! I just joined the game today :]!! I'm very happy to be here and I like exploring the forest, but I keep running into an error whenever I try to log in. It keeps giving me "!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN" whenever I try and log in on the game. I've made sure that all my info is correct, so I don't think its a matter of mistyping anything, I'm not really sure what to do. If someone could help me or give any advice on how to fix this I'd greatly appreciate it!!! Thank you ^_^

Hi! I'm new

Hello! I'm new here and I want to find some guys/deers from today's online (27 of September 2025). You changed my skin so much times, omg. But I like to make it red by the river's idol Smiling
It was so funny to played with you! Hope, will see you next time!

P.S. sorry for my English Sad

Can't reconnect to network anymore, always shows an error

Hello! I recently downloaded this game to play it with a friend so i'm quite new, a moment ago we were having no issues playing the game as normal and running around before laying down to go afk. I clicked the minimize window button[i play windowed. 1920x1080 resolution], which crashed the game, and when I reopened it I was logged out, and the game constantly tries to reconnect, only to display an error. I tried turning off the "connect automatically" and doing it manually, didn't work. I tried restarting the game, didn't work. Turning my wifi on and off, also didnt work. I've sat around waiting a really, really long time, and nothing. The network status just says it's connecting, and then says error. The only solution i could dig up to my near exact problem on here was someone saying to make sure directplay is turned on, and I can confirm it is. I'm running windows 11 if that's any help. I'm kind of sad because I wanted to keep playing with my friend and I dunno what to do or if this is the right place to ask for help, but any help would be very appreciated.
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Any TEF discord servers?

Hey good morning, are there any active TEF discord servers around? I’m working on a novel series inspired by my stories on the TEF community site and wanted to keep in touch.

Warm Welcome

Hi, everyone! As a player revisiting The Endless Forest after around 10 years, I want to thank the crow (a white deer) and Rin (I did my research, lmao) for what I feel was a warm welcome I got from you both. Smiling It reminded me about how much time I used to spend in the Forest, and how welcoming it feels to lose the boundaries of language to communicate and just be with each other.

I lost my old account, but honestly, playing as a fawn after such a long time seems like a good fit. I hope to see you both around somewhere in the near future!Smiling

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Idk if i'll find an answer in 2025, but i'll write it anyway
I can't reply to comments or comment on blogs

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Also i can't set an avatar to my profile Sad
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