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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.

Shearing day shenanigans

Hadn't been in for a while (life, work, you know the score) but yesterday was the hottest day of the summer so far and also shearing day for my boys, a duty I was happy to finally be able to get done. So I felt like popping back in since I always enjoy it so.

Taking a moment to enjoy the butterflies. It feels nice to be back there.



I continued my peaceful stroll but all of a sudden the forest reality ripped open and I was confronted with a sharp-edged geometric void. Transfixed, I stared into the void, and the void stared back. I began bleating nervously, which probably confused anybody else in the house.



Trembling, I walked nervously towards the void, expecting it at any moment to consume me and deliver me to some mathematical polygonal purgatory.

[Solved for now] Forum help?

I've never really been one to use forums all that much so a lot of how to do things evades me. When trying to reply to comments I receive this error



"You have to specify a valid author.44097"

i've tried looking all over the forum or searching up a blog post for help, the support forum doesn't seem to exist anymore, or I can't access it, so if someone can help me figure this out i'd greatly appreciate it! <3
I know this game is old but it does hold a special place in my heart from childhood, I only just re-found it a couple days ago.

Anyway, thank you! I look forward to engaging with others!

Síoraí

This is a WIP for my first deer
Síoraí (SHE-ree) - Irish for Eternal

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Wald

The First Kill

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Hey, I'm Hydde!

I've had an account for a while, but have never been active in the community, a fact I regret nowadays. Much has changed since the moment I made my first deer: I finished school, university, moved across the world and got married. However, through the years, I made it a habit to log in every couple of years to see what was going on. Most importantly, I was overjoyed to see this game is still alive in 2025, and is even getting remastered. I can't overstate how excited I am for that!

Nonetheless, the forest is quieter than I remember. After logging on every couple of months this year, I managed to find my first active user (on the left)! I don't know who you are, but it brought me so much joy seeing you! I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to try and make it a habit to update this blog with an additional screenshot every time I'm on :]

Also, thanks to old me for writing down all of my deer names on here. I was convinced I've only ever made one, so finding 2 extra beautifully put together deer was a delight! This one on the right is Wald. My other two are Phylin and Murai.

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