Deer players,


We hope you're getting excited for Halloween in the Forest! Because this year will be special!

Next week we intend to launch a crowdsourcing campaign for The Endless Forest on IndieGogo. The purpose of the campaign is to collect the necessary funding for a complete (and faithful) remake of the game in a new contemporary engine. As you may know, the current technology behind the game doesn't allow for much expansion and even severely limits the amount of players that can be active at any time. This has also been the reason why we can't do much Abiogenesis anymore.

But if the crowdsourcing campaign is successful, all of that is coming back. And more!

To convince people to co-fund the project, we want to enlist your help!

First of all, if you have a moment and you feel like it, please make a short video of yourself saying something about The Endless Forest (5-20 seconds). It can be very general, very specific or very personal. Just something you want to share about your feelings and experiences with the game. We will select as many as we can fit to be featured on the campaign page. You can use whatever technology you have: a phone or webcam recording is just fine. Try to shoot in 720p resolution horizontal, if possible. If you feel shy about video, you can send us audio too, or even just a plain text quote.

When you are ready, please upload your video, audio or text file to our Google drive (no account required).
(We are trying to remove the 5 MB upload limit but in the mean time, if you can't wait, please upload bigger files somewhere else and email a download link to the.endless.forest@tale-of-tales.com.)

Next we will be recording new video footage of the game itself to show the world. So we invite you all to come have a look this Saturday 22 October between 7 and 8 pm in Belgium (that's 10 am in San Francisco, 1 pm in New York, 6 pm in London, 8 pm in Moscow and 2 am the next day in Tokyo). There will be flowers!

And finally, if the campaign would exceed the budget we need for remaking the engine, we will want to use some of the extra money to hire someone to help improve the community site. So please let us know what improvements you would like to see here.


That's it. The thought of being able to work on The Endless Forest again makes us very happy. And even simply putting the campaign together to show the game to the world is a joy.

Please let us know what you think in the comments.

We will keep you posted!


See you in the Forest!

Michael & Auriea.