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!

Apr, 2012: until a suitable new format comes to mind, this project is dormant.



I'm posting this for myself at the moment, but if the idea seems to work, please feel free to use this blog to organize your own parties (so that you are not waiting on me for company).

I'm feeling uninspired, overwhelmed, and stuck in a rut with my art. My mind is getting in the way of my hand, and to remedy that, I'm going to draw as much as I can, as quickly as I can. To give myself a limit, I'm drawing to music- one drawing per song. When the song ends, regardless of what stage the drawing is at, it's time to move on. Today I am drawing in pencil, but any media is perfectly fine.

Rather than doing this alone, I hope some of you will join me in this exercise. I will be on skype instant messenger and listening to this playlist of TEF suggested music (compiled by Unplugged). You are welcome to share music, too.
If there is some trouble with this system, please let me know, or suggest an alternative (this is an experiment).

If you like, please let me know you would like to join, and take up your creative tool.
Starting on this song today (OFFLINE)

Please feel free to post your drawings here after the session.

Note- The original idea was, "Let's all listen to the same song while we draw, and be able to talk a bit, too". The Listening Room-type sites I visited don't seem to work. But if you know of a way to group listen, please leave a comment.

The background "Warmth of the forest" I did placed in the regional TAPPS, and went onto state a few months back, and today I learned that I scored 5th place in my category out of my entire state! And Texas is BIG state, too! :'D
just wanted to share some good news ë_ê

Well, i have recently decided to take an interest in this place again. I downloaded it months ago played for week and forgot about it. But now, idk i just want to get more involved. ^^
currently i only have one character Revenaught. He is a black stag with white eyes the color of the moon. For more info on him go to his bio xD
but i want to get him active before i decided to create another.
SO! if anyone would like to rp with him, feel free to message me ^^

I don't really know how it happened. Nor do I know what sort of sorcery is keeping me alive to this day. I can recount everything after that fateful night. Well, where are my manners? I am Revenaught a son of the night. My loyalties are to the moon and her soft light. I wasn't always like this, a stag with fur ass black as the night sky. My eyes hadn't always been white like moonlight. No, I was human. Yes I know, you may think I'm crazy but ti's the truth. My father was an Celt, as was my mother. We as a people lived in the Highlands of Scotland. My name then was Liam McNaughton. I can still on special occasions revert back to my human form. But it can only be done on nights of the blood moon when her highness is the color of spilt blood an bathes us in the crimson light of her shining face. Its when i appear the most human like. I can change other times but my ears remain like a stags, and my antlers are still perched upon my head.
Lads and Lasses, I want to tell you my story. It is one of war, dark magic and betrayal. Living in Scotland was hard. Under the rule of the British king the clans were separated and in poverty. It was every clan for themselves, and this often lead to inner conflict. As a young lad I would often find myself spending hours in the fields and woods. I can't express how much I loved the woods or the mountains. My clan had been tucked away in a valley surrounded by the large stone structures and woodlands. The village was composed entirely of my family, twenty of us total. The nearest village was a day and a half away-our cousins of the Mcdoughft clan from which my mother hailed. At the age of sixteen, two of my daughter fell ill during the winter. This is where my troubles began. I had already lost my wife two months before, I couldn't bear to lose both of my younger sisters. When the priest and the doctor could do nothing, I turned my back on everything i had been taught. I went in search of the spirits of old.

Hi everyone!

Last time I wrote here about my guinea pigs, a half year ago. What a shame! Have to fix that.

On last Saturday (24th March) my blog had unbelievable two years. I chosen the best articles, that Im pride on and posted it on blog. And I remembered this TEF blog, so I decided to let you, TEF guys, know.

THE BEST OF NASE-ZAZITKY.BLOG.CZ IS HERE (CZ; ENG version is not available yet ) - http://nase-zazitky.blog.cz/1203/to-nejlepsi-z-nase-zazitky-blog-cz

I know that my English is horrible, so dont be annoyed and have a nice day!

you are not allow to sign in because you said that I'm not registered but I still se came in the mail where I activate?? (

Toukan:

Herla:


Projekt by:Midnightrose:
http://endlessforest.org/community/100-comments
I hope you don't mind if these drawings later on but I wrote a blog called the 100 and I have spoken to coment write up

(This will be the updated version of this blog when it is finished. Until then I will continue to add to it. Please feel free to add comments as I update this, give helpful suggestions, etc. etc. I am reminding you that this is in no way complete.)