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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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(another) sappypost


Hey TEF community!
Not sure how active the forum is these days as an occasional lurker, but felt like posting something.
The TEF world lives with me everyday whether or not I'm in-game or on-forum --
tbh this game and forum probably single-handedly raised me. lmao.
really, truly, this game, its world, and the community attached to it has made me the creative and artist I am today.
its mindboggling to think I discovered this game 15+ years ago, without which I would
never have created my OCs -- near and dear to my heart to this day.


I'm trying to pursue art full-time after suffering some heavy detriment
to my mental and physical health.
the positive is a lot of my work revolves around creating faun and antler beanies / hats.
finally, the outside matches the inside.
Here's some of my favorites (images below the cut).
Many many more completed works viewable on my website archives.

Writing entries is challenging to someone not fluent in HTML

I do not know much HTML. Others' entries are so well formatted, I am a little envious but I realize all this would take of me is to learn a little.

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Wald

The First Kill

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Hey, I'm Hydde! This post is a recreation of an older one I made off of my Wald account, the oldest character of mine that saw any use on TEF. The reason for the remake is that I really wanted to have all of my deer to be consolidated under my actual chosen name, and given that I've accidentally deleted the avatar on my old account, it wasn't really worth sticking to anymore.

The rest of the post is mostly copy-pasted from the older version, with minimal edits.

I've been on here for a long time now, 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! In retrospect I've realized it was Oxyinco, and 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 quite a few nice pictograms saved was a pleasure!

Thank you everyone who has given me a warm welcome before, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the forest again and again. Sorry my presence has been flaky, I have gone on a long trip that look a lot of prep, as well as gotten 1 cat richer in my life, so I haven't had time to walk the forest as much as I'd like.

Zombie Pelt up close

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To help celebrate the season i will post these close up photos of the zombie pelt. Enjoy!








Happy Halloween !
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