January 9, 2014 - 10:10am — DashingFate
So, let me begin by saying it's really nice to meet all of you!
Anyways, here's a cool little origin story to introduce myself. I recently joined, (AKA: yesterday), and at first, I must admit I was hesitant. I usually don't go for multiplayer-type games, and at the time of seeing this gem, did not understand the full concept involved. I was surfing the web just looking for any possible games similar in some way to an old game I adored, WolfQuest, that has, sadly, seemed to slowly chip away into nothing. After a while of searching, I came upon TEF. The graphics, from what I saw at first, looked absolutely intriguing. Though the faces of the deer were, admittedly, a bit odd to me at the time, I overlooked it in order to test out the gameplay. Lo and behold, however, my poor laptop is definitely not up to requirements! However, at this point in time, the gameplay and ideals of the experience had caught me enough that I jumped on our higher-powered desktop to find out just what this game had in store!
I began with testing it out, making sure it ran smoothly on the desktop (it was definitely fine), then, curious about just what the multiplayer might hold, I signed up. I thought it'd be one of those stereotypical multiplayer MMORPGs that used a chat-based system where often trolls would pop up and annoy everyone around. Much to my surprise, I found no such chat. Instead, I found plenty of little fawns and stags prancing around in the wild, interacting with a language I had yet to learn (and still only vaguely understand after a couple hours of gameplay). Well, I was hooked, to say the least! I wanted to learn about these new friends-- or perhaps uneasy allies, even-- and learn their strange ways. After a bit of fiddling with the controls, I found myself in play-fighting matches between other fawns, curious sniffing of the larger, much more unique adults, and even prancing around, merely watching what the others did and slowly learning.
