That’s right, we’re doing it again. Another performance of ABIOGENESIS! Celebrating The Day of the Dead at the occasion of the final week of our exhibition in Museo Tamayo in Mexico City… Be there!
Category: The Endless Forest
All Hallows’ ABIOGENESIS!
Not Endless, but still quite a bit
The Endless Forest has crossed the 20,000 registered players mark today. Thank you, Ghost, for pointing it out.
Welcome to all new fawns!
The game has been downloaded over 150,000 times so far. 2500 Unique players have logged in over the past month and around 250 play the game every day. The number has increased quite a bit since Phase Three was released.
More TEF player creations!
Forest dwellers love to DANCE! These two video clips are by Jen (bubblywums) showing off the Deer of the Dead costumes at an improptu dance party. In addition to the original dance music by Gerry De Mol and our spooky variation, at the end credits you’ll hear TEF inspired music tracks made by Alpha. All very fun and well done, check it out. 
and this one,…. no words….
Endless Forest turns EVIL!
For the occasion of the Velocity Festival of Digital Culture in Lancaster, The Endless Forest will be shrouded in mist during the month of October. Undead deer will be roaring, wolves howling and bats fluttering in preparation for All Hallow’s Eve and Day of the Dead.
You’ll need the latest Endless Forest client (3.1) to trick or treat.
You can be the very center of the mayhem, if you use the machine installed in the Furness & Midland Hall in Carnforth Station in Lancashire. Check here for information.
We’ve heard that opening hours may be “erratic for the first few days of the festival”. From Tuesday 16th to Saturday 3rd November the venue will be open to the public from 10am – 4pm Tuesday to Sunday.
Imagery from IETM
Michael’s 11 year old son provides the following images of the large projection at the IETM conference. The videos below show the 2 game consoles, on which attendees could play the game, in action!
TEF@IETM
Today, just like yesterday, we’ll be at the Vooruit again (between 5 and 7 pm), playing with the Twin Gods in The Endless Forest at the occasion of the IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting. Don’t be alarmed when rocks start falling from the sky!
Play Cultures starts today
Tonight at 7 pm local time, the exhibition Play Cultures starts in the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia). It runs until October 25th.
So that makes 4 shows that feature The Endless Forest at the moment? Now wonder it’s getting crowded. 😉
The exhibition “Play Cultures” is an international exhibition that presents contemporary artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows one possible view of how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way. The exhibition consists of standalone games, mods, video works, multiplayer games and interactive storytelling.
Artists:
AES + F (RU), Alon Tzarafi (IL), Afkar Media (SY), Fiambrera (ES), Gonzalo Frasca (UY), Jodi (BE, NL), Molleindustria (IT), Personal Cinema (GR), Persuasive Games (US), Robert Praxmarer (AT), Serious Games Interactive (DK), Tale of Tales (BE), Vladan Joler (RS), Vladimir Todorovic (RS, SG), Urtica (RS)
Organized by napon.org, Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies.
VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture
The Endless Forest will be installed at Carnforth railway station in the UK from 11th October – 3rd November 2007 as part of the VELOCITY festival taking place in Lancaster, UK and other parts along a train route of fun and mystery. We cannot come to the show physically but we’ll be introducing new attractions and activities to The Forest throughout the duration of the show culminating in a spooky finale on Halloween. From the description we were sent, here’s what one can expect:
“…a simple installation in the high vaulted Midland & Furness Hall of the station. Visitors will have to pass through a heavy velvet curtain to enter the space and I’m keen that that this feels just right. The lighting in the hall will mimic the dappled quality of sun or moon light through trees, and there will be a good sound system installed. The piece will be projected onto a screen approx 8’x10′ that will be built especially. Visitors will be able to stand up against the screen which will be floor mounted. The digital projector will be contained within a plinth in the centre of the space with a trackball mouse mounted on the top surface for them to engage with the game. There will of course be a high speed internet connection…
As we build towards Halloween a further physical element will be introduced, 1,000 tiny LED fireflies in the vault above the visitor’s head that will respond to the presence of electomagnetic forces (mobile phones) and the sound of the express trains from London to Glasgow that periodically pass the windows of the hall at great speed! They will live for just 24 hours.”
coolness! If you’re in the UK and interested in taking the train ride more info can be found at their web site.
Also our trailer for The Path will be projected during their Halloween film night. Related to that, it is our understanding that children from the Dukes Youth Arts Center have written little stage play based on The Path’s scenario which will receive it’s premiere from ten minutes before to ten minutes after midnight on Halloween…. ! …. that should be interesting, I’m hoping they put a video of it on YouTube! 😀
Phase Three of The Endless Forest is open!
After a few months of intense beta-testing with the players (read: messing around with strange bugs that make your deer do silly things), Phase Three of The Endless Forest has now been declared officially open!
Be a fawn in an entirely new area with birch trees and cycamores. Or collect blue tits and red breasts on your antlers and play hide and seek among a bunch of large boulders.
Download the new client now!
It’s free!Phase Three was made with the latest version of Quest3D and contains all new animation blending and forest rendering, making the application faster, require less memory and the download even smaller than Phase Two.