History VideoGame / TheEndlessForest

''The Endless Forest'' is an {{MMORPG}} for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]], first released on February 15th, 2006. Every player is a deer in a forest, without goals or the ability to chat. Unique pictograms above registered deer's heads help to identify each individual. Players communicate with each other through sounds and body language. And that's all there is to it. You start the game as a fawn and play as one for 30 days before you mature into a stag. The entire time you run around in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin endless forest]] as a deer, rubbing against trees, braying/mooing, and emoting to other players. You can also [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs cast "forest magic" on each other]], which changes pelts, masks, antlers, and [[ForcedTransformation even species]].

''The Endless Forest'' is an {{MMORPG}} for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]], first released on February 15th, 2006. Every player is a deer in a forest, without goals or the ability to chat. Unique pictograms above registered deer's heads help to identify each individual. Players communicate with each other through sounds and body language. And that's all there is to it. You start the game as a fawn and play as one for 30 days before you mature into a stag. The entire time you run around in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin endless forest]] as a deer, rubbing against trees, braying/mooing, and emoting to other players. You can also [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs cast "forest magic" on each other]], which changes pelts, masks, antlers, and [[BalefulPolymorph even species]].

* WaterIsBlue: Zigzagged. The murky pond erases all magic (along with masks and pelts) off a player, while the "clean" fountain water temporarily transforms players into WoodlandCreatures like bunnies and squirrels. Usually, the former is an unwanted effect especially when rare or special event pelts are concerned, while the latter is seen as a neat effect albeit temporary. However, this quickly flips around when you consider dipping yourself into the pond as a quick way of cleansing your character of any unwanted spells, and the fountain water as ''cursed'' as it essentially transforms the deer into [[BalefulPolymorph Baleful Polymorphs]] with limited ways to communicate to their deer brethren due to lack of EmoteAnimation.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Though most pelts resemble the patterns of other animals and mythical creatures, the Great Argus, Antelope, Magpie, and the Secretary Bird sets make reference to the Great Argus bird, Gemsbok, Common Magpie, and the Secretary Bird respectively, which are seldom seen in fiction.

%% * BugBuzz: One of the ambient forest sounds.

* FlowerInHerHair: You can wear flowers on your antlers.

* {{Animorphism}}: Into smaller animals.

* BatOutOfHell: It is possible to be transformed into a bat temporarily.

* BugBuzz: One of the ambient forest sounds.

* TheFairFolk: The deer are the animal equivalent of this.
* FertileFeet: One of the Twin Gods' traits.

* [[HellishHorse Hellish Deer]]: On Halloween a giant zombie deer summons fog and roams the forest, turning other deer into replicas of itself (albeit smaller and minus the fog).
* HeroicAlbino: Albino deer are seen as holy and pure, as their white coats are achieved by intense praying to the gods and act as a symbol of their religious devotion. Granted, the deer are not true albinos as these coats are magically-given and therefore temporary, but they're still meant to resemble albino deer based on the pink nose and antlers, and carry a heavy meaning with their coat color.

* MagicMushroom: Eating the mushrooms you see growing on trees gives you the ability to cast magic on other deer, giving them new masks.

* MightyRoar: All the deer can do this, and it is used as a ways of locating and calling other deer.
* NatureSpirit: The deer could be interpreted as this, the Twin Gods are this.
* NoisyNature: The deer's calls, yet again.
** The ambience of the forest itself can also qualify as this, particularly with the constant croaking of frogs near the pond area.
* OminousFog: This fills the forest on Halloween.
* OneGenderRace: As of right now, there are no does. Later on they're supposedly going to be added as [=NPCs=].

* SceneryPorn: See AttractMode above.

* ShoutOut: A certain red mask strongly resembles the face of the Deer God from Anime/PrincessMononoke.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: You turn into a frog in the deeper parts of the pond.

* WhiteBunny: It's possible to be transformed into this.

''The Endless Forest'' is an {{MMORPG}} for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] where the player is a deer in a forest, without goals or the ability to chat. Unique pictograms above registered deer's heads help to identify each individual. Players communicate with each other through sounds and body language. And that's all there is to it. You start the game as a fawn and play as one for 30 days before you mature into a stag. The entire time you run around in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin endless forest]] as a deer, rubbing against trees, braying/mooing, and emoting to other players. You can also [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs cast "forest magic" on each other]], which changes pelts, masks, antlers, and [[BalefulPolymorph even species]].

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!!This series provides examples of:

* BunniesForCuteness: You can be transformed into an adorable white rabbit temporarily.

* HazardousWater: When you fall in the pond you lose your pelt, antlers, and mask.
* IdleAnimation: The deer shakes, scratches, and looks around when you leave it standing but idle.

* AttractMode: When you make your deer lie down and leave the mouse idle for a few minutes, the game begins to pan around the forest for players to observe its beauty.

* Bambification: Subverted. The deer are not completely pure and innocent, and are still capable of fighting and tormenting each other via ActionBar.

* EmoteAnimation: The primary means of communication between players, as players have to bow, dance, shake and nod their heads in order to convey messages.
* EndlessDaytime: The forest is constantly in daylight except during certain events, like Halloween for example.

** The fountain is located in its own special circle of mushrooms, which will strip away all magic upon both entering and leaving the circle.
* TheMarvelousDeer: The deer are the only animals in the forest that can cast magic, and make any real changes to the environment. And the gods are deer. On top of that, the god-statue-given white pelt is meant to enhance their mystique.

The creators (also known for ''VideoGame/ThePath'') get a lot of feedback for the through the official forums, though it only gets any major updates maybe once a year. However, there is an upcoming update known as ''Phase Four'', which plans on bringing optimization, new scenery, new types of magic, pelts, and even a mysterious being known as the "Sundeer" into the game.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude

* AttractMode: When you make your deer lie down and leave the mouse idle for a few minutes, the game begins to pan around the forest. See SceneryPorn.
* {{Bambification}}: The deer are the only animals in the forest that can cast magic, and make any real changes to the environment. And the gods are deer.

* TheLostWoods

* TheMarvelousDeer: The deer are the most magical beings of the forest aside from the gods and their symbols, and the statue-given white pelt enhances their mystique.

* SceneryPorn: Put it this way, it's not uncommon for players to use the game as a screensaver.

* ShoutOut: A certain red mask strongly resembles the face of the Deer God from Princess Mononoke.

''The Endless Forest'' is an {{MMORPG}} for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] where the player is a deer in a forest, without goals or the ability to chat. Unique pictograms above registered deer's heads help to identify each individual. Players communicate with each other through sounds and body language. And that's all there is to it. You start the game as a fawn and play as one for 30 days before you mature into a stag. The entire time you run around in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin endless forest]] as a deer, rubbing against trees, braying/mooing, and emoting to other players. You can also [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs cast "forest magic" on each other]], which changes pelts, masks, and antlers.

The creators (also known for ''VideoGame/ThePath'') get a lot of feedback for the through the official forums, though it only gets any major updates maybe once a year. The community is very dedicated to the game, even going so far as to create in-game legends such as the [[PunnyName Deermuda Triangle]], a triangle formation of three glitched (duplicated) rocks in which strange things are supposed to happen.

* ActionBar

* CoolMask: Many.

* EmoteAnimation

* GhibliHills
* [[HellishHorse Hellish Deer]]: On Halloween a giant zombie deer summons fog and roams the forest, turning other deer into the same (albeit smaller and minus the fog).
* InHarmonyWithNature

* SceneryPorn
* SpeechImpairedAnimal

* WaterIsBlue

* WoodlandCreatures: You can be temporarily transformed into most of these animals, along with finding said animals scampering throughout the forest.

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* CuteButCacophonic: The fawns are cute, but their call is just as loud as the adult deer. SomethingAwful once [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/mmo-roulette/endlessforest.php used this to their advantage]] during a long-ago raid on the game. Thanks this, the creators made it so the call gets quieter the more you use it consecutively.

* FrogsAndToads: You can be temporarily turned into a frog with forest magic, and whenever you fall into the pond you turn into one.

* WoodlandCreatures

* EndlessDaylight: The forest is constantly in daylight except during certain events, like Halloween for example.

* UncannyValley: Have you noticed the deers' faces yet?

''The Endless Forest'' is an {{MMORPG}} for {{Windows}} where the player is a deer in a forest, without goals or the ability to chat. Unique pictograms above registered deer's heads help to identify each individual. Players communicate with each other through sounds and body language. And that's all there is to it. You start the game as a fawn and play as one for 30 days before you mature into a stag. The entire time you run around in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin endless forest]] as a deer, rubbing against trees, braying/mooing, and emoting to other players. You can also [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs cast "forest magic" on each other]], which changes pelts, masks, and antlers.

* RavensAndCrows: One of the possible things you may be temporarily transformed into.