SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding News

Hi everyone!

We realized we have been a bit quiet these last two weeks and we just checked the calendar and, turns out, it is Halloween already! So in spirit of the season I'd thought: why not showing something (almost) scary I was working on the other day: nightriding with just a headlamp!



Feels even more intense in first person mode:



Anyways, have a great Halloween everyone, and we'll be posting more stuff pretty soon!

BOO!
Christer
SG

Next Fest is really close, and here are a couple of fun new things you can expect from our demo during Next Fest!

🌟 New features 🌟

• Limited seasonal skins - Through Next Fest, the procedural skin generator will feature exclusive colors and skin patterns (connection to Steam required)
  
• Death reason - The game tells you why you died on the game over screen
  
• Delete skins - Got a skin you didn't like? Delete it to unclutter your wardrobe.
  
• Steam Cloud Saves - Saved mountains and unlocked skins should now be available across all your devices
  

🔁 Changes 🔁

• End of run combo cash in - After demo timer runs out, land safely in the snow to cash in any ongoing combos. In earlier versions of the demo, time out automatically broke your combo.
  
• Longer demo ride distance - From 750 to 1000 meters.
  
• Multiplier deceleration - The score multiplier now grows slower over time
  
• Made the collider mesh inside tree canopies visible to help with gameplay readability.
  
• Reduced clutter in options menu by removing some unnecessary settings.
  

🛠️ Fixes 🛠️

• Fixed bug where the performing tricks in succession could generate insane amounts of points
  
• Visual tweaks to leaderboard to make it not bleed outside the screen
  
• Performance optimizations
  
• Various tweaks and fixes
  

😜 Known issues 😜

• Demo controls overview claim tricks are not available, and that action cam is available. It's the other way around.
  
• Still some performance issues and lag spikes on low to mid range hardware
  

These changes are based on three weeks of experience seeing all of you play our demo and all your amazing feedback here on Steam and on our Discord. Most of these changes will also apply to the final game!

Enjoy the new demo, and enjoy Next Fest!

Best
Alex
SG

IT'S OFFICIAL! SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding participates in the upcoming Steam Next Fest, staring on October 14th!

Prior to Next Fest (aka really, really soon), the demo will get an update that we've been working on for a while that adds a couple of neat features and answers some of the feedback you've had about the demo. The three most notable changes are:

1. ⭐ You get to keep your score when the demo timer runs out
   
2. 🏁 The demo distance has been increased - from 750 to 1000 meters
   
3. 📈 Improved performance
   

👕 EXCLUSIVE NEXT FEST SKINS 👕
Next Fest 2024 will also be the testing grounds for seasonal content in our procedural skin generator! More about that in our next post! For now, all you need to know is that if you play the SNØ demo during next fest, there is chance you come across some exclusive skins in the procedural wilderness, inspired by this year's Next Fest theme!

These skins will of course also carry over to the full game 🙌

Best
Alex
SG

The SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding DEMO is finally out!

👉👉👉 Get it here 👈👈👈

Demo features:

• ⛷️ Get a feel for the arcade skiing controls of SNØ.
  
• 🌲Avoid trees, rocks and other obstacles in procedurally generated mountainscapes that renew every time you retry.
  
• 👕Catch rabbits to collect new skins! (Psst! The demo includes few but exclusive patterns, and the skins you collect will carry over to the full version.)
  
• 🏁A SNØ Demo run is limited to about 1 kilometer of riding distance.
  
• 🏆Fight for a spot on the global demo leaderboard.
  

Full version features:

• ⛷️The very same controls, but expect grinding and new obstacles smashable by tricks!
  
• 🏁 Ride without limits down never ending mountains!
  
• 🌲Fully unlocked mountain generator with 25+ biomes and all times of day (including night riding).
  
• ❤️ Save mountains to replay them - or share them - as many times as you want.
  
• 👕 Unlock skins with full color range and many more patterns in progression based ways.
  
• 🏆 Global leaderboard with option to challenge any high score on the same mountain where it was made.
  

We hope you enjoy the demo! If you want to help SNØ gain more visibility on Steam, remember to add it to your wishlist. It means a lot to us (and to the algorithms). Thanks!

If you have any questions or feedback to the demo (or want to apply for beta access) head over to our Discord!

Best
Alex
SG

It's official! the SNØ Demo will land on Steam in one week!

20.09.2024

Save the date 🙌

If you want a chance to try the demo before everybody else, head over to our discord and apply for a demo beta key. The demo is still in development and we give out keys asap on weekdays - at a leisurely pace during weekends ;)

Link to our Discord

Make sure you wishlist SNØ if you haven't already.

Until next week!

Best
Alex
SG