SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding News

3 days since the release of SNØ, and we have already reached over 100 positive reviews! We are blown away! 🤩

Me and Christer have spent so much time working on SNØ these past 11 months - designing, coding, problem solving and worrying - and seeing you all interact with this thing we made, enjoying your time with it, sharing your experiences... It makes it all worth it. So thank you for that! We truly love hearing from you - please keep doing it!

We try our best responding to all your feedback. Bear in mind that we are a very small team - just two guys - managing this whole thing, so please be repectful and allow a bit of time for us to respond 😅

We do listen to your good suggestions, and here are some of the bigger things we have planned for SNØ so far:

Studio Gauntlet's TO-DO-LIST:

• 🎮 Rebinding support - read our FAQ for temporary solutions
  
• 🏂 Snowboarder - can't wait to get compared to SSX ⚰️
  
• 🚠 Add more biomes - did someone say snow parks?
  
• 🧘 Improved ZEN mode - less dense (but still deadly) mountains for ZEN-mode
  
• 🎦 Toggle Depth of Field effects - get rid of that (quote) "smudged lens effect" 😅
  
• 🎁 A secret surprise - stay tuned
  

If you enjoyed the game, and want to help us make SNØ the ultimate, minimalistic freeriding experience: Keep sharing your ideas with us, and please, please consider leaving a positive review as it helps A LOT with visibility on Steam. Thank you!

🌟 The 20 % launch discount will stay active all through the weekend! 🌟

See you in the mountains!

Best
Alex
SG

This small patch mainly addresses an issue where some players reported their demo skins did not transfer from the demo to the full version.

Fixes:

• The full game should now correctly import demo skins to the full version*
  
• Smooth air achievement now requires 3 consecutive skims - as per achievement description
  
• (Motion) Sick Backflip achievement triggers correctly
  
• Fixed English translation: "Crashed in to" -> "Crashed into"
  
• Updated some Finnish translations
  

*A note about demo skin transfer
The demo skin transfer process assumes that there exists a demo save file locally on the device you are playing on. If you're still struggling getting your demo skins imported, make sure that your demo save file is synced with Steam Cloud. It should sync if you simply boot the demo. This way you can be sure you have the save file containing your demo skins located on your device!

Alright, you should be all set to claim your demo skins and ride in style!



^Reusing grandma's old curtains as glider material 🤙

Best
Alex
SG

The day is finally here!

SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding version 1 goes live, and finally everyone get to experience the thrill of freeriding in our procedurally generated wilderness. If you have played the demo, look forward to infinite rides, all times of day and even cooler skins to discover!


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Thanks to everyone who have tested the game, played the demo, given feedback and supported us so far - We couldn't have done it without you!

We hope you enjoy the game, and that you keep following the development of SNØ as we still have some surprises left 🏂

Best
Alex & Christer
SG

Hello! 👋

We're very happy to announce a long awaited bugfix! macOS users with M-processors have been reporting a mysterious white-screen-of-doom bug for a while. We only tested the game on an old Intel MacBook air, assuming that the M-series processors would not be too different. Well, we were wrong! So after getting our hands on a newer mac for testing, we believe we have solved it. This gif shows the demo now running on our M2 8gb Mac Mini with consistent 60 fps, look at the little fella go!



Although it isn't entirely clear for us what the difference is between the processors, after a lot of testing we managed to track down and correct the error that was causing the crash. So, with that we can say both the demo and the full game supports MacOS! 🤩 Not a minute too soon, with the launch just 9 days away lol, we like cutting it close 😅

Oh and btw, turns out everyone (Windows, macOS and even Steam Deck players) will most likely see a small performance boost from all the tweaks we have done while searching for the error. In Norwegian we have a saying (roughly translated): Nothing so bad it isn't good for something! 👍

Cheers,
Christer

PS: If anybody on a Mac does encounter a bug/crashing, please let us know (also, if you can, provide the OS + hardware info, that helps a lot!). We have tested the game as much as we can on our own hardware, however it is a big world out there so we can never be 100% sure.

Hi!

Apologies for the long period of silence, but now we finally have a release date for SNØ!

The date to remember is monday February 17th 2025!

SNØ will be made available for purchase at 10 am PDT - that is 19.00 in Norwegian time.

We are really excited - and a bit scared - about this. We have commitment issues when it comes to dates, but the game has been "mostly done" for a while now, though we still have small things to fix and figure out the next couple of weeks. We hope you are eager to try out SNØ when it releases!

Here is our new trailer announcing the release date and showing off some of the features you can look forward to in the full version:


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Thanks for reading - and watching - and liking!

Alex
SG