SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding News

Trondheim - our home town - is hosting the World Skiing Championship 2025, and the whole city is turned upside down! We just boarded the hype train, and figured we should so something fun with SNØ - it being a locally made skiing game and all! 🙌

So we dropped a couple of seasonal, time limited skin ingredients into SNØ's procedural skin generator! We added patterns and colors inspired by the graphic profile of the ongoing championship as well as some patterns featuring symbols unique to the City of Trondheim👑


✨ The event TRD WSC 2025 is active right now and will end on March 9th (UTC) ✨


So how do I get these skins?
Seasonal skins are collected just like before - by catching rabbits! In the skin selection menu you will notice that seasonal skins are tagged with an event name - indicating that it will not be possible to recreate if the seed is played after the event has ended.

I don't like these new skins!
You can still collect normal skins during a seasonal event. Simply catch 2 rabbits on the same mountain, and the second rabbit will unlock the normal one 🐰🐰


Hope you find some stylish outfits - happy hunting! 🐇


Best
Alex
SG


PS: If you find a very cool outfit or have a suggestion for improvements, please share it with us on our Discord or in the Steam forums!

PS2: We are in no way sponsored by or affiliated with the championship. We just wanted to so something fun 🥳

A small weekend update addressing issues with the procedural trick system and dropping some new, time limited skins!

Here are the things that are new in SNØ 1.0.00.87

Changes:

• 👕 New, time limited collection of skin patterns and colors - active from now through March 9th 2025 (UTC)*
  

Fixes:

• 🪂 Deploying glider now correctly resolves the trick score. Deploying glider too soon after trick will still negate the score.
  
• 🤹 Removed a bug where the tricks could sometimes get stuck and keep scoring points as long as glider was deployed
  
• 🖥️ Photo mode UI now scales correctly on super ultrawide screens
  

So, what's the deal with this sudden appearance of time limited skins, I hear you ask? The short version is that Trondheim - our home town - is hosting a big international skiing event right now., and everyone is hyped! We thought it'd be fun to join the festivities with by making some skin patterns for SNØ inspired by Trondheim and the ongoing event (this is not a sponsorship thing btw, we're just caught by the hype 😅)

More info coming soon. For now all you need to know is that you collect these fresh new skins just like before - by catching rabbits!

Have a terrific weekend ☕✨

Best
Alex
SG

Based on feedback and observations of people playing SNØ this last week we have made this small patch to address a couple of issues - mainly an issue with our implementation of multiplier growth rate - along with a couple of smaller tweaks and fixes!

Here are the things that are new in SNØ 1.0.00.67

Changes:

• 🌟 Base multiplier growth rate now factors in progression down the mountain as well as time. Max multiplier growth rate by time is same as before - as long as you don't linger
  
• 🪂 Swoop-points can not be lost anymore (no more
• clonk* sound)! Instead you will be awarded bonus points for a successful swoop-up*
  
• 💨 Gliding close to ground now whirls up snow. This also indicates you are close enough for scoring swoop-points
  
• ⌨️ New controller glyphs for lean input, indicating both WASD and arrow keys can be used
  

Fixes:

• 🔦 No more flashing lights bug during pitch black night on Mac!
  
• 🐇 Rabbit trails updated with correct trail material - glows brighter, making them easier to pursue
  
• 🌌 Glider lift will start to decrease at very high altitudes, preventing death out of thin air
  

Hope you like these changes! If you encounter any more issues in the mountains, please report them on our Discord or in the Steam forums 🤙

Best
Alex
SG

PS: Swooping = glide close to the ground ↘️➡️↗️🪂

SNØ is officially Steam Deck Verified! 🤩

We have aimed for seamless compatibility with the Deck from the beginning, so getting this recognition from Steam holds huge significance for us and feels like a validation of all our hard work 🥹

It's a bit embarrassing, but when Christer shared the news that we had received the email with the verification results, I literally jumped form my seat, clapping my hands in what can only be described as childlike joy 😅 It’s these moments that remind us why we pour our passion into what we do ❤️




☝️Excerpt from the mail we received from Steam

Big thank you to everyone who reported from your Decks that SNØ ran smoothly! 🙌

If you want to read more, here is Christer's post about How we optimized for the Deck!


Have a wonderful weekend ☕✨


Best
Alex
SG

Spent this friday making a patch tweaking some small things that our community have suggested since the release. Here's the things that are new in SNØ 1.0.00.59:

• 🧘 Slightly less punishing Zen-mode
  
• 🎦 Toggle Depth of Field Effects on/off
  
• 🔉 New audio icon in the settings
  
• ☠️ Slightly more forgiving body and head colliders - sphere shaped instead of cube shaped
  

Hope you like these little tweaks!

Best
Alex
SG