IndieDevChrister's Avatar

IndieDevChrister

@studiogauntlet

We are Alex and Christer aka. studio Gauntlet, two indie devs from Norway, currently working on SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding Try the demo/wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943150/SN/

127
Followers
90
Following
38
Posts
17.10.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by IndieDevChrister @studiogauntlet

Video thumbnail

We decided to drop one last update before heading out for our summer holiday 🤩 You can now shred sand dunes in SNØ! 😎

02.07.2025 17:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

People requested snow parks, but our game is all about freeriding in the wild, so we made snow parks overrun by nature 🌲🚡🏔 #indiegame #indiegaming #pcgaming #IndieDev #gaming #snowboard

27.06.2025 15:32 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Been working on this one for a while, the Biomes 2.0 update is out now! 🤩🏂 Hope you all like the new zones!! 🙏 #IndieGames

26.06.2025 19:54 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Yeah, Alex showed me the other day, pretty insane!! 🤩

23.06.2025 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥹🥹🥹 thank you, it is a joy to be able to keep updating it using all the feedback from the community, we're super grateful 🙏

04.05.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding on Steam SNØ is a minimalistic freeriding game. Push your limits for the high score, or simply explore the raw, endless wilderness.

If I had a platform for talking about GoTY so far.
Early Access titles allowed. Hands down it would be
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding by @studiogauntlet.bsky.social.
It's as relaxing or insane as you want it to be. The roadmap is really promising as a biased fan

store.steampowered.com/app/2943150/...

04.05.2025 01:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! 🤩

01.05.2025 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahh, cool! Nice to know!

01.05.2025 09:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting! I'll be honest and say I didn't know that much about SDFs, so I usually opt for the "easiest" solution 😅 We do generate our terrain randomly at runtime tho, that might've made it more complicated to use SDFs, or can they be generated dynamically at runtime too?

01.05.2025 08:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Snowboard trails are way harder to make than ski trails 😅 We just used Unity’s trail renderer for ski tracks.

Ended up making a custom trail renderer that generates a mesh based on board orientation vs velocity, it was easiest that way 🙃🏂

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3D #indiegame #indiegamedev

01.05.2025 07:37 👍 106 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0
Video thumbnail

We just added our most requested feature to SNØ: a snowboard! 🤩🏂 #indiegame #indiegaming #indiegamedev #gamedev

10.04.2025 06:58 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats on demo release! 🤩👏👏👏

18.02.2025 08:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you 🥹🙏

18.02.2025 06:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

SNØ is finally live!! To everyone who might be interested in a freeride skiing game with chill vibes, infinite mountains and pretty nature, SNØ might be what you're looking for ⛷️🏔️☀️ #indiedev #indiegame #indiegaming #gaming

17.02.2025 18:15 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 3

We actually talked to VALVe about this, yeah, or, it sees SNØ as SNO, and there are a lot of popular games that start with sno- so even though we are an "exact match" we will be ranked lower 😅 So that is a lesson learned for us: Ø is fine, but 3 letter names for a game is hard to pull off 😅

17.02.2025 06:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! 😀 Yeah, Alex (my co-dev on this) has a deck so every game we make from now on has to hit solid 60 fps 😅

17.02.2025 06:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding on Steam SNØ is a minimalistic freeriding game. Push your limits for the high score, or simply explore the endless wilderness.

Sorry! I posted this then went to bed lol store.steampowered.com/app/2943150/...

17.02.2025 06:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Tomorrow we launch, feels strange that this time tomorrow, it’ll be out… 👀 #IndieGames #indiegame #indiedev #gaming #pcgaming #indiegaming

16.02.2025 22:00 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 1
Video thumbnail

We finally got SNØ to run smooth on macOS! 🤩 It took a couple of weeks, but now we finally nailed it (hopefully)! 🎉 Fixing freezes and some nasty graphical bugs was a bit of a battle, but getting 60 fps on our little M2 Mac Mini made it all worth it! Demo is updated! 😎 #macgaming #gaming #macOS

10.02.2025 08:24 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Preview
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face .
30.01.2025 10:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

We have a launch date for our game!! 👀 Feels crazy to say it, but SNØ is officially dropping on February 17th! 🥳🎉 Here is the launch date announcement trailer, I'll be seeing you on the mountains soon! ⛷️🗻 #IndieGames #indiegaming #indiegame #indiedev #skiing #gaming #videogames

29.01.2025 15:51 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Video thumbnail

Just added a new camera mode inspired by drone shots to our skiing game, so ofc we had to add a little drone buddy too! 📸🚁 Perfect for chilling in Zen mode 😌 #IndieGames #indiegaming #indiedev #indieGameDev #drone #skiing #videogames #videogaming #SNØGame

26.01.2025 17:14 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
If the demo for this magical Scandinavian skiing game is so "serene" then why do I die constantly The demo for SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding isn't that new. It actually came out in September, but I'm filing it under the se…

WAIT, WHY DIDN'T SEE THIS BEFORE NOW!?? 👀 @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social wrote an article about SNØ!? 🤩🤩🤩 Almost passed us by, guess we gotta poke our heads out of the dev bubble more often😅

#indiegames #indiedev #indiegaming #indiegamedev

23.12.2024 13:39 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the heads up! 😳 we'll investigate this asap, our mac we use for testing is quite old, and has an intel cpu (could be a clue)

14.12.2024 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! It was fun to make a tree that has such an unusual color on its leaves

14.12.2024 16:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Post image

One of my favorite biomes to encounter in SNØ: The blood maple forest 😌 The perfect place for the photo mode 📸 #IndieGames #SNØGame #ScreenShotSaturday #skiing #indiegame #indiedev

14.12.2024 15:07 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Wow! Thank you, for the huge compliment! 🤩 and yes, this game is our homage to snow and winter, hopefully it wont be an euolgy 😅

08.12.2024 23:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding on Steam SNØ is a minimalistic freeriding game. Push your limits for the high score, or simply explore the endless, serene wilderness.

I love randomly discovering developers working on games I wish I’d created. Here's SNØ, a minimalistic freeriding game by @studiogauntlet.bsky.social ❤️
Can’t wait to play it in first-person view, especially as snow is becoming increasingly scarce here in France
store.steampowered.com/app/2943150/...

08.12.2024 20:18 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Steam Deck Skiing Adventure – SNØ Ultimate Freeriding Demo!
Steam Deck Skiing Adventure – SNØ Ultimate Freeriding Demo! YouTube video by Sunwind

Wondering how long you can play SNØ on a Steam Deck before the battery runs out? Someone just tested it: 4h 45m, even on high settings! 👀 Even we didn’t know that! #SteamDeck #indiegames #indiegaming #gaming #pcGaming

03.12.2024 20:34 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Just in time for the first real #snow outside our office window here in Trondheim: We added the possibility of encountering snow storms during a run in our freeriding skiing game SNØ! 🌨️🏔️⛷️ The low visibility can really make things intense 👀 #winter #indiegaming #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gaming

25.11.2024 16:33 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0