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Devlog September 2026 Autumn is in full swing here in Norway, with colorful leaves and dark evenings, as September comes to a close. With everything changing around us as winter approaches, we found it to be a fitting time to try a different format for the devlog. Going forward,
Trail rides, map and organizing By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist I have gone the next step with the map and started on a slightly more designed version of it. It will not be completely polished until the 3D part is ready and I can match the 3D world to the map, the visuals may also
Stories & Concept Art By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Just like May, June has been filled with writing for both stories and quests. I’ve been focusing especially on what will be the “main story”. It’s a big task, but I’m making progress. I’m not finished with writing it yet, bu
Quests & System-Planning By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Hi! Maja here. Me and Marius have worked on a quest system for the game loop this past month. Note that this is NOT programming, but pre-production for it. Which means we have to first divide the different categories of q
World Design, Music & Art By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist World design: Music and map April was filled with variation for my tasks, involving drawing, writing and research. Marius has been making great progress on the map design, and I‘ve helped him place properties as well as
Wall-art and Stories By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Art on the wall Finishing one art piece to start on another. During March, I finished one of the illustrations (“paintings”) for the stable, which was exciting. The feel that comes when you complete something you\\ve worked on is
Lore & Art By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Lore for Eldheim I’ve been continuing the story of Eldheim and some of its locations together with Marius. Of course, with all this lore we have done a lot of research so that our fiction has grasps and traits of the story of Norway. B
A new hotfix for Astride is now available. Here are the changes/fixes that have been made. You may have to restart your Steam client if the hotfix is not immediately available. Fixes & adjustments Fixed a bug that left some players stuck on a black screen at startup. This fix
Hair, paintings & lore By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Mane and tail: revisit There has been a while since I last did anything with the horse’s hair cards. But now I got the chance to take a look at them again. I had to do some adjustments to the short mane, long mane and redid
Hello, everyone and Happy New Year! Here are some words about Astride’s progress in 2025 and what our focus will be in 2026. One year ago, we shared our development goals for 2025. These included horse breeds, foals and breeding, tutorials, horse AI, more tack, client quests, env
Read, Update, and Rewrite By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist For the last months of the year I’ve been focusing on going through the entire game design document for Astride. The GDD is a living document that is constantly changing and being added to throughout the development. This is
A new hotfix for Astride is now available. Here are the changes/fixes that have been made. You may have to restart your Steam client if the hotfix is not immediately available. Fixes & adjustments Fixed a bug where foals didn't inherit full face markings Improved the logic be
The horses are getting a hair cut and I’m the hairstylist By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Spooky season is here and I’ve been continuing my work on the horse’s mane and tail. Note that I’m still learning Blender and how to work with hair cards, but I felt I got a better grasp aroun
A new patch for Astride is now available. Here are the new features and changes/fixes that have been made. More patches and updates will come soon. You may have to restart your Steam client if the update is not immediately available. WARNING: Existing save files will not work wit
UI, Tutorials & Mane By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist New design profile I’ve been adding shadows and other details to the updated UI for a while, and I’ve more or less finished that part. However, the UI did not work right away when testing it. The designs themselves were fine,
UI changes By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist UI with personality I have been working on a few concepts of UI parts that are currently missing for future features. One of these is the competition UI. I wanted it to look a bit more fancy and royal in terms of design. So I started looki
Tweaking, workshops and events By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Tweaks This month has been filled with tons of work and events. I’ve made a few adjustments to the post-processing to make the visuals pop even more than before. We still need to tweak some of the white colors on object
Planning to upgrade the UI By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Looking to lift the UI I am working on doing a few visual changes to the UI, like changing the background shape to be smoother and softer, as well as its color. The background color has been black with transparency. This ha
A new patch for Astride is now available. Here are the new features and changes/fixes that have been made. More patches and updates will come soon. You may have to restart your Steam client if the update is not immediately available. Patch highlights Added content & features
Colorful month for art and UI By Maja - CEO, Concept Artist Preparing for testing As many of you know we are currently preparing an update for Astride. With that comes the need for testing with our Patreons. In this update, testers got to experience the first of my post-processin