#sso game blog

[horsegamergirl]

A new game blog just came out with many interesting things, here's a link if you want to read it whole, I'm gonna write down what I think is the most important/interesting:

They plan to release the showjumping with faults and penalties permanently sometime this fall or winter

They planned to release the wardrobe update in April, but they had to postpone to June. They ran into a problem with UI scaling, so it's again postponed, but they want to release it this year.

This delay also affected their plans to put more slots on the character and horse sheet. This mean that the ability to wear earrings and glasses at the same time, or the release of ear bonnets and horse blankets will be set to later. (Expected realease 2025 and later)

The customizable stables are coming (they said September on instagram under one post). Throughout the rest of this year, they'll release more options, so we can "mix and match". If people like it, they will continue to evolve and release new ones during 2025.

The new system for retrofitting older horses is nearly finished. They plan to finish it late 2024 and have all G3 horses retrofitted before summer 2025.

I'm gonna just copy this one: "We’re introducing a new way of interacting with your horse and fellow players in a revamped area set in a ye olde time. We hope you're as excited as we are for this addition — we think this journey in time will be magical!"

wait, wait, wait... a REVAMPED AREA?!?!

For now, breeding horses is off the table. Instead, they're focusing on more customization for horses and more interactions between the horse and the rider - this includes personality and reactions from your horses! (this will be G4 I think)

They started to work on the name changes, but changed the focus on functionality of the launcher and the handling of Star Coins Wallets. The name change is not forgotten, but it won't come in 2024 or 2025.

More body types, more face options and more skin colours are planned, but they have to optimize and improve graphical pipeline first, otherwise it could lead to game crashes and game instabilities. These optimizations and improvements will be done by January 2025. Additional body types will be worked on during 2025. They're also thinking of making it as a slider, so people can create themselves. Whatever they choose, it won't come earlier than late 2025 or even 2026, depending on what gets in the way.

Copying: "Narrative and Story!: This will be for another post. We will not stop, ever, to share stories from the universe of Jorvik—there are still many untold secrets, and much more to discover in the stories we've already begun." That sounds ominous lol, but does that mean they plan to finish the unfinished storylines?

There will be part 2 of this game blog, when it drops, I'll let y'all know.

[synamins-sso]

i quickly skimmed thru this month's game blog, and boy is there some exciting stuff at the very end of it! i really can't decide which thing i'd like most, but i'm interested to see what everyone else thinks

i have no clue as to exactly what SSE means by "enhanced backpack experience," but i'm assuming it's referring to different organization and perhaps no more JS limit??

[dorianwolfforest]

HOLY SHIT

[jorvikzelda]

MIX’N’MATCH FACIAL FEATURES,… MY DREAM MY BELOVED

[ihavenousernameideas]

I just made an (appropriate) rrp blog :)

ihavenoudernameideasformyaltblog

[syntiment]

Me standing at the gates blocking me from entering the area to go buy a discounted marwari- 

Let me innnn- LET ME IINNNNN

[vilda-ravenhill]

Hiiii hej hejsan halloj idk how to do this post but this is mainly Vilda's blog. You can read about them and their friends here. Hunter is just an accidental time traveller along for the ride who might turn up (sometimes.)

Player TJ (they/it) follows all sso blogs that aren't too whiney abt the game in general, esp artists 🫶 Aideen be with you + love is real <3

[violetgloom-dev]

For what kind of features are you looking in a “horse game”?

Over the weekend i have sent an email to the SSO team asking if it would be possible for me to recreate their old game Star Stable: Autumn Riders for free (for other players to play) but im still waiting for their response. I’m also 100% prepared for them to either not approve this idea or to never respond. So im preparing to create my own game in the meanwhile (just in case).

What are the features that u would like to find in a game like this? Game mechanics, design and storyline wise! What time period are you interested, more realism or more fantasy themes (or even something in the middle!), darker in themes or more light and cosy etc. I want to hear out what the community would enjoy :] Later i might create some polls on the most common ideas ya’ll share.

I’m already working on a draft of the story and have a bunch of mood boards and a couple assets prepared (and more in the making! Eg. im modeling the mc right now), but i feel like it all needs the inspiring soul of the true horse game fans too!

[jorwik]

hi there :3

introduction post? you already know it

first things first:

⤷ i started playing star stable online in november 2014, however i played a lot horse games before (mainly star stable the summer riders)

⤷ i am from Poland, which means that english is my second language

⤷ this blog is mainly dedicated to sso and all games related, but be aware that sometimes i might get nostalgic for some other games :P

⤷ this is a side blog - my main one is @emolipgloss

okay, now let's get into why i am here:

around the end of august I realised that i really miss being a star stable blogger. i have never had a sso tumblr blog, but i had a blogger dot com since that was quite popular in the early 2010s among the polish community. i miss the creativity i had back then, the feelings for the game and horses and blogging... that actually made me fall in love with writing a diary and i still do it to this day, everyday :) discovering the ssoblr community made me want to try this whole blogging thing again and made me really excited and happy that there are people who are still as interested in these games as i am. see you around!

[horsegamergirl]

I promised to post about the second part of the game blog the day it comes out, and the day is today!

There is info only about the Friesians, but there are a few points I want to highlight:

The 3D artist and the Equestrian Advisor for the new Friesians was Lisa Wackenhuth Svanström (Senior 3D Artist). Lisa also worked on the Jorvik Friesian and, after the production end in 2020, she got her own Friesian mare Maaike. Maaike then became the main source of inspiration for the new Friesian.

Both the tail and the mane have updated rigs, where the tail has now three chains for the tail strands instead of one, and the mane now has five joints with four to a max. of eight bones in each (the JF has 3 chains with a max. of 4 bones).

Did you notice the white hair on one of the Friesians that looks like the horse is starting to gray with age? That's the intention! They decided to experiment a little and add one coat as an "older Friesian". Lisa noticed it on her mare as well and considers it a charming trait.

"Furthermore by adding the shaved bridle path in the neck of all manestyles on the Friesian we were also able to split the forelocks in order to prepare for features such as combining different manes with forelocks and tail styles in the future - a feature we in the horse team long to bring to you players but currently have no technical solution for yet. But small steps and improvements with every horse production will eventually get us there."

That's all from me, if you want to read more, visit the link and give the Game Blog a read!

[stefanie-cutekeep]

Intro post :)

I've been playing SSO since July 2018 and I go by Stefanie Cutekeep in game, which is why you don't let a seven year old who doesn't know English name their character.

I'm on the Swedish server Air Star and plan to stay there.

I've been a huge fan of SSO and the other Jorvik games since I was younger and this blog will basically be used to info dump about random stuff and maybe some updates about SSO.

Thank you for reading ⭐

[piosplayhouse]

♥️♥️♥️ This is so wonderful to hear and makes me so happy to have supported SSO! Thank you for sharing your experiences and work, it really means a lot to know that there's a beacon of hope in the bleakness of the industry ♥️

Another thing I do think we should consider when comparing SSO to other games is the working environment for employees, especially due to the game industry being NOTORIOUSLY horrific for female/afab employees. I understand that the girl power narrative isn't ideal for a lot of people (I'm not super into it either), but it should be taken into account just how abysmal working conditions are for most women trying to break into the industry- SSE trying to change that really is something I'm not mad about putting my money towards

[amelias-hart]

WIP Tag Game

When you're tagged, share the names of each wip doc you have no matter how ridiculous! Tag as many people as you have WIPS, if you can. Open asks to talk about these WIPS!

Thank you for the tag @nocturne-side-blog! Since it's on main, I'm gonna do this for both fic and original writing as best I can. Very much doubt I'll be able to tag as many people as I have WIPs.

Original Writing

Word Walkers (Epic fantasy series, Book 1 - Stolen Secrets is published)

Book 2 - Harts On High

Book 3 - Death_s Doctor

Book 4 - What Silver_s Worth

Book 5 - In Heart & Caer

Book 6 - Secondhand Divines

Book 7 - A Golden Gift

Book 8 - The Frozen War

Book 9 - Blue Boughs

Book 10 - Foreign Fields

Book 11 - By Tide & Troupe

Book 12 - Spies On the Summit

Book 13 - Gilded Guidance

Book 14 - Child of the Call

Book 15 - Dragon Hunted

Book 16 - Stone & Iron

The Garden & The Graveyard (Worldhopping TTRPG project)

Alana Silverwood & the Starlight Rider (In canon YA fantasy series/Arthurian kind of historical figure retelling for the Faewere setting)

Cowboy Wizard (Arcanepunk western romance adventure? About two characters in the Shattered Plains setting)

Loveless Crew (Weird maybe abandoned fae-Peter Pan thing?)

At Night I'm Surrounded By Magical Maids (Jokey light novel series for my partner)

Is This Clear Enough? (Short story anthology)

Everlight (Attempt to un-Mary Sue an RP oc I had growing up)

Fic Writing

Goddess of Secrecy

Demise's Rise

Goddess of Secrecy_Prelude To War

Legend of Zelda_Goddess of Secrecy (main doc)

Returning To Lorule

The Woman With No Name

Legend of Zelda_Mark of a Hero (omnibus)

Legend of Zelda_Restoration Age

Legend of Zelda_Cinders of Life

Legend of Zelda_Day After Destiny

The B Team Druids (SSO)

Ageless (Myst)

And I think that's most of the ones that I would still consider possible WIPs and not fully abandoned. So tagging! Trying to remember all my writing mutual who I haven't seen tagged already.

@centeris2 @karama9 @doomed-era @drsteggy @mistresslrigtar @abbyzwrites @jorvikzelda @spicymcbean @stevenpartridgequill

And anyone else who'd like to participate.

[purefavvn]

hello, i'm fawn! i've been playing star stable for nearly a decade, and now i'm just getting into photography! i started this blog to show my progress and eventually start a rrp series. any tips or suggestions are welcome! *. * · 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞

i'm 22 years old and at the moment i'm a part time barista and i go to medical school, keeping it in the family since i come from a long line of nurses. i hope to be working in labor and delivery! besides sso, i play tons of other games too! such as stardew valley, minecraft, terraria, the sims 4, phasmophobia, call of duty, and much more! if you ever want to play something with me, just send me a message! i'm on the night star server. *. * · 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 instagram - sso.ravenflight tiktok - coming soon youtube - coming soon steam - ask me!

[phoebified]

btw this blog is very much aimed at the adult fans of sso and not at all for the kids of star stable. that said, let's all remind ourselves that the main playerbase of this game is kids and tweens, and to that end, for any patient adults up to the task: if you see two kids fighting or one kid clearly having a meltdown in global. PLEASE talk to them and be kind. you might get nowhere. you might get frustrated. but you might also be the only voice of reason for that kid or the only adult willing to walk through a meaningless but upsetting argument with them. when i was a kid online, there was nobody to mediate fights between me and the older kids in the games i played, and when i got older, there were no (normal and non-creepy) adults to keep me from harrassing younger kids i found annoying. do these kids a favor and be kind, yeah? and before anyone says "rahhh it's not my job--" No, it's not. but you should feel compassionate to the kids of the world wandering around learning everything for the first time in a new scary digital age. were your parents there for the first 100 times the internet traumatized your little baby brain? i know mine weren't! not saying you need to parent these kids but like, you know. It can be helpful to be the calm in a storm

[moonlight-tmd]

Hello And Welcome To This Disaster! My name is Moonlight and I'll be your host for this blog.

Here is some things you should know about me: (this post will be updated as time goes on)

My AO3 account where you'll find good quality ship fanfics.

If you're interested, I have cheap commissions open. Most of the comms are posted on my Instagram but if it's ship art that I like I might post it on this blog too.

For other personal content, visit my Youtube Channel or Twitch. It ain't much but it's honest work. <3

Here's what you can find on this blog:

Private Corner. The stuff that's not really related to anything specific. > Arts I posted on the blog over time. (#moon derg art) > Random posts I found cool or me ranting. (#moon derg rambles) > Stuff other folks did for me. (#special repost)

Transformers Animated content. (haven't watched the show but I'm writing anyway) The tags #tfa shenanigans and #tfa headcanons on this blog are all about things that have happened in my version of TFA. (!) All of headcanons for my works are here. Please read the linked posts in that post, it's very important. My comfort character is Bumblebee so there's a lot of content about this fella here. (#tfa bumblebee) All NSFW posts are under the tag #naughty tag! All fanfics that I wrote are under the tag #tfa fanfic!

Shipping, the romantic kind. My current ships are: > BlitzBee (TFA) > ProwlBee (TFA) > ShockBee/LongBee (TFA) > BlurrBee (TFA)

TFA AUs. Posts related to any of the AUs are tagged #tfa au. The appropriate tags are written next to the AU name: > Dadimus Prime AU - Optimus as Bee's dad (#dadimus prime au) > Cyberbeast AU - mythical creatures hidden in plain sight. (#cyberbeast au) > Warframe!Bumblebee AU (#warframe!bumblebee au) > Part-Insecticon!Bumblebee AU (#part-insecticon!bumblebee au) > Cons Are Good AU (#cons are good au) > Crack AU - which is every crack-fueled idea thrown in one jar (#crack au) > Civil!Blitzwing AU (#civil!blitzwing au) > AU where Bee dies and Prowl get depressed until Bee is resurrected by Blackarachnia (no actual name)(#revival!prowlbee) > God-Sparkling AU - aka Unicron and Primus as Bee's parents (#god sparkling au) > Electro Bee AU - basically Bee being able to manipulate electricity like Blitzwing does with Ice/Fire. (#electro bee au) > Sparkeater!Bumblebee AU - disease that turns anybot into a Sparkeater over time. Bee is one of few that has it and survived. (#sparkeater!bumblebee au) > Celestial!Bee AU - basically Bee is one of many lesser gods that have been forgotten by mortals. (#celestial!bee au) > Club Mates AU - slight divergence from this blog's fanon canon backstories, where Prowl and Bee have met before they find Prowl and his crashed ship. (#club mates au) > Imposter Prisoner AU - Longarm and Shockwave are two separate people and Long has been imprisoned and replaced by Shock. (#impostor prisoner au) Ships: Mainly or Only BlitzBee / ProwlBee / ShockBee/LongBee / Open to any ship/not assigned

Game section. Posts about games I play: > Star Stable Online (#sso , #ssoblr) > The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (#skyrim)

Thank you for reading. All of the tags mentioned are below. (this post will be updated as more things come into the blog)