#sso blog

[starshinedragon]

Hello, I'm Starshinedragon and this blog is about:

In this blog:

-> SSO Rewritten: The story of SSO written by me, from arriving to Jorvik to defeating Garnok. Inspired by Starshine Legacy, Season Riders and early SSO lore. Continuing the canon ingame story SSE will probably never finish.

SSO Rewritten 1st Part: Winterdale https://www.tumblr.com/starshinedragon/736955792328146944/sso-winterdale-fan-written-main-storyline?source=share

SSO Rewritten 2nd Part: Springvalley https://www.tumblr.com/starshinedragon/716459529087401984/sso-rewritten-springvalley?source=share

SSO Rewritten 3rd Part: Summerplains https://www.tumblr.com/starshinedragon/726343248992419840/sso-rewritten-full-story-series-summerplains?source=share

-> Pandorian language (fanmade) -> Jorvik maps (fanmade, speculation) -> Worldbuilding (e.g. magic) -> Fan arts -> Fan Theories and Story Analyzations -> Memes ofc

Have fun and thank you for checking out this blog!

[horsegamergirl]

The main May blog is here

This blog has two parts, first is about the upcoming summer event and the second is about the main story quest.

BIG SPOILERS for the summer event

Star Stable May Blog - Summer Daze Craze & Story Quest

Summer is getting closer and closer in real life and in Jorvik. For our monthly game blog, we have some fun insights and details for our upcoming festival and our recently released new story quest.

Summer Daze Festival

By Ella Kårefalk (Narrative Design Intern)

Hey there Starfam! It’s me, again! Ella, your friendly neighbourhood narrative design intern at Star Stable (still). And I’m here to (once again) talk about some parts of creating our wonderful in-game festivals!

This time around, the festival team has been hard at work creating a new iteration of a summer festival. As some of you veterans may know, we’ve had some different summer festivals throughout the years, the beach festival, the rainbow festival, and midsummer. This year, we wanted to grab bits and pieces from these festivals and bring them together for a perfect mix of everything, creating a summer festival we can reactivate every year. This doesn’t mean this is the last time we’ll iterate on the summer festival. Next year, we might bring back even more content from previous festivals ;) The process of creating this festival has consisted of sorting through the previous festivals, evaluating what we can bring back, what needs to be updated in the content we bring back, and what new content we can create. Bla bla bla, I know what you're all waiting for: spoilers! So, get ready for the fresh, the funky, the fun festival we’re calling…

Summer Daze!

Summer Daze combines everything that makes summer great: beachy days, beautiful nature, warm weather, and dancing the night away with your friends. It really has evoked a hankering for summer in our spring-bound office.

When we had to combine all of these historical festivals, finding the red thread to have a consistent narrative in Summer Daze was quite vital. Oh, what may this red thread be, you ask. Well, what do you do over summer?... 

Sorry, right, I haven’t invented time travel yet, and this isn’t live, so I have no clue what you just answered. But if you answered travel, we’re on the same wavelength. Traveling! Touristing! Vacation! So, that became our reasoning as to why there would be a gigantic festival during the summer in Jorvik. We want tourists from all over the world to come and visit!

Location! Fort Pinta was the obvious choice for Summer Daze. With a gorgeous beach backdrop and a historical fort, of course this would be the location tourists were going to flock to! But what would a tourist destination be without a tourist attraction? Well, I guess it wouldn’t be a tourist destination then if there was no reason to tourist. Maybe the tourist attraction makes the destination…. Ahem-hem, tangent aside, we needed something super duper interesting in Fort Pinta!

And so, he fell into our hands, our little…well, actually not so little baby, our gleeful, finned son…

Bruce the shark!

Bruce has been a familiar face (or fin?) at Fort Pinta beach for years at this point, most notably playing a role in the beach festival. Therefore, he ticked a bunch of boxes on our checklist for Summer Daze. He comes from the beach festival with content and quests we can reuse, he’s a great tourist attraction, and he’s, like, really, really cute. Right?

Ah, such a charming old man… Right??

Ah, I’m just pulling your leg! While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and while old Bruce had charm, new Bruce has beauty! That’s right, we had a new and improved Bruce lurking in the depths of the backlog, so why not give dear ol’ Brucie a facelift?

What a cutie patootie! With such a cute face, we couldn’t help but use him in even more content! 

Thanks to the Equestrian Festival, we found that the “Impress the Baroness” content is really appreciated, as it gives you something fun to do every day when you log in! We wanted to implement something with the same system for Summer Daze: do daily quests, reach levels, and get rewards. So, the brainstorming about who we should impress this time began, and all the roads led to the same answer: Bruce. However, using Bruce didn’t come without issues.

I wouldn't say my shark knowledge is as great as a great white, but as far as I know, sharks don’t talk! A talking shark in our magical horse game would be toootally immersion-breaking, so Bruce needed an alternate way of communicating, and a translator! Early in the brainstorming process, a character whose job was “beach” was brought up for fun, and I immediately jumped into creating a narrative concept. Beach guy Ben was born, and he was, like, an incredibly fun character to write, dude.

Oh, and how does Bruce talk then? Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait and see. We might’ve taken a leaf out of Avalon’s book… ;D :O \o/

I’ll keep you in the dark just a tad longer, I’m not going to spoil everything that Summer Daze has to offer! But believe me when I say we’ve got so much fun stuff coming your way for Summer Daze. I can’t wait for you all to meet Ben the beach guy, Bruce the shark, Mariposa from BASTU, Winnie the PR agent, and more! But until then, eat some ice cream, enjoy the sunshine, and get in the festival moodfor Summer Daze! Coming soon to an island near you.

Until we meet again, may it be at yet another festival, I wish you all a lovely summer!

Ta-ta for now!

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Main Story Quest

By Linnéa Thimrén (Senior Game Designer)

Gather round, for I bring news of a new story, an exciting story, a… Main Story! We’ve been working on the next chapter of the main story for a while now, in two iterations, and that extra time and love have really paid off; the coming quest chain will bring excitement and feelings galore.

This post will contain some spoilers for the content of the quest chain, so if you haven’t played it yet, I highly recommend doing that first!

The production of this content went a little differently from how we usually do it. We basically created the whole quest chain, and then we went back and remade it! Sounds inefficient? It actually allowed us to make sure the content was tip-top! We could test the whole thing— could see what worked and what didn’t— as a whole, which can be hard when you only have pieces of a quest chain ready!

We don’t have many boss fights in Star Stable Online, and I was excited to explore what we could do in that area. After all, if you’re gonna start swinging, then Garnok is a pretty good target! We started our exploration by putting every idea on the table, by gathering all the knowledge and tips and tricks we could find about how to design a good boss fight, and by deciding what we wanted the player to experience and feel. A main point here was to include gameplay that reflected the training that you’ve gone through with the different Soul Riders leading up to this. And we wanted the whole fight to feel epic! Fairly quickly, we settled on the idea of a two-part fight, one part to rescue your friends with the Dark Riders working against you, and one part to properly fight back against Garnok. By doing this, we could highlight the importance of the whole sisterhood working together, add some gameplay variety into the fight, and allow each Dark Rider to shine on her own. Not to mention raising the stakes; your friends are captive and only you can save them! It’s all the Soul Riders against all the Dark Riders! Darko is there, blasting away! It’s all going down!!

We also had some difficulties to face; it’s all well and good to fight a malevolent extraterrestrial deep-sea tentacle creature, but to do it while manoeuvring on horseback? Shudder the thought. Luckily, that could be solved by extending the area of the fight to include almost the whole of Guardian's Dale, so you have room to take those turns! We also wanted to get rid of poor old Mr. Sands, to let Darko make a grab for power after his return to Jorvik, and to highlight some of the politics at play between Mr. Sands, Darko, and the Dark Riders. But who knows how long Darko will be able to hold onto that power? And what really happened to Mr. Sands…?

One of the most interesting aspects of working in this was the balance we had to strike between the feeling of failure, as you have to destroy the Light Book, and triumph, as you banish Garnok (for now). You kinda succeed, but also kinda not… We wanted you to reflect on all that has led you here, all that you’ve done and overcome to stand here with your friends.

And on that note, friends, I want to say thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings about the new main story quest. I hope you enjoyed playing it as much as I enjoyed working on it!

[aryamistwood]

NEW GAME BLOG!

FINALLY! THE BLOG POST WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! This summer has been a weird one for blog posts. After the Equestrian Festival, we were looking for answers and insight into what was going on. With the delay of the inventory overhaul, and the lackluster Summer Events, we we're left in the dark, confused and frustrated. WELL, it seems like Star Stable is aware of our request because they're finally breaking their silence on what's been going on in a doozy of a blog post that's being split into 2 parts. PART ONE: https://www.starstable.com/blog/august-2024-part-one PART TWO: will be released at the end of August Part one covers: - Equestrian Disciplines, and the release of Showjumping - Wardobe UI Revamp status - New Home Stable + Customization release - Retrofitting - Gen 4 horses/breeding status (deprioritized) - Player Character additional options (delayed, but in progress) - Game performance improvements - UI/navigation improvements - Bugs They've also noted that Narrative and Story will be discussed in another post, so look out for part 2 at the end of the month! They have not mentioned the Summer Events, but fingers crossed we might get some insight in part 2, too.

[ofhoovesandheart]

sand wash basin mustangs 🦂

[sasha-swifthurricane]

⭐️ Star Stable Online, September–November 2015

And here are photos from my first-ever Tumblr meetup that I hosted on September 19, 2015, from Feya Seastorm’s perspective!

I would not have these photos anymore if it wasn’t for @theseadontbotherme reblogging them from my now-deleted blog @sso-sasha-swifthurricane. Thank you, Sea.

[rednarokavatar]

Just an Angyy boy. And his Horse. Taking on the world~!

[dinosaurvalley]

sep n bird got isekaied into my specbio project what will they do

joseph’s outfit didnt need to many changes, southern promethea’s clothing styles are pretty flexible so it just needed a little tweaking. and horses do exist in promethea but so do pegasi so i thought it would be more fun to make bird a fucked up infected pegasus. possession only really happens when gods are involved in this universe so they both just got a heavy dose of “really fucked up from preexisting plagues”

yyyyyyyuh

[dorianwolfforest]

Maybe the real cryptid was the man we impregnated along the way.

[saga-and-hollow]

My darling boy who is DEFINITELY not eating the snow 💜

[aideenslight]

ed field i love you and your no reputation hotel

[justinegreenpie]

star stable warderobe update wish list

rearrange my pages to how they were before the update PLEASE. keep things from page one on page one, from page two on page two and so on D:

easier organizing

moving multiple items at once

moving whole pages !! this is my dream update

costumization

let me choose icons for the pages that look like pants / hats etc.

or even better, let me choose an item i want to display as the page preview, similar to how signs work in stardew valley for example.

if thats too hard, let me name the pages or at least choose different colors

filters

the search and filter should work more like in global store

adding more filters: for color, "sort by" like in global store, @horseslur and @corinne-eaglebridge-sso suggested based on stats and type of item

miscellaneous

i'm a little sad I can't see the game anymore. i used to enjoy planning outfits with friends, now u'd have to close the closet after every change to see each other

more options for the preview, like sitting on the horse, closer zooming, etc.

i'd love a miscellaneous category with zero restrictions! that would let us easily empty our inventories into it while we reorganize. or it would let us save outfits, tack and pets next to each other if we want to

if none of my costumization options are possible, I think it would be cool if the pages had a different color if they're completely empty

i've seen some people wish for a dark mode

selling straight from storage. no more running back and forth to stores when buying js stable costumizations

@centeris2 made the great suggestion of adding a hotkey for moving the item your hovering over from the backpack to the closet and vice versa

@knoockies pointed out that the amount of collumns and rows is different depending on your screen size, so if you play on two plattforms, for example mobile and pc, or ever switch your resolution, everything would look all shifted again ??????

the option of adding more pages!! the current size really doesn't seem that future proof

please feel free to add onto this list!

[horsegamergirl]

This blog has two parts: What's planned for this year and BTS for the Hanoverian. There is a lot of information, so I recommend reading it in full, since I'm going to mention points only from the first half (I tried to pick only the most important things, but I could've missed or misunderstood something) Spoiler warning in case you don't want to know what's coming/what they're working on

The Year Ahead

Horses:

The leaked horse list was correct, although with the wrong dates - this year's horses are Criollo, Hanoverian, Mule, Rocky Mountain, Andalusian, and Black Forest! Also, we will be getting a new survey for horses for 2026 soon!

Retrofitting:

The new system is still being worked on. Once it's done, gen 3 horses will probably be updated in batches. Hopefully, we will get a blog specifically for this, but for now they're still working on it.

Trailblazer Track:

New Trailblazers will continue throughout the year. While for us, it will probably stay the same, they're planning to work on it from their side, which would allow them to expand on it going forward.

Our Digital Theme Park:

They use the concept of a digital equestrian theme park for Jorvik, creating a variety of themed areas that contain things to see and do, to encourage players to visit each location and providing worthwhile reasons to return

They are concentrating on uplifting areas and filling them with the experiences you're searching for. Hollow Woods was the first area updated with the mindset, followed by Silverglade Equestrian Center. Both areas are not yet finished - Hollow Woods deserves some improvements and balancing (*note: they're probably talking about the garden system that got messed by fixing a bug some time ago). SEC should include progression and activities similar (but not the same!) to the paths in Hollow Woods.

This year's focus area hasn't been opened up to visit yet! The story and lore have been fleshed out, the theming explored, and the potential gameplay initially envisioned. This project will happen later this year, but no specific date yet. (*note: this article is followed by an image with a character sitting on a dragon horse with what seems to be the Marchenghast Castle in the background... wait, is that how it's spelled?)

Main Story Quests:

The next part of the main story was supposed to be released at the end of last year, but it needed more time. It's currently in the production.

This particular release won't end the current story arc, but they aim to get there soon and finally begin the next chapter with the Soul Riders and Dark Riders.

There is no set release date for the quest.

Festivals:

This year, they are focusing on Equestrian, Summer Daze, Western, Halloween, and Winter.

They also have a "Gameplay Activity Refactor" project - looking into festival activities that got removed together with their festival, but could possibly be returned as activities. This project also looks into still existing activities that may need updating. It's still in the investigating phase, so no promising there.

Equipment Refactoring:

This large backend project is changing how the game handles items - with the end goal being possibilities such as new types of tack for your horses, the ability to wear multiple accessories on your character, and more. No deadline here.

Existing Feature Iterations:

The updated wardrobe and home stable customization are expected to be improved, with the help of players through the surveys!

[thecedarchronicle]

practicing drawing horses again w/ best girl

[ofhoovesandheart]

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[official-soulriders]

Tired of holding my horses. The horses want to kill

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Tired of holding my horses. The horses want to kill

[andxlusian]

some sketchy doodles of ssoblr ocs <3 (pt1)

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@mysterysoulrider 's Maizey

hope i got everyone right!

@alinasteelcrest 's Jesse

@sakuramisthaven 's Sienna (i think)