Hey everyone! Many thanks to all the nice people who tried out the demo! The demo is constantly being developed and updated every few weeks. So it's worth checking back every now and then :-) The demo update 0.8.3 includes the following improvements:

Content Improvements

• New coat colors: There are 4 new coat colors, making 10 different horses in the game. The new colors are Buckskin, light Dapple Grey, dark Dapple Grey and Snowflake Appaloosa (the spotted ones are my favorite).
• New and updated sound effects: All sound effects in the game and the UI have been revised and/or replaced with new ones. The horses now snort and neigh depending on the situation.
• New background music: The game now contains more and new music tracks. Problems with YouTube's Content ID (despite valid licensing) should now be resolved and no longer be incorrectly detected.
• More exciting landscape: The landscape of all biomes has been made a little more varied and now has more topology. There can now also be small rivers in the mountain landscape.

Technical Improvements

• Improved camera: The old camera was sometimes shifted by half a pixel and was therefore blurry for a moment. The camera has been completely redesigned and is now always sharp and buttery smooth.
• Adjusted audio volume: The volume of all sound effects and background music pieces has been normalized and adjusted to common loudness standards. The overall sound is now much more balanced.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed jittery movement of the following horses
• Fixed completion issue of level based challenges
• Fixed the balancing of challenges
• Fixed the bonus for level based challenges
• Fixed flickering dead horses
• Fixed crash when resetting data during run
• Added confirmation before resetting data
• Improved drawing performance of vegatation

Hey everyone! First off, a big thank you to everyone who played the Horse Runner DX demo, shared your thoughts, and posted gameplay videos on YouTube. Your feedback has been incredibly helpful! With Demo Update 0.8.2, there are several improvements based on your suggestions and bug reports:

Gameplay Improvements

• Acceleration at the end of the level: If you don't want to read the bonus information and challenges at the end of the level, you can now jump to accelerate immediately.
• Improved biome variety: Biomes are now alternated more evenly so that each landscape appears with a similar frequency. This means that challenges to reach a certain landscape are now much fairer.
• Adjustment of night brightness: Since the night was a bit too dark for some, the brightness was increased slightly for accessibility.
• Improved controls during gameplay: The pause menu can now be opened and closed with the start/options button. In the game, the X button can now be used in addition to A. On a PlayStation controller, Square can now be used in addition to X.

Technical Improvements

• Improved support for non 16:9 resolutions: At some resolutions, there were black bars on the edges due to the pixel-perfect display. Now the game is displayed as large as possible and (almost) without borders, even at unusual resolutions.
• Improved retro filter: The scanline shader has been reworked to look better even at unusual resolutions.
• New hotkeys for music: There are now a few handy hotkeys to control the background music - mute music (F6), previous song (F7), next song (F8).
• New hotkeys for screenshots and display: Create screenshot (F9, My Pictures folder), hide UI (F10, e.g. in the pause menu), toggle full screen (F11).
• Improved controls in the settings menu: To switch a setting (e.g. English >) you can now also press right (keyboard/controller). Pressing left no longer jumps out of the current setting item.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed notification text that was difficult to read at some resolutions
• Fixed localization issue in the power-ups menu
• Corrected text for the power-up "Points +20" (previously +10)
• Fixed edge case that allowed jumping out of water
• Fixed info at end of level for the power-up "Faster"
• Fixed poor landscape display on narrow screens
• Fixed missing landscape on ultra wide screens

New Input Methods

Steam Deck Support