Monday Update - May 11, 2026
This week is all about the new playtest build that we plan to drop on Thursday! We will be opening up the full Patreon build to the Steam Playtest. If you've been waiting to try the Open World or Wales map, you will soon get a chance! This playtest will only be available for a limited time. Probably 5 days or so. Make sure to wishlist over on Steam if you haven't already.
Wishlist count just crossed 9,300, Patreon is about to hit 700 paid members (both all-time highs), and the May numbers are tracking to be our best month ever. Good energy to be building on.
Here's what we are focusing on this week.
Michael
Adding a pop-up warning when you load the game letting people know this is a pre-alpha preview and bugs are expected
Setting up a server browser and spinning up two additional servers so we're running three total for the playtest — no single point of failure
Still working through a bug where mods compiled on Linux aren't working on Windows, related to how shaders compile.
Other modding tools and improvements.
Damien
Finishing up the bike model — remaking the levers and smaller components to cut about 40k polygons. Wrapping that up today
Designing trail signs for the tutorial.
Getting new grass, flowers, and bushes into Zone 1 using the new grass shader — those will hopefully be in for the playtest
Looking into whether we can get river splines working for the playtest
Maggie
Finishing up the LOD system for the rider and bike — making sure it works efficiently at distance
Add the Fox helmet and gloves to the male rider model
Joe
Improving the tutorial
Other bug fixes for the playtest
Putting together an updated game trailer for the Steam page
Bryan
Steam page revamp plan
Julian
Continuing social media work — Instagram has been climbing and a recent TikTok hit over 500k views, our best yet!
Julian wants to start doing solo livestreams and a YouTube mid-form video once a week.
Cedric
Polishing trails to get ready for the playtest.
That's it for this week! Please let your friends know about the upcoming playtest. We want to try and get as many players in there as possible.
Have a great week, everyone! Hope it's as chill as Jake is here.
