Exciting Changes on the Way!

Hey everyone! Today, we're talking to Star Stable's Graphic Designer Malin to find out about an exciting change that's on the way for how Star Stable looks! Malin Gustavsson is a Graphic Designer, working with pictures and graphics for Star Stable's website, and lots of the graphics that exist outside the game. Today, she's got something pretty fun and exciting to share with us all! Hi Malin! You've been sitting at your computer for months working away on a top secret project, and the whole office has been wondering what you're up to! Can you tell the team and all our fans what's been keeping you so busy? Hi! Of course I can. We've been aware for quite a while that the Star Stable logo is a little bit tricky to work with, so we've decided to change it for something much more modern and easy to use! Wow, that's super exciting! What's so bad about the old logo, though? Well, one of the most difficult things was that it was pretty hard to print. The logo's colours were formed from what's called a gradient, where two different colours fade into one another. On our logo, it was where pink fades into white, and that means that in order for it to look really perfect, there'd be thousands of different colours joining together to make the logo have its 'colour fading' gradient effect. The old logo was also really tough to scale down in size, because all of those thousands of different colours have to fade together in a really tiny space. What kind of thought have you put into the new logo? We've thought really carefully about how to make it simpler and bolder at the same time as making it warm, fun and exciting. We also tried to make sure we didn't remove any of the exciting gaming feeling from our branding - pretty important for a game! Now we're really excited! Please please please can you show us how it's going to look? Hmm, well I can't show you the whole thing right now, because it's still a little bit secret! I'm thinking since you asked so nicely, that I can maybe give you a little bit of a sneak peek though! Here's a little look at how we've developed our new, cute horsey icon that represents our game as part of the logo...

Your first glimpse at the cute new horsey icon: part of Star Stable's brand new logo!

So Malin, is there anything more you'd like to tell us about the new logo? Sure! We wanted to keep important parts of the old logo but also develop it so that it feels new and modern. That's why we decided to keep the stars; they're a really important part of the history of Jorvik and of course it's a little bit important since we're called Star Stable after all! We also wanted to have an icon in our logo, something that really shows how much we love horses, so we took our original horse - the Jorvik Warmblood - and gave him a gorgeous mane that blows beautifully in the wind! Malin, thanks so much for sharing all this with us! We can't wait to see the whole finished logo! Thank you too! You should keep an eye out for next week's news where we'll give you all the big reveal!