Honk Honk, Sky Kids! It’s time for an Aviary News update ✨
Welcome Jenova Chen and Gameplay Engineer Ben Kurtin as they reveal the Presence System! 🤩
(Audio transcript below the cut)
Chen: Hello Sky Kids, I'm Jenova Chen, the CEO and Creative Director here at That Game Company.
Kurtin: And I'm Ben Kurtin, a Gameplay Engineer at TGC on Sky.
Chen: Today we are here to introduce a brand new system to the Sky players, called Presence.
Kurtin: We'll also show how we'll be able to relieve some of our biggest pain points our community has been sharing with us.
Chen: Sky is an MMO game. In the server, there are thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of players. However, when you play the game, you don't feel that. You just feel at maximum there are eight players on the screen. What Presence system does is allow you to sense the vibration of everybody on the server.
Kurtin: With the click of a button, you'll see hundreds of players around you, chatting, expressing themselves, and having fun alongside you in Sky. Presence also introduces the ability to reconnect when the server splits in Sky. When players split, it means that their friends were auto-emerged into a different server. With Presence enabled, you'll now be able to quickly find your friend in the same area and merge back together with them, so that you can go back to exploring the realms.
Chen: This is one of the biggest features that is ever coming to Sky. Please bear with us on this experiment.
Kurtin: As one of the main engineers of Presence, I can vouch on behalf of the rest of the team developing this, that we've been working hard to ensure that using Presence is like walking into a theme park, that it's always full of lively people to join up with. Thank you for your support, and as always, we'll see you in the skies!
Thinking about the post I saw abt Skykids just being odd, strange husks that mimic and mimic and mimic a civilization that doesn't exist anymore, yet one they're so close to, close enough to ALMOST touch, close enough to DIRECTLY learn from, one which they only know the ruins of, the mistakes, the dregs of what was.
Definitely incorporating that into my personal headcanon. That's so right to me.
To add; The more that a skykid learns from the ancestor spirits, the more they become capable of not only expression, but the genuine feelings that would inspire such. When a Moth lands from the sky they are odd, completely empty, confused creatures with only an inset desire to learn, and an instinct that guides them towards generosity.
I created this overpowered character just for fun... I mean, Relm has a lot of power, and the only thing they do with that power right now is use their excessive amount of light to make their home in Wasteland a place where native plants can grow.
With so many possibilities, so many positive and negative uses for such immense power, Relm’s only aspiration is to see even a fraction of what Wasteland was like before it became a desolate land.
Why? Because they were born there. That’s all.
Something related to the same topic, since these crabs with plants on them appeared in Days of Bloom, now, canonically in my universe, they symbolize a healthy ecosystem.
In my mind, they’re sort of like hermit crabs (since we’ve seen some concepts featuring bell-shaped crabs), so I have a whole concept of symbiosis here. Well, here’s Relm and their rescued crabs with their protective rock made of the right type of stone, and their light blooms and wasteland plants growing on them.
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