While this might seem like a risky strategy, Olifiers says it’s one Bossa has a lot of experience with in its past games. The plan is to slowly grow this community over time.
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One way Bossa is working to ensure the success of Lost Skies is by releasing it early in “open development.” Olifiers says that currently Bossa has a group of a few hundred community members with full access to game builds who are giving feedback and actively discussing with Bossa devs what they want to see from Lost Skies. You never ride a bicycle well the first time you do it.” You have the advantage of going back and doing something again, but, with that experience, it's like riding a bicycle. “What worked, and what didn't work, and to create a brand new game in that universe that so many people fell in love with and we never could fully realize…Hindsight is super useful. “We tried well to put to good use all the hindsight that we had with Worlds Adrift,” he says. We asked Olifiers why Bossa was revisiting that universe despite the struggles its first endeavor had. Worlds Adrift entered early access in 2017, but was discontinued two years later due to the game no longer being commercially viable. Notably, Lost Skies is meant to take place in the same universe as its previously shuttered MMO, Worlds Adrift. In focusing on that space and game jamming in it very specifically for a time, Bossa came up with Lost Skies. So Bossa Games wants to focus, and through discussion the team found that many of its members were excited by co-op survival games and building such as Valheim, Project Zomboid, and 7 Days to Die. But, he continues, this means that all of Bossa’s games historically have been started from scratch: because they’re not building on the foundation of something else, development takes a lot of time. Olifiers acknowledged that Lost Skies was a shift in “form and theme” from previous Bossa games, and said the studio’s reasoning came out of its long-standing development process of constantly doing internal game jams.Īccording to Olifiers, every Bossa game is made out of a game jam, and the studio has dozens of internal prototypes that never see the light of day. When we spoke with Olifiers ahead of Lost Skies’ announcement, we asked why the studio was going in such a grander, more adventurous direction after years of games where you play as a slice of bread trying to make its way to a toaster through a room full of hazards. Every hour one of those happens, and the only way for us to craft that is to give players the means to play in the way they want.”
So we want to create those in Lost Skies. “The fondest memories I have of multiplayer games was when in Ultima I was standing there when someone exploited the bug to kill Lord British in the game, or when I go into raids in World of Warcraft, and my friends ask, ‘Who's got the potions?’ and we look at each other: ‘What potions?’ That's what we go to the pub later to talk about. “I have this saying that ‘A good game is when something that you didn't expect took place,’ ” he says. He wants players to feel they can do anything they can imagine. With those two drivers, Olifiers adds that he wants players to feel a sense of freedom - similar to the freedom of Bossa's previous smaller sandboxes - that they are “always looking at something on the horizon” that sparks curiosity and strategy. While he’s not willing to share too many deep details about gameplay just yet, Olifiers described the two “drivers” of gameplay as surviving the world, and fighting these massive “guardian” creatures with friends, one in each of Lost Skies’ regions. The other is ship combat, with customizable flying ships built to tackle much larger creatures that serve as both enemies and puzzles.
One is “ground” combat, where “ground” is used a bit loosely because, per Olifiers, everyone will be hook-shotting around “Spider-Man-style” in very vertical spaces. He tells us that combat includes two components. Expecting the UnexpectedĪccording to Bossa Games CEO Henrique Olifiers, Lost Skies is able to be played single player as well as co-op, and single player play is in fact incentivized at times to assist the overall cooperative efforts of a group.
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It’s planned for a PC launch in 2024, but will enter what Bossa calls “open development” later this year, allowing the community to access and test vertical slices and offer feedback to shape Lost Skies’ development.
Lost Skies is an upcoming open-world, co-op adventure where up to six players work together to explore a world composed of floating islands, build flying ships, and take on gigantic monsters.
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