We’ve kicked off a new year in Sky, which means another year growing and soaring together! You, the community, have helped Sky reach new heights, and all of us here at the studio are ready to make 2025 the most memorable yet. There’s more headed your way than we can squeeze into a blog post, so here’s a sample of what we’re working on for the months ahead!
Connecting with Friends & Sharing Expressions
We all shine brighter when our connections are stronger and when we have more ways to express ourselves.
New features and improvements are on their way so that you and your friends can enjoy even better ways to connect and express yourselves:
- Spotlight Tech: This new feature coming to the concert hall will allow any player to share a musical performance with up to nearly 300 others across server instances.
- Sending offline Memories through the Friendship Constellation: Stay in touch with friends even if you aren’t online at the same time—and in true Sky style, your options aren’t limited to only the written word.
- Making Shared Memories with friends: The team is creating ways for multiple players to record a Shared Memory together.
- Updates to the Friendship Tree: We’re making it easier to progress through the Friendship Tree with other players you meet, with more abilities lower in the Friendship Tree so that the tree isn’t taller, but wider.
- Nest capacity upgrades: For when you need extra plushies and plants and decorations alongside your latest prop sculpture.
- More improvements to dyeing: We’ll be refining the dye feature based on your feedback and expanding categories of items that can be dyed!
Events, Seasons, Parties, and More!
Sky will host a huge range of events this year, with new experiences, returning favorites, and stories that broaden the story of Sky and beyond. Mark your calendars for these: The AURORA Concert is coming back in June for a special celebration.
Plus, Sky’s 6th Anniversary is bringing a spectacular birthday party to everyone in July, with a grand festival featuring players themselves!
To say more would spoil the surprise, so we’ll just say that we’re very, very excited for what’s in store!
Our Seasons will bring inspiring stories that look at the heart of what it means to be a Child of the Light. Season of Radiance has started with a burst of color, and it’s opening up countless possibilities to add your creative touch to your avatar.
And later this year, beloved Spirits seek your help as they search for something that’s missing, and of course, get ready to step into the kingdom’s lore with a Season based on the Sky: The Two Embers animation project!
Building Friendships With Spirits
This year it’s time for big updates that will make it more intuitive and rewarding to build your relationships with the Spirits you meet!
2025 will have the first major improvements to relationships with Spirits. This goes way beyond giving Candles to a Spirit to unlock a new pair of pants. Like other relationships, this will be built on sharing activities and moments together. Spirits’ Friendship Trees will change and expand to reflect these new capabilities, and you can experience new parts of their stories, too.
Stay tuned for announcements on this big project!
Features and More to Feel At Home in Sky
Sky is a place where you can feel at home, be creative, and find others to share your light with. These are just a few more projects that we’re planning to make your time in the realms even more memorable.
- Meet and play with TGC devs in Sky: Coming soon, this will be a special way to play and interact with members of the studio directly in Sky. (And oh yes, there will be Eden runs.)
- Optimizing the game loading and installation experience: A shorter wait until you can start flying in the skies!
- Music sheet revamp: Music is at the heart of so many Sky memories, and we want to make music sheets more enjoyable for everyone to use and play.
- Jam Station: Improvements are on the way, like the ability to save and re-use the sequences you create.
- More diverse ways to get Light: There are music sheet challenges, the table in the Elevated Clearing, the geyser and turtle in Sanctuary Islands, and more in addition to candle running, but we know there are even more possibilities to add variety and accommodate different play styles.
- Continuing to knock back bugs: We’re focused on reducing incidents as well as bugs, especially the ones you report to us—so thank you for sending those bug reports in!
Flying High Together
In a nutshell: There’s going to be a lot to look forward to! Many of these projects are still work-in-progress, so details, content, and timelines may change during development—but a little sneak peek won’t hurt in the meantime!
More improvements, new adventures, delightful surprises—you, the Sky community, have made it possible. We can’t wait to share everything in the months ahead. For now, be sure to stay tuned to our news for future announcements. And until then, we’ll see you in the skies!