Children of the Light, out December 6 – PlayStation.Blog
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PlayStation gamers, we’ve missed you! However now the skies are calling and your story is about to start. We’re thrilled to welcome you to Sky: Kids of the Mild on December 6 when the sport formally launches on PlayStation!
Over 15 years in the past, thatgamecompany solid a formative partnership with PlayStation. Our video games fl0w, Flower, and Journey every experiment with how interactive gaming can talk at an emotional degree. We have been humbled by Journey’s Sport of the Yr recognition and the accolades these video games obtained, however maybe most resonant have been the person tales gamers despatched us from all around the world sharing how our video games had touched their lives. These tales made us ask how we are able to all higher expertise compassion by play. It moved us to push farther and develop Sky, a religious successor to Journey that creates a spot for individuals of all backgrounds to share emotional connection and significant moments with their family members.
We’re so happy with the colourful international group that has flourished in Sky, and our gamers continuously amaze and encourage us! One among our group members, SADist, made an animatic that captured the guts of what a Sky participant sees and feels. We made the trailer above in flip based mostly on that animatic, and we hope it faithfully recreates what all of us—participant and dev alike—have seen and felt in Sky.
A touching social expertise
Discover your home in Sky by journey, exploration, and the individuals you meet. Comply with the place birds beckon and bells ring, and search peaceable surroundings and intriguing surprises off the crushed path. Ascend by the clouds, play your individual music, assist out one other traveler, or take the hand of a fellow Little one of the Mild who desires to point out you their favourite shortcut.
A path rises to satisfy everybody who enters the world of Sky.
Embark on a musical voyage within the Season of AURORA Live performance
Music is woven by Sky, guiding and accompanying gamers by gentle and darkish. It’s all the time been a significant a part of the sport, however now after 18 months of improvement and fine-tuning our proprietary sport engine, we’re on the brink of ship a brand new approach for music to take our gamers into one thing extra intense and highly effective than what’s been carried out earlier than in video games:
On December 8 at 8:30 pm PT, we’re premiering a live performance in collaboration with Norwegian music artist AURORA! We’re opening the world’s largest efficiency venue for the event in order that tens of millions of gamers can participate on this musical voyage collectively, and we’ve saved a seat for everyone.
In the event you’ve performed Sky earlier than, you’ve heard AURORA’s voice on our authentic soundtrack. She’s additionally greatest recognized internationally for her hits “Runaway,” “Treatment for Me,” “Working with the Wolves,” and her ethereal vocals in Frozen II‘s “Into the Unknown.”
Starting on December 8, her music invitations you to be reworked inside Sky itself. Join with the exuberant multitude of gamers from throughout the globe, and with AURORA as she performs songs together with “Exhale Inhale,” “Runaway,” “Warrior,” and extra to move you on a journey that goes far past every other live performance expertise in a sport.
The live performance expertise isn’t restricted to the set checklist both—the venue additionally has a lot to do earlier than and after the present. Study songs with in-game devices (all talent ranges inspired!), meet some pleasant creatures providing to take you on a tour, and discover a room with a serene sound tub the place AURORA herself will information you in restorative leisure.
Everyone seems to be welcome! No tickets, purchases, and even minimal sport progress is required.
And when you miss the premiere on the 8, don’t fear—it is going to be obtainable a number of instances a day by January 2 2023!
Have fun the PlayStation launch with unique Journey cosmetics
To commemorate this new launch, a specifically themed Journey Pack can be provided for buy for these becoming a member of us on PlayStation. Unique to PlayStation gamers, this bundle comes with a cape, hood, and masks, that includes fastidiously re-created designs that could be acquainted when you’ve seen the wayfarers who as soon as traversed desert sands. On a nostalgic word, the masks features a distinctive potential: sporting it grants your Sky Little one a Journey-inspired voice if you name!
A spot the place everyone seems to be stronger collectively
Once we first began our studio, we had little concept how a lot our efforts to push emotional boundaries in video games would nonetheless reverberate at this time. We’re so excited to deliver our newest journey to the platform the place we started. First we have been petals within the wind, then we have been wayfarers gliding over sand dunes, and now we’re hovering collectively by the clouds. We will’t wait to see you within the skies on December 6!
