Lost Skies - Skywatch #22

What this episode is about

The content discusses the latest updates on "Lost Skies," focusing on the introduction of Sky Whales, colossal creatures that add life to the game's environment. Developer Anthony shares insights on the ongoing improvements, features, and bug fixes that enhance gameplay, alongside the interactive experience players will have with these majestic beings, highlighting their epic presence in the skies and the resource-gathering mechanic associated with them.

Key takeaways

• Sky whales: the majestic throwback that resurrects lost dreams from 2019's turbulent gaming seas.
• Bosa's devs are like chefs; they meticulously cook up community feedback into a delicious gaming experience.
• Have ship, will travel—your vessel isn't just transportation; it's your sanctuary in the sky.
• From distant whale calls to epic encounters, Lost Skies turns nostalgia into visceral gameplay; who knew echoes could be so enchanting?
• Skepticism is healthy, but remember: sometimes the most beautiful things are born from the ashes of disappointment.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Anthony (Guest) · 9 min speaking
• Jack Good (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Luke Williams (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Unknown Host (Host) · 4 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Worlds of Drift, Lost Skies, Skywatch, Humble
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Lost Skies, Skywatch, Pebble Garden
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Lost Skies
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Lost Skies, Skywatch
5. 12:00 – 14:37: Lost Skies, Worlds of Drift, Skywatch

Notable quotes from "Lost Skies - Skywatch #22"

• Than Sky whales which is covered in depth by Anthony who explains that it has been another busy month at the Bosa HQ and that they've been plowing through a massive list of…

  about Bosa · at 0:19

• Alone but instead is something that has been long missed and for some forgotten back in the times of world a drift but in order to explain that I need to go back nearly 8 years…

  about Worlds of Drift · at 1:54

• Fortunately there were a small handful of videos during the time when this went down and during this actual event as shown in this video here by a Creator named Pebble Garden…

  about Pebble Garden · at 3:17

• The emotion that Luke and the dev team still felt when it came to how world's drift ended and how through the development of lost Skies many of the things the team stried to…

  about Lost Skies · at 4:49

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Pebble Garden — Person · Referenced creator (video evidence source) · 1 mention · first at 3:26
  Credited as the creator whose video captured the sky whale model appearing during the Worlds Adrift end-of-world sendoff event.

Companies & orgs

• Bosa — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions
  Development company behind Lost Skies and previously Worlds of Drift.

Places & events

• Skywatch — Event · Setting · 4 mentions · first at 0:00
  Regular update event for Lost Skies, providing development insights.
  What is up everyone and welcome back to another lost Sky Skywatch update it has been just over a month and a half since the last Skywatch and we are our number 22 already let me tell you our boys and.

Media & podcasts

• Lost Skies — Media · Core topic · 8 mentions · first at 1:22
  Main focus of the podcast, discussing its development and features.
• Worlds of Drift — Media · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at 2:23
  Previous game by Bosa, mentioned as a precursor to Lost Skies.

Sponsors

• Humble — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 0:33
  Publisher mentioned in the context of game development feedback.
  Featur tweaks and Bug fixes that have been gathered over the past few months from the team their publisher humble and the open development Community playing the game which he…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 what is up everyone and welcome back to another lost Sky Skywatch update it has been just over a month and a half since the last Skywatch and we are our number 22 already let me tell you our boys and gals have been cooking as you can probably tell by the thumbnail of this video the main topic today is none other than Sky whales which is covered in depth by Anthony who explains that it has been another busy month at the Bosa HQ and that they've been plowing through a massive list of improvements new featur tweaks and Bug fixes that have been gathered over the past few months from the team their publisher humble and the open development Community playing the game which he also mentions is one of his favorite parts of the development process having the chance to play a functioning part of the game and find tune it little by little to make it the best version it can be such a vitally important and amazing contribution now

0:53 Anthony does go on to explain the experience of what interactions between these Sky Wheels is like in the game where he points out they're absolutely epic in the skies and you can hear them from very far away before they gradually appear in the distance and that these ancient creatures hold a vital resource however you will need a ship and the appropriate equipment to rein them in as we will explain in just a bit here but he does also mention that they are very much still in early development but that is definitely another big step in making the world of lost Skies feel alive where they provide a little video which unfortunately has no audio but beautifully shows off the sky whale and what seems to be its in-game movement while idling with all of these awesome glowing horns SL crystals that make up both the parts of the head and the tops of its back and even some of the internal framework for the creature

1:42 structure at the end as well but before I move on I want to quickly go over a few things regarding these Sky Wheels you see the idea of these creatures was something that wasn't just conceptual development for the last few months alone but instead is something that has been long missed and for some forgotten back in the times of world a drift but in order to explain that I need to go back nearly 8 years ago to an interview with a developer from Bosa Jack good a senior artist who went over the topic of sky whes and their development going on to explain how the concepts for the skywell for a long time had been conceptualized but at that time the internal company view they were primarily focusing on flushing out the interactions between their mantas and thto mites in the existing worlds of drift game supposedly there was initially proposed by Luke Williams the team's lead designer as an entity that

2:32 you would only see in Rarity at least near the beginning of the game where conceptually you'd be able to capture glimpses of the whales near the bottom of the world within the abyss where they were initially planned to be peaceful creatures for the most part unless you were to become a nuisance to them and as far as implementation is concerned for these creatures in world's drift there supposedly was a small Easter egg put in where near the abyss below if you were lucky you could hear the whales cry in the far distance now while they were never technically put into Worlds of drift as a functioning autonomous entity they actually did in fact appear within the game for a brief time before this was during the end of world event on July 26 in 2019 that was hosted as a sendoff to world's drift when the servers began to shut down now fortunately there were a small handful of videos during the time when this went

3:21 down and during this actual event as shown in this video here by a Creator named Pebble Garden they actually did show off a model of the sky whale with a short and brief siren call before closing out the game and despite this tragic end nearly 4 years later we are now able to see what we once thought was lost for good brought back in a more vibrant and stunning detail than ever before in this public post shared from the Luke leak made a few weeks ago he goes on to explain that as the development of lost SK continues they are excited to share the latest edition of Sky whales massive and ancient creatur that peacefully swim the skies filling the air with their haunting whales song hinting us at the possibility that they may contain vital resources and that more will be shared in the upcoming Skywatch update and while at the time there was no further information provided in regards to development until now it's absolutely

4:17 amazing to see both how far the team has come and to finally see a once-forgotten dream becoming more and more of a reality now several days ago I actually shared this publicly released image on the world's dri Reddit page where Luke Williams himself responded saying quote Los SK has been very cathartic for those still around from the world's drift team we're getting to achieve a lot of the things that we stried to do back then and though people have a right to be skeptical I hope we're able to bring back the experiences we know that they missed which I think more than surmises the emotion that Luke and the dev team still felt when it came to how world's drift ended and how through the development of lost Skies many of the things the team stried to achieve once before can now have a real opportunity to be realized but we must move on there's still more to cover in regards to the updates that the team has put

5:05 together namely in this case the ship building which in my opinion is one of the points of development I'm actually really excited to see unfold in the future and as Anthony explains it having your ship as your base is really something that draws people into lost Skies it's a place where you could lose yourself trying to create your perfect vision over the last month they've been working on one of the biggest pieces of feedback around making bigger open plan decking options with less pillars which sounds simple at first thought but actually requires quite a bit of work to fully flush out properly where they show a small video in what seems to be some sort of temp rendering area showing off how you can create areas within a simplistic open decked example without having internal pillars for each segment another area being worked on is double-sided material panels which gives the player the ability to make walls

5:56 panels decks and ceilings within their ships that look different from each side which Anthony iterates is another important component that will allow the player to feel as though you were building what is truly your ship and that you aren't constrained by any of your tools limitations where they provide a video showing off the implementation which he notes doesn't include any of the UI or ux features that the game will have before release but shows the visual representation of what can be done where you get to see them place wooden wall panels and metal panels on opposing sides which gives you that additional aspect of making strong and sturdy exterior for your ship while still be able to maintain and make the internals of your ship look as much to your liking as desired making ships look good is also very important in this respect the devs art team has been putting together some fantastic add-ons

6:45 for your ship of what I imagine would be more early game assets for the first region here they share a great picture of the different types of components each with some Mossy rusted visuals and what looks like Wing attachments and even wiring and piping and even what looks like either lights or the ends of small engines on the back of a wooden panel additionally we also got what seems like a spiked spear headed sail or possibly a wing attachment as well on the bottom right we also get to see some pictures of figure heads that can be placed on the bow of your ship with both some wooden and metal variations and even one of a human caricature wearing an arranged helmet likely representing one of the different ancient groups or civilizations that once existed in the distance pass within lost Skies going back briefly to the topic of Sky whales as we mentioned initially these whales will contain vital resources however

7:38 you'll need more than just a ship in order to acquire these resources the important tool is the ship Harpoon which the devs provide an awesome looking concept art for with a few different colorized Renditions and angled viewpoints showing off some of the optional bronze or iron styles that they can move forward with also noting how they want the spool or real casing to slightly shift back when it is fired or reeled in lastly for the ship building the team has been working on VFX for some of the guns SL cannons as you can see in the video here again I apologize there's no provided audio here for the cannon but regardless you can see the beautiful looking sparks flying as the cannon ammo shell is fired through the night

8:24 sky the next topic covered is Sky travel after you build your ship believe it or not you will want to fly it which again needs to feel as though you would expect it to in this capacity there is a ton of physics working in conjunction in this respect but as Anthony explains here you want the materials you build your ship with and the equipment you add to it to be big factors in how Nimble agile and strong your ship is we then have to get that feeling across to the player when they fly their ship so a ton of work has been done in this area over the past month likely in the scope of balancing ratios and optimizations for different as aspects of what should be a reasonable Advantage SL disadvantage taken when using the different types of components in material scaling they also have been working on how Weaponry feels once in an actual battle and the damage these weapons is dished out again as he

9:13 explains they want the players to feel power weak or strong depending on the different weapon choices that they put onto their ships but the dev provide two small GIF videos showing two players in a game together where one person is firing a cannon and the other is standing idle watching and how you can see the visual shake from both players which helps the immersion of both characters feel the Firepower regardless of who's actually the one pulling the trigger next we have ui/ux developments these are some of the Lesser considered elements of any game that often aren't much addressed as any sort of major addition however despite this working to create a menu interface that feels good in the game can be a vital component in the development of any game especially lost Skies where they state that this month the team has been improving upon their build screens trying to unify the flow and function of different menu

10:03 options to reduce the additional button presses and needed clicks for navigating to what is wanted now I do want to apologize for the low quality of the images here as it seems there were some issues either on the site or with the upload it seems they were posted with a very low resolution not in a PNG format so scaling of the size of these to be easier to read will be drastically reducing the quality although I will do my best to make sure that these are easier to see and post but at least based on the image posted here we can see the depictions of different options within the building menu and a handful of in-game items including soran plant beds and some kind of specimen jar and even what looks like the mounted trophies of deer heads and some other creatures as well where below much of the text we get to see the associated go script below the different names and game icons lastly on the UI front we get

10:54 an image of the AR computer interface now in case you might remember this was covered with an initial run of concept art from a modeling standpoint however as of now we currently don't know what the device will assuredly look like aside from the information regarding the crashed Arc ship that was concepted in a past Skywatch and made a gray box placeholder model for and as far as the information surrounding the gall society that made these lifeboats in a lore perspective we still only know that these arcs were created as a means to save humanity and since we are now being told that the arc computer will be a hugely important tool throughout the game I would assume or guesstimate that it might possibly have to do with researching components as in the text it has writing showing sorian data disc with icons of what looks like ship engines cannons and wings the last of the topics we are covering is windfalls

11:47 one of the big barriers in Lost Skies between the different regions is the weather walls where it's explained that simply taking a small ship and trying to cross into a new region isn't just going to happen but that you need to search for Effective resources find schematics and build and craft different parts to properly make them strong enough to handle the powerful forces of the walls you Traverse across and as Anthony explains here the windfalls are a part of the Epic travel that climaxes to your time in a region and the story of a new Region's beginning which is really hard to build visually in a world like lost Skies especially when it contains fully Dynamic Cloud systems and isn't just using a normal Sky Box but they have in fact managed to do so and it is in fact being added this month as well where Unfortunately they only share one image depicting what I assume is the wind wall and state that this is only some of what

12:40 they have been working on this month but that they're going to hold back due to a bigger update on these Sky bosses again I imagine they mostly don't want to share everything they are doing in order to help not spoil everything all at once and allow for more surprises in the future now while this is the end of the Skywatch I actually have a few more images SL a video to share with you in case you stayed until the end these are namely known as Luke leaks and in summary Luke has been known to leak a handful of videos SL images in the Lost guys General Discord which I'm going to quickly show again now the first of which is from all the way back at the very end of May where he shared a stunning photo in game which depicts all the amazing looking clouds and sun shafts where Luke says that he was working on some Sal stat balancing which is just absolutely gorgeous and the last of which is from the very end of last

13:30 month that being a video titled A Familiar site. mpp4 which depicts someone flying by an an idle ship and firing multiple rounds at the other ship hovering in the sky which clearly seems to call back to our long remiss times in Worlds of drift now if you want to be able to see these Luke leaks and possibly become selected for the open development Community I highly recommend you join the Lost guys Discord which I'll make sure to have linked below but regardless I hope you have enjoyed and I hope this update has gotten you at least somewhat excited for what is in store for lost skies I know I'm aching to see those Sky whales and hear their haunting song but regardless I thank you all once again for simply being here as well as the awesome development team for putting countless hours into making this game even one step closer to something that's truly amazing and like always have a beautiful rest of your day boys peace

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Lost Skies - Skywatch #22"?

Anthony (Guest), Jack Good (Guest), Luke Williams (Guest), Unknown Host (Host).

What is "Lost Skies - Skywatch #22" about?

The content discusses the latest updates on "Lost Skies," focusing on the introduction of Sky Whales, colossal creatures that add life to the game's environment. Developer Anthony shares insights on the ongoing improvements, features, and bug fixes that enhance gameplay, alongside the interactive experience players will have with these majestic beings, highlighting their epic presence in the…

What is mentioned in this Adrift episode?

6 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Lost Skies, Bosa, Worlds of Drift, Skywatch, Pebble Garden. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Lost Skies - Skywatch #22"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,864 words in 17 timestamped sections.

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