Lost Skies from Bossa Games Gets First Look at Exploration, Traversal
Bossa Games, the BAFTA-winning game developer and publisher known for creating innovative games such as I am Bread, I am Fish and the Surgeon Simulator series, has revealed a series of new gameplay screenshots for Lost Skies featuring a first look at how players will traverse, explore and adventure across the game’s extraordinary world of floating islands.
In Lost Skies, being published by Humble Games, players team up to explore a vast world made up of floating islands. The skies are full of opportunities to build customised sky-ships, brave ferocious storms, battle monsters and solve the mysteries of ancient civilisations, forgotten technologies and the story of the shattered world.
Luke Williams, Lead Designer of Lost Skies, introduced the game with a developer diary at May 2023’s Humble Showcase, viewable here:
New Lost Skies images show the game’s progress and new game features
Alongside the announcement of the pre-alpha playtest launch, Bossa Games has released new screenshots showing in-engine gameplay. These new images show many of the elements teased in Lost Skies’ animated announcement trailer, and show how Bossa Games is building an exciting experience of cooperative survival and adventure in the shattered world of Foundation.
You can find full-size versions of the three new gameplay images below, along with an additional three screenshots, at the press kit here.
Lead Designer Luke Williams provided explanations of each new image and the gameplay features they are displaying:
Image 1 (left): “Alongside our playtest of the game, we have also released a playtest build of our Island Creator tool, which allows players to build their own floating islands and upload them. Our current, pre-alpha playtest has added new islands to explore, including islands made by our community which already show off the complexity and beauty of our islands, and the fragments of ruined civilisations from before the mysterious event that shattered the world.”
Image 2 (middle): “Our goal at Bossa Games is to build the best worlds for friends to have fun together in, while ensuring that no experience is locked off for solo players. If you can see somewhere, we want you to be able to reach it, alone or with your friends - whether you are climbing, gliding, grappling or flying.”
Image 3: (right): “Lost Skies is inspired by an earlier game made by Bossa, Worlds Adrift, and we have taken many popular mechanics and improved them. The crags and ruins of our islands make perfect playgrounds for grappling and swinging, with our physics-based grappling hook - our community is already finding new ways to reach unexpected places using agility and momentum”
Lost Skies playtesting enters pre-alpha
Lost Skies has been developed in collaboration with its community in a process of open development. A selected group of playtesters from the Lost Skies Discord community has been testing limited builds and giving feedback directly to the developers.
Bossa Games this week introduced a new set of playtesters to the first pre-alpha playtest build of Lost Skies, which gives playtesters a continuous tutorial experience and insight into how mechanics such as climbing, grappling, harvesting, crafting and combat interact to give players a cohesive experience of the first hours of play.
“We’ve been gathering feedback from our community since we announced Lost Skies, and they have given us vital feedback on what works and doesn’t work, what is too easy or too difficult and many other gameplay elements,” said Luke Williams, Lead Designer of Lost Skies. “With our move into pre-alpha, we can bring in more playtesters, get more feedback and keep expanding and improving the game.”
Playtesters are drawn from the Lost Skies Discord community, which can be joined here: https://discord.com/invite/lostskies
About Bossa Games
Founded in 2010 as Bossa Studios, Bossa Games is a BAFTA-winning game developer and publisher known for creating innovative games such as I am Bread, I am Fish and the Surgeon Simulator series.
Rebranded as Bossa Games, the studio is now focused on building groundbreaking multiplayer co-op experiences, and using its expertise to help publishers and IP holders to build games as a work-for-hire studio.
Bossa Games is currently developing the solo and multiplayer co-op title Lost Skies.
About Humble Games
Best known for critically acclaimed and award-winning hits such as A Hat in Time, Forager, Project Wingman, SIGNALIS, Slay the Spire, Temtem, UNSIGHTED, Unpacking and Wizard of Legend, Humble Games is Humble Bundle’s publishing arm, composed of a passionate and nimble team that works remotely with a collection of talented global development partners.
Humble Games was founded on a shared passion to support developers and deliver excellent content and gaming experiences to players around the world, while continuing the Humble mission to be a force for good in the industry.
Humble Games is committed to investing in top quality games, comprised of both new and existing beloved IPs, all while prioritising and supporting developer partnerships so that they can focus on bringing their creative visions to life.
