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How Sky: The Children of the Light broke records for most simultaneous people on the screen | Jenova Chen interview
08.09.2023 - 17:43 / venturebeat.com
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Thatgamecompany announced it had 10,061 people on screen at the same time in the same server for its latest in-game concert from superstar singer Aurora. And that enabled the company to officially win a Guinness World Record title of “Most users in a concert-themed virtual world.”
Additionally, the developers also won a world record title for “The most players emoting together at the same time in a video game.” Across all servers, more than 1.25 million participants joined in on the event.
Earlier this year, the company said it had more than 160 million people who downloaded Sky: Children of the Light, since the mobile game launched in 2019.
The title is an open world social indie adventure game, where players could have a cool experience in a beautiful world and share the emotional experience with friends. That enabled the company to raise $160 million in March 2022.
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Back in December 2022, the company staged its first virtual concert inside the game with the musical artist Aurora. She sang a series of beautiful songs and the game took the players on a kind of spiritual animated journey. More than 1.6 million people watched that concert, which is replayed every day for a month.
Back then, each instance of the concert has 4,000 players in it, all moving individually with the crowd. That was far more people than online games can usually pack into a server space, and Chen said it took a lot of technical work to do. Now the number is above 10,000.
Sky is releasing on the PC later this year. Also, an animated series based on the world and lore of Sky: Children of the Light is coming in 2024, and the company debuted a new teaser. The series will tug at your heartstrings the same way the beloved online game does, featuring striking animation and music for fans to enjoy. I talked with Jenova Chen, CEO of Thatgamecompany, at Gamescom 2023.
Here’s an edited transcript of our meeting.
GamesBeat: What’s the latest for you? I think we talked last just after the concert.
Jenova Chen: What you see here is Sky on PC. What I tell people is, you have to experience it on PC because it can’t ever be captured. It’s 4K at 120fps. You can’t do that on YouTube. It’s HDR. You can’t have true HDR on YouTube. The time of day shifts. I can show the difference.
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