Festival Tech

Festival Tech is a large scale match-making feature. It allows large groups of players to gather beyond the usual limit of 8 people per session, so that hundreds or even thousands of people can experience the same things together. First introduced with the AURORA Concert, then used in Days of Bloom 2023 and Days of Color 2023, Festival Tech allows players to interact with each other and Sky in unimaginable ways, through transforming into wildlife or completing tasks together.

Festival Tech is only utilised in specific spots with specific events, with a maximum of 4000 total players per instance. Players have the ability to express through the  expressive emojis: Waving Lights, Heart, Happy, and Cry with the respective expression. A basic out-of-server player is alike to a skykid but much simpler.

## Instances of Festival Tech

### Season of AURORA

On December 8, 2022 the first live instance of Festival Tech occurred. The feature was used as a concert, bringing 4000+ players to listen to six of AURORA's songs as they go through a Musical Journey. For the majority of the performances, players were transformed into Sky wildlife as they travel through various landscapes, with AURORA music in the background. However in the finale, players are themselves as they fly around the collisium with AURORA.

### Days of Bloom 2023

From March 27 to April 6, 2023, the desert of The Forgotten Ark turns into an oasis, inviting players to daydream and become butterflies to fly through the Forgotten Ark every few hours. During this, pieces of light would appear which could be collected by the player as butterflies.

### Days of Color 2023

From June 1 to June 14, 2023, the secretive area high above Daylight Prairie was expanded specially for Days of Color. The spacious scenery allowed dozens, even hundreds of players to gather together using the festival tech featured in Season of Passage quests and the Season of AURORA concert.

### Season of Passage

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While all quests can be completed independently, from the second quest onwards the rituals are held with Festival Tech, with each player's effort contributing to the greater goal (and earn a bit of extra light along the way). These rituals begin at set intervals several times per hour (every 15 minutes - x:00, x:15, x:30, x:45), to allow a greater amount of initiates to participate together. These quests can be begun in the Passage Stone from the Passage Guide and later replayed in their set locations. Each ritual had a different genre, from collaboration to competitions.

Unique from all previous Festival Tech events, Season of Passage quests holds less than 4000 maximum players - to avoid crowding and overstimulation in such small spaces from quests, as well as change the basic out-of-server model to a boar-like figure.

### Sky's 4th Anniversary

From July 17th until July 30th, Festival Tech in enabled throughout the entire Secret Area and players can enjoy a party on the roof on the Office.

### Days of Mischief 2023

The Cackling Crab transformed each week of the 3-week event, as Spirits moved around and even learned to play tricks of their own. In the third week of the event, players may notice more crabs than usual while they're in the crab pit. Don’t be too alarmed though—these are your fellow players from across other servers, all players transformed together into festive, crustaceous glory. Maybe it’s not so bad being a crab after all.

### UPCOMING: Project Aviary

Reusing the Light Awaits Aviary, this will be an area for players to come together for all the different things they might enjoy: making friends, meeting players and Spirits, joining events, and so on. A spin on Home utilising the Festival Tech feature to produce a more convivial and social area. Read more about this project on ThatSkyGame's blog.