‘Jar Game Returns’ play image. Photo/Nexon
‘Maple Story World’ will be officially launched on the 25th. ‘Maple Story World’ is a platform where anyone can create and share their own world content and play with others by utilizing the vast resources of Nexon’s representative IP ‘Maple Story’. It will be a pilot service in Korea starting in September 2022. continues.
According to Nexon on the 19th, over the past two years since the days of ‘Project MOD’, ‘Maple Story World’ has established its foundation as a platform by introducing various worlds of its own. In addition, with the goal of ‘coexistence with creators’, we are making various efforts for mutual growth, such as holding offline events for creators and providing support programs and benefits.
■ Various worlds presented, from ‘Miner Simulator’ to ‘Meso Warrior’ and ‘Jar Game’
‘Maple Story World’ has presented possibilities for various genres by launching a world developed internally. The first internally developed world, ‘Miner Simulator’, is a simulation world where you explore mines and mine ores. It gained great popularity due to the simple but thrilling taste of mini-games and the pleasure of earning a large amount of money by selling rare ores. .
‘Meso Warrior’, another self-developed world, is a bullet hell shooting genre where players defeat waves of monsters pouring down from stage to stage and defeat bosses with colorful attack patterns. You can meet welcome characters from ‘Maple Story’ such as ‘Kinesis’, ‘Angelic Buster’, and ‘Hoyoung’, and enjoy the fun of easy operation and strategy by combining the characters’ weapons.
In addition, the world of ‘Jar Game Returns’ was launched through an official collaboration with ‘Getting Over It with Benett Foddy’, a platformer game famous for its high level of difficulty. You can once again experience the ‘Jar Game’, which has been re-implemented with the familiar ‘Maple Story’ resources, and furthermore, the ‘Jar Maker’ world, where you can create your own jar map and challenge other users’ maps, has also been introduced.
■ Providing more abundant benefits and support to creators… Generous reinvestment to grow the pie
‘Maple Story World’ aims to be a highly accessible development platform where anyone can easily create their own world even without coding experience, and continues to provide various online and offline support for creators’ free creative activities.
Since the ‘Project MOD’ era in 2021, the world development contest ‘Creators Invitational 2021 (CI2021)’ has been conducted, and in 2022, in collaboration with the programming education group ‘Like a Stylish Lion’, ‘Edu Creator Camp’ with a 13-week curriculum and an offline hackathon will be held. Through this, we encouraged development and worked hard to foster creators. Starting in July, 10 million won in development support was paid to creators who created and released worlds in stages, and a development partnership program ‘Developer Wings 2022’ worth a total of 1.5 billion won was conducted, including the final award ceremony prize money and marketing support costs. .
At the end of the year, ‘MCI22’ was held for two days at the Suwon Convention Center. At ‘MCI22’, which was visited by over 6,500 people, a vision showcase and keynote lecture for ‘Maple Story World’ were held, and an exhibition where various worlds such as ‘Jar Game Returns’ could be experienced in reality was held. In addition, the TOP 7 winners of ‘Developer Wings 2022’ held a conference session to share the content creation process and a two-day ‘Maple Story World Super Hackathon’ to provide a venue for exchange between creators.
In 2023, when creator revenue generation became possible, we focused on supporting creators in various ways with the goal of encouraging world development. Nexon’s profits were reinvested in creators to provide preferential withdrawal benefits that paid 187% of the existing profits, and through the 7-month ‘Rising Creator Program (RCP)’, development support of 56 million won, a 1:1 online inquiry window, and a 1:1 online inquiry window were provided. We created an environment where we could focus on world development by providing various solutions, including customized marketing.
■ Until the grand opening, D-6···Creator World and platform infographics released
MapleStory World’s efforts to become a platform for coexistence are now bearing fruit thanks to the creative ideas of creators. The ‘Star Force Tower Defense’ world, which won the prize at ‘CI2021’, continues to be updated this year and maintains steady popularity, and ‘Lulu World’s ‘Arteil’, which was selected for the ‘Rising Creator Program’ and received various support, is also gaining popularity among users. is receiving a lot of love from
‘Maple Story World’ released an infographic containing records from the past pilot service period, during which the platform and creators grew together. Compared to the previous year, the maximum number of monthly concurrent users of ‘Maple Story World’ increased approximately 134 times, the number of connected users increased 24 times, and the number of client executions also increased approximately 430 times.
The explosive growth of the platform has also had a positive impact on creators. Recently, as of March 2024, the cumulative estimated revenue of the top 10 creators has achieved a huge amount of approximately 15 billion won, and the honors of the top 3 worlds in cumulative revenue are ‘Arteil’, ‘Rona World’, and ‘Maple’ in the order of release. ‘Land’ won. In addition, the creator who ranked No. 1 in avatar sales recorded a profit of approximately 51 million won.
Shin Min-seok, general director of MapleStory World, said, “MapleStory World has been able to grow so far thanks to the creators who are actively working and the users who eagerly enjoy the content and leave feedback.” He added, “We sincerely thank you and will do our best in the future.” “We plan to do our best, so please give us a lot of interest and support for the official service on April 25th.”
