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"Smilegate" is Korea's leading game developer and publisher. Smilegate has tens of millions of users around the world with its FPS “CrossFire” and MMORPG “Lost Ark”.

Smilegate is developing and serving various online and mobile games on its own, but on the other hand, it is focusing on revitalizing Korea's indie game market by creating an indie game platform.

Indie game is a combination of indie and games that are often used in the field of culture and art. Indie game means an original game that does not depend on other commercial capital. It refers to a creative game that game developers make as they want to make.

Smilegste Stove, a subsidiary of Smilegste, is pursuing Korea's leading indie game publisher. This company uses the Indie Games Platform called 'Stove Indie' to support the success of Indie Games not only in Korea but also around the world.

Stove Indie is only two years old. Stove Indie introduces high-quality Korean indie games overseas and converts high-quality indie games overseas into Korean. Stove Indie is gaining popularity among indie game users because it is launching various indie games without a break.

Stove Indie is constantly communicating with indie game developers around the world. Stove Indie is also a bridge that strives to connect with users, makes goods on its own, and delivers them overseas across the sea.

There are many indie game developers in Korea. These developers dream of developing original games that will become popular around the world every day. Stove Indie is a platform that gives hope to many of these indie game developers.

Simply creating profits through indie game publishing is not the goal of Smilegste Stove. The company aims to expand the Korean indie game ecosystem and revitalize the Korean indie game market, ultimately expanding the base of Korean-style indie games. This is what Smilegate eventually contributes to the development of the Korean game market.

In fact, there are many online game developers and developers in Korea. In the field of indie games, there are many developers with excellent original ideas in Korea.

In this regard, it is very meaningful that Smilegste Stove is providing full support for Korean indie game developers through the indie game platform "Stove Indie." Stove Indie will also offer a huge opportunity for indie game developers around the world. This is because Stove Indie is easily accessible compared to “Steam” in the United States and other indie game platforms.

Stove Indie will release a beautiful girl love simulation game “Love in, Login” in December. Stove Indie, which has consistently released indie games, is releasing another anticipated movie. 

“Love in, Login” is an indie game based on a web novel by “Novelpia”. The genre of this game is a growth simulation game based on a love story in which male and female characters who meet in the game live together.

"Love in, Login" is the main mission of the game company's employees Sung-hyun and illustrator Da-hye, who are game friends, to embrace each other's wounds and grow into members of society in the novel game "Billion Saga."

The original work of 'Love in, Login' is webtoon, which began serialization in April 2022. This work is very well received by webtoon readers for its psychological description using figurative expressions. Smilegste Stove has signed a license agreement with the game's original operator Metacraft and will exclusively serve the game through Stove Indie.

Stove Indie will continue to disclose information about the game and various contents by opening a community page for the game in advance ahead of the release of "Love in, Login" in December. Stove Indie will also hold various promotions for fans of the romance simulation genre and readers of the original novel before its release in December.

The final goal of Stove Indie's management team, which is trying to expand Korea's indie game ecosystem, is to establish Stove Indie as a necessary platform in the indie game market.

An official of Stove Indie's operation team said, "Stove Indie is a unique and novel platform that replaces everything so that developers can focus only on creating games."

He said, "If the games are too commercial, creativity or diversity decreases. Then the new game doesn't come out well. I think the game market will develop only when game developers pursue diversity. In this regard, I think Stove Indie will be recognized as a very interesting platform by indie game developers around the world."