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    [Excellent Game of the Month Indie Game in the first half of 2022]
    Selected as ‘Love is… Emotional Healing Hidden Objects’

    By Editorial Team2022년 06월 02일Updated:2022년 08월 30일4 Mins Read
    • Awarded the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award, and automatically registered as a candidate for the 2022 Korea Game Awards
    • Following the App Store pre-order feature, the new Top feature, Google Play Store global feature
    • Apple’s iPad topped the list of free games, followed by success in the early stages of marketing even before full-scale marketing

    Released on April 29th, ‘Love is… Emotional Healing Hidden Objects (hereafter Love is…)’ was finally selected in the indie game category of ‘Excellent Game of the Month in the first half of 2022’ .

    The Korea Creative Content Agency announced on the 3rd that ‘Love is… Emotional Healing Hidden Objects’ was selected in the indie game category of ‘Excellent Game of the Month in the first half of 2022’ hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, The Games Daily, Electronic Newspaper, and Naver. .

    The winning works are finalized through written/presentation evaluation (80%) and user votes (20%) by an evaluation committee composed of industry experts based on evaluation items such as game planning/development/operation, game design, content competitiveness, and business performance capability. was selected

    The winners of the ‘Excellent Game of the Month in the first half of 2022’ will receive a medal from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and are automatically registered as candidates for the ‘2022 Korea Game Awards’. In addition, benefits such as online and offline publicity support through game-related media advertisement execution and event participation will be given.

    Achieved global feature triple crown in both major markets from the beginning of launch, “green light” for success

    ‘Love is… a mobile emotional healing art game developed by PlayApps and published by Lunosoft. ‘ was selected as Apple’s global pre-order feature even before its official release and drew attention.

    In addition, it was selected as a global top feature with its release at the end of April, and was also selected as a global feature on the Google Play Store in the third week of May, proving to the world the excellence of K-indie games. Currently, ‘Love is…’ is on the top of the iPad free game rankings, and it is also expected to be exposed at the top of the Apple App Store Today page around the world, raising expectations.

    The emotional healing element that utilizes the emotion of the original without stress is the main

    ‘Love is… ” popular factors include the sweet illustration and background music of the global star writer ‘Puong’, and the game play method that allows you to empathize with the emotional love story of the original, such as the effect of paint smearing at your fingertips when you find a hidden picture.

    From the beginning of development, ‘Love is… ‘ is designed in a structure that not only eliminates stress factors such as mission failure in the game, but also clears all missions without additional billing. The game’s only payment element, the ‘Remove Ads’ item, also includes 3 limited-edition wallpapers with the artist’s handwritten signature, and is permanently applied once purchased.

    User reaction is ‘positive’, pioneering new indicators of emotional healing game

    ‘Love is… User reaction to ‘ is also positive. Based on the Google Play Store, ‘Evaluation and Review’ has a score of 4.8, and more than 800 comments registered by users around the world are also praiseworthy. One overseas user said, “I play this game whenever I feel sad and depressed. ‘Love is… ‘ is a sweet and comfortable treatment,” he said with a thumbs up.

    A PlayApps official said, “Love is… is a game that excludes violence, sensationalism, and speculativeness and allows anyone of any age or gender to feel and heal the warm sensibility of the original without stress. -I want to promote the excellence of indie games.”

    ‘Love is… ‘ is a work that utilizes the original IP of the artist ‘Pooong’, a representative star illustrator and animator produced by Naver Grafolio. It is a hidden object game that heals emotions in a way.

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