Smilegate Named “Good Game Environment Creator” at Korea Game Awards 2… 2024-11-25

■ Smilegate Megaport highly evaluated for efforts to create healthy game service environment and creator ecosystem 

■ Stoveindie contributing to establishment of creator ecosystem that supports independent game creators, prime movers of game industry

Smilegate announced on the 13th (Wed.) that it had won of the Good Game Environment Creator Award at the Korea Game Awards 2024 held at BEXCO, Busan.

Good Game Environment Creator is a new award category launched this year to help create a healthy game service environment and select and promote companies that have led shared growth and cooperation for the development of the game industry.

Smilegate has been striving to support independent game creators by operating Stove Store, an open global ESD platform for both creators and users. The company won the award for its efforts to activate a healthy game ecosystem by establishing, expanding and supporting the unique creator ecosystem Stoveindie. 

Stoveindie has been in operation in the Stove Store since 2019. The aim is to develop it into a platform that will promote shared growth among game creators and users by supporting game creators in the entire process of game creation from development to launch and offering users benefits according to their community activities along with opportunities to experience demo versions. Currently, approximately 2,000 games including demo versions produced by developers in 46 countries around the world are being distributed on Stoveindie. 

The only game service provider in Korea, Smilegate has been qualified as an independent rating classification business entity by the Game Rating and Administration Committee since 2022. With this qualification, Smilegate not only alleviates independent game creators of the burden of rating reviews and maintains the appropriateness of the independent rating classification service by strictly complying with the matters that must be observed by game companies, but also contributes to creating a healthy game culture.

“Moving forward, we will provide unsparing support to domestic and international independent game creators, who are the basis and prime mover of the game industry, to help them achieve success through the unique creator ecosystem of Stoveindie,” said Smilegate Megaport senior vice president Sung-yul Yang at the award ceremony. “We will continue in our efforts to develop Korea’s game industry and create a good game environment,” he added.