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On December 11th, Infinite Warmth announced that it had been nominated for the 2024 Game of the Year by IGN Imagine Games Network, one of the world’s largest gaming and entertainment media outlets, stirring up quite a bit of excitement in the gaming industry at the end of the year.

Infinite Warmth Nominated for IGN Game of the Year 2024

A week before the nomination, that is, on December 5, this Warm Up IP sequel was officially released after a gap of 5 years, synchronously landing on iOS Android PC PS5 and other platforms, which aroused widespread attention.

In addition to the consistent dress-up gameplay, Infinite Warmth also has a pioneering combination of dress-up and open world, in addition to platform jumping as the core gameplay, but also the introduction of puzzle games and photo taking and other characteristics of the game, the game of the sea of flowers Dream Warehouse Prayer Woods and other scenes once became the players scrambled to take pictures of the resort.

In order to realize such a breakthrough, the development team of Infinite Warmth will be regarded as a 3A masterpiece standard UE5 that is the Unreal Engine 5 used as the game development engine, and the project team size has reached a thousand people.

In the previous test phase, unlimited warmth global reservation number up to more than 30 million people, set a new paper new game reservation record. After the public test, infinite warmth, in addition to the IGN 2024 best game nomination, but also achieved IGN rating 9 points, MC average score of 81 good results, in addition, the day the game was launched, infinite warmth not only smoothly on Japan and other places of the X Twitter hot search and the Japanese downloads list first, but also in Europe and the United States of America British area German area are successfully among the top ten of the PlayStation list of new games. The game also ranked in the top ten of PlayStation’s new game list in the US, UK, Germany and Europe.

IGN rated Unlimited Warmth 9 out of 10.

How to realize a big world full of fantastic details?

Wearing her signature pink hair and a gorgeous dress, Warmth runs along a sunny flowery path with a lithe figure and a shadow swaying behind her. Pulling the camera closer, you can also see the clear texture of the clothing, so much so that the player can actually recognize the material of the character’s clothing. These are all scenes from Unlimited Warmth.

In Unlimited Warmth, Warmth for the first time came to the big world full of unknowns, in the vast continent of the miracle of free exploration, enriching the player’s experience at the same time, but also for the changes in the light Clothing material rendering puts forward a higher demand.

Based on this, in order to ensure a better game effect, the game development team had upgraded the game engine from UE4 to UE5 in April 2022, which was bound to face various challenges in the process.

Why did the Infinite Warmth development team still choose to upgrade the engine in the face of so many difficulties? The person in charge of Stacked Paper Games said that UE5 is better adapted to the mobile rendering pipeline, and both performance and new features have been greatly improved. Therefore, even if we face difficulties, we still have to overcome this challenge to ensure that the game can provide the best experience when it is launched.

It was worth it. UE5 features the Lumen dynamic global lighting system and the Nanite virtualized micro-polygon geometry system, which allows for a more vivid rendering of the changing effects of light, while allowing the game to run at a higher frame rate with guaranteed accuracy.

Unlimited Warmth in Koishi Shuda Village Scene

In addition, according to the person in charge of the technology of Unlimited Warmth, the technical team also focuses on some difficult presentations that are required by the game. For example, the suits in Unlimited Warmth have a large number of semi-transparent elements, which are conducive to presenting more exquisite and complicated clothing effects, and have gained a lot of players’ favor. However, matching translucent elements with other materials is a technical challenge. In order to better solve the problem of ordering translucent elements and other clothing, the game technology department has developed OIT Order Independent Transparency (OITIT), which perfectly solves the related problems.

For some clothes that need to show a floating effect, Infinite Warmth’s technical team also categorizes the texture of the clothes and flexibly applies the functions of bone physics and ChaosCloth fabric solving to present a more natural effect that conforms to the laws of physics. For example, the person in charge of the game said that the clothing with skirt support is a typical example, which is not as dynamic as fabric, but also has to make the effect in line with its physical dynamics. By utilizing the above solution, the game successfully achieves such a balance.

As a result, the game finally presents Nuan in fine clothing, dynamic and natural, to ensure the original image of Nuan at the same time, but also let her into the real wide open world.

Unlimited Warmth 5-star set Swan Fairytale

Unlimited Warmth has demonstrated an extremely competitive quality, and the game’s exquisite graphics have also set off a boom in players’ playing cards and second creation. It’s as if Warmth has come to my world. This degree of realism, whoever comes will fall in love with the miracle continent. In the social platform, a large number of players shared their little feelings during the game.

Infinite Warmth Screenshots of the game shown by players in social platforms

A worthy recognition of the opening of the frontier

In addition to the iteration of the game’s development engine, Infinite Warmth has also made a lot of breakthroughs in its gameplay.

First of all, this is the first time for Warmth to go into the open world for adventure. In this world, Warmth can freely explore and enjoy the real and ever-changing scenery, but also can use magic to fight with different magic monsters.

Secondly, while providing a variety of gameplay, the game development team has not forgotten to ensure the connection of various types of gameplay Unlimited Warmth On the basis of the original dress-up gameplay, by giving the clothes to the corresponding floating Purification function, to better integrate with the combat gameplay, and thus promote the players to smoothly and immersed in the Miracle continent in the adventure.

Beautiful scenes need to be recorded, so the game has set up a high degree of freedom in the photography function, Big Meow Camera, which can support the adjustment of focus, light, aperture, filters, and actions, and can also be used in conjunction with different weather and scenes to present different atmospheres and textures of the clothing, so that players can take creative and unique photos.

In Unlimited Warmth, with the help of your partner Meow, you can take great photos of Warmth!

On social media platforms, this feature has inspired many players’ desire to create and spread. Some netizens shared their own creations Nuan Nuan is wearing a set of purple and blue butterfly elements based on the princess dress, the skirt and butterfly wings similar to the layers in the Nuan Nuan periphery spread, and poetic with the text I do not know how many rounds of the sun and moon have changed, the story of the butterflies and the empty island do not know where to go, and even the witnesses of the past years have already been late. As the Queen was about to close her eyes for the last time, that familiar dream vision seemed to descend before her again. The note received 11,000 likes and resonated with many players.

It is worth noting that this time Infinite Warmth chose to log in on multiple ends to better present the quality of the game, so much so that when some old Warmth IP players saw the release of Infinite Warmth, their first reaction was My Warmth even made it to PS5?

From the choice of the game development engine, we can observe that the choice of the stacked paper game to some extent is also because the Unreal engine can achieve more extreme picture performance, and in the PC and host side to be able to perfectly present the game effect.

In order to adapt to the game’s extremely complex open-world scene and vegetation rendering, the Unlimited Warmth development team even researched a set of GPU-driven rendering solutions for PC and mobile platforms, and on the basis of this technology, Unlimited Warmth’s open-world scene has already realized the rendering of millions of pieces of vegetation on the same screen, which is infinitely close to the real.

These initiatives by the project team have increased the game’s playability and helped it develop and gain a foothold in the segmented track. The landing on PC and PS5 is a valuable accumulation of technology for Stacked Paper, and fills the gap between its PC and PS sides.

Unlimited Warmth Producer Yao Runhao once said in an internal letter We originally thought it would be difficult to make a breakthrough on the PC and PS platforms, which we are not good at, but in fact, from the point of view of the first day’s revenue, the domestic PC revenue is more than 50, and the revenue share of overseas PS PC is even as high as 80. Among them, laptops accounted for a large share.

In addition, in order to further enrich the game’s content and enhance the visual effects, the game’s development team has invited Kentaro Tomonaga, who has participated in the development of The Legend of Zelda series The Wind Wand The Twilight Princess The Sword in the Sky and other works, to serve as the game’s executive producer.

Kentaro Tominaga responded to why he chose to join the Unlimited Warmth production team in an exclusive interview with IGN, saying At first I was very surprised to hear that we were going to make a dress-up game and an open-world game, because there are many dress-up games and many open-world games, but I had never heard of combining these two styles of play.

Looking back at the evolution of the Warm Up IP series of games From 2D to 3D, from pure dress-up gameplay to today’s open-world, Stacked Paper Games has been on the road to breaking through and discovering more niche tracks.

Warmth, wearing the miracle suit Wishful Thinking Golden Rose, wanders in a field of flowers.

From the launch of the first game of the Warmth IP series in 2012, Warmth’s Dressing Story, to today’s infinite Warmth coming out of nowhere, stacked paper once again in the track fusion to achieve a breakthrough, Yao Runhao has a lot of feelings. We have insisted on twelve years, in the future a long, long time, we still have to go all out to return the trust of the players to meet the expectations of the players. Just like the letter Yao Yunhao wrote to the players, because this is Nuan Nuan, we want to do our best to pursue infinity.

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