FOR CREATORS

The future of digital simulation does not belong solely to centralized development teams or pre-scripted experiences. As platforms evolve, the boundary between player and creator continues to dissolve. Within this shift, Hot Spring positions creators not as a supplementary audience but as a foundational force behind its ecosystem expansion.

Rather than focusing only on delivering polished, top-down game content, Hot Spring is constructed around the belief that simulation becomes truly alive when individuals are granted the agency to compose, modify, and extend the world itself. Creators are recognized as the driving entity behind emotional personalization, design-based storytelling, and modular world development.

In traditional environments, content is often consumed in linear fashion. By contrast, the Cozy World model is structured to invite active contribution across multiple points of expression from visual asset design to simulation logic definition. The result is a participatory architecture where the world reflects accumulated creativity rather than closed authorship.

This orientation enables several structural advantages:

• Evolving personalization: Customized characters, objects, and environments reinforce emotional attachment, increasing time spent and frequency of return

• Distributed innovation: Content generation scales beyond core teams, allowing fresh formats, mechanics, and aesthetics to emerge organically

• Intellectual property co-creation: Simulation no longer relies on a single IP vision; instead, it becomes a generative universe shaped by collective intent and expression

• Ecosystem stickiness: Asset interoperability and multi-title relevance encourage ongoing participation across the entire platform

Creative activity in Hot Spring is facilitated through accessible tooling and interoperable infrastructure. Content that begins as simple furniture or avatar design can evolve into game logic, progression structures, and community-driven events. Through this pathway, the creator identity transforms from hobbyist to architect, from contributor to ecosystem shaper.

By embedding creation directly into the simulation experience, Hot Spring reframes play as authorship, interaction as iteration, and world-building as a shared process. The outcome is not a static metaverse, but a living simulation environment defined by emotional continuity and ongoing co-creation.

The Long-Term Vision for Builders

Hot Spring aims to cultivate a creator-first environment where:

• Players become designers of their own IP

• Communities co-create with and inspire each other

• The ecosystem continuously evolves through user contributions