FanSided spoke with MARVEL Future Fight’s Netmarble development director Minkyun Kim about the game’s development journey going into its third anniversary.

On the eve of MARVEL Future Fight’s third anniversary, development director Minkyun Kim spoke to FanSided on what’s made the title one of hottest sure-bet downloads on IOS and Android platforms. MARVEL Future Fight is home to a whopping 86 million-plus user base and its latest update gives way to new game mode Heroic Quest.

Alongside the mode are a Marvel fan favorite staple, new character uniforms, including Agent Venom’s Agent Anti-Venom uniform, Quicksilver’s Marvel Legacy uniform, and Medusa’s Monsters Unleashed uniform. MARVEL Future Fight introduced a Uniform Collection feature in its latest update, allowing players to collect and upgrade individual uniforms to gain special rewards. Hawkeye and Loki’s classic uniforms are part of the new game feature. Minkyun Kim told FanSided that the feature is still in its early stages, and will be further refined based on gradual user response.

FanSided.com [Nir Regev]: What was the development like for Marvel Future Fight?

Minkyun Kim: The development process for Marvel Future Fight is always quite enjoyable. We always have vigorous brainstorming sessions and vested effort for each update to make sure to provide a diverse profile of new content.

Sure, it gets hard sometimes, but we find joy and satisfaction in knowing that our work results in an assortment of fun new content for our users. We’ve also been giving a lot of ideas and support to the Marvel development team. I guess you could say our cooperative efforts with Marvel to make new and better game content is always on.

Can you elaborate more on new game mode, Heroic Quest, and how it came to be?

The Marvel Universe is extensive, with countless unique characters. We’ve put a lot of effort into making sure each Marvel character’s unique story is expressed distinctively within Marvel Future Fight. The main character for a certain update theme, characters that are out of the spotlight, putting the spotlight back on older characters… these were some areas we had to deliberate.

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The new Heroic Quest is a quest pack mode in which players will be playing through each unique story of the Marvel characters. Through this new Heroic Quest content, our goal is to have the players truly feel the depth and personality of each Marvel character’s storyline.

What’s it like celebrating the third anniversary of Marvel Future Fight? How do you feel the title has become more refined throughout the years?

First, I’d like to give sincere thanks to those who’ve supported Marvel Future Fight for the past 3 years. Original character releases, past issues, recent issues, the addition of X-Men and so on … there have been countless events that we’ve experienced together.

There have been some satisfactory, successful updates as there have also been some that have left everyone a little disappointed. As the game evolved and transformed with each update, so has the development team. We will continue to improve and better ourselves to continue to do the same for the game.

Were updates to the title always planned or were they dependent on downloads of the game first? Was it kind of a wait and see approach?

A significant amount of time and preparation is required for the development process. This means that we normally have the main direction for each update prepared in advance; with development for the next version in the works as a new version is released.

However, aside from our prepared plans and designs for each update, I believe any potential improvements for an update are crucial components for the growth of the game. We always have our ears open to user responses and feedback, which has become the foundation for determining and implementing such improvements as soon as we can.

Do you have data on what’s been the most popular in-game event?

Marvel Future Fight currently has over 160 Marvel characters. In addition, each character has various uniforms designed from their respective comics and movie versions. The uniform system serves as a mechanism that further accentuates the character’s distinctive identities.

Our meticulous designs combined with the unique skills and effects tied with each uniform have received a lot of love from our user base. From time to time, we open events where these uniforms go on sale with slashed prices, and each time we’ve seen overwhelmingly positive response from our users. We plan to continue to develop such appealing new uniforms and operate related discount events in the future!

What’s been the most requested Marvel character uniform for the Uniform Collection feature?

The Uniform Collection feature is one of the most recent additions to the game through the most recent update, so it’s still in its infant stage. Of course, we will continue to listen to our users to gradually develop and provide a better Uniform Collection.

Do you have any plans to bring the title to the Nintendo 3DS, Switch or Xbox One and PS4 consoles in some manner?

Our main focus right now is our current service on the mobile platform, and we do not have any plans for platform expansion as of now.

Download MARVEL Future Fight now on Apple’s App Store and Google Play! Learn more about MARVEL Future Fight over at the title’s official website.