MapleStory Adventures was a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling social network game developed by the South Korean company Nexon for Facebook and launched in July 2011.
Although the gameplay was altered for the social networking conventions and includes freemium content, the main storyline of the game remained the same.
The game was composed of "quests", which usually consisted of killing a certain number of monsters and collecting various items dropped from their corpses.
As a player leveled up, they had the opportunity to use gold coins to purchase various pieces of equipment that increased their attack power in the game.
These gifts included a quantity of gold, consumables, or cosmetic clothing which did not increase attack power, and were for fashion only.
These included items that provide extra energy, keys to open mystery boxes, or objects that allowed them to access higher level skills.
[5] Closed beta keys were given to those who completed a survey on the MapleStory Adventures Facebook page within a designated period.
[7] The title became the fastest growing Korean social game by surpassing 3,000,000 monthly active users just seven weeks into its open beta.