![]() ![]() In June 2014, less than a year after the release of Disney Infinity, Super Mario developer Nintendo officially announced amiibo, yet another toys-to-life platform that uses NFC technology to allow physical figurines to interact with supported video game software. ![]() Following the success of Infinity 1.0, Avalanche released two sequels, Disney Infinity 2.0 and Disney Infinity 3.0, with 3.0 being the most well-received of the three. Like Skylanders, Infinity utilized collectible toy characters by making them playable in-game via NFC. Although it received slightly-less positive reviews than Spyro's Adventure, it was praised for its open-world sandbox (Toy Box) mode, which was adapted from the successful mode of the same name from Toy Story 3. While most critics didn't care for the story mode, they praised the Toy Box mode, with sites like Eurogamer calling it "more entertaining and better realized than the 'proper' movie-based levels." This all led to Disney Interactive's president at the time, John Pleasants, challenging Avalanche to dream up their "biggest idea," and the team responded with the creation of Disney Infinity.ĭisney Infinity (also known as Disney Infinity 1.0) was released in 2013 as a competitor to Activision's Skylanders. Apart from the game's story mode, which followed the events of the film, the game included a Toy Box mode in which players could freely roam a fully-customizable western town. In 2010, Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software released Toy Story 3, a platformer game based on the film of the same name. The developer would go on to release five more Skylanders titles after that, along with over 100 Skylander toys. It was a unique idea for its time, and many reviews praised the game's use of innovative technology when it was finally released in 2012 under the name Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. The Portal of Power would scan an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip embedded into the base of a Skylander, and then that character would appear in-game. The team then developed over 30 toy characters called Skylanders and the "Portal of Power," a device that used NFC (near-field communication) to import the toys into the game.
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