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A Comparative Analysis on The Age and Gender of Player Character : Focusing on The USA and Japanese Video Games

미국과 일본 게임의 플레이어 캐릭터 나이와 성별 비교 분석

  • 남기덕 (상명대학교 일반대학원 게임학과) ;
  • 윤형섭 (중국 길림애니메이션대학교)
  • Received : 2017.06.21
  • Accepted : 2017.08.10
  • Published : 2017.08.20

Abstract

A player character has a significant influence on immersion. In order to understand the consumers, it is necessary to compare age and gender of player characters, which is the most basic feature of the player character. We selected a prize winning work of 15 years of USA and japanese as research subjects(in RPG and Adventure), classified age and gender of player characters and analyzed the result. In the japanese games, the ratio of pre-set player characters was 94.3% for age and 88.6% for gender. In the USA games, It was the order of the pre-set character which did not specify the age and the customized type character. In this research, we would like to contribute guidelines for player character setting to successfully advance into the USA and Japanese game market.

게임 플레이어 캐릭터는 사건의 중심에 있으며 몰입에 지대한 영향을 미친다. 미국과 일본 게임 시장의 소비자를 이해하기 위해 플레이어 캐릭터 기초 특성인 나이와 성별을 비교분석할 필요가 있다. RPG와 어드벤처 장르에서 미국과 일본의 15년간 게임어워드 수상작을 연구대상으로 선정하여 나이와 성별을 분류하고 비교분석하였다. 일본 게임은 나이와 성별을 명시한 설정된 캐릭터 비율이 94.3%, 88.6%로 압도적으로 높았으나 미국 게임은 나이를 명시하지 않고 설정된 캐릭터가 가장 높았다. 본 연구는 미국과 일본 게임의 플레이어 캐릭터 나이와 성별에 설정에 차이가 있다는 점을 인식하게 하고 플레이어 캐릭터 설정의 가이드라인이 되어 게임 디자인 발전에 기여하고자 한다.

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