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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2015.15.1.35

Study of User Generated Rules on Online game - focused on League of Legends -  

Lyou, Chul-Gyun (Division of Digital Media in Ewha Womans University)
Park, Miri (Division of Digital Media in Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.15, no.1, 2015 , pp. 35-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze user-generated rules in online games and to define the way of players' identities are developed. This study focuses on the online game League of Legends, which originated from use map system. Based on rule theory, this study analyzes the characteristics of user-generated rules. As the result, this study proves that the main rule of online game is not the rules made by developers, but the emergent rules made by players. Through rule-detection and rule-selection process, user-generated rules change the game system. Therefore, the result of this study expects to show meaningful roles of players in game system.
Keywords
on-line game rule; User Generated Rules; League of Legends; player identity;
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