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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2015.15.3.97

A Case Study on World of Warcraft Storytelling's Positive Emotion-inducing Effects  

Lee, Jae Hong (Major in Creative Writing, school of Creative Arts, Soongsil University)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.15, no.3, 2015 , pp. 97-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
Game is the latest type of Gesamtkunstwerk encompassing humanistic and engineering creativity. Nevertheless, Korea's game industry faces a crisis. The purpose of this study is to consider positive emotion-inducing effects as a way to deal with it. Among others, storytelling of , one of the most representative MMORPG games in the world, was selected for the study on various positive emotion-inducing effects. In the story of , the view of the world, characters and incidents are vital to the game and the study is focused on their emotion-inducing effects among the users based on actual examples. As a result, it was confirmed that the positive emotion-inducing storytelling would provide a possibility to reduce negative sentiment towards games, address crisis Korea's game industry faces, and interact with gamers in a positive direction.
Keywords
World of Warcraft; positive emotion-inducing effects; storytelling; the view of the world; characters; incidents;
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