• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.43-47
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• 2004

Fast games such as first person shooting games and action games gives notiming surplus to analyze both states of enemys and my status normally. Behavioral of enemy characters in these games are generally produced by patterns. However It was weekpoints of exposure of patterns when gamers try many times. In this paper, we study the new patterns of enemy characters after analysing patterns of gamers

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.269-272
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 현재 게임의 트렌드인 멀티플레이어 게임과 그것을 즐기는 게이머간의 그룹 구성 문제점을 분석하고 실시간 그룹 구성 시스템을 활용한 애플리케이션을 개발하여 해결하는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 다양한 플랫폼에서 애플리케이션을 지원하기 위해 플랫폼에 독립적인 언어인 자바(JAVA)를 사용하여 PC뿐만이 아니라 웹, 모바일에서도 쉽게 이식할 수 있도록 하였다. 이 시스템은 코로나19의 장기화로 멀티플레이어 게임이 기하급수적으로 늘어나고 있는 상황에서 멀티플레이어 게임을 더욱 편리하게 즐길 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.23-33
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• 2009

This study aims to uncover the gamers' cognitive process during the gameplay and explore the differences between groups in the gamers' playing behavior according to their expertise: experts, intermediate players, and novices. To this end, the empirical experiment was conducted in 'World of Warcraft' game which is a good representative of MMO(Massively Multi-player Online) game currently. Verbal protocol and action protocol collected from the empirical experiment were analyzed according to the gamers' expertise. As a result of this study, we found that the different behavior patterns result from standardizing pattern of their actions for experts and forming the learning curves and the specific patterns of action for intermediate game players and novices. While three functional-actions as a collection action concentrates on the early stage of the game for experts, the novices' behavior pattern dispersedly appeared in all seven functional-action, such as search, combat, three type collections, avoid, and communication in the whole gameplay. This study represents the consistency and the difference derived from the comparison analysis between groups according to the expertise. This study is concluded with key implications to support game design guidelines according to experts, intermediate players, and novices. Consequently, the result of this study provides the basic to the development of MMO content for game novices.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.125-134
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• 2007

There have been many researches on the characteristics of item trade. However, most researches were done by carrying out a survey and there has been few researches by analyzing the economy in online games. So, this article studied the cause of item trade by looking into the supply and demand of items in online games. The results shows that item trade is taking place mostly among only a few number of gamers who enjoy enchanting and who engage in castle sieges and blood pledge battles. The proportion of item trade by general garners is not so big. And major item providers are gold farms, not garners. Therefore, item trade is mostly carried out by a large number of garners who trade a small amount of sum and by a small number of heavy garners who trade large amount of sum. Understanding this characteristic of item trade would be a good ground for reviewing the policies and social effect regarding item trades.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.484-495
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• 2004

In this paper appears that in this extremely attractive and growing services segment, academics, as well as practitioners, would benefit from investigating the relationships among the players' loyalty, word of mouth and flow, and the impacts of several other key game-related constructs on consumer behavioral intentions. A conceptual framework is proposed and a structural equation model is developed. This paper develops the exploratory LISREL model for identifying the factors affecting the players' loyalty for some specific brand of online games. The concept of flow, feedback, challenge, etc, are all introduced into the model, as the independent variables affecting the loyalty directly and indirectly. Statistical results show that depending upon the types of games, the configuration of structural equation model is a little different from each other, but overall results are very much intuitive in that challenge positively enforces flow, and flow strengthens loyalty. Other interesting results concerning game development strategy are also provided. It is hoped that this result might provide the useful guidelines for developing the successful online game contents. With a better understanding of the players' behavioral intentions, online game developers should be able to make adjustments in their development and marketing plans, providing them with a sustainable advantage over their competition.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.55
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• pp.100-118
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the meaning of cultural practices of videogame audience with 'mod'. Videogame audience members are recognized as very active and interactive beings compared with other interpretive media audience members. Especially mod is one of the most dramatic cultural situation of videogame. It's very prominent properties are 'activity' and 'interactivity'. Videogame audience members, so called 'gamers' modify videogame software as their own sake and use it as their own intention. Modifying and playing with videogame, or 'modding' is very strong cultural program of gamer. Mod is one of avant-garde technology but its practice is not always radical. I observed practices of the members of Naver cafe 'Elderscroll' playing . They used mods of for their phallocentric desire. And they construct a hierarchical and top-dowon membership. So advanced technology and cultural media and text from it does not assure the same advanced contents.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.15-24
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• 2014

Semiotics studies the structures and systems of all signs related to human life, thus being capable of analyzing games. "Playing games" can be deemed as an act of reading or interpreting games semiotically, which makes game producers "senders," games "texts," gamers "receivers," and gamers playing games "contexts." Since most games are in the multi-variable narrative format, however, it is not a frequent case that gamers interpret games in the ways intended by producers. This study thus set out to analyze and interpret the console game (2001) remembered as the same evaluation by many gamers in the way intended by the producer. For analysis, the study defined its story program by analyzing the plot and sequence. For semantic analysis, the study applied the Actor Model and the Semiotic Square Model to interpret . The process identified such codes as confrontation, assistance, collaboration, and control and confirmed that Ico and Yorda, non-subject characters, were transforming into subject ones. That is, tells a story of the main characters that used to lead a non-subject life earning lives of their own.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.403-411
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• 2021

While there is no apparent gender difference on the number of game players and playing time in market survey especially if the age group is under 30, there still exists a strong gender stereotype on female characters with sexual objectification especially in team based battle games. Furthermore, there seldom exists any research on female gamers in this genre. In this paper, we investigate the preference of female characters and reasons of their choice among female gamers with Overwatch and Cypers which are recognized as having enough female players. In Overwatch with 231 responses, subjects prefer 'girl-crush' characters such as non-sexual Ana who age is in 60s. However, in Cypers that does not have female warrior character, subjects' preference is more affected by appearance but those characters with less functional ability are not frequently used in playing. Such practical avatar choice is often discovered among male players thus there is no gender difference in this case.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.394-396
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• 2002

'분산 모의훈련 전장환경'은 실제 또는 가상전쟁, 전투 등 군사 상황을 묘사하기 위해, 둘 또는 그 이상의 적대 세력간에 발생하는 군사적 상황을 게임규칙, 자료 및 절차를 사용하여 모의하는 군사작전 게임(war game)을 의미한다. 이는 컴퓨터와 네트워크를 이용한 '합성 가상 전장환경'에서 구현되는데, 특성상 다수의 게이머와 게이머, 게이머와 객체, 객체들간에 네트워크를 통한 빈번한 메시지 송.수신을 통한 정보를 교환하고 실시간으로 상호동작 한다. 즉, '합성 가상 전장환경'의 구현을 위해서는 신뢰성과 실시간성을 보장하는 다자간 통신의 보장이 핵심을 이룬다. 그러나, 일반 인터넷상의 브로드캐스팅 기술을 적용할 경우, 가상전장환경에서 폭주하는 통신량을 실시간으로 처리하기엔 어려운 문제점이 있다. 따라서 '합성 가상전장가상환경'의 보다 효과적인 구현을 위해서는 고신뢰 실시간 다중 그룹통신 기술의 개발이 요구된다. 본 논문은 그룹통신 개념에 기반하여 가상 합성 전장 환경에 적용할 수 있는 효율적인 전송 서비스를 위한 네 가지 전송 알고리즘을 제시하며, API 설계를 통해 서비스를 구현한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.37-45
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• 2010

This study examines the characteristics of screen image of 3D first-person shooting games and the newly created subjectivity by that image. 3D first-person shooting games create immersion by remediating the visual experience in the real world. The construction of subjective perspectives and comparatively clear interface are the important features of 3D first-person shooting games. The subjectivity created by this games' image is different from the subjectivity constructed by suture of film. Gamers have the dominant position of the subject of looking, gaming and narrating, but the narrating position is never permanent nor stable. Because the position has the limited sight of first-person, not the comprehensive sight of third-person.