• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.2467-2470
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• 2002

사용자의 필요를 충족시켜 줄 수 있도록 사용자에 대한 연구가 인터넷 비즈니스에서 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 인터넷 비즈니스와 마찬가지로 컴퓨터 게임 산업 분야에서도 이러한 연구가 필요하다. 하지만 컴퓨터 게임의 특성상 기존의 인터넷 비즈니스 방식과 같은 방법으로는 게이머(Gamer)의 행동을 알기 어렵다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 본 논문에서는 패킷 마이닝(Packet Mining)을 이용한 게이머의 행위 분석 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 이 시스템은 게이머들과 시스템 사이에 전달된 패킷을 수집하여 프로토콜별 텍스트 형태로 저장하고, 일정 시간이 흐르면 텍스트 형태로 저장된 패킷을 데이터베이스로 생성한다. 게이머 행위 분석 시스템은 이렇게 생성된 데이터베이스를 분석하고, 다양한 정보를 추출해내어 게이머의 행위를 분석한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.109-119
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• 2012

MMORPG online game business has emerged as the most lucrative entertainment industry, with over 10 million gamers in South Korea. It appears that in this extremely attractive and growing services segment, academics, as well as practitioners, would benefit from investigating the relationships among the players' attachment or affection, game contents-related and social interaction-related construct. We assume that game contents-related construct consists of storytelling, game-play method, contents-diversity and the sense of identification, and that social interaction-related construct includes information-sharing, gamers' empowerment and the word-of-mouth. Based on data collected from online questionnaire survey, the validity of the research model has been tested. The results show that contents-related construct influences the players' attachment, and that social interaction-related construct has no direct impact on the attachment. But social interaction-related construct has been shown to influence contents-related construct, implying the indirect impact on the players' attachment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.95-103
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• 2022

This study aims to understand a gamer participatory mechanism by comparing Gamer Participation 1.0(Bartz Liberation War) and Gamer Participation 2.0(Truck Demonstration). The process of gamers' political participation is analyzed by applying the communication-mediated O-S-O-R model with the case of gamers' truck protests caused by probability items' issue. This study found out that changes in the social, technological, and discursive layers that constitute the gamer's communication ecology led to diversification of communication channels and changes in the perception of games. Gamers utilized the technological layer of the media environment that presupposes immediate mutual communication, expressed opinions on issues in the mobilization process, and shared the necessity of participation to derive collective mobilization. Through communication, gamers were able to participate in socio-political issues with high participation thresholds. This study is significant in that it discussed the gamers' democratic citizenship and role as issue publics. The study suggests that the need for theoretical and methodological expansion to analyze various participatory cases.

• 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 Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1033-1041
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• 2018

This study presents an investigation into game patterns prominent in mobile games. The term "pattern" used in this study is inherited by the concept used in "A study for user experience of the game : based on the pattern type and the pattern type attribute of the game space" by Gwak E Sac(2016). There is, however, a difference between them. While the previous study limited the gamers' experience patterns to "game spaces" in the use of "pattern," the present study expanded the scope of gamers' experience patterns to the "mobile game market." Although the mobile game market is growing rapidly, there is a tendency of uniformity in mobile games due to the reduction of development time and the destruction of genres in the development of mobile games. Recognizing this situation, the investigator summarized experience patterns in the current mobile game market into: repeat familiar game play, valuable game action, value and consumption of time and preference and selection of game.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.131-139
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• 2020

Gamers switch their games to a new when get bored or encounter more attractive ones. Switching cost varies by gamers and depends on how they are satisfied with their current game. This study evaluates the satisfaction with current games as the miltiple basic psychological need in the self-determination theory and suggests 'needs-costs' causality research model that explain the variety of gamer's switching behavior. As the empirical test to domestic mobile gamers, the autonomy fulfillment to current game affect reversely with those of autonomy and relatedness. Those relationships between need satisfaction and perceptual switching cost vary according to their age and game genre preference. The results would be applied to understand gamers' switching behavior.

• 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.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.305-308
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• 2003

요즘 사람들이 많이 즐기는 전략 게임은 전략 시뮬레이션이라는 말이 무색할 정도로 장르가 가지는 특성 을 이행하지 못하고 있다. 그래서 게이머들은 별다른 전략 없이 쉽게 컴퓨터를 상대로 쉽게 게임을 승리 할 수 있게 됐다. 이것은 게임의 재미를 크게 반감시키는 한 요인이 된다. 전략 게임의 컴퓨터 플레이어에게 상황 판단과 학습 능력을 갖게 하면, 게이머가 보다 재미있게 컴퓨터와 대전을 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 인공지능을 가지는 컴퓨터 플레이어에 사용될 Default 추론 엔진과 컴퓨터 플레이어의 작전과 행동을 결정하기 위한 action & strategy generator 시스템을 연구한다. Default 추론 엔진은 귀납적 학습방법을 통 해서 컴퓨터 플레이어가 추론 및 학습을 할 수 있는 정보를 생성하게 된다. 이렇게 생성된 정보를 바탕으로 컴퓨터 캐릭터의 행동과 전략을 결정한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 전략 게임에 인공 지능으로 machine leaning 기법 중의 하나인 decision Tree 틀 사용하였다. decision Tree를 적용하여 기존 컴퓨터 플레이어의 행위와 어떻게 다른지 차별성을 밝혀내고, 컴퓨터 플레이어가 향상된 전략을 구사할 수 있게 하는 것이 주된 목표다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.4 s.143
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• pp.84-86
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• 2005

난무하는 온라인 스포츠게임 중에‘피파 2005 온라인’은 그 존재감만은 확실한 게임이다. 게이머들은 10년 동안 피파 시리즈가 쌓아놓은‘보장된 재미’에 최신 온라인 기술이 만나 제법 그럴싸한‘센세이션’을 불러일으킬 것이라 생각했다. 하지만 이런 기대는 시작부터 어긋났다. 지금의 피파 2005 온라인은 패키지게임도 아닌, 그렇다고 온라인게임도 아닌 엉뚱한 돌연변이 게임으로 변해 버렸다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.85-96
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• 2008

Recently, research on augmented games as a new game genre has attracted a lot of attention. An augmented game overlaps virtual objects in an augmented reality(AR) environment, allowing game players to interact with the AR environment through manipulating real and virtual objects. However, it is difficult to release existing augmented games to ordinary game players, as the games generally use very expensive and inconvenient 'backpack' systems: To solve this problem, several augmented games have been proposed using mobile devices equipped with cameras, but it can be only enjoyed at a previously-installed location, as a ‘color marker' or 'pattern marker’ is used to overlap the virtual object with the real environment. Accordingly, this paper introduces an augmented game, called augmented galaga based on traditional well-known galaga, executed on mobile devices to make game players experience the game without any economic burdens. Augmented galaga uses real object in real environments, and uses scale-invariant features(SIFT), and Euclidean distance to recognize the real objects. The virtural aliens are randomly appeared around the specific objects, several specific objects are used to improve the interest aspect, andgame players attack the virtual aliens by moving the mobile devices towards specific objects and clicking a button of mobile devices. As a result, we expect that augmented galaga provides an exciting experience without any economic burdens for players based on the game paradigm, where the user interacts with both the physical world captured by a mobile camera and the virtual aliens automatically generated by a mobile devices.