• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.155-164
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• 2017

This study conducted to analyze the difference of perceived benefits, psychological well-being, exercise application attachment, and perceived exercise achievement according to the message frame provided in the mobile fitness game. Repeated Measure Design and Playtest methodologies were used for this research. As a result, when gain messages were shown, all factors were higher than the case of showing loss message. The results of this study emphasize that when persuasion messages need to be presented through a health functional game, gain messages can be more effectively delivered to the users of health functional game than loss messages.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.729-732
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• 2018

모바일 게임 산업의 발달로 많은 사용자들이 게임을 이용하면서, 그들의 만족감을 사용리뷰를 통해 드러낸다. 실제로 각 리뷰의 범주가 모두 다르지만 현재 구글 플레이 앱스토어(Google Play App Store)의 게임 리뷰 범주는 3가지로 매우 제한적이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 빠르고 정확한 고객의 요구를 필요로 하는 게임 소프트웨어의 특성을 고려하여 게임 리뷰를 입력했을 때, 게임의 운영 및 시스템에 맞도록 리뷰의 카테고리를 세분화하고 만족도를 분석하는 시스템을 개발한다. 제안 시스템은 인공신경망 모델인 CNN을 평점을 기반으로 훈련시켜 리뷰에 대한 만족도를 도출한다. 또한 Word2Vec을 이용해 단어들 간의 유사도를 구하고, 이를 활용한 단어 배열을 이용하여 가장 스코어가 높은 카테고리로 배정한다. 본 논문은 제안한 리뷰 만족도 및 카테고리 분류 시스템이 실제 효과적으로 리뷰를 보다 의미 있는 정보로써 제공할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.89-98
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• 2014

This study was accomplished to examine the relationship between the videogame player's perceived congruity and intention to game use, and to investigate the mediating effect of emotion as the psychological factor. Games for the research subject are confined to single player games on console or PC not online or mobile games to rule out human interaction. The results proposed that self and functional congruity have positive impact on intention to game use, and emotion is in the mediating effect of these relationships. Based on the results of the analysis, game producers have some implications for the game which is appropriate for the quality, the gamer's image, and the emotional aspect.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.1340-1346
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• 2018

There have been researches on game continuance intention based on consumer behaviour theory of management science. Such macro access of computer game analysis might be insufficient to draw valuable results due to complex subsystem structure of recent computer games. In this paper, we choose 'Blade and Soul' game that was first published in 2012 and has been within top 20 MMORPG in Korea but known as a 'long time users' only game'among game players recently. Three user groups - long loyalty, concentrated, casual - are classified based on their play history and play time per day of Blade and Soul. The first survey with 222 subjects revealed that the real strength of the game was not the combat - Dungeon, Arena, Battleground competition - but very cohesive game community Blade and Soul has. Thus, we conduct another survey on the game community issues among 148 long time users (over 3 years playing history) and analyze their traits and behaviour patterns.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.305-310
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• 2019

Survival horror games aim to seek cathartic psychological escapism from the framed fear or hostile environment. However, if the goal of the game playing is only "survival" against hostile environment, the motivation of such environment adaptive games may not be based on the framed fear. We may call such games as "environment adaptive survival games". In this paper, we analyze the contents of six such survival games that have large user groups in Steam platform based on the pilot survey. We extract 13 almost common fun elements that induce the fun of such games. An online user survey was conducted through multiple survival game cafe to investigate who play such games. There was no gender differences in playing time but females prefer constructing tools as a fun element and play puzzle and simulation games more than males. We found that survival games could be welcomed by female users under 30 years old if 'horror' element was minimized.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.187-197
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• 2022

This study examined the effects of game genre, news media with differing political ideologies, and game-related information sources on gamer issue participation by performing a hierarchical regression model, using an online survey on Korean gamers (N=1,362). As a result of the study, playing specific genres of games played a positive role in gamer issue participation. The group behavior or collective action for or against game regulation reported in the liberal/moderate media acted as a mobilization cue for readers and potentially encouraged gamers to take social action. But the conservative media, which used governmental organizations and interest groups as sources of information, had a negative impact on real-life participatory behavior. The biased journalism practice of the mass media on game-related social issues influenced gamers' social and political behavior through corrective action. This study is significant in empirically analyzing the relationship between political ideology, game genre, media use, and gamers' social participation. The current research suggests the improvement of game regulation policy and the need for theoretical and conceptual expansion of game research.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.35-42
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• 2012

Main focus of FPS game's play is securing vantage points in space based on specific theme and removing enemies. It could be more directly interacted with players' game space than other genres. This paper analyzes design patterns on FPS game of nine types consisted of three themes : past war, modern war, near future war, which is based on 10 different patterns of near future theme-oriented by Hullett and Whitehead. As an outcome, an important function of 'element of cover' was found additionally as a main pattern besides the 10 different patterns. And by analyzing its attributes, it is suggested the efficient way to use the 'cover' pattern for level-design. This result can be utilized as an empirical guideline for level-design of FPS games by theme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.227-229
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• 2019

Currently, people use game engines which is consist of essential elements(Graphic engine, Physics engine, Audio engine, UI system, Gameplay frameworks, etc) to develop video. This game engine is used for its own development, but usually it is used by renting a commercial engine. To be able to use such a game engine requires a lot of theoretical and functional education, but in a limited period of university education, it is impossible to deal with various game engines in game art colleges, not general engineering universities. This paper will compare and analyze the characteristics, and merits and demerits of these two kinds of Game engines (Unity and Unreal engine), and showed the result of analyses about the fact that educating which of the above 2 Game engines are helpful and beneficial for the students for the efficient education in the Art college where should teach much in the limited time.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.79-92
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• 2015

The trend in the domestic MMORPG online game market is on decline because of the change in customers attitude and the advent of mobile or foreign games. The underlying cause of depressed domestic game market is that it has been failing to provide quality service arising from not revising existing game design. For this reason, this paper sets out to gather game users' opinions and to analyze successful domestic and foreign games comparatively to approve the importance and necessity of scenario development and to solve current problems in the MMORPG market. As one solution, this paper proposes a new design method, TIME FLOW scenario technique. This technique aims to establish a system in which story and environment change as time progresses and thus can provide different contents to its users over time. It is expected to enable a new frame for game design environment and to restructure education environment for human resource cultivation.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.7-16
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a method for effectively detecting specific behavior. The proposed method detects outlying behavior based on the game players' characteristics. These characteristics are captured non-invasively in a general game environment and add keystroke based on repeated pattern. In this paper, cameras were used to analyze observed data such as facial expressions and player movements. Moreover, multimodal data from the game players was used to analyze high-dimensional game-player data for a detection effect of repeated behaviour pattern. A support vector machine was used to efficiently detect outlying behaviors. We verified the effectiveness of the proposed method using games from several genres. The recall rate of the outlying behavior pre-identified by industry experts was approximately 70%. In addition, Repeated behaviour pattern can be analysed possible. The proposed method can also be used for feedback and quantification about analysis of various interactive content provided in PC environments.