• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.395-401
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• 2020

With the popularization of smartphones and the development of digital technologies, new concepts that maximize interactive communication have begun to appear in marketing strategies. One of them is the gamification marketing strategy that combines games with marketing that induces customer interest and voluntary participation. Gamification is a compound word of 'game' and '-fication', and marketing cases using game formats are being implemented in various fields. Therefore, this study will identify the implications of the usage of gamification that has become a trend, and analyze the gamification techniques and factors shown in various cases to suggest the direction of gamification as an effective marketing strategy. Companies are actively using gamification in their marketing strategies in a variety of forms and apply gamification techniques such as challenge, competition, accomplishment, reward, and relationship. As a result of the case analysis, important factors commonly identified in the gamification techniques used in marketing are 'Accomplishment' and 'Rreward'. Using various products and benefits obtained through solving a given mission or task as game elements, it was found to be an effective strategy to induce consumers' interest and participation and to promote consumption by encouraging consumers' immersion.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.472-477
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• 2008

온라인 게임은 국내뿐만 아니라 전세계적으로 선풍적인 인기를 끌고 있다. 국내 온라인 게임 시장규모가 영화산업의 규모를 뛰어넘으면서 게임 마케팅의 대상이 일부 게임 매니아에서 다양한 연령으로 확대되고 있다. 또한 시장규모의 확대로 다양한 개발사와 퍼블리셔가 출현하게 되었다. 온라인 게임 서비스 초기에는 게임 개발사가 게임에 대한 퍼블리싱도 같이 하는 경우가 많았으나, 차츰 개발과 퍼블리싱의 영역이 나눠지고 있는 추세다. 게임개발사는 새로운 아이디어를 기반으로 게임 개발에만 집중하고, 퍼블리셔는 안정적인 마케팅과 서비스에 최선을 다하는 모습을 보이고 있다. 게임산업의 핵심 축인 게임 개발사와 게임 퍼블리셔간에 어떠한 관계를 맺고 있는지 사회연결망이론을 통해 분석한 결과, 개발사와 게임 퍼블리셔간의 연결망이 일부 퍼블리셔에 집중되는 모습과 개발사가 퍼블리셔의 역할을 동시에 함으로써 다른 망과 연결되지 못하는 모습을 보였다. 또한, 게임종류별로 특화된 퍼블리셔가 존재하며, 일부 게임개발사는 여러 퍼블리셔와 연결되는 모습을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.27-36
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a win-win network operating platform for mobile games. The characteristics of the service structure suggested is to form a marketing network that can influence the mobile game market by linking with the mobile game industry, and the excellent game content of the game developer in the industrial complex may not disappear. We also would like to propose a network operating platform that would help it enter the market area steadily. The proposed platform technology is used to distribute rapidly through a win-win network between game companies and publishers. When new games are commercialized, they can support continuous target marketing through various data indicators and analytics by the developed platform. In particular, G-Cross marketing strategy is considered to be a low-cost, high-efficiency marketing method in that it can provide users with information about new games by utilizing the given game infrastructure and utilize the user group possessed by each game company.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.3-12
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• 2021

In this study, we verified the relationship of major variables that affect brand awareness, brand image and brand loyalty in the game industry. Six hypotheses for five variables were established and tested using K-BPI data. Distribution accessibility had the only significant effects on brand awareness, whereas marketing communication and distribution accessibility had significant effects on brand image. Only the brand image had a significant effect on brand loyalty. Brand communication to improve brand image and distribution to promote experiential marketing seem to be important.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.133-144
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• 2015

This study aims to establish the concepts of overindulgence and addiction and present proposals on game policies and marketing for game companies by identifying relationship among game product loyalty, game company loyalty, and game company profitability from the psychological viewpoint (game overindulgence and addiction) of online and mobile gamers. Accordingly, this study has the following implications. First, government should realize the fact even gamers are confused over differences in such concepts concerning game and have processes to reestablish game overindulgence and game addiction and follow policies to establish such images. Second, loyalty to game products should be enhanced by highlighting the features to buy items and additional contents through game networks as well as features to share contents and records generated within games for those with overindulgence. Moreover, companies should strengthen publicity to increase loyalty to game companies. Conversely, the focus should be on game product image rather than corporate image. Third, game companies should engage in strategies for the game's direction, development, and marketing to establish positive brand based on game products and help become the brand of the corporation itself. Fourth, there is a necessity to increase gamers and study their satisfaction rate based on game development and efficient marketing.

• 한국게임학회지
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.17-21
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• 2014

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.147-159
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• 2022

Nowadays, various social media platforms are widely spread and people closely use such platforms in daily life. By doing so, social influencers with a large number of subscribers, views, and comments have huge impact in our society. Following this trend, many companies are actively using influencers for marketing purpose to promote their products and services. In this study, we extract the speeches of influencers from videos for game marketing and analyze them using various text mining techniques. In the analysis, we distinguish game videos leading to successful marketing and failed marketing, and we explore and compare the linguistic features of the influencers for successful and failed marketings.

• Digital Contents
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• no.2 s.117
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• pp.82-87
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• 2003

한국소프트웨어진흥원 주최로 지난 2002년 12월 3일부터 4일까지 개최된 '글로벌 게임 컨퍼런스 2002'에서 발표된 미국 게임시장 마케팅 분석 보고서이다. The Yangkee Group의 시니어 애널리스트 마이클 굿맨이 발표한 자료를 번역 게재한다. 국내에서는 온라인 게임의 폭발적 성장에 묻혀 큰 영향력을 발휘하지 못하고 있는 콘솔 게임 분야이지만, 향후 '홈 엔터테이먼트'의 중심에 서게 될 '콘솔 게임' 시장에 대한 깊이 있는 분석이 주목할 만하다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.234-236
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• 2015

현재 국내 게임시장은 모바일게임이 주도해가고 있으면서 10조원이 넘는 시장규모를 보이고 있다. 국내의 게임업체들은 온라인게임과 모바일게임을 개발하여 지속적으로 출시하고 있는 특징이 현재 게임시장의 모습니다. 게임시장에서의 신작게임에 대한 매출은 게임 인기순위와 직접적인 관계를 갖는 요인이며, 게임시장의 현황을 파악하는데 가장 중요한 정보이며 마케팅과 홍보전략에 반영되는 중요한 데이터이다. 본 논문에서는 게임시장 파악과 마케팅 및 홍보 전략에 활용되는 게임순위와 관련해서 영향을 미치는 요소에 대해서 분석한 결과를 제시하고자 한다. 게임순위 변동에서 이벤트와 업데이트 중 효과적인 방법이 무엇인지를 제안하고 이벤트와 업데이트가 각각 게임순위 변동에 얼마나 큰 영향을 주는지에 대해 서술하고 또한 게임업계에서 주로 서비스하는 이벤트 종류와 업데이트 종류에 대해 서술한다. 이때 이벤트는 순위변동에 큰 영향이 없고 업데이트가 순위변동에 영향을 준다는 것에 대해서 분석결과를 제시한다.