• THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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• v.26
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• pp.285-313
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• 2005

Online game business has emerged as the most lucrative entertainment industry, with over 10 million players in South Korea and over 30 million in Japan in 2005. The popularity of online games can be attributed to the availability of broadband network, pushing online games into the mainstream entertainment culture. The age distribution of online game players is expanding and a variety of new games are under development to target certain age groups. While the interactive entertainment market continues to expand, with many new online game publishers entering Japan, relatively little is known about which factors influence online game players' behavioral intentions to play continuously in this area. It appears that in this extremely attractive and growing services segment, academics, as well as practitioners, would benefit from investigating the difference, among the types of players, in demographic and social trends, perceptions related to game-design factors, and attitude toward the games. Based on data collected from online questionnaire survey, the differences between hardcore and casual players have been analyzed, and interesting conclusions have been provided concerning the online-game design and development strategies for Japan online-game players.

• Digital Contents
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• no.11 s.138
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• pp.104-106
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• 2004

디지털콘텐츠산업은 21세기 국가경쟁력을 좌우하는 10대 차세대 성장 동력의 하나이며, 게임산업은 이와 같은 디지털콘텐츠 산업에 있어 가장 경쟁력 있는 분야로 인식되고 있다. 문화관광부가 발간한‘2004 대한민국 게임백서’의 통계자료에 따르면, 2003년 국내 게임시장은 소비자 매출을 기준으로 3조9,000억원 규모로 전년대비 15.8%의 성장을 보였으며, 2006년에는 5조7,000억원 규모의 시장을 형성할 것 으로 전망되고 있다. 특히 온라인게임 시장은 2004년 1조원 시장을 돌파할 것으로 예상된다. 또 국내 게임시장은 해외시장에서 5.3%를 차 지하고 있으며, 온라인게임은 세계시장의 31.4%를 점유, 1위를 기록하고 있어 게임산업이 한국 문화산업을 대표하는 비즈니스로서의 가능 성은 더욱 커지고 있다. 게임산업은 게임 플랫폼과 관련 환경에 적합한 새로운 게임의 개발 여부가 게임산업의 성패를 가늠하며, 이와 같이 빠르게 변화하는 게임시장에서 독점적 우위를 고수하기 위해서는 게임산업의 환경 전반에 걸친 다양한 정보의 수집,제공이 절실하게 필요 하다. 이에 11월의 DB 서비스 평가는 게임산업 전반에 걸친 다양한 정보를 데이터베이스로 구축해 서비스하고 있는 한국게임산업개발원의 ‘게임종합정보시스템(www.gitiss.org)’을 평가해 보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.571-572
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• 2021

게임의 평가모델은 게임의 성공적 개발을 위하여 다양한 방향으로 연구되어 왔다. 특히 게임의 사전 평가는 게임의 성공을 견인하는 중요 요소로 인식되어 왔다. 다양한 장르의 게임을 평가하는 연구가 있어왔으나 4차 산업을 대두로 기술적 발달에 근거한 가상현실 게임과 증강 현실 게임 평가 항목은 연구 결과가 많지 않았다. 특히 증강 현실 게임에 중점하여 평가 항목을 연구한 결과는 전무한 상태이며 온라인 게임 등 다른 장르의 게임 평가항목을 이용하여 왔다. 특히 게임의 재미 요소를 근간으로 하는 평가 항목을 적용하기에는 어려움이 따르며 장르 및 플렛폼에 따라 평가 항목이 다양하여 증강 현실에 적합한 평가 항목을 개발하여 이를 적용하여 유용성을 확인한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.115-125
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• 2007

This study analyzed the importance of user activity, communication between users and identity establishment by growth and change of player's character through users' communication structure and then it classified such an importance into activity by group, dealings, information sharing, duel and strategy performance. It also looked into the plans to revitalize smooth social relationship and suggested for users to behave with responsibility in virtual society. In the virtual space where thousands of people connect and interact with each other every day, users find out their identities through human relationship with others proceeding solo story. What is more important is that users consider virtual space as a society and feel collective responsibility on words and behavior against others.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.71-88
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• 2013

Probability of technology risk is expected to increase as the post catch-up innovation, characterized by high uncertainty and high risk, would dominate in the coming era of post catchup. Social controversy on online game as a post catch-up innovation is still ongoing, though the shutdown law was enacted by the government. Socio-technical vulnerability causing technology risk paradoxically arose from the world top-level ICT infrastructures and has been reinforced by developmentalism. While both the pros and cons of the regulation fail to recognize dilemma objectively, social cost is brought about and accumulated. With recognizing dilemma between technology innovation and risks, we can tackle technology risks and ensure responsible innovation in post catch-up era.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.179-182
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• 2021

게임의 운영과 관련하여 부정 사건은 유저들의 이탈을 부르며 매출에 중요한 영향을 미친다. 이러한 사건 사고는 여러 가지 게임에서 발생하고 있으며 사건에 따라서 대처도 다르고 유저의 반응도 다르다. 본 논문에서는 온라인 게임에서 일어나는 사건 사고를 분석하고 유저의 동향을 파악하여 게임 운영과 관련하여 사건 사고가 발생했을 때 잘 대처하여 유저들에게 좋은 평가를 받고 사건의 피해를 최소화하며 유저들이 다시 게임에 돌아오도록 하기 위해 중요한 점이 무엇인지 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.23-23
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• 2004

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.37
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• pp.342-376
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• 2007

This study attempted to explore relationship between self-identities in real space and in virtual space and to inspect empirically both self-identities' influence on addiction and society maladaptation of online role playing game users. The verified results through this study are summarized as follows. First, both self-identity in real space and self-identity in virtual space represent strong interrelationship. In detail, the user with strong self-identity in real space shows strong self-identity in virtual space. Second, self-identities in two spaces have the negative interrelationship with game addiction and maladaptation. Whether real space or virtual space, the higher self-identity, the lower the levels of game addiction and maladaptation. Especially, self-identity in real space appeared an influential variable determining the level of addiction and maladaptation. Although self-identity in virtual space have not an independent influence, it has the possibility to effect complementary with self-identity in real space. This fact means that virtual space is not the place where the user with weak self-identity in real space can discovers the ideal self. Because they also experience the negative recognition about oneself in virtual space.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.121-134
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• 2019

This article examines technological innovation's impact on the game production field and on the developers' subjectivity and labor. It focuses on the appearance of the new stage of digitalization via mobile devices during the period when the leading sector of game industry rapidly shifted to Mobile games. Though the in-depth interview with the game developers, this article explores the changes in organizational and management approaches and in the developers' experience and perception of their labor. Given the serious shortage of the related literature, I believe this analysis could provide a new perspective in understanding the gameswork of specific time and location.

• Archives of design research
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• v.20 no.1 s.69
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• pp.263-272
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• 2007

On-line game gradually grew into a significant part in Korean culture due to rapid development of internet. As icons are utilized as interface, the concept of UI(User Interface) receives spotlight in playing games, and the play bug appears most frequently in MMORPG genre. The introduction of icons brought partial inefficiency in dividing screen sectors while playing games, which means play sector is reduced. On the meantime, components of UI possess different places so that cause considerable confusion to heavy users. This study attempts to analyze the top 5 commonly-played games and to understand the necessity and status of UI components by surveying heavy users. The result of this study shows that there is notable difference between UI of games on-service and preference of heavy users. This study could suggest UI of a better quality by restructuring and rearranging the UI components based on the heavy users' preference as shown in the survey. It is expected that this study can contribute to creating a more effective game play by eliminating possible changes of UI upon different games and realizing broader play sector.