• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.42
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• pp.177-194
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• 2016

This study investigated an evolutionary process of In-game Animation and researched on the action of realization establishing virtual reality. In-game Animation, functioning as contents to visualize games, is responsible for conveying information to achieve goals of games. In-game Animation which is affected by graphic technology was initiated with setting up indicators by dot and line. Followed by the development of technology, In-game Animation has pursued realization, after passing through processes of iconography, materialization, and dimensionalization. The realization of In-game Animation does not simply imitate the real world but creates meaning of reality by establishing space with various factors such as characters and background along with the story, under the premise of virtuality. The realization of In-game Animation is very important to provide the experience of immersion, as it forms a sense of presence through such visual tactility. The process to create meaning of reality provides gamers with experiences, and leads them to expand senses through visual perception and finally absorb the virtuality as reality. Therefore, the image of In-game Animation does not simply imitate the real world but creates meaning of reality by establishing space with various factors such as characters and background along with the story, under the premise of virtuality. The realization of In-game Animation is not limited to blindly portray a realistic image. In addition, the process of realization pursued by In-game Animation is an action to immerse in the game rather than a mere product of technological development.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.343-350
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• 2015

While many games have been published that are used with input-devices such as a mouse and keyboard, the number of games that can recognize the behavior of a human utilizing devices such as Kinect and Wii has increased. In this paper, we present the development of a baseball game that utilizes a Leap Motion Controller. A Leap Motion Controller recognizes accurately the movement of a user's fingers. Our implemented game consists of characters, a background and animation. It is a moving animated game in which the users play a game in point of view of a third person. The major feature of our game is that the game players can enjoy the game using a Leap Motion Controller.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.117-130
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to study users' intention on paid game items through language network analysis. The functional item buying group considered the capabilities and strength of the game character as the most important factor for the winning of the games while the decorative game item buying users considered self-satisfaction for the unique outfit of their game character. Moreover, they reflected their game characters as themselves and another ego.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.93-108
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• 2003

This study aimed at understanding motivations and effects of online game playing of adolescents related to quality of life. The field survey was administered to 836 $4^{th}-12^{th}$ grade students in their classrooms. Findings showed that the 5 critical motivations for playing online games were : attraction to the game characters, entertainment, avoidance, loneliness, and killing-time. Motivations differed by sex and grade in school. Quality of life was related to the motivations for online game playing and to the feelings of satisfaction obtained after playing online games. Implications of these findings were discussed from the perspective of policy for the information welfare of adolescents.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.21-31
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• 2005

In state-of-the-art games, characters can move in a goal-directed manner so that they can move to the goal position without colliding obstacles. Many path-finding methods have been proposed and implemented for these characters and most of them use the A* search algorithm. When .the map is represented with a regular grid of squares or a navigation mesh, it often takes a long time for the A* to search the state space because the number of cells used In the grid or the mesh increases for higher resolution. Moreover the A* search on the grid often causes a zigzag effect, which is not optimal and realistic. In this paper we propose to use visibility graphs to improve the search time by reducing the search space and to find the optimal path. We also propose a method of taking into account the size of moving characters in the phase of planning to prevent them from colliding with obstacles as they move. Simulation results show that the proposed method performs better than the grid-based A* algorithm in terms of the search time and space and that the resulting paths are more realistic.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.79-87
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• 2006

This paper proposes the design and implementation of engine to control characters by using machine teaming techniques. Because the proposed engine uses the context data in the rum time as the knowledge data, there is a merit which the player can not easily recognize the behavior pattern of the intelligent character. To do this, the paper proposes to develop the module which gathers and trains the context data and the module which tests to decide the optimal context control for the given context data. The developed engine is ported to FEAR and run with Quake2 and experimented far the correctness of the development and its efficiency. The experiments show that the developed engine is operated well and efficiently within the limited time.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.67-78
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• 2021

Since the release of and in 2017, business models for collection mobile games have been changing. Collection Mobile games are composed mainly of characters, and the business model is also highly related to user preference factors. The Delphi method and the AHP analysis were used on ten experts in each field of game production to identify preference factors, and five collection mobile games were selected for business model analysis. The result shows that 'moe' characters are a major preference factor, and accordingly, business models are also changing to focus on the completion of character collection and products such as character skins.

• 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.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.105-113
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• 2010

It takes quite amount of time to study a board game because there are many game characters and different stages are exist for board games. Also, the opponent is not just a single character that means it is not one on one game, but group vs. group. That is why strategy is needed, and therefore applying optimum learning is a must. If there were equal result that both are considered to be best ones during the course of learning stage, Heuristic which utilizes learning of problem area of Jul-Gonu was used to improve the speed of learning. To compare a normal character to an improved one, a jul-gonu game was created, and then they fought against each other. Improved character considered distance and attacked other one. As a result, improved character's ability was improved on learning speed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.53-66
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to show typology of Non Player Character(NPCs) and to look out what narrative functions of NPCs are served in Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game(MMORPG). As the relationship with player characters and the propensity of actions, NPCs are classified 4types; passive helper, active helper, passive antagonist, active antagonist. Each type performs different functions of game narrative. Especially passive helper functions as a essential glue of movement in game world and makes the chain of quest narratives. Active antagonist functions as the cause of space perspective and creates dramatic effect of game narrative. Those functions make spacial, dimensional and extensible game narrative.