• International Journal of Contents
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.78-83
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• 2020

VR technology has become a game changer in the game industry. VR game market has increased exponentially worldwide. The current study is designed to examine effects of VR game players' gender (male vs. female), types of VR games (solo game vs. multiplayer game), and the level of perceived virtual presence (low virtual presence vs. high virtual presence) on enjoyment and intention to replay. Study findings suggest that male players, after playing VR games, showed higher enjoyment and intention to replay VR games. In terms of types of VR games, multiplayer VR games lead to higher enjoyment intention to replay than solo play games. Finally, this study found that the high level of perceived virtual presence incur higher enjoyment and intention to replay than the low level of perceived virtual presence in playing VR games. Practical implications were discussed in the last section of this paper.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.67-78
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• 2021

The subjects of this study are Chinese players who have participated in public welfare games. SPSS24.0 and AMOS24.0 were used to analyze the data, including reliability analysis, validity analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation model verification and so on. The hypothesis results show that Trust-Aware is the most important motivation dimension that affects players' participation in public welfare games. Under the dimension of Performance Expectancy, the main influencing factors are players' needs for self-realization and concern for vulnerable groups. Perceived Risk and Social Influence are the motivational factors that influence players' participation in public welfare games.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1714-1724
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• 2003

Feedback strategies of a qualitative competitive game between two players can be designed such as to influence parameters of a mechanical system to induce chaotic behavior. The purpose is to reduce the options and effects of the opponent's strategy. We show it on a case with dynamics specified by a nonautonomous Duffing equation with the players represented by damping and external forcing, respectively. It seems however that the conclusions can be made valid generally.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.147-160
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze figurations of genders in on-line game character in order to find out the ways of building gender identity of on-line game characters. This study selects characters in on-line game to analyze figurations of genders in game systems, images, discourses of game characters by using gender identity theory and examine the reproducing process of players. As the result, the gender identity of on-line game characters which was pre-given by game developers follows the same conventions and stereotypes in real world and also the players follow it in the same manner. On-line game has the potential of text involvement and modification of the game players, and it has immanent possibilities of becoming alternative space of endless improvement and evolvement.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.23-34
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• 2010

The current interests in e-sports is being extended to the fields of education these days. Professional game players, so called as 'Pro-Gamers', therefore, should be recognized as human resource for education, and the theoretical foundation for them needs to be established. This study examines informal learning styles, motivation, and interactions among professional game players in South Korea. The aim of this grounded theory study is to discover the trajectory of professional game players' experiences and explain what properties and interactions they are facing depending on the stage of the trajectory. This study conceptualizes educational meaning within and across the society of StarCraft Pro-Gamers, providing suggestions for the management of human resource using models constructed. Data was analyzed by interviewing 1 consultant, 2 directors and 9 Pro-Gamers. By analyzing the data, this study explored what learning strategies Pro-Gamers construct and apply in their trajectory as Pro-Gamers. It includes how they organize learning, how they formulate their motivation and goals, how they cooperate and compete, what curricula they adapt, how they become one of the ace players overcoming their slump, and how informal education works in practice in the interaction among members of a StarCraft Pro-Gamer team. Finally, in this paper the stage theory was presented. It is argued that when the stage of the players shifts (Stage Shifting). It also brings changes to proficiency properties, emotional properties, interactional properties and educational properties related to each stage. Stages are categorized by five levels: Enjoying, Struggling, Achieving, Slumping, and Recovering. Although each stage has its own properties, the stages are grouped by two main properties, one of which is a Communicative Stage and the other is a Practicing Stage.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to analyze players' emotion pattern for conducting a quest in Role Playing Game(RPG). We have rebuilt up the action and content of gameplay related to category to set up five action classes of game players based on the literature review about the human behavior classification. Moreover, Mabinogi game includes the composition of various quests by story-centered expanse. We classified the quest structure of the tutorial mode, initial state, of its game into the cognitive action. We build the model of the correlation between cognitive behavior patterns of gameplay and emotions derived from targeting ten novices. The result of this research reveals that gameplayers' stimulus levels are identified to emotion pattern. It is enable to grope to concrete the design of the quest and the level in a specified state. Moreover, players' emotion variation is indicated to the type of expression of fun elements. We expect to use a device to induce the curiousness and the challenge for conducting the higher goal of game in the whole.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2011

As fusion and composition of a game genre is actively achieved, game types where various genres coexist in a game increase. These games have advantage providing various funnies to game players. This study examines and analyzes game examples of fusion and composition genre that appear in the game market in accordance with such a trend. We suggested a game that can give new joy to players by application of fusion and composition of genre within the body type that can provide directly virtual experience of the given game situation on the base of this study.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.422-427
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• 2010

Korean Game industry, especially MMORPG(Massively Multiplayer Online Game) has been rapidly expanding in these days. But As game industry is growing, lots of online game security incidents have also been increasing and getting prevailing. One of the most critical security incidents is 'Game Bots', which are programs to play MMORPG instead of human players. If player let the game bots play for them, they can get a lot of benefic game elements (experience points, items, etc.) without any effort, and it is considered unfair to other players. Plenty of game companies try to prevent bots, but it does not work well. In this paper, we propose a behavior pattern model for detecting bots. We analyzed behaviors of human players as well as bots and identified six game features to build the model to differentiate game bots from human players. Based on these features, we made a Naive Bayesian classifier to reasoning the game bot or not. To evaluated our method, we used 10 game bot data and 6 human Player data. As a result, we classify Game bot and human player with 88% accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.39-48
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• 2015

In this paper, we developed a board game prototype, which is a trading card game (TCG) based on near field communication (NFC), in order to compare the convenience between an analog style board game and its corresponding digitalized board game based on NFC. Especially we try to maintain the advantages of an analog style board game such as social fellowship and communication skill in developing its corresponding digitalized TCG game. 20 players participated in our experiments, and each team consists of 2 payers. After they play an analog card game and its corresponding digitalized card game, they answer our survey questionnaires. We can confirm that the NFC TCG offers more convenience to players than its corresponding analog card game according to survey results.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.73-82
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• 2018

Game industry is one of the most marketable area in the age of the $4^{th}$ industrial revolution. However, game industry in Korea is restricted by social and cultural issues. This study investigates biased image of game players and sexual commercialization of game contents as obstacles of Korean game industry invigoration. We find that the biased image of game players is still existed, and the commercialization of sex is considered as disincentive to develop modern game industry. Most of the respondents reports that sexual commercialization of game contents should be regulated as a factor that would harm Korean game industry.