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Game Storytelling Analysed through Montage Technique Borrowed from Film - Case Study of Game 'World of Warcraft' - (영화의 몽타주 기법을 통해 분석해 본 게임 스토리텔링 - 게임 World of Warcraft를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Jun-Hee
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.1 s.63
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    • pp.119-128
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    • 2006
  • 'Play' itself is enough of a motivation for anyone to do it. Still, it will be very difficult to continue to enjoy meaningless and aimless repetition of fights, mimicking, chases, discoveries or changing of sceneries by the mechanism alone. Of course, in rare occasions there are games like Tetris which can be enjoyed on its great gameplay alone for hours. But for most cases, players need goals, initiatives, and dynamism through storytelling for their experiences to be a rich one. Validity and feasibility of storytelling in games has always existed with plenty of skepticism. However, as games evolved from some small play mechanisms for spare times to a major entertainment with recognizable volume and content, a need to keep players interested and participating has made storytelling an essential ingredient. Storytelling within games has to have different meanings and shapes to existing narratives. Hence, new definition and methodology must emerge and studies has been active. If a case can be made so that a tested and tried methodology that has been successful for other media can be substituted for games, then it can bring a new direction to the ongoing studies. This study will borrow some methodology from cinema which can sometimes be seen as opposite to games and sometimes as something games want to be alike.

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An Analysis of Game Scenario Variations in Literature Using Actant Model - Focused on "Hamlet" and "Mabinogi" (행위소 모형을 통한 문학의 게임시나리오 변용 양상 분석 - 「햄릿」과 「마비노기」를 중심으로)

  • Kim, HwaLim;Kim, Hanil
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.64-67
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    • 2017
  • Literary works are used as materials for various cultural contents including plays, movies, cartoons, and games. According to the results of the previous study, it is possible to create a game story that is plausible and universal even if the game storytelling is carried out using the elements extracted from the source data. It is expected that the analysis of the transformed contents of literary works will be analyzed. In this paper, we analyze the scenario of "Mabinogi" using literary works in domestic online games using Greimas' s actant model. The analyzed results are compared with Hamlet, which is the source of the source, and analyzed the structure, age, background, heroine, goal, theme. This study confirms the change of the narrative when the literature is contents, and the analysis is meaningful in analyzing the transformational patterns of game scenarios based on literary works. I hope that it will contribute to the study of various methods of storytelling by various materials of literature works.

Game Analysis for Next Generation User Interface based on Storytelling (차세대 스토리텔링기반 유저 인터페이스를 위한 게임분석)

  • Lee, Dae-Young;Kim, Seon-Ju;Yu, Hui-Beom;Won, Sun-Jin;Sung, Jung-Hwan
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02b
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    • pp.534-539
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    • 2008
  • Nowadays, UI(User Interface)'s main target area is getting larger from user's convenience oriented interface, to user's satisfaction oriented interface. In this study, we attempted 'Storytelling User Interface' for fulfillment of user's satisfaction. We analyzed UI in games, distinguished and clarified its effectiveness that conveys main contents and special features to its audience. The most important element in storytelling UI is 'Inherent Drama'. This was proved through the game analysis with Blizzard's 'Diablo', Sierra's 'Home world', Eden Games' 'Test Drive Unlimited', EA's 'Black And White', and Sony Entertainment's 'Eye Of Judgment'. And we divided storytelling elements into 3 pieces, Mood Design - that shows story's background, or traits, Natural Control - for user's feeling as a hero in the content, and Flow Directing - using animation, visual design and sound, etc. Via these elements, we can make the best use of background, icon, animation, every structures and flow in games. Finally, we embodied three pieces for putting in practice for effective improving interface.

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Learning Map as Omniscient View for Learning Interaction in Educational Games (교육용 게임의 학습 인터렉션을 위한 전지적 뷰로서 학습맵)

  • Chang, Hee-Dong
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.3-8
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    • 2011
  • The learning by computer games, is in the spotlight as an effective education method for the game generation. The educational games need to provide additionally an omniscient view of the learning as an objective viewpoint for storytelling of learning. The omniscient viewpoint needs good readability in real-time, and to provide systematically overall and detailed informations of learning. In this paper, we propose the visual learning map as the omniscient view for storytelling of learning. The proposed learning map is composed of the district map, the topic map, and the progress map for the omniscient view of the learning. The proposed learning map is represented by several visual diagrams for real-time readability. The proposed learning map can apply to all the educational games which provide the game minimaps.

A Study of Cooperative Mechanism in Social Games (소셜게임의 협력 매커니즘 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Eun
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2012
  • This study discusses how players make the mutually cooperative mechanism in Social Games. In SNG, many players exchange helps each other. That mechanism is not only one-off but also repetitive process. In the perspective of reciprocity in Evolutionary psychology and Mythology, this study analyzes mutual cooperation in several game texts most well known in the SNG field. According to the field study results, four cooperative mechanisms were extracted. These 4 principles apply to every digital game design for emerging of cooperative storytelling among players.

A Concept of Escape Room and Storytelling Design (오프라인 방탈출 게임의 개념과 스토리텔링 구조 유형 연구)

  • Kim, Soowan
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2021
  • This study investigates concept of escape room game and sorting story type based on 428 games at 141 escape room actually played. The classification were processed by Act 3 of Trottier, and as a result of the investigation, result shows three story types in offline room escape games. As for the types shown as, reason, condition and purpose of escape are guided before entering the room; a+b+c, purpose of escape is guided before entering the room but conditions for escape should be determined through play; a+b(c), and finally figure out the condition, purpose of the game during the play;(a+b+c).

A Study on the Effect of Story Content in Film Therapy (영화치료에 있어 스토리 콘텐츠의 효과 연구)

  • Cho, SangHo;Kim, Cheeyong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2017
  • In our life, stories are ubiquitous. Such stories of our lives are shared during counseling and psychotherapy. Modern storytelling is not limited to image and digital media. It encompasses various media, including offline contents such as festivals and theme parks. Furthermore, it is also utilized in film therapy. Film therapy refers to all the methods that utilize films and image media in counseling and psychotherapy. This paper summarizes and analyzes film therapy that utilizes storytelling. As the result of this analysis, it was found that we could gain insight into the identity of patients and their treatment through the storytelling that utilized films.

Educational effect of Disital-storytelling technique: A Systematic Review (디지털스토리텔링기법의 교육적 효과에 대한 체계적 문헌고찰)

  • Seo, Hee-Kyung
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2019
  • As the development of IT technology and Web services have changed recently, education environment combined with high-tech digital content is becoming a new trend with the demands of educational consumers. In Korea, however, there is no systematic discussion on the issue, and there is not enough evidence to verify the effectiveness of the research. Therefore, we will systematically analyze the educational effects of Digital Storytelling to create an educational environment that meets the new horizon of intelligent web and personalized service provision in the Web3.0 era, In this study, 12 domestic experimental studies that verify the educational effects of digital storytelling were systematically analyzed, compared with overseas cases, and proposed development plans in the Web3.0 era.

A Plan to Improve Storytelling through the Intermediary Potentials between Media in Game Designs (게임디자인의 미디어 간 매개 잠재력을 통한 스토리텔링 개선 방안)

  • Noh, In-Shik
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2009
  • Analyzing the aspects of pattern in MMORPG that has been leading our domestic game industry to the climax, our game industry might be thought to orient the space narrative storytelling method containing the leading life in the virtual sociality to the nature of society. It is essential to have the convergence and linkage between media in describing the lifestyle in the virtual society, which should be operated in a very flexible manner. It is, however, true that we are lacking of the quantification of designing process until now, although the designing process should have the vivid academic functions between media in advance. In addition, the designing crossing over the MMORPG genre along with the game patterns in the MMORPG genre has close correlations with the spectrum of crises emerging recently in our domestic online game industry. In other words, this essay aims at raising an issue that the selective method to the lifestyle in the virtual society being settled down as characteristics inherent to the methods of our domestic online games might deliver the improving effects through the establishment of game designing jobs and compliant plans.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Game Narrative considering Game Production Stages (게임 제작과정을 고려한 게임서사의 특징 연구)

  • Song, Hyun-Joo;Rhee, Dae-Woong
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2007
  • In many game narrations, completed games have been used to analyze the users' response. But in this case, one tends to exclude the narrations that producers intended at the production stage, and games tend to have a narrative structure in a text form before they turn into the digital form of a completed game. For these reasons, we broadened the existing definition of game narration to include from production to completion. We then divided the production into many stages and analyzed how narrative structure changes at each stage. We divided narration into three stages? initial stage, storytelling stage, and form change stage. Game narrations maintain the form similar to the one in exiting narrations at the initial and storytelling stages, but turn into functional document at the form change stage. And at this stage, digital results take the place of narrative expressions.

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