• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.67-82
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• 2020

This study looked at the influence of MMORPG's motivation on interpersonal competence through MMORPG's social usage. For this, 496 surveys were retrieved. As a result, the social usage of MMORPG was completely mediated in the relationship between motivation and interpersonal competence. The social usage of MMORPG has a positive full mediation effect on the relationship between the social relationships motivation and the interpersonal competence. And Immersion/Escapism motivation, the social usage of MMORPG has reduced the negative effect on the interpersonal competence.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.706-708
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• 2005

MMORPG게임의 구현에 있어서 가장 큰 문제의 하나는 서버와 연결된 클라이언트들 사이의 동기화이다. 이를 위해서 MMORPG게임에서는 grid-based filtering을 적용하여 동기화 문제를 해결하고 있다. 그러나 MMORPG게임의 형태가 이인칭 관점 시점의 2D에서 일인칭 관점의 시점의 3D 게임으로 변함에 따라서 grid-based filtering으로 인한 동기화는 낭비적인 요소를 포함하게 되었다. 즉 일인칭 관점시점의 3D게임에서는 가까운 거리의 캐릭터 사이에도 주변 장애물의 영향으로 비 가시관계에 놓임에 따라서 동기화의 필요성이 없어지는 경우가 생기게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 일인칭 관점 게임의 3D MMORPG게임에서 컴파일 시 각 셀을 중심으로 가시성 테스트를 수행하여 가시영역내의 셀들만을 동기화 대상으로 지정한 후 게임 진행 시 현재 셀 속의 캐릭터들에게 동기화 대상으로 설정된 셀 속의 클라이언트들만을 동기화 시켜줌으로서 통신량을 줄여주는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.111-122
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• 2021

MMORPG game is an industry that is growing fast through COVID-19. This study confirmed the factors that influence the self-character identification and social relation internalization of MMORPG games and identified the factors that affect the intention to purchase items and the intention to continue play. According to the PLS analysis, the influence of the character characteristics and social characteristics of MMORPG on self-character identification and game commitment was significantly confirmed. In addition, the relationships between these mediating variables and user behavior were tested. The results of this study suggested the importance of researching MMORPGs' game characters and could be used to improve the competitiveness of MMORPG game companies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2004

MMORPG(Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)에서의 게임 서버는 모든 플레이어에게 게임 정보(오브젝트, NPC, 이벤트, 다른 플레이어들의 정보 등)를 실시간으로 전송해야 한다. 그러나, MMORPG에 참여하는 플레이어의 증가로 인해 전송되는 정보의 양이 많아지면 네트워크 전송 지연과 서버의 부담으로 인해 플레이어들간 정보 전송의 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 AOI(Area Of Interest, 관심영역)를 이용하여 자원 이동 및 동기화를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 구성요소들과 적용방안을 제시한다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.41-46
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• 2019

In a MMORPG, a typical application of virtual environment systems, it is a common desire to play in a more realistic environment. However, it is very difficult to provide a latency-free virtual environment to a large user base, mainly due to the fact that the real environment must be configured on multiple servers rather than on single server and that data must be shared on the real server when users move from one region to another. Experiencing response delays continuously in the process of information synchronization between servers greatly deteriorates the degree of immersion. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to minimize the response delay occurring in the information synchronization process between the servers. In this paper, we propose Migration Agent for efficient information synchronization between field servers providing information of virtual environment and minimizing response delay between Field Server and PC(Player Character) and implement it in cloud computing network. In the proposed system, CPU utilization of field server increased by 6 ~ 13%, and response time decreased by 5 ~ 10 seconds over the existing system in 70,000 ~ 90,000 PCs

• Information Systems Review
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze online game user's game items transacting behaviors for the two game genres such as MMORPG and sports game. For the sake of conducting the analysis, we adopted a fuzzy logic agent-based modeling. In the online game fields, game items transactions are crucial to game company's profitability. However, there are lack of previous studies investigating the online game user's game items transacting activities. Since many factors need to be addressed in a complicated way, ABM (agent-based modeling) simulation mechanism is adopted. Besides, a fuzzy logic is also considered due to the fact that a number of uncertainties and ambiguities exist with respect to online game user's complex behaviors in transacting game items. Simulation results from applying the fuzzy logic ABM method revealed that MMORPG game users are motivated to pay expensive price for high-performance game items, while sports game users tend to transact game items within a reasonable price range. We could conclude that the proposed fuzzy logic ABM simulation mechanism proved to be very useful in organizing an effective strategy for online game items management and customers retention.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.493-500
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• 2007

대부분의 온라인 게임에서는 아이템이나 사이버머니를 얻는 생산활동과 아이템을 구입하는 소비활동이 일어나는 등, 일종의 경제 시스템을 이루고 있다. 특히 최근에는 플레이어들이 아이템 현금 거래를 통해 현실과 게임간의 경제적 상호활동을 하고 있기 때문에, 게임 내에서 발생하는 경제 문제가 실제 게임업체의 매출과 수익성에도 영향을 줄 수 있다. 온라인 게임 내의 사이버머니 통화량 및 아이템 유통량에 대해 어떤 경제 정책을 세우는가에 따라 게임 서비스 회사의 수익성이 좌우된다. 때문에 게임 내부의 경제와 실물 경제의 상호 연관성을 파악하는 것이 게임 경영에 있어 중요한 이슈로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 게임 속에서 구체적으로 어떠한 경제문제가 발생할 수 있으며, 그것이 유저의 게임동기와 회사의 수익성에 어떤 영향을 끼치게 되는지 파악하고자 하였다. 시스템 다이내믹스 방법론을 이용하여 온라인 게임의 일반 경제 모형을 개발하고, 이를 이용하여 몇 가지 시나리오에 대한 동태적인 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 이를 통해, 온라인 게임을 경영함에 있어 고려해야 할 주요 문제들에 대하여 논하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1495-1498
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• 2005

오늘날의 MMORPG 환경에서 수만${\sim}$수십만 명의 유저들이 동시 접속하여 게임을 즐기고 있다. 수많은 인원이 같은 맵 상에서 활동하기 때문에 최근의 게임 서버들은 맵의 영역에 따라 유저를 분할하여 처리하고 있다. 이를 위한 방안으로 Seamless 게임 서버 방식이 이슈가 되고 있으며 이 방식에서는 PC의 서버간 이동시 필연적으로 지연이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 최소화하기 위해 MigAgent 를 이용하여 Field Server간 통신 및 PC와 Field Server간 통신을 효율적으로 관리하기 위한 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.69-78
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• 2015

As the online game industry has been growing rapidly, more and more malicious activities to gain economic benefits have been reported as well. Game bot is one of the biggest problems in the online game industry. So we proposed a bot detection method based on the ERG theory of motivation for the first time. Most of the previous studies focused on behavior-based detection by monitoring patterns of the specific actions. In this paper, we applied the motivation theory to analyze user behaviors on a real game dataset. The result shows that normal users in the game followed the ERG theory of motivation in the same way as it works in real world. But in the case of game bots, the theory could not be applied because the game bot has specific reasons, unlike normal game users. We applied the ERG theory to users to distinguish game bot users from normal users. We detected the game bot with high accuracy of 99.78% by applying the theory.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2010

Today the lectures are usually practiced in a teacher-led traditional classroom system or a student-led e-learning system. Students passively follow the teacher's lectures in both systems, though. Also due to the advances in 3D Computer Graphics and Game technologies, there are trials to exploit the positive effect of games in learning. The serious games, specifically designed games for an educational goal, or existing games for a special class have been used as lectures. Still these games have a great difficulty in being integrated into the educational system technically and economically. Therefore a new 3D MMORPG based lecturing system is presented in this paper. In our new lecturing system, the characteristics of a 3D MMORPG, achievement, sociality, and immersion, are provided to motivate students to participate actively in a lecture. A teacher and students interact with each other in realtime as 3D characters in a 3D virtual classroom on-line. An ordinary teacher can also easily apply our new system to existing classes since a teacher only needs to specify a slide file to prepare a lecture. For the future work, a user study and the effect of our new lecturing system will be performed.