• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2017

본 논문에서 신입생 OT, 워크샵과 같이 대규모 인원이 모였을 때 아이스브레이킹을 목적으로 진행할 수 있는 게임을 기획하고자 한다. 이러한 유형의 게임이 갖추어야 할 가장 중요한 요소는 많은 인원과 쉬운 규칙이다. 100명 이상의 많은 인원이 동시에 플레이할 수 있어야 하고 그 인원이 게임에 대한 이해도와 경험이 모두 달라도 즐길 수 있을 만큼 쉬운 규칙이어야 한다. 또한, 오프라인 보드게임은 온라인으로 게임을 했을 때 보다 비용절감과 친밀감을 형성하는데 도움이 된다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.540-545
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• 2008

게임의 룰은 게임의 메커니즘을 구현하는데 필요한 모든 것을 포함하는 것이다. 또한, 게임의 스토리를 이끌며 지탱하는 중요한 요소이기도 하다. 본고에서는 동서양 모두에서 성공하고 있는 대표적 MMORPG 온라인 게임인 월드오브워크래프트를 중심으로 게임 스토리텔링에서의 룰이 지닌 중요한 요소와 특징, 또한, 이것이 지닌 창조적이며 재미와 몰입, 덧붙여 게임 스토리 전개상에서 만들어내는 생산적인 요소들을 찾아서 특성을 찾고자 한다. 이는 게임 개방시 게임 내의 룰 생성과 스토리 전개에 중요한 요건으로서 연구되어질 수 있으며, 온라인 게임 스토리텔링 창작 및 개발에 적용하는데 연구의 의의가 있다 하겠다. 본고의 논의가 이뤄지기 전, 먼저 게임에 대한 룰의 정의에 대해 지금까지의 논의들을 살펴보고, 이들 속에서 발견되고 논의될 요소들을 얻고자 한다. 이론적 요소를 바탕으로 본고의 연구대상인 월드오브워크래프트의 서사에 나타난 룰과 스토리텔링과의 상호작용을 분석할 것이다. 본고에서 논의 되는 MMORPG게임의 룰과 스토리텔링의 연구는 아직 체계적이지 못하고, 이론적으로 미흡한 게임 스토리텔링 및 룰 연구에 기반 연구가 되고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.69-76
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• 2012

At MMORPGs that has the numerous game users with many interactions at the same virtual world, massive loading that results in delays, resource shortages, and other such problems occur. To solve this, many developers devote research to load-balancing servers, yet due to steady and dynamic map divisions, such research is unreliable. This paper proposes a game user-oriented load balancing scheme for the load balancing of MMORPG servers. This scheme shows effectiveness at dealing with hot-spots and other gatherings of game users at specific servers compared to previous methods.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.25-41
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to develop an analytic framework to code systematically the gamer's behaviour in MMO(Massively Multi-player Online) gameplay experience, to explore their gameplay as a problem solving procedure empirically. Previous studies about model human processor, content based protocol, and procedure based protocol are reviewed in order to build the outline of the analytic framework related to MMO gameplay. The specific gameplay actions and contents were derived by using concurrent protocol analysis method through the empirical experiment executed in MMORPG gameplay. Consequently, gameplay are divided into six actions : kinematics, perception, function, representation, simulation, and rule (heuristics, following, and transcedence). The analytic framework suitable for MMO gameplay was built. As a result of this study, we found three rule spaces in the problem solving domain of gameplay that are an heuristics, a following of the rule, and a transcendence of the rule. 'Heuristics' denotes the rule action that discovers the rule of game through trial-and-error. 'Following' indicates the rule action that follows the rule of game embedded in game by game designers. 'Transcendence' presents the rule action that transcends that. The new discovered rule spaces where 'Following' and 'Transcendence' actions occur and the gameplay pattern in them is provided with the key basis to determine the level design elements of MMO game, such as terrain feature, monster attribute, item, and skill et cetera. Therefore, this study is concludes with key implications to support game design to improve the quality of MMO game product.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.4
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• pp.901-906
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• 2004

Client- server interaction in a massive multi-player online role-playing game(MMORPG) is usually made via network-message Passing. Since the game contents and elements in such MMORPGs are consistently evolved, messages need to be added, deleted, or modified accordingly. Therefore, game programmers are repeatedly required to write new programs or at least modify existing programs. The XML-based message definition system introduced in this paper facilitates the addition and modification of messages for game interaction ; it not only allows programmers to save a considerable amount of time for modifying existing messages or adding new messages but also relieves them of a serious burden of programming bugs. In addition, this system can be used for general client-server applications.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose an approach that combines the technological advantages of P2P and cloud computing to support MMOGs that allowing a huge amount of users worldwide to share a real-time virtual environment. The proposed P2P system based on cloud computing can provide a greater level of scalability because their more resources are added to the infrastructure even when the amount of users grows rapidly. This system also relieves a lot of computational power and network traffic, the load on the servers in the cloud by exploiting the capacity of the peers. In this paper, we describe the concept and basic architecture of cloud computing-based P2P Systems for scalability of MMOGs. An efficient and effective provisioning of resources and mapping of load are mandatory to realize this architecture that scales in economical cost and quality of service to large communities of users. Simulation results show that by controlling the amount of cloud and user-provided resource, the proposed P2P system can reduce the bandwidth at the server while utilizing their enough bandwidth when the number of simultaneous users keeps growing.