• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.501-512
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• 2014

Due to smart phones introduced since 2007, mobile contents production become activated and with this trend, attention among different age groups to production of mobile games has been growing. Whereas in the past, development of games was the domain of developers equipped with technical knowledge, provision of editor-type engines in recent times is lowering the high barrier of entry to game production. This paper proposes an event-based module design method from the perspective of general users, aimed at producing games by oneself with a Unity 3D, one of editor-type game engines. This is to plan behaviors and roles in the unit of modules in the whole process of a game to be in line with the perspective of game production by one person. Each module includes diverse events that express game characteristics. In addition, the script function provided by the Unity 3D is appropriate to embody the proposed module structure and utilizes the Unity 3D. Lastly, this study produce a simple 3D mobile casual game in order to verify whether effective game production from the planning to the development is possible through the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.133-164
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• 2005

Mobile games have emerged as the most innovative entertainment technology, adding new revenue streams, taking advantage of the potential of wireless applications and service offerings. Mobile games, like any other types of computer game, offer a unique value for users in providing an exciting digital experience in virtual worlds. Players can become empowered through the development of new characters and strategies within games to achieve rewarding successes against the computers and other players. The overall trend for mobile games is towards bigger, more colorful, more involving and exciting contents, which will build upon the developing capabilities of mobile phones and networks in order to bring new styles, concepts and experiences of game play to the users. In this paper, we attempt to investigate the demographic factors which play critical roles in determining the level of playing times; classify mobile gamers based on their motives for playing games; and empirically test differences in their demographic factors and mobile game usage. Statistical results show that significant differences in playing times exist, depending upon their age, gender, mobile device, mobile phone usage, mobile game experiences, and preferred games genres. Applying Factor analysis, we have identified Escape, Social interaction, Challenge and Competition, Fantasy, Diversion and Relaxation, Ease of Accessibility as key motivators for playing mobile games. Additional cluster analysis shows that the categorization of gamers, according to their usage habits and the key motivators for playing, can be made as follows: M-gamers, Multi-gamers and Communication-focused gamers. Further correlation of these grouping with socio-economic data shows the significant differences in gaming habits and patterns of mobile phone use.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.13-22
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• 2009

Recently, mobile games are developed as the various genre and form with the hardware performance improvement and communication network speed increase of the mobile phone. But it shows the limit of the game material to be developed, because the mobile game has to play by using only the keypad handing of the mobile phone. In this research, 'Flip On / Off interface' and 'Microphone interface' were developed in order to utilize the physical device of the mobile phone as the game interface. 'Flip On / Off interface' and 'Microphone interface' have the advantage that there is no need to purchase a device as an additional interface with utilizing the hardware of the mobile phone itself and the progressing of a game is smooth in comparison with the keypad method of the pre-existence mobile game because the interface waiting time for a call response is short. Moreover, by applying to a commercializing game, the developed interface tests, we confirmed an availability at the commercialization inspection standards on mobile phone without the heap memory deficiency phenomenon to be smooth of an operation. Furthermore, in the result of usability evaluation accessability, reliability, and aesthetics were rated as 'high'. The results of this research reveal that the interface environment of the mobile game limited to a keypad will be able to be made with diversification.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2009

Recently, an interest in mobile games is increasing according to the extension of the high speed network infra and the development of mobile devices. Specially, the mobile game for learning can help to reinforce an academic performance and an interest for a brief time anytime anywhere. Thus, we propose new mobile contents named V-Killer which combines learning with a game. V-Killer is a word puzzle game which has functions of ranking and searching. The game can get feedback on your learning or progress and choose the degree of difficulty according to the ability of the user. The game lead to an interaction of user and games as sets questions by user, in addition, it is easy to operate and has a simple construction. In the paper, we implement the proposed game on the mobile and present the game.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.57-66
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• 2010

In the prior works on tabletop systems, a projection-based tabletop surface is mostly used to display computer images, and the participants interact with the display surface by hand multi-touching or using some tangible objects. In this research, however, we developed the FishBowl game that employs a scalable tabletop tiled display with infrared camera tracking coupled with PDA mobile interfaces. The focus of this game is to enhance user interactivity and realistic experience by coupling the high-resolution tabletop virtual environment and PDA mobile interface. This paper describes the game design followed by the system design and its detailed implementations. It also discusses the system usability and recommendation for its improvements after interviewing game players and then concludes with future research directions.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.371-377
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• 2016

In the area of mobile game, the job of data analysis is very important. As the mobile game market is being expanded, the characteristics of the market have been so much changed, that the contents updating and marketing strategy should be built on thorough understanding and analysis result of the gamers' needs and their play pattern. Thus the importance of the mobile game management system can not be overemphasized. However, in practice, most of the mobile game companies are small scale, and they have intrinsic problem to provide successful game service to user with a dedicated operating team. To overcome these problems, this paper suggests an efficient mobile game management system based on our already developed mobile game. And the effectiveness of our system is illustrated by our case examples such as prompt response to user question or refund request. Our proposed system also played an important role to plan additional contents update, providing scientific data analysis result on user's play pattern and purchase trend.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.355-363
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• 2019

This study is an analytical case study focusing on 'low-budget' mobile game development centered on both short-term development and small-scale collaboration. This study set up the assumption of four months as development period limited by three developers along with step by step productional documentation. In the previous study, we set up the responsibilities of the development personnels to analyze the effective process of the practical production. Furthermore, the study analyzed the usability verification of both advantages and disadvantages for conducting the quantitative survey with developer's feedbacks. The study is to provide the essential guideline for 'low-budget' development group with effective pipeline.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.01a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2018

모바일 게임 시장은 국내외를 막론하고 상승세를 보이는데 그 중 국내 모바일 게임회사 또한 크게 성장하고 있다. 국내 회사들은 유니티 게임 엔진의 장점인 멀티 플랫폼을 활용하여 안드로이드, iOS 등 플랫폼에 구애 받지 않고 최적화 기법을 사용하여 플랫폼에 맞는 게임을 제작하고 있다. 이러한 유니티 엔진의 장점들을 활용해 쉽고 빠르게 디펜스 게임을 제작 해 본다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 게임에서의 오브젝트 풀 기법, 애니메이터 개념과 구현 방법에 대해 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.91-97
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• 2014

In this paper, we design and implement a mobile game based on windows phone platform. Visual Studio and the Windows Mobile software development kit(SDK) and developer tool kits (DTK) make it possible to create software for the Windows Mobile platform in Visual C#. Also The XNA Framework is the set of .NET libraries that developers will code against to build games. XNA Framework support PC and XBOX and a ZUNE HD multiplex platform environment and 2D and 3D games provides the necessary functions to a development. XNA Framework is to make it easier to develop games because the codes which are succeeded creates with automatic, implements a game development relation resource and the game logic. The key idea of our game is that we use shooting and ranking system to raise fun.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.47-48
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• 2016

전 세계 게임 시장을 분석해 보면 온라인 및 PC게임 시장 보다 모바일 게임 시장이 크게 성장하고 있는 추세이다. 본 논문에서는 기존 슈팅게임에 색다른 재미인 탄환 흡수 및 특수 스킬 기능을 추가하여 구현한다. 장소의 제약을 덜 받는 원 핸드 플레이 게임을 구현하고, 캐릭터의 터치를 쉽게 조작할 수 있도록 하며, 몰입도를 위한 화려한 탄막들을 설계하고 개발한 것이 특징이다.