• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.7-14
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• 2014

Since educational and fun elements coexist in an educational game, it is important to come up with standards that can elicit fun with the game as well as educational standards. Many of the existing developed educational games have received low marks in the characteristics of entertainment and game design. Thus, how to make up for their entertainment characteristics is important. This paper analyzes gaming elements of puzzle games that were released for smart phones and gained massive popularity from their users and will apply them to educational games. Such games that have gained popularity and won a commercial success include Anipang, Anipang 2, Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and Pokopang. This study will analyze gaming elements of these games. By analyzing the educational games, it is applied to the game elements of casual games. In addition, we have proposed a element that can enhance the immersive. Game design elements that can improve entertainment characteristics include game rules, stages and missions. Elements that can increase immersion include items, background maps and new learning environments. This paper has significance in that it analyzes entertainment characteristics, which mean the fun of games through those that have been a commercial success and applies them to educational games.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.416-421
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• 2008

This paper realizes a system that recognizes traffic safety signs by applying the principle used for game in reverse. The game used for this paper is one that expresses the shape of temporary objects intended by the maker when the maker sees the numerical image provided on (x, y) coordinates and then expresses it on the mesh. After separating the traffic safety sign image from the input image, the system is realized by outputting the content of the sign into letters by recognizing the forms and colors constituting the sign using the puzzle game above. Our system has fast process time and better rate of recognition than the existing system with black-and-white image processing and recognition without any penciling progress.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.83-90
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• 2008

An on-line game is growing of very fast through characters of the interactive Computing and internet environment. In addition, an edu-game combing the advantages of the game and the education increase gradually. The paper proposes an edu-game system for providing knowledge through the hierarchical structure. The system differs from existing ones that combine a game and an on-line education. There are three different goals as follows. First, the paper proposes three-level of knowledge hierarchies. The method enables users to understand more easy and systematic and interesting education. Second, the graphic interface of a puzzle type is able to contact more conveniently and it provides beauties and functionalities. Third, Among them, specifically the knowledge hierarchy is not forced to users and the method also can study in detail and users can enjoy systematically e-education by using the general type of a puzzle game.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.77-86
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• 2016

As the focus of game market moves to mobile era, payment on cyber money, specifically for Gacha system, possesses a large portion for creating profit in game industry. For this reason, this study mainly focuses on Puzzle and Dragon, the mobile game of Gungho online entertainment in Japan, which has made enormous profit for several years. The analysis on consumer sentiment for Gacha are categorized as below: (1) gambling mentality and cognitive error in stochastic game in God festival (2) reactional psychology for scarcity message in limited time God festival and collaboration (3) personal satisfaction through friend system and character collection.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.157-164
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• 2003

To enhance the effect of learning in vocabulary learning, it is important first of all for learner to take active learning and be interested in learning, not cramming education. Due to this background, the instructor sometimes takes advantage of the game concepts in producing the courseware for vocabulary learning. But because of overwhelming overload in making the game-based courseware, it have been not made practical application to vocabulary learning. In this research, we study on the strategy for making practical application of the game concept to producing the courseware for vocabulary learning. And, based on the strategy, we design and implement the authoring tool of courseware for vocabulary learning based on crossword puzzle game. This tool enables instructor to produce the courseware based on crossword puzzle game easily and quickly and to make efficiently the courseware for vocabulary learning with level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.317-318
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• 2014

유전자 알고리즘은 문제 크기가 커짐에 따라 해집합이 폭발적으로 늘어나 최적해를 찾기 힘든 최적화 문제에 주로 적용되는 알고리즘으로, 최근에는 게임에서의 경로찾기, 인공지능 및 레벨디자인 문제에 많이 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 퍼즐게임에서의 레벨디자인 문제의 해법으로 유전자 알고리즘의 적용 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 적용한 퍼즐게임은 주어진 그림에 도형 조각을 가능한 빠른 시간 내에 맞추는 게임으로, 스테이지가 진행됨에 따라 높은 난이도의 퍼즐이 나타나도록 하는 것이 중요하다. 제안된 알고리즘을 통해 퍼즐게임의 유의미한 레벨 조절이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.285-287
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• 2014

본 논문은 어드벤처 게임의 몰입도를 향상시키기 위해 퍼즐요소를 추가해 개발한 게임 'Labyrinth'에 대해 다루고 있다. 'Labyrinth'는 지하유적을 탐험하며 함정을 피하고 퍼즐을 풀어 최종적으로 보물을 획득하는 게임이다. 본 논문에서는 액션 어드벤처 게임에 퍼즐요소를 추가하여 게임에 대한 사용자의 피로도를 감소시키고 몰입도를 향상시키도록 하였다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.281-284
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• 2021

The importance of early childhood education has increased and early childhood education has become an important part of the education industry. Scientific and rational early childhood education can effectively promote the development of children's intelligence and is very important for the development of physical and mental health. As a rich and diverse game, educational games have been widely used not only to improve children's sense of cooperation and thinking, but also to help children develop awareness of competition and rules. Stability and personality formation stimulate young children's brain development and expect children's intellectual improvement.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2016

This research tried to evaluate the competitiveness of a mobile game in the aspect of emotional value which was developed on the purpose of improving specific emotional features. An evaluation of emotional value of a game before its commercial service will provide an effective advice for its marketing and service. The target game to be evaluated on this research is a mobile puzzle game of match-3 genre. We compared the game with Candy crush saga and Poko pang, and the indicators used to evaluate emotional features were flow, challenge, and intention of use. The importance values of indicators were calculated using AHP. And the three games were evaluated by pair-wise comparison method. Finally, the importance values of each indicators were applied to the evaluated results to make overall game quality value.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.247-248
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 치매 등 인지기능 저하에 따른 질병을 예방하기 위한 기능성 퍼즐 게임을 설계하고 구현하였다. 치매 등 인지기능 저하에 따른 질병은 고령층에서 주로 나타난다. 이에 따라 게임의 UI와 규칙은 가급적 단순해야 하며, 동시에 기억력과 판단력, 반응속도는 향상시킬 수 있도록 해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 고령층에서도 쉽게 조작할 수 있도록 UI를 단순화시켰으며, 순간적인 인지능력과 단기기억력 및 판단력을 향상시킬 수 있는 색맞추기 퍼즐게임을 설계하고 구현하였다.