• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.45-57
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• 2019

NOS education through the history of science is regarded effective. However, science teaching has been criticized for not considering the interest of the learners enough and providing the context of learning themes that hinder the understanding of NOS. This study intends to convey the NOS element through the rich context of storytelling. The theme of the story is the history of continental drift, in which, the debate of many scientists and Wegener's creativity are prominent. Of the various media that deliver storytelling, the most powerful medium that leads to personal immersion is computer games, and among many kinds of games, the main genre of storytelling is role-playing games (RPGs). We developed the science history role-playing game (SHRPG) focusing on continental drift. The game development procedure followed Kim's 4F process (2017), which consists of the Figure Out, Focus, Fun Design, and Finalize. The story was constructed based on the NOS elements of Lederman et al. (2002), namely creativity and imagination demand, subjectivity, socio-cultural personality and tentativeness, which are all present in the story of the continental drift theory. The mechanics and rules of the RPG included quests, rewards, quizzes, NOS scores, and rankings. In the final phase of development, the game developed was pilot tested four times. The results of the tests showed that students' understanding of NOS through SHRPG has increased, especially in the creativity domain. The students' satisfaction with the fun, sympathy, and immersion during the game was very high.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.234-241
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• 2018

The study of classifying gamer types or analyzing the characteristics of gamers is a field of interest for data analysis researchers. From the past to the present, much research has been done on gamer categorization and gamer analysis. However, most studies use surveys or bio-signals, which is not practical because it is difficult to obtain large amounts of data. Even if the game log is used, it is difficult to analyze the psychology of the gamer because the gamer is categorized and analyzed by extracting only statistical values. However, if we can extract the cognitive psychology information of the gamer from the basic game log, we can analyze the gamer more intuitively and easily. In this paper, we extracted eight cognitive psychological features representing the behavior and psychological information of the gamer using Crazy Dragon's game log, which is a mobile Role-Playing-Game (RPG). In addition, we classified gamers based upon cognitive psychological features and analyzed them using eight cognitive psychological features. As a result, most gamers were highly correlated with one or two types.

• Korean Journal of School Psychology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.471-499
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to develop a program that reduces adolescent delinquency and enhances adolescents' social problem-solving, emotional regulation, and self-control skills and to assess the effectiveness of the program. The program was administered in the form of a role-playing game ("RPG") to increase the participants' motivation to participate in and the effectiveness of the therapy. The subjects in this study were 36 adolescents who engaged in delinquent behavior and their 18 homeroom teachers in middle schools located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The subjects were randomly assigned to the experimental group or the comparison group. The experimental group received the proposed RPG-based cognitive behavioral group therapy while comparison group received problem-solving group therapy. Teachers in the experimental group were educated about how to guide their students following each therapy session while teachers in the comparison group did not receive any education. The dependent variables in this study were incidences of delinquent behavior and social problem-solving, emotional regulation, and self-control skill level. Each variable was assessed before treatment, immediately after the end of the full treatment program, and two months after the end of the full treatment program. At the end of the full treatment program, the experimental group engaged statistically significantly in fewer delinquent behaviors and displayed statistically significantly higher levels of social problem-solving, emotional regulation, and self-control skills than the comparison group. These differences persisted until the assessment two months after the end of the full treatment program. Moreover, the experimental group reported higher levels of satisfaction with the treatment program than the comparison group. The findings of this study suggest that this RPG-based cognitive behavioral group therapy program is effective at reducing adolescent delinquency, improving adolescents' social and emotional management techniques and strategies for avoiding delinquency, and in motivating delinquent adolescents to engage more actively in treatment.

• Digital Contents
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• no.3 s.130
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• pp.100-102
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• 2004

‘리니지는 잊어라’라는 자극적인 카피 문구로 공개서비스를 시작했던 온라인RPG ‘라키아’. 이 게임의 핵심은‘무한전쟁’시스템이다. 보통 사냥과 레벨업이 주가 되는 MMORPG와 달리 전쟁에 대한 매우 새로운 시스템으로 차별성 있는 접근 을 통해 커뮤니티의 극대화를 목표로 하고 있다. 또한 윤도현과 김소현, 남경주, 드렁큰타이거, 이재훈 등이 게임OST 제작에 참여하고 PC방에 무료로 서비스하기로 결정해 화제를 모으기도 했다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2003

Although the user needs for computer game have been complicated and fragmented, new game development of Korean computer game developers are carried out from the developer's perspective. In the light of this limitation. This study introduces conjoint that designs an optimal new product for game users. We applied the conjoint analysis to Koran game market and found several important issues regarding Koran game users. Our results show that, regardless of game types, Korean game useis' preference mainly center on "variety of game."

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.141-143
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• 2017

많은 사람이 스마트폰을 소유하고 어디에서나 스마트폰 사용 모습을 볼 수 있을 만큼 스마트폰의 사용이 일상화되어 가고 있다. 스마트폰 사용 중 특히 모바일게임은 스마트폰이 보급된 이후 꾸준히 성장해온 시장으로 많은 게임이 있다. 그 가운데 국내 모바일 게임 시장에서 인기가 있는 게임은 RPG(Role Playing Game)게임이다. RPG 게임은 게임의 재미를 위하여 오랜 시간 성장이 필요하고, 자동기능을 통해 게임을 즐기기보다는 성장에 주목적을 두고 게임을 하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 간단한 조작만으로 게임을 즐길 수 있는 아케이드 게임을 설계하고 Unity를 사용하여 이를 구현하였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.13-22
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• 2006

Games such as sports, RTS, RPG, which teams of players play, require advanced artificial intelligence technology for team management. The existing artificial intelligence enables an intelligent agent to have the autonomy solving problem by itself, but to lack interaction and cooperation between agents. This paper presents "Level Unified Approach Method" with effective role allocation and autonomy in multiagent system. This method allots sub-goals to agents using role information to accomplish a global goal. Each agent makes a decision and takes actions by itself in dynamic environments. Global goal of Team coordinates to allocated role in tactics approach. Each agent leads interactive cooperation by sharing state information with another using Databoard, As each agent has planning capacity, an agent takes appropriate actions for playing allocated roles in dynamic environments. This cooperation and interactive operation between agents causes a collision problem, so it approaches at tactics side for controlling this problem. Our experimental result shows that "Level Unified Approach Method" has better performance than existing rental approach method or de-centralized approach method.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.222-228
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• 2016

Uniform navigation of NPCs in computer games is an important factor that can decrease the interest of game players. This problem is particularly noticeable in pathfinding when using a waypoint graph because the NPCs navigate using only predefined locations. In this paper we propose a method that enables adaptive navigations of NPCs by observing player movements. The proposed method involves modification of waypoints dynamically by observing the player's point designation and use of the modified waypoints for NPC's pathfinding. Also, we propose an algorithm to find the NPC-specific path by learning the landform preferences of players. We simulate the implemented algorithm in an RPG game made with Unity 4.0 and confirm that NPC navigations had more variety and improved according to player navigations.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.91-100
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• 2017

A player character has a significant influence on immersion. In order to understand the consumers, it is necessary to compare age and gender of player characters, which is the most basic feature of the player character. We selected a prize winning work of 15 years of USA and japanese as research subjects(in RPG and Adventure), classified age and gender of player characters and analyzed the result. In the japanese games, the ratio of pre-set player characters was 94.3% for age and 88.6% for gender. In the USA games, It was the order of the pre-set character which did not specify the age and the customized type character. In this research, we would like to contribute guidelines for player character setting to successfully advance into the USA and Japanese game market.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.309-316
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• 2015

The styles by character type in customizing systems were analyzed, being classified into creative style, attractive style, grotesque style, usual style, and suit style on the basis of the 'fashion style types of game characters' proposed in the previous research. The creative and convergent designs that couldn't be implemented in reality were expressed in various forms because those designs were created in virtual space, one feature of games. The analysis of the fashion styles of characters was focused on the RPG using the characters with exaggerated body proportions beyond the general body proportions in reality and the features on game characters that were identified by gamers. Thus, the creative style and attractive style showed a high frequency. The common features were identified because the costume designs and colors for characters are generally selected in accordance with the gamers' requests or by reflecting the view on the world. However, it was difficult to find out the representative cases for hair designs and colors because of excessively diverse expressions. The results of this paper will be a valuable reference for the research on the fashion item development manual satisfying the gamers' personalities and requests and relevant research.