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An Analysis of Market Trend and Profitability Model for Mobile Social Game : A Case Study of Japanese Mobile Social Game (모바일 소셜게임의 시장동향 및 수익모델 분석 - 일본 모바일 소셜게임을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Han-Gook
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.82-92
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    • 2012
  • Recently people who enjoy social game via mobile devices significantly are increasing depending on the rapid adoption of smart phones and the development of the network such as LTE. Most of them are enjoying the casual gaming mobile social games that you are able to play easily, but social issues like health problems due to long play time are emerging. The users, however, do not last long because of the simplicity of the game, and there are few people who actually buy game items even though they play it long time. This study has been conducted aiming to overcome such difficulties. This study suggests ways to generate constantly revenue avoiding short-term box-office after the release of mobile social games based on the analysis for market trend and profitability of the mobile social game. In addition, by applying profitability model analyzed to Japan's most successful game practices, this paper suggests the concrete methods about the commitment of the users. For summarizing the main achievements of this paper, providing the latest market information about mobile social games, analysis of profitability, practical implications for the commitment of the users are presented.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATION OF STADIUMS

  • Sven Schmedes
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.269-272
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    • 2011
  • The impact of a new stadium on the urban context and regional development is significant. Especially where several new stadiums are built for single mega events like the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or the Soccer World Cup the impact is even higher. Objective of this paper is to identify and analyze the key drivers for sustainable integration of stadiums within the existing context. The level of sustainability is analyzed based on four different categories: urban, social, environmental and economics. Particular focus is on the project management strategy for implementation of the key drivers during pre-design, design and execution. In conclusion key elements of the project management strategy for sustainable integration of a stadium within the urban, environmental, social and economic context are summarized.

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A Study on The Disturbed's Healing Games of Green Contents Concept (그린콘텐츠 개념을 적용한 정신장애 치료게임 연구)

  • Lee, Yeon-Sook
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2007
  • Functional Games, which have developed in Korea until now, is only for the healthy people's education. There are less functional games for neglected people, specially for the disturbed's healing. I define 'Green Contents' as contents which is helpful to both of nature and human, especially to the week, and also they are not developed only for the commercial aim. Functional Games for the disturbed's healing should be developed as' Green Contents.' If functional games for the disturbed's healing will be developed as aspects of technology and contents development, they will have more effects to people, and also people will need them more. For this study, I analyze art therapy, which is a normal treatment to give a social nature and self respect to the disturbed. Also I developed a functional game program for the disturbed's healing as based on psychoanalyst's theories and suggest it's Road-map. This study will be useful for the developer who want to develop this kinds of games afterwards, and various functional games for the disturbed's healing as Green Contents should be more developed in the near future.

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Potential Risks Associated with eSportsmen Activities: an Empirical Study

  • Bonkalo, Tatyana I.;Stepanova, Olga N.;Latushkina, Elena N.;Kozlyatnikov, Oleg A.;Kumancova, Elizaveta S.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.280-284
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of the study was to identify the level of development of gaming disorder among e-sportsmen as a potential risk of their activity. Three groups were formed for the study. The first group consisted of 102 e-sportsmen aged between 18 and 32; the second group consisted of boys of the same age who, according to preliminary questionnaires, played computer games fairly frequently - at least once a week (n = 102); the third group consisted of individuals of the same gender and age, but who did not share a passion for computer games (n = 102). The study was performed using semi-structured interview during which the respondents filled out the Computer gaming disorder questionnaire developed and tested by O.M. Vidova under our supervision. Our study showed that among 102 e-sportsmen, 82,3% did not have any computer gaming disorder, only some tendency thereto. While 17,6% of e-sportsmen were characterized by a pronounced gaming disorder. E-sportsmen who prefer strategies, less than all other e-sportsmen, tend to escape from reality and accept the game role, to express their emotions through the game, and in general have the lowest level of dependence on games. Additionally, strategic e-sportsmen are most likely to study the game thoroughly and to develop themselves with it. Many Starcraft e-sportsmen tend to explore the possibilities of the game in detail and, at the same time, protect themselves from escaping into virtual reality. The risk of computer gaming disorder among e-sportsmen is largely determined by their sports achievements, the type of sports activity (individual or team), and genre of the preferred computer game.

Effectiveness of Behavior Group Counseling Utilizing the Games of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (게임을 이용한 행동적 집단상담이 ADHD 아동의 행동변화에 미치는 효과)

  • Cho, Bung Hwan;Lim, Kyung Hee
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.167-182
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    • 2002
  • The effectiveness of behavior group counseling using the games of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) was studied with 24 primary school children (12 each in the experimental and in the control groups). The subjects were selected on the basis of the Abbreviated Conners Teacher Rating Scale-Revised. The counseling program consisted of 12 sessions over a 6-week period. Effectiveness of the training was evaluated with the Conners Teacher Rating Scale-Revised, the ADHD teacher's rating scale, and the Korea-Child Behavior Checklist. Findings were that the group receiving counseling exhibited improved attention, social relationships, and self control. They also exhibited decreased carelessness-passivity, hyperactivity, hostility and fewer behavior problems.

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The Metaverse and Video Games: Merging Media to Improve Soft Skills Training

  • Shin, Edward;Kim, Jang Hyun
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2022
  • Education systems have made efforts to prepare students by providing technical and nontechnical courses. With video games, however, there is the potential to develop dedicated metaverses that can help teach soft skills even during casual pastimes. The research conducted will propose a set of design practices for metaverse and game development to promote soft skills. While there are many soft skills people can acquire, this paper will focus on certain aspects based on specific games and studies. There will be some information collected from the information to support the design model and arguments. This paper will provide developers with a starting point for imaginative game creation and impart users with soft skills to assist in their professions and social life.

Women's Field Hockey Pass Analysis using Social Network Theory (사회연결망 이론을 활용한 여자필드하키 패스분석)

  • Choi, Eun-Young;Kim, Ji-Eung;Lee, Seung-Hun;Park, Jong-Chul
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.471-477
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyse the attacking pattern of the key player through plenty of passes on field hockey between the winning games and losing ones through the preliminary game and the tournament. It has shown that the Korean women national team on field hockey is analysed all the passes through the sportscode for the 6 games of the World-League Final, and is investigated the centrality through the social network analysis using the R analytic software. The result is followed : First, It has shown three tendencies on the preliminary games that it has shown a lower Degree-Centrality, a same with Closeness, and a higher Betweenness than the tournament. Second, It has also described on winning games that it has explained a lower Degree-Centrality, a same with Closeness, and a higher Betweenness than losing games. On the conclusion, it has revealed that Korean women national team on field hockey showed a tendency that prefer to use a counter-attacking. Based on these study, expect to be used as a way to analyze performance in the field.

Why do People Play P2E (Play-to-Earn) Games?: Focusing on Outcome Expectation and Social Influence (P2E(Play-to-Earn) 게임 지속이용의도에 대한 연구)

  • Jang, Moonkyoung
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.23-44
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    • 2022
  • With the development of blockchain technology, play-to-earn (P2E) games, one of the decentralized applications (dApps), are receiving great social attention. P2E games are positively evaluated as areas with high growth potential based on blockchain technology, and at the same time, they are negatively evaluated as speculative as people can cash P2E game items in the form of cryptocurrency. In this situation, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting the intention to use P2E games. Along with the discussion of hedonic system adoption, we consider the factors with perceived enjoyment, economic incentive, and social influence. In order to verify our research model, data were collected from 350 adults with P2E game experience or recognition, and a structural equation model was carried out. The analysis results find that perceived enjoyment and subjective norm have a significant positive effect on the intention to use P2E games, and economic incentive does not have a significant effect. In addition, peer influence and external influence have a significant positive effect on subjective norm. Drawing on these findings, we present several academic and practical implications for future research.

Sequential Step of Simulacre in Social Network Game (소셜 게임에 나타난 시뮬라크르의 연속단계)

  • Seo, Seong-Eun
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2012
  • In SNG, actual users enter virtual space with their real identity. They can enter the game space easily and rapidly from the real space and can get out of it easily. For such free crossing between the virtual and the real, every character, space image and game play has symbolic reality. While paying attention to the game play process of SNG such symbolic reality is constructed into the virtual world in the game, this study intends to identify that it follows an order of simulacre by Baudrillard. As the result of analysis, it shows that SNG promotes easy entering the game space while reflecting the reality to the most in the opening part of game play. And, gradually concealing reality, it reaches a pure simulacre step while covering up and distorting absence of the reality. If we compare it with the direct entering the pure similacre step in the existing Online games like MMORPG, we can know that such a game play process according to the similacre order may be the distinct game characteristic of SNG.

Effect of Constraint and Supporting Features of Mobile Social Networking Games(SNGs) on User's Satisfaction (모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임의 제약과 지원 기능이 사용자의 만족에 미치는 영향)

  • IM, Chae-Rin;SHIN, Young-soo;KIM, Jin-woo;LEE, In-seong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.353-367
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    • 2015
  • From the era of feature phone to the current smart phone which bloomed Social Network Games(SNGs), mobile games have held the top position as killer contents of mobile market. Mobile game has many constraints such as specification of device, network status, and external environment. Based on common perspective of game research, these factors have negative influences on flow of user. Even with these opinions, most mobile gamers have felt satisfaction. To explain this phenomenon, our research focuses on the constraints. Referring to theoretical concepts, we attempt to clarify the relationship between game features and flow through survey methodology. Our finding shows that the constraints have a positive effect on flow even though it disaccords with previous studies. Therefore, we argue that users of mobile game have sense of satisfaction not a cognitive overload as discomforts.