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Narrative Structure in "World of Warcraft" ("World of Warcraft"의 서사 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Hong
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2008
  • This paper analyzed the narrative construction of ‘World of Warcraft’ which is very popular worldwide. Narratology and ludology should be interrelated in the larger area of art, rather than existing as separate fields. Dramatic narrative constructions of game would be made when the rules of game emerge with the circumstances of play. This paper reviews how 'World of Warcraft' generates its tremendous popularity through analyzing the overall narratives of 'World of Warcraft' and sub-narratives such as quest, PvP and hunting systems. The distinctive feature of this game is its well-designed story flow which is emerged by both underlying linear original story and non-linear multi-scenario that offers rich interactivities to the game users.

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A Study on the Quests of 'Warlords of Draenor' in the Game, World of Warcraft (World of Warcraft '드레노어의 전쟁군주' 퀘스트 연구)

  • Lee, Jae Hong
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.105-114
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzed a total of 1,025 quests in the 'Warlords of Draenor' which is the fifth expansion set to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, by dividing them into violent and nonviolent quests. There was a total of 515 nonviolent quests which can be categorized into 46 types and a total of 510 violent quests that can be categorized into 7 types. The balance between violent and nonviolent quests shows that the game makers limited the number of adverse factors that can cause the players to be excessively absorbed in the game while successfully incorporating factors that can have positive effect on game players.

A Case Study on World of Warcraft Storytelling's Positive Emotion-inducing Effects (World of Warcraft의 정서유발스토리텔링 사례연구)

  • Lee, Jae Hong
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.97-106
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    • 2015
  • Game is the latest type of Gesamtkunstwerk encompassing humanistic and engineering creativity. Nevertheless, Korea's game industry faces a crisis. The purpose of this study is to consider positive emotion-inducing effects as a way to deal with it. Among others, storytelling of , one of the most representative MMORPG games in the world, was selected for the study on various positive emotion-inducing effects. In the story of , the view of the world, characters and incidents are vital to the game and the study is focused on their emotion-inducing effects among the users based on actual examples. As a result, it was confirmed that the positive emotion-inducing storytelling would provide a possibility to reduce negative sentiment towards games, address crisis Korea's game industry faces, and interact with gamers in a positive direction.

Cultural Capital in Online-RPG - Focusing on experience of 'World of Warcraft' play - (온라인 RPG에서의 문화자본 - '월드 오브 워크래프트' 플레이 경험을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Han-jeong;Ryu, Seoung-ho
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 2019
  • This paper aims to study on attribute of interaction between user from cultural capital perspective of Bourdieu who expanded the concept of capital and presented class production and reproduction through 'World of Warcraft' play and analysis. The results of this study is that First, game ability showed properties of cultural capital that embodied, objectified, institutionalized. Second, the types of interaction by difference of cultural capital appeared that lurking, reciprocity, exclusion. This study identified game ability have attributes of cultural capital and that Due to the nature of the interaction for 'Disticion', individual actions are related to the process of accumulating power and contribute to class reproduction.

A Study on the Box-office Performance of Films based on Computer Games - Forcusing on film Warcraft: The Beginning 2016 - (컴퓨터게임 원작 영화의 흥행성에 관한 연구 -영화 워크래프트 : 전쟁의 서막을 중심으로-)

  • Park, Chanik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2017
  • This study applied the scenario of the film "Warcraft: The Beginning, 2016" based on the world view and nonlinear story of online games to the basic requirements of a good story of five items. Based on this, it was found that the storyline of the film "Warcraft: The Beginning, 2016" was faithful to the game series with the same title, but weak for a film. This film did not satisfy any of the five requirements of a good scenario used for Hollywood production. Even before this film, many hit games were made into films, but box office hits are hard to find among them. As the game World of Warcraft was very famous worldwide, when it was made into a film, the film was expected to be a box office hit. However, it failed miserably at the box office. This is a result of failing to recognize that the characteristics of games that an individual leads the story are different from those of films that no interaction or choice can be made. It is necessary to understand that although games and films are the same in that they have narrative structures and visual stimulation graphics, they are totally different in the way they immerse people.

The Analysis of Online Games with the Lens of Interactivity: The Case of World of Warcraft (상호작용성 관점의 온라인 게임 분석: World of Warcraft를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yong-Young;Jin, Seok-Hyung;Kim, Mi-Hye
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3486-3494
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    • 2010
  • It is of great importance to categorize the genres of online games in order to get a useful conceptual framework. The reason for this is so that we can distinguish between the similarities and differences between the types of games. Most of researches, however, have not provided common criteria, other than subjective criteria or experiences. This paper finds the fundamental characteristic of games, that is, their interactivity and develops a conceptual framework including primary and corresponding participants, and controlling characters. Through an empirical research on World of Warcraft, this study shows that the framework is comprehensive covering all of interactivity at WoW and an useful tool for analyzing online games.

The study of cooperation and reciprocity mechanism in MMORPG games -focused on 'World of Warcraft: Classic' (게임에서의 협력과 호혜성 메커니즘 연구 - '월드 오브 워크래프트: 클래식'을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Young-Woo;Ryu, Seoung-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2020
  • This paper studied cooperation and reciprocity mechanism by analyzing game mechanics of MMORPG 'World of Warcraft: Classic'. MMORPG is the genre of game where social interaction vigorously occurs. This study figured out the structure of cooperation based on evolutionary psychology, anthropology and social psychology through participatory observation. Four cooperation and reciprocity mechanism were drawn through investigating game mechanics like instance dungeon, clear role setting, item, soulbind. In addition, this paper suggests providing ideas of making cooperation mechanism in the field of game design.

Attraction Impact on Selecting Female Characters in Online Game -With case of World of Warcraft (온라인게임 여성캐릭터 선정에 호감도가 미치는 영향에 대한 연구 : World of Warcraft를 중심으로)

  • Yu, Yeon-Su;Park, Kyung-Mi
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02b
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    • pp.278-285
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    • 2007
  • 다양한 게임의 분야 중 온라인게임의 가장 큰 특징은 게임 속 캐릭터가 게이머 지시에 따라 역할을 수행하며 이를 통해 캐릭터가 성장하는 상호작용성을 갖는 것이다 온라인 게임에서의 캐릭터는 게이머 자신을 표현하는 대상이 되며 동시에, 현실의 자아와 게임의 세계관이 결합해서 나오는 하나의 인격체이기도 하다. 캐릭터 선정은 게이머가 게임을 시작하기 위해 진행하는 최초의 행위이기 때문에 게이머들은 각자 판단하는 기준을 사용하여 캐릭터를 선정하게 된다. 따라서 게이머의 캐릭터 선정 기준을 파악하는 것은 게임 캐릭터를 기획/디자인하는 과정에서 필수적인 사항이라고 말할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 게임캐릭터를 선정하는 과정에서 게이머의 결정에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하기 위해, WoW 여성 캐릭터의 성격과 호감도를 중심으로 가설을 설정하고 연구를 진행하였다. 캐릭터의 선정 과정과 호감도의 상관관계를 알아보기 위하여 피설문자의 캐릭터 선정 순위와 피설문자가 평가한 각각의 캐릭터의 호감도와 성격의 5요인을 분석하여 캐릭터의 선정 결과와 호강도의 관계를 도출하였다. 이를 통해 가설을 검증하고 게임 캐릭터의 기획 및 디자인 과정에서의 캐릭터 구성 방향을 제안한다.

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The Analysis of the Successful Factors from User Side of MMORPG (사용자 측면에서의 MMORPG <월드 오브 워크래프트> 성공요인 분석)

  • Baek, Jaeyong;Kim, Kenneth Chi Ho
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.42
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    • pp.151-175
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    • 2016
  • The game industry has evolved from mobile games to PC online games after the smart-phone industry was opened up. In this environment, the game industry has rather been negatively developing its commercials means than the sufficient fundamental entertainment to the users. Especially, many games were released with better graphic qualities yet poor originality, continuing to be popular without enhancing the market itself. Moreover, the user's recognition level has improved. The users share their online gaming experience easily with the development of network environment. They receive the feedbacks on the quality of the game through the online channels and media by sharing them together. The high margin of the game industry will lead to the negative feedbacks of the users, effecting them to critique the content although the market looks good for now. The game industry's evolution has to be reviewed in the perspective of users, to look back at the successful cases of the past before the mobile era by analyzing and indicating the quality of the games and content's direction. This research is focused on the success factors of from the user's point of view, which has been widely claimed as a popular game franchise publicly before the mobile games had risen. WOW has been the most successful MMORPG game with its user record of 1.2 million till now. For these reasons, this study analyzes 's success factors from the user's point of view by configuring five expert groups, sequentially applying expert group survey, interview, Jobs-to-be-done and Fishbein Model as UX methodologies based on the business model to see through its long term rein in the industry. Consequently, The success factors from the user side of MMORPG provides an opportunity for the users to interact deeply with the game by (1) using well designed 'world view' over 10 years, (2) providing 'national policy' that is based on the locations of the users' culture and language, (3) providing 'expansions' with changes in time to give the digging elements to the users.

Empty Time, Empty Space, and Non(非)-Place in World of Warcraft: The Accumulated Experience and the Recovery in Reality (<월드 오브 워크레프트>(World of Warcraft)의 빈 시간, 빈 공간, 비(非) 장소: 축적된 체험과 실감의 회복)

  • Song, Kyong-Won
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.19
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    • pp.127-143
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to aesthetically approach a game, which was popular at home, through microscopic analysis on World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft(hereunder called WOW), which improved a game method of MMORPG that had been popular conventionally at home, from several angles, is suggesting new paradigm of MMORPG game. This study aims to propose new vision on game analysis by approaching this new method from the perspective of player. For this, it divided WOW into shift method, instruction implementation method, and communication configuration method, and analyzed this, respectively, by introducing a concept of empty time, empty space, and non-place, which was borrowed from Zygmunt Bauman's "Liquid Modernity". WOW's shifting method rather extends empty time, that is, the waiting time, contrary to the conventional MMORPG, which used a method of removing. Instead of maximally reducing boring, which becomes disturbance of a game, it is what overwhelmingly enlarges time that needs to be waited, thereby being what induces a sense of time, which a player experiences daily life, to the inside of a game. WOW's instruction implementation method offers one of hugely single map instead of zone-system necessary for map loading in the discontinued form. This minutely implements even a greatly insignificant place in playing a game, thereby stirring up a sense of travel, which explores there in reality. Finally, WOW's community configuration method makes a hunting-targeted group clear, which added a concept of hunting called the raid to the existing gild system. The raid, which is a large party of being bound to the inside of Instant Dungeon, clearly gives a performance role to each of party members, thereby allowing the identity in character to be connected directly to the identity of player. Through this, the player filled the suggested 'space' with experience, thereby being able to change it into 'place' that is significant to an individual.

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