• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.133-142
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• 2021

This study investigated the effectiveness of 'League of Legends (LoL) game school', an e-sports online training program for relieving youth game over-flow. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's Student Education Institute ran the program. Through this study, it was found that various activities to learn an e-sports game professionally and to explore career paths regarding game had positive effects on students' affections and intrinsic motivation. This study may contribute to helping youth as generation Z understand a healthy game culture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.405-408
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• 2012

Recently, Smartphone takes center stage as the next generation game platform, so there's fierce competition between various companies which enter the mobile market. According to Smartphone market is wide, Smart phone App game sound is more widely. This study attempts to analyse the role of sound effects and BGM(background music) during game play or game development, and make a comparison between game play with and without Sound effects, so that to suggest the direction of development of the App game sound for Smartphone and to remind the importance of sound effects and emphasize the necessity of development of the professional game sound.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.75-85
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• 2010

In addition to the quantitative growth of the games industry as a game addiction and social problems have also been increased. Addiction adoption of the resolution was presented to the fatigue system. In this study, flow and addiction affects 6 factors(self-control, positive expectations, interest, competition, positive self-efficacy, negative self-efficacy), depending on whether the adoption lag Flow to affect in any empirical analysis. This fatigue system effect on the game development and to enhance users' flow to do what strategies for theoretical and practical implications are to provide.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.49-54
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• 2016

Development of AR/VR has expanded computer games from indoor static contents to outdoor dynamic contents. The syndrome of 'Pokemon Go' which is a representative AR game was born, and Nintendo's stock price shot up a massive 120%. Although some people gained profits, new damages are emerging including illegal intrusion or road accidents because it is a type of game to visit real locations. There are reported about 114 thousand road accidents related to the game. This study aims to examine the trends of AR game in 2016 and analyze damages and positive cases to suggest a method for preventing accidents due to the AR game, and a business model.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.159-170
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• 2011

It seems that social distrust toward morality of video games has not been deducted even the influence of video game has increased drastically for last few decades. To rationalize the identity of video game and its social legitimacy, this paper first considered video game genre as a new art form. By doing so, we could derive various aesthetical and moral issues to dispute in modern society. Secondly, by considering former issues, this study could figure out moral vulnerabilities of the genre according to its own form, by categorizing them into virtual reality, interactivity and simulation. To suggest most effective way to overcome its immorality by functionalize social feedbacks which elaborately designed based on John Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics and immoralism.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.111-122
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• 2013

In accordance with mandatory enforcement action of the Web Accessibility, Web accessibility is increasing interest in society. People are facing with disability situations, and the elder people are facing with disability situation more and more. 'Everyone' is faced with disability situations. The value of the universality of accessibility oriented. The game is typical of modern society and culture activities, but society in Korea is still recognized as a special minority cultures. To understand about conflict over the game, we access game accessibility as a Despotic conditions. Game Accessibility implies a social meaning ; Cultural values of universal access to games, literacy games, new business creation, contents accessibility.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1649-1659
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• 2017

China, Korea and Japan are all neighbors, but there are quite a few differences in monster culture. In this article, through studying of Korea games highest export countries--China and Japan, as well as analysis on their historical origin of development of "Monster culture", so as to explore the similarities and differences between development of monster culture. In addition, combining these differences and similarities, through the study of "monster culture" related game works, it aims to explore the impact of these countries' monster culture on modern life culture and the development characteristics of all kinds of monsters under the background of modern culture. Besides, based on above analysis, developed a monster character design that can form a bond of sympathy in three countries by comparing and combining the most popular parts of the monster characters in this three countries. The final aim is to create a game monster character that both in rich ancient culture charm and loved by all people, so as to being taken as an example to illustrate the significance and value of promoting the development of monster culture. The result of this research will help to design monster characters in game production in the future.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.341-352
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• 2019

Recently, e-sports has been receiving social attention. Game leadership is a necessary skill to perform effective game tasks, and it is very important to e-sports game and improve teamwork. As a result, there is a need to identify psychosocial factor that promote game leadership. This study tried to examine how game motivation, game efficacy, and psychological factors(self-control, social intelligence, self-esteem) reported to have an important effect on leadership have relation with game leadership to MOBA genre users who were known to consider role of game leadership as important factor. We used data from 196 adolescents using MOBA games for surveys. As a result of analysis, internet game time, game efficacy, and social intelligence had a positive relationship with game leadership. And game motivation(social, exploration and escape) also had a positive effect on game leadership. But self-control, self-esteem and some game motivations(acquisition, achievement) was not significant.

• Review of Culture and Economy
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.53-88
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• 2018

Among the cultural industries, the game industry is the most economically valuable industry. It has been about twenty years since the game policy has been implemented and the game laws have been enacted. If the law is a willing expression for the realization of the policy, the orientation of the game policy can be grasped through revision of the game laws. SOUND RECORDS, VIDEO PRODUCTS, AND GAME SOFTWARE ACT, established in 1999, and GAME INDUSTRY PROMOTION ACT, which was enacted in 2006, are regulated by many revisions. In this paper, I try to understand the direction and meaning of Korean game policy(classification, game dysfunction, gambling, industry growth) through the contents of the revision of the game law for 20 years. The game policy shown through the amendment of the game law is intended to protect the game by regulating the game, and to protect the game user by preventing the gambling and preventing the game dysfunction, and to increase autonomy of users and choice of producers by switching to self rating system, and based on this, an environment for continuous industrial growth is created. In the future, game policies should consider cooperation with social areas beyond game-specific areas. On the other hand, it needs to respond to new agendas such as polarization of industrial structure, fair environment, employment environment.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.119-130
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of traditional art expressions in recent Chinese online games, which are now most popular in Chinese game market. Designing the MMORPG game character reflecting users' psychological preferences for aesthetic characteristic of the traditional Chinese culture allows the users to feel more visual satisfaction while they are enjoying a game. The selected characters for this analysis were chosen from the traditional myth chivalry game to utilize the traditional art expressions that are peculiar in Chinese MMORPG. The analysis was conducted within the context of an ideal character figure and operation, and social nature reflecting a personal user. This analysis suggested the representation technique reflecting traditional clothing, color, and life style, and the reconstruction of subject matter, and the development of the characteristics of ideal group character. Even though Chinese MMORPG history is short, this study will help the user understand more effectively the identity of the myth martial MMORPG game in connection with the Chinese traditional culture and art. And this study will also increase the user's satisfaction of the Chinese online-game.