• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.531-539
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• 2011

A board-game is the genre which is the oldest among various game genres. Reflecting the issues, aspects & trend of the era, It contains social & cultural sources. For family activity, socializing & human networking, It is regarded such a good alternative leisure replacing on-line video game causing negative infection. In this research, for city marketing usage, we develop a specifically designed board-game with the source of historical people, must-see sights & local products. Also educational & commercial purposes are seriously considered.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.39-49
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• 2010

The fundamental characteristic that digital games have is interactivity. Digital games need to be systematically categorized so that similarities and differences can be identified and analyzed. Research in the past, however, has not established common criteria for categorizing digital games. This paper resolves that gap by identifying the fundamental characteristic of games, interactivity, and develops a conceptual framework consisting of primary and corresponding participants, and controlling characters. Through an empirical analysis on some digital games, this study shows that the framework could be comprehensive covering all of interactivity during the game. Future research topics are presented based on this framework.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.87-104
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• 2021

Ludo-narrative dissonance is a prevalent problem among open-world genre video games. However, Ghost of Tsushima (2020) alleviates this issue by designing its characters and narrative structure influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films. The game's protagonist represents "Bushido," a samurai code, and the structure exudes similarity to Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey," which heavily influenced Kurosawa's films. The developers also designed the gameplay mechanics such as level-up system, map design, and side quests based on these narrative traits, ultimately making the goal of the narrative and the gameplay mechanics cohesive.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2019

Capcom released Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition on January 17, 2018. It also launched STREET FIGHTER 30th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. This product is a compilation of 12 of the Street Fighter series. The Street Fighter series was refocus by this work. In terms of game musical, Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V almost used the Street Fighter II's melody. This means that the theme music of each character of Street Fighter 2 has a great influence on the sequel. Therefore, it is expected that analyzing the theme music of the original Street Fighter II will inspire game music composers. As a result of studying series of Street Fighter, the difference of form and genre was remarkable.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.925-928
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• 2014

Currently, smart phone game's advances are going to more similar to the development of a computer games. there are many similar portions between an affinity for the genre of the game and the kind of developed game, which smart-phone technology is going to reach the computer's ability. In this paper, According to the pc online games and mobile game's graphics technology and the development of the network, there are analysis about An preference of the game by the user by the chronological situation, and about factors of results of preferred direction by the user.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.17-32
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• 2021

This study focused on the games that were in the spotlight during the One Source Multi-use era, analyzing game based movies and the games. Through this, we wanted to examine the phenomena, changes, and in-depth meanings of the genre and grammar. Using Vogler's "12 Stages of the Hero Journey" and Greimas's "Model actantie" the three works of Need for Speed, Assassin Creed and Warcraft were cross-analyzed. Through this analysis, we looked at the structure of the discourse and identified the significant messages brought by the change in text.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.75-88
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• 2020

Some games distract the player's immersion on purpose through the progression and direction of the game, thereby giving them an opportunity for rational awareness. In this paper, we tried to analyze the characteristics and types of alienation strategies of digital games. So we investigated the anti-immersive property of the game with the effect of Brecht 's alienation and proposed three strategic types of digital games that cause the anti-immersive effect into 'disturbance of sensory information', 'reversal of narrative and overturning of genre' and 'limitation of experience'.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.112-122
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• 2016

In line with the increase in consumer demand for mobile games, game companies face stiff competition. For a more successful marketing strategy, many game companies actively adopt Cross Promotion. The Cross Promotion marketing strategy in the mobile game is regarded as a low cost and high efficiency marketing method because the game companies provide new experiences to game users by utilizing existing game infrastructure and absorbing current users of game companies. Despite the advantages of Cross Promotion, there has been little practical study on the relationship between Cross Promotion and mobile game acceptance. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to determine the influential factors of Cross Promotion on the acceptance of mobile games. After reviewing previous research, a structural model was established, a survey was performed and the model was analyzed. The managerial implications are suggested along with the concluding remarks.

• 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.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.61-68
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• 2013

Compared to the past, the number of disabled people in Korea is continuing to increase. As for the scope of the disability, it is expanding as well since it now includes all types of illnesses, car accidents, complications resulting from aging, industrial accidents and others accidents. Attempts are made in terms of applying sports game method that grafts IT technology in order to ensure that the disabled people participate continually in sports. While casting away the notion of play which was the role of a game in the past, new roles and domains were developed. In fact, serious game genre is what leads this change. Because serious game is leading the game industry fast, centered on education, sports, fitness and medical use, its market value can be considered very significant since it can be both fund and effective as it targets the disabled who cannot enjoy sports easily in reality. Accordingly, this research seeks to present the direction for the application of serious game for the disabled people by analyzing the current situation pertaining to the integrated and converged cases applied to the field of sports for the disabled when it comes to the serious game that uses contents based on the IT technology.