• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.587-592
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• 2008

게임의 교육적 목적으로의 활용에 대해 관심이 늘고 있다. 이러한 흐름 속에서 최근 게임을 통한 리더십 함양이 화두가 되고 있다. 각 기업체에서는 직원들의 리더십 함양을 위해 게임을 활용하고자 다양한 시도를 꾀하고 있기도 하다. 특히 이 같은 흐름에는 무엇보다 MMORPG 게임이 두드러진다. 왜냐하면 MMORPG 에는 현실 세계와 흡사한 정치, 경제, 사회 시스템이 내재되어 다수의 플레이어와 협동, 경쟁을 하며 목표를 달성해나가는 과정이 담겨있기 때문이다. 하지만 현실과 많은 유사성을 가지고 있는 가상세계이지만 현실과 동일한 잣대로 가상세계에서의 사용자의 성향을 판단하기에는 아직 무리가 있다. 분명 게임이라는 가상공간과 현실세계는 명백한 차이점이 존재하기 때문이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 게임 내에서의 리더십 유형과 현실에서의 리더십 유형간의 직접적인 상관관계에 대한 연구가 아직 이루어지지 않았다는 점에 초점을 맞추었다. 다시 말해 게임을 통한 현실에서의 리더십 함양의 가능성을 언급하기에 앞서 근본적으로 현실과 가상공간에서의 리더십 양상의 상관성에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 한다고 생각된다. 본 연구는 우선 현실세계에서의 리더십 성향이 가상세계에서도 동일하게 적용되는지 1군주의 사용자를 중심으로 살펴본다. 그리고 군주 사용자의 심층인터뷰를 통하여 게임 내에서 리더십을 발현시킬 수 있는 여러 요소 (긍정적 요소 장애요소 등)를 살펴보고 향후 리더십 함양을 위한 게임 기획에 도움이 되고자 한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.103-119
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• 2006

One of the most important reasons for using online game is intrinsic motivation which relates the drive to perform a behavior for perceptions of pleasure and satisfaction from the behavior itself. Therefore, most studies for using online game have been based on theories for intrinsic motivation such as flow. However, such theories have some limitations for explaining social aspects of online games such as Massively Multiplayer Online Role Game (MMORPG), which provides a society for game players by using a virtual space for playing games so called 'persistent world'. Adaptive structuration theory (AST) is one of trying to capture the change of using IT due to social interactions between users and system. In order to explain online game players' behavior considering social interaction, we suggest a research model based on AST. Our model aims to investigate the relationship between appropriation which is determined by faithfulness of appropriation (FOA) and consensus on appropriation (COA) and performance which is represented by the relationship among perceived winning, flow, and intention of reuse. An empirical test of our model for 125 MMORPG users which is analyzed by Partial Least Square method shows very satisfactory and interesting results. While hypotheses suggested in our model are supported, the influence of COA on game performance is shown to be stronger than that of FOA.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 2007

The maps in the world of the role playing games provide not only areas for motions and actions of player characters, but also worlds of totally included monsters and NPC(Non Player Character). However, the design of maps and monsters in them could not be tested for their balances until the games had been developed quite a bit. So they need additional expense of extension period of developments. In this paper, we have designed and developed a map simulator to expect the popularities of the maps in the early stage of the game planning in order to prevent inefficient concentration of users on some maps by expecting the popularities of the maps in the early stage of game planning and by setting the parameters of monster arrangements in the map.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.465-468
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• 2012

The growth speed of the industry of national smart phone game service has become faster and the its economical and cultural effect has increased steadily these days. The DB design for data perpetuation in C/S MMO which has accumulated data a lot and many simultaneous plays like smart phone games is very important. This paper, mindful of the operation and the scalability suitable for android OS, by utilizing RDBMS, enabling very short, many transactions, their complexity, and a large amount of game data process, suggests fully-qualified MMORPG game DB design techniques widely availabe for more than online game industries.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.75-85
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• 2011

Effective and Economic game evaluation before game publishing is very important for game development company. In this paper, we designed and developed an effective web based game evaluation system according to three major game genre including MMORPG, FPS, and web game. The proposed evaluation model consists of five evaluation items such as game interest, competitiveness, technology, earning power, and market value and has common evaluation items and independent ones according to game genre. To reflect characteristics of each game genre, we divided evaluation items into common evaluation elements and individual ones according to game genre. We applied the proposed system to two real games of a game development company and showed the result.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2021

This work seeks to extract items necessary for the competitive structure of content or the balance of content through a study of the balance between users in MMORPG. The balance of the game is used in various terms and its definitions are different. To solve these problems, we conducted a literature study on the definition of balance, which extracted the log entries needed for balance. The big data of the game has very important research value, but it is not being utilized properly. Through this study, we hope to collect systematic log data and utilize it for real game operations.

• Archives of design research
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• v.20 no.1 s.69
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• pp.263-272
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• 2007

On-line game gradually grew into a significant part in Korean culture due to rapid development of internet. As icons are utilized as interface, the concept of UI(User Interface) receives spotlight in playing games, and the play bug appears most frequently in MMORPG genre. The introduction of icons brought partial inefficiency in dividing screen sectors while playing games, which means play sector is reduced. On the meantime, components of UI possess different places so that cause considerable confusion to heavy users. This study attempts to analyze the top 5 commonly-played games and to understand the necessity and status of UI components by surveying heavy users. The result of this study shows that there is notable difference between UI of games on-service and preference of heavy users. This study could suggest UI of a better quality by restructuring and rearranging the UI components based on the heavy users' preference as shown in the survey. It is expected that this study can contribute to creating a more effective game play by eliminating possible changes of UI upon different games and realizing broader play sector.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.33-46
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• 2012

This research aimed to analyze the way of how flying movement system and background graphic in MMORPG, which provides movement system, influences on users' psychological behavior in order to enhance user's participation and the completion level of 3D game. This research also analyzed the difference between the user's response to the flying movement and other movement structure in game such as things to board, summons, portal, chase, and etc. With this comparative analysis, this study could clarify the characteristics of the user's desire to fly according to the virtual world' topography in game, the necessity of flying movement for fast movement, the dependence of user on flying system, the immersion according to behavior in process of flying, and expression level of virtual world, and etc. The survey through the case research of MMORPG Aion selected for this research showed flying movement system can have suitable quality by applying users' playing time and absorption in flight process, users' impulse following game level, and users' need to fly as a convenience of flying properly.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze online game user's game items transacting behaviors for the two game genres such as MMORPG and sports game. For the sake of conducting the analysis, we adopted a fuzzy logic agent-based modeling. In the online game fields, game items transactions are crucial to game company's profitability. However, there are lack of previous studies investigating the online game user's game items transacting activities. Since many factors need to be addressed in a complicated way, ABM (agent-based modeling) simulation mechanism is adopted. Besides, a fuzzy logic is also considered due to the fact that a number of uncertainties and ambiguities exist with respect to online game user's complex behaviors in transacting game items. Simulation results from applying the fuzzy logic ABM method revealed that MMORPG game users are motivated to pay expensive price for high-performance game items, while sports game users tend to transact game items within a reasonable price range. We could conclude that the proposed fuzzy logic ABM simulation mechanism proved to be very useful in organizing an effective strategy for online game items management and customers retention.

• 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.