• Digital Contents
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• no.3 s.130
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• pp.100-102
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• 2004

‘리니지는 잊어라’라는 자극적인 카피 문구로 공개서비스를 시작했던 온라인RPG ‘라키아’. 이 게임의 핵심은‘무한전쟁’시스템이다. 보통 사냥과 레벨업이 주가 되는 MMORPG와 달리 전쟁에 대한 매우 새로운 시스템으로 차별성 있는 접근 을 통해 커뮤니티의 극대화를 목표로 하고 있다. 또한 윤도현과 김소현, 남경주, 드렁큰타이거, 이재훈 등이 게임OST 제작에 참여하고 PC방에 무료로 서비스하기로 결정해 화제를 모으기도 했다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.11 s.162
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• pp.85-87
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• 2006

신화ㆍ전설ㆍ동화 등은 MMORPG의 단골소재로 등장한다. 유저들이 익히 알고 있는 내용이 게임의 스토리로 등장할 경우 친밀감이 높아지기 때문이다. 이번에 소개할 테오스 온라인(이하 <테오스>)도 그리스 신화를 바탕으로 제작돼 유저들의 관심을 끌고 있는 온라인게임으로 <노바1492>의 개발사로 알려진 아라마루의 두 번째 작품이기도 하다.<테오스>의 세계로 들어가 보다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.9 s.136
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• pp.114-117
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• 2004

천편일률적인 노가다(?)성 MMORPG에 식상한 한 게이머, 캐주얼게임에 접속해본다. 하지만 뭔가 아쉽다. 이런 게이머에겐‘요구르팅’이 제격이다. 엔틱스소프트가 제작하고 네오위즈가 배급을 맡은 3D 온라인게임인 요구르팅은 학원을 배경으로 한 코믹한 설정과 콘솔게임 같은 연출효과에 커뮤니티성까지 더했다. 개발기간 2년에 개발비 100억원, 개발인력이 50여명 넘게 투입돼 공개 전부터 화제가 되기도 했던 이 게임을 소개한다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.8 s.135
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• pp.76-78
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• 2004

전세계 라그나로크 온라인 게이머들이 한국에 모여 실력을 겨루는 축제의 자리가 마련됐다. 전세계 18개국, 2,500만명의 유저들에게 사랑받고 있는 MMORPG 라그나로크 온라인을 개발, 서비스하고 있는 그라비티는 지난달 17일과 18일 양일에 걸쳐 서울 코엑스 태평양관 전관에서‘제1회 라그나로크 월드 챔피언십’대회를 개최했다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.5 s.144
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• pp.88-90
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• 2005

NHN의 온라인게임‘아크로드’의 기세가 무섭다. 서비스 2주만에 동시접속자수 7만명을 기록한데 이어 지난달 19일 누적 회원수 100만명을 돌파한 것. NHN이 100억원 이상을 들여 만든 MMORPG라는 점에서 화제가 되긴 했지만, 클로즈베타 서비스 당시 전문가들로부터 혹평을 받았던 점을 감안하면 분명 놀라운 상승세다. 오픈베타 서비스를 시작한 아크로드를 살펴봤다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.115-125
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• 2007

This study analyzed the importance of user activity, communication between users and identity establishment by growth and change of player's character through users' communication structure and then it classified such an importance into activity by group, dealings, information sharing, duel and strategy performance. It also looked into the plans to revitalize smooth social relationship and suggested for users to behave with responsibility in virtual society. In the virtual space where thousands of people connect and interact with each other every day, users find out their identities through human relationship with others proceeding solo story. What is more important is that users consider virtual space as a society and feel collective responsibility on words and behavior against others.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.482-489
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• 2006

How to process event message traffic efficiently is important to collaboration among multiple distributed users, and it is a key research issue in the virtual environment fields. AOI model is one of solutions for this problem; which reduces message traffic by restricting event propagation region into an area in which a user is interested. However, in previous systems, it is difficult to adapt to dynamic environment where changes in the number and movement of participants are frequent. This paper proposes a new event management model, called extended AOI model, which is helpful to improve flexibility and efficiency of traditional models, and is able to extend its functions by introducing multi-layered regions. The proposed model can be applied to DVE and MMORPG as an event filtering model.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2008

This research investigates on relationships between game experience and its positive effects by using social self-efficacy measurement. When playing MMORPG, game users communicate with each other and go through various social experiences. Thus, online game offer a virtual place where we can have social interactions and it eventually expands our daily life. In this study, we used regression analysis to explore how online game experiences influence social self-efficacy. The results indicated that a group with higher frequency game use presented higher social self-efficacy. We suggest future researches and discussions focusing on the positive effects of game use rather than negative issues and game restrictions.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.121-129
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• 2011

In an online-game, the various game service victimized cases are generated by the bots program or auto program. Particularly, the abnormal collection of the game money and item loses the inherent fun of a game. It reaches ultimately the definite bad effect to the game life cycle. This paper collects and analyzes the pattern of game behavior change for the bots detection method. By using the game activity changing information of the human and game activity changing information of the bots, the degree of resemblance was measured. It utilized in the bots detection method. In an experiment, by using the served online-game, the model of a user and bots were generated and similarity was distinguished. And the reasonable result was confirmed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.199-208
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• 2017

Since the study by Turkle(1995), the concept of identity play in MMORPGs has been employed primarily to explain the reflection of users' identity in the avatar creation process in online games. This study attempts to conceptualize the identity play of the design process in which the user uses the avatar customizing system to create an avatar in the virtual world. This research verified the model of identity play through players' avatars, a model of the components of identity play constructed. The aims of this study pursued through an analysis of correlations of users' attitudes toward avatars. This study performed structural equation modeling to verify hypotheses about the variables that affect online identity play.