본 연구는 한국 회사에서 개발된 보드 게임 장르의 주사위 게임 “디즈니 매지컬 다이스”에서 나타나는 미 국의 디즈니 캐릭터들의 성별 분석을 실시한다. 한국의 게임 회사 넷마블이 디즈니 캐릭터들의 판권을 구입한 뒤, 모바일 플랫폼으로 디즈니 캐릭터들이 있는 주사위 게임을 출시하였다. 게임을 하면서, 플레이어들은 특정 디즈니 캐릭터들을 선택하고 주사위 게임 내에서 다른 플레이어들과 경쟁을 하며, 플레이가 파산하면 게임을 이기게 된다. 이 게임의 특징은 전 세계 사람들과 같이 할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 구체적으로, 본 연구는 디즈 니 매지컬 다이스의 디즈니 캐릭터들을 비판적으로 성별 분석을 하는데 1) 출연 (어떻게 캐릭터들이 다르게 출연하는지) 2) 능력치 (어떻게 캐릭터들이 다른 능력치를 가지고 있는지) 3) 랭킹 (순위표에서 어떻게 캐릭터 들이 순위 되어있는지)로 분석한다. 이를 통해, 현실 세계처럼 중요한 이슈인 성별 분석을 비디오 게임에서 할 뿐만 아니라, 성별, 나이, 지역 등과 상관없이 인기 있는 장르인 보드 게임의 다양한 특징들을 탐구한다.

The purpose of this study is to classify the types of Room-Escape games based on play and to derive unique narrative conventions of Room-Escape games that appear on various platforms such as online, offline, and virtual reality. The Room-Escape game sets up the 'room' and strengthens the magic circle, allowing the player to experience the 'insideness' of the place. It also applies the plot of 'the riddle' to induces players to solve puzzles and quests, as well as to infer narrative satellite events and probabilities. The Room-Escape game is a unique game genre that appears through the integration of game and narrative. It is classified into Escape-purpose-oriented type that emphasizes interaction with objects and rules, and Escape-process-oriented type which shows the enhancement of narrative features. The Room-Escape game is a game that reflects a contemporary aspect of Korean modern society desiring to escape from daily life and return at the same time.

This study was to design a game in which physical space and virtual space are mixed, and examine whether the game players could recognize the location and the building information encountered through game play. To do this, after creating a game with a mixture of physical space and virtual space, we conducted two experiments with college students. As a result, we found that players learned the spatial location and building information by playing the game made for this study, and found that the exchange and interaction between players’ acts as part of the game were able to change game play itself.

The purpose of this study is to examine location-based games from the post-human point of view, which is a combination of human and technology in digital games, devoid of media-oriented discussion of mobile media. In a location based game, there is a hybrid play aspect of topological character and player-driven self-generated play in a space where reality and virtual overlap. This is based on post-human characteristics of the player's spatial-temporal replication through the ubiquity of mobile technology. Through this, digital game has meaning as a game action that can be combined with various actors rather than a material object.

Leap Motion is a virtual reality controller which allows users to interact with the virtual objects using their bare hands. However, the controller only allows the detection of hands up to 60cm from the sensor, which means that users cannot interact with virtual objects outside the same range in the virtual space. In this paper, we propose a new interaction method to overcome the limitation of the manipulation range. The movement of virtual hands in the virtual space is accelerated by the velocity of the hand movement and the range of the reachable virtual space is expended to the current view of the virtual space. Experimental results show that users can manipulate long-distance objects in a coherent and convenient way.

According to a survey conducted in the United States of America, 43% of mobile-device-use by children aged between zero and eight years old falls into the sector of educational games. However, that percentage rises to 39% and 51% among children aged 2-4 and 5-8 years, respectively. The question, therefore, is: how can numerous mobile educational games attract the attention of children? Children are attracted to educational games because of various factors including vivid characters and enticing colors, among other elements. This research paper focuses on analyzing the character examples in eight children’s mobile educational games with differently gendered characters. The top elements considered in the eight games include the top-selling games, color distribution, and the hue frequency of every character to obtain the results. The research paper also discusses the characteristics of children’s mobile educational games for different gender characters and the methods of possibilities and considerations for effective design.

The game industry, which has been rapidly developing these days in Korean society, is a socially debated issue for the fact that some games are allegedly likely to stir up a speculative drive in people. Among others, the speculativeness of games has been paid more attention by game developers because of the prevalent belief in Korean society that basically games are gambling, which has been more consolidated by reported illegal activities committed by some users of illegal games. More disturbingly, if regulations are put on the act of gaming, not on some speculative games, the nature of games could be distorted and an unexpected adverse effect would arise as a result. This study examines the appropriateness and the effect of the current game regulation from a perspective of game developers and investigates how the regulation and its operation affect the change of the nature of games. The findings of this study are expected to bring about the deeper exploration of the effect of game regulation and broaden the view on the Korean game industry.

Compared to the early 2000s, the number of tourists in Korea has increased significantly. Approximately 40 million tourists visit Korea each year. In line with this trend, various technologies for developing tourism content have reached a very high level. Therefore, adding experience-oriented AR (Augmented Reality) game based on LBS (Location-Based System) to existing tourist contents will create a new tourism content platform that can give new experience to tourists . This paper proposes a tourism contents platform based on Suwon Hwaseong Fortress which can give such a new experience.

Media contents on historical sources rising in popularity make the people have an interest in the historically themed video games. Historically themed video games are studied from practical point of view, just like edutainment, but studies as an entertainment aren't enough. Historically themed video games have lots of advantage, historical fact telling, fictitious entertainment and easy accessibility. There is a need for broad vision to merit of historically themed video games. In this study, we present new analysis tool which is consisted with three axis, time, connection and reality for historical simulation video game. Example games are investigated on entertainment, development, education side with this tool.

These days, contents is not only exists as one genre, but also repeatedly develop to other genre by affect or fusion and developing another contents. This means entertainment industry enters overall OSMU(One Source Multi Use) age. With development of the CG technology filming of the game is actively progressing. Like “Tomb Raider”,“Resident evil”, There is some successful filming of the game case. In other side, there is many fail case of filming of the game also exist. In this paper we study game element analysis by method of film element analysis for making interactive movie of the game. For this study we using the actantial model of Algirdas Julien Greimas and the five element of film of Linda Seger. With two method, we study modeling interactive movie event flow, to be helpful for film development and possibility suggest through this study result.

Recently, many studies on Mixed Reality have been going on. Virtual Reality can only show virtual objects, but Mixed Reality combines real-world information to open up more possibilities. In the game, interaction between the player and others is an essential factor, and games based on Virtual Reality or Mixed Reality using HMD are no exception. For this, we implemented a Mixed Reality System for the Behavior-like Interaction using an additional device to HMD that supports Virtual Reality. This paper presents the theoretical content, the overall contents of the implemented Mixed Reality System, the experiment, the evaluation, and the results.

In 1970, Masahiro Mori proposed the uncanny valley concept. At the time, the proposal aroused little reaction, However, the uncanny valley is just a hypothesis, not a strict theory. Many subsequent studies have shown that it is true that the uncanny valley is reasonable; With the development of game consoles and personal computers, uncanny valley in video games will become more and more common. but, for the time being, special introductions and game related research on the uncanny valley are still very rare. In this paper, with Masahiro Mori’s uncanny valley as a benchmark and using the evolution of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft over 20 years as an example, we analyze the significance of the uncanny valley in the design of realistic adventure game characters from such aspects as facial expression and texture. It's not easy to see the development of the technology in the game by using this approach. And it makes game makers determinate the scope of uncanny valley more exactly to made better games.

This paper introduces the implementation of client and server for the FPS game which adopts the control element of the racing genre. Game playability is enhanced by combining the users interaction, shooting elements of FPS and the car control element of racing game. User’s tank can move along the slope and the client can stably synchronize with server independently of hardware. By deploying the neutral monster, game excitement is raised. Game server is designed using the IOCP socket to provide the multiplayer game. The proposed game is implemented, and shows the effectiveness of the combining method.

For game design planning education, we researched step by step learning method from storyline setting to game content evaluation. In this process, we developed 'Content Generated Tree' educational model applying the segmentation, classification, and prediction process of decision tree theory. This model is divided into the trunk stage as a story setting, the node generation stage as a content branch, and the conformity assessment. In the node generation stage, there are 'Game Theme' stage for determining the overall direction of the game, 'Interest Element' stage for finding the unique joy of the development game, and 'Game Format' stage for setting the visualization direction. The learner creates several game content combinations through content branching, and evaluates each content combination value. The education model was applied to 19 teams, and the efficiency of the step by step learning process was confirmed.

The present study investigated the spatial scanning patterns of computer monitor across game expertise. To this goal, we compared the scanning pattern of two groups: novice gamer group who has little experience of game playing and heavy game user group who played MMORPG at least for 3 years. Participants executed an icon-like detection task consisting of 25 squares on the full screen. We measured their response times (RTs) for each cell and compared them. The scanning patterns were largely different between the two groups. The novice group scanned monitor in order of the center, left, upper, lower, and right side of monitor. Where as, the heavy game user group scanned it in order of the center, upper, left, right and lower side. The difference between two group indicates that game playing modify perceptually the scanning pattern of monitor and we need to design the graphical user interface of game more in favor of novice perceptual scanning pattern to lower entry barriers of game.

This study examined how adolescents’ loneliness, aggression, self-control, and morality affect game over-indulgence. In this paper, morality can be understood as combination of altruism and social responsibility, in terms of prosocial perspective. A survey was conducted and total 1,781 responses were selected for analysis. Results showed that loneliness, aggression, self-control, and morality were significantly correlated with game over-indulgence. More specifically, high level of loneliness and aggression increased game over-indulgence. However, high level of self-control and morality diminished game over-indulgence. High level of morality enables students to cultivate interpersonal skills and facilitate positive social relations, which as a result, prevent problematic game use.

This study introduces coding education using functional computer game and board game. We direct compare two different types of the educational game for coding education and their learning achievements. The purpose of this study is mainly to compare the effect of the difference of game type on the learner's attitude, learning immersion, education satisfaction and preference for elementary school and junior high school students. In this study, we considered the effect of game platform type on learning and we suggested that when designing an educational game for coding, the proper combination of these platforms are important.

The most of casual games are two-dimensional based graphic interface and the most of matching-tile game is still gains popularity on many video game devices and variety of smart phones. These game uses two-dimensional Euclidean coordinates and uses rectangle- or triangle-, hexagon-shaped tiles. But recently novel design of casual games are introduced and gains attention of casual gamers. Our research introduces new approach for tile-based game design. It uses hyperbolic model of Poincare model and Weierstrass model for displaying and generating tiles. Our method is general for any configuration of (p, q)-tiling and can be used for new tile based game design. And introduces new tile generation methods for (3,q)-tiling and (p,3)-tiling without redundant tiles. We also proposed interactive movement method of tiles for game navigation purposes.

온라인게임에 대한 결제한도는 십수년 동안 그 법적인 근거를 찾기가 쉽지 않음에도 셧다운제와 함께 한국의 게임 규제를 상징하는 가장 강력 한 규제 중 하나로서 자리매김 해왔다. 결제한도가 게임물 내용으로 강 제 편입되고 나면, 게임을 이용에 제공하면서 결제한도를 초과하게 되는 상황이 발생하게 될 때 게임사업자는 형사처벌 및 영업정지라는 심각한 두 가지의 법적 위험에 처하게 된다. 결제한도는 외견상 ‘과소비 억제’라 는 규제 본연의 기능을 수행하고 있는 것처럼 보이나 실질은 전혀 그 기 능을 수행하고 있지 못한다. 오로지 특정 게임사업자가 게임 매출을 일 정수준 이상으로 발생시키지 못하도록 하는 기능만을 수행하고 있을 뿐 이다. 이는 국내 산업구조 왜곡 및 국제 경쟁력 약화로 이어진다. 법률유보의 원칙조차 위반하고 있는 전근대적 규제인 결제한도는 셧다 운제와 같이 ‘게임은 나쁜 것’이라고 하는 잘못된 전제에서 출발한 규제 이다. 자율규제로 규제 목적을 달성할 수 있음에도 정부규제를 적용하는 것은 과도한 후견주의적 태도이다. 과소비에 대한 억제의 필요성이 사회 적 합의에 따라 요구되는 영역이라면, 정책적으로는 자율규제의 방향이 제시되어야 한다. 이에 정부의 역할은 자율규제가 효과적으로 기능할 수 있도록 지원하는 것에 그쳐야 할 것이다.

Through the development of the media, boundaries between different media have become more fluid than before. Among such media, webtoon got credited from other global societies by it’s own literary value to be made as not only as drama or movie, but as the mobile game also. This research aimed to study cases of mobile game which utilized webtoon as the source to find out how the original webtoon influenced the awareness of game. Secondly, this study focused on find out the webtoon’s narrative adapted range under the type of the mobile game. Last of all, this study aimed to discuss about the development direction under specific RPG mobile game "With God" which based it’s contents under the webtoon.