본 논문은 비디오 게임 캐릭터의 마음귀인에 관한 실증적 연구이다. 최근 커뮤니케이션과 심리학 연구에 따르면 사람들은 사람의 특성을 사람이 아닌 사물에 귀인하는 성향이 있고, 사람이 아닌 존재를 사람으로 생각하는 의인화의 경향이 있다고 한다. 이러한 성향은 가상 존재에 대한 지식이 깊지 않을 때 더욱 강하게 관찰되는데, 대상에 대한 지식이 충분하지 않을 때 손쉽게 적용 할 수 있는 사람에 관한 지식을 활용하여 대상의 속성을 판단하기 때문이다. 이 같은 이론화를 바탕으로 본 연구에서는 비디오 게임의 경험과 게임 캐릭터의 마음 귀인의 관계를 분석하였고, 마음 귀인이 게임 캐릭터의 선호에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 분석하였다. 온라 인 설문 결과 게임을 오래 한 응답자일수록 캐릭터에 대한 마음 귀인 성향이 낮아지는 것을 발견했고, 이 같은 관계는 남성 응답자에게서 더욱 강하게 관찰되었다. 또한 마음 귀인을 강하게 한 응답자일수록 캐릭터에 대한 강한 선호를 갖고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

픽셀 아트는 낮은 해상도와 제한된 색 팔레트를 가지고 영상을 표현한다. 픽셀 아트는 낮은 연 산 성능과 적은 저장 공간을 가지는 초기 컴퓨터 게임에서 주로 사용되었다. 현대에 이르러, 픽셀 아트는 예술이나 퍼즐, 게임과 같은 다양한 분야에서 찾아볼 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 게임 캐릭터 영상을 입력으로 받는 픽셀 아트 생성 모델을 제안한다. 기존 방법 과는 달리, 합성곱 신경망(CNN:Convolutional-Neural Network)를 픽셀 아트 생성 목적에 맞게 변형하여 이를 이용하는 방법을 제시한다. 기존의 합성곱 연산 후에 upsampling 과정을 추가하여 픽셀 아트가 생성될 수 있도록 하였다. 네트워크는 ground truth와 생성된 픽셀 아트와의 평균 오차 제곱(MSE:Mean Squared Error)을 최소화해나가며 학습을 수행한다. Ground truth는 실제 아티스트가 생성하도록 하였고, 이미지 회전과 반전 기법을 이용하여 augumentation을 수행하였다. 생성된 데이터 집합은 학습, 검증, 시험 데이터로 나누었다. 이러한 데이터 집합을 기반으로 감독 학습을 실시하여 픽셀 아트 생성 네트워크를 학습하였다. 학습 모델의 학습 과정과 학습 정확도를 제시하고, 시험 데이터 뿐만 아니라 다양한 영상에 대한 픽셀 아트 결과도 함께 제시한다.

미디어는 각각 다른 특징을 가진 스토리텔링을 가지고있다. 그 중에서, 게임의 스토리텔링은 비선형적으로, 유저가 스토리에 개입할 수 있는 상호작용이 있다는 점에서 다른 매체의 스토리텔 링과 다르다. 이렇듯 사용자가 스토리에 참여하여 다양하게 전개될 수 있는 스토리텔링을 인터랙 티브 스토리텔링이라 한다. 이러한 스토리텔링은 사용자가 스토리에 참여함으로써 스토리에 더 깊은 몰입감을 느낄 수 있게 된다. 다만 이런 비선형적인 스토리는 사용자에게 자유도를 느낄 수 있게 하지만 사용자의 참여에 따라 스토리가 달라지기 때문에 스토리에 일관성을 유지하기 어렵다. 때문에 자유도와 일관성을 적절히 충족시키기 위해 많은 연구들이 있었으며, 대표적으로 게 임에선 조건 기반 분기 서술방식을 이용하고 있다. 하지만 이런 방식은 스토리 속 사건을 분기에 따라 나누는 사건 중심의 스토리텔링을 기반으로 하기 때문에 캐릭터를 강조하기 위한 캐릭터 중심의 스토리텔링엔 맞지 않다. 본 연구에서는 사건 중심의 분기 서술 방식이 아닌 캐릭터 중심 의 인터랙티브 스토리텔링 저작도구를 제작하고 동화 "선녀와 나무꾼"을 기반으로 한 게임에 적 용해보아 스토리가 어떻게 이어지는지, 스토리 제작할 때 유용한지 실험할 것이다.

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.

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.

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.

Storytelling in games is different from storytelling in other media in that it must interact with the user. The existing storytelling engine is not appropriate for interactive storytelling in games, so interactive storytelling engine is developed to supplement this shortcoming. However, the interactive storytelling engine uses methods that manages game events. Thus it is not appropriate for games with stories that are composed mainly of characters. This research examines the defects to propose improvement suggestions to apply the existing storytelling engine to games. This would be useful in developing stories that interact with the player in games.

Recently Korea has shown continuous growth in game, character and animation contents industry. To keep this trend in the future, we need to nurture contents related human resources. One of the good methods to nurture those quality resources is to find potential resources in early times. To do this we need to know their potentiality. To evaluate such potentiality of these candidates, we performed short-term education and evaluated contents functional production capabilities of two groups such as 27 Grade 5 students from 17 schools and 5 Grade 6 students from 5 schools in Nowon-gu, Seoul. With the same evaluation methods, they showed 100 and 95 out of 100. In Contents functional production, two groups showed 4.29 and 3.96 respectively. Therefore, we can contribute contents industry and national competitiveness if we recruit and nurture them in early times.

This paper analyzes the simulation operation flow of Bullet physics engine. Based on this analysis, four kinds of multi-rigid-body game characters are designed. This paper also profiles the performance metrics such as the CPU utilization, the memory usage, and the computation time by multi-rigid-body character simulations. For the CPU utilization, the Tongs Vehicle is the best and provides 45.1% less than the other character simulations. The computation times of the Four-leg robot and the Dragon are longer than those of the others. The memory usage of the Dragon simulation is the largest, which is average 1.32 times more than the others. Because all parts of Dragon are composed of triangular mesh models in 3DMax. The performance profiling with the criteria such as reducing the computation time and the computing resources, the complexities of the collision shapes, and the number of rigid bodies takes an important role in the design of the multi-rigid-body game characters.

This study aims to explore game backgrounds and content generation using motion graphics. Motion graphics can be utilized to generate contents in various fields including games, cartoons, movies, animations, characters, advertisements, etc. This study identifies how game backgrounds and game scenes are simply generated by utilizing motion graphics. And synthesizing techniques are used to generate game backgrounds and game scenes. Also, for game backgrounds and characters, motion graphics are applied to simply express special effects such as various flames, blazes, thunderbolts, etc. On the subject of secondary school students, this study evaluates their game background and character generation competencies with two methods to develop game industry and improve content personnel. Evaluation results of 88 points and 85 points are shown from the evaluation of the last results for evaluation items according to the standard of 100 points, and it suggests that game development personnel and character content production personnel be reserved with professional education and support in the future.

Digital games are conducted by the interaction between players and characters. Even if it’s same in the MOBA games, the characters in these games are not the ones which players can bring themselves in. But they do occur player’s semiotic process by controlling them. To prove this hypothesis, this study analyzes the correlation between MOBA game player and game character based on the player’s consumption behavior. The two MOBA games, League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm have been selected for the study, by the reason of semiotic difference between the characters. As focusing on the particular structures of MOBA games, this study can confirm the characteristic of this game genre.

Recently, mobile Social Netwrok Game(SNGs) including characters have emerged in the game market. Basically, it is based on not only the mobile environment and technology but also the form and concept of SNG. Most characters of mobile SNG take characters which have the role of avatar or non-player character. This kind of characters allows own their characteristic to create and design them based on the mobile and SNG system. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to analyze character design with the elements of mobile graphic such as visual, sound, motion and so on. Then we would discuss the features of character design for mobile SNG and comment the limits and consideration for effective design. For this research, the first of all we would discuss the concept and theory of mobile SNG and the design elements for the game characters by the publications, including thesis, articles, and books. Seondly, this paper will be focused on character examples in 20 mobile SNGs which are selected in top selling and analyze them. Finally, we would discuss the characteristics of mobile SNG character and the methods of possibilities and considerations for effective design.

The personality of individuals are different form each other and they have a different feature. So when they playing games, it would be common for them to choose the character that mach for their personality. When MMORPG game compares to the other genre of games, it has many characters and users can choose the character that fits their personality to playing a game. However, some MMORPG game was not doing well in the game markets because the form of common MMORPG have no differentiation with each others. In this research, will use the egogram to drew the character element of individuals and with that output use the AHP to show you the result of important analysis about the character element of individuals’s favor game characters. This research can use as base of developing a new games or updating a new contents, regulating balance between the characters.

This study proposed the development of creatures for making game characters. A creature is a living being and it comprehends everything including the real world, the universe, and virtual worlds. Creatures are characterized by creation and transformation, and they complete game characters. Completed character creatures can be used in games, animations, movies, comics, smart phone games, etc. There are various materials of creatures including plants, birds, mammals, and humans, and these materials can be expressed as game creatures and used in making game characters. In this study, creatures were developed in the forms of bird, mammal, and human. Combined with game background, game characters generated from such creatures produce game contents that are usable in various areas. This study suggests developing more diverse creatures to be utilized in areas where game contents are required.

The international standard of ISO/IEC 19774 H-Anim (Humanoid Animation) defines the hierarchical structure and modeling data of a human for the generation of human animation. A common character data format is necessary in order to share and exchange characters between different applications, including gaming applications. H-Anim can be used for this purpose, and is progressing towards further standardization of new functionalities. This paper describes the modeling and animation method of a game character based on H-Anim using a general graphics tool. It also describes an algorithm to convert from H-Anim WRL, the output file generated by the general graphics tool, to H-Anim X3D based on the H-Anim specification. In addition, an experiment is described that shows compatibility of the designed H-Anim character with a general X3D browser. General behavior animations applied directly to the H-Anim character are also included.

Most users lose their interests when game users interactively play with characters to feel unfriend and unrealistic. In this thesis, we present a scene management memory model for autonomous game characters, which manages the recognized information by visual attention. The scene management memory of autonomous game character is comprised of visual memory. Scene management memory stores the recognized information at the physical structure embodied by Quadgraph structure. Game characters take adaptive actions for the situation by utilizing the stored information in the memory system. To use the capacity of memory effectively, we devise the algorithm of quick visual attention, well suited to game environment. We have implemented our memory system for the experiment to confirm its feasibility and availability. As a result of the experiment, we positively verify that autonomous game character perceives the static and dynamic object of 3D game world by visual attention mechanism with about 2 times improvement of time complexity.

Creating avatar animations are tedious and time-consuming task since the desired avatar poses should be specified for each of a large number of keyframes. This paper proposes a fast and handy method to create game character animation contents using the motion data captured from the Kinect sensor. A Kinect sensor captures and saves the human motion. The Kinect sensor provides the motion information in a simple form of coordinates of joint positions. Using the captured motion data we determine the set of bone transforms that makes up the human skeletal animation data. The animation data is utilized to determine the position of all the bones at the current time in the animation. For experimental purpose we create a simple avatar character. We express the character model by the MD5 format, in which the mesh data and animation data are separated. A set of twenty joint positions reflect a snapshot of the character pose. The sets are used to evaluate the bone transform matrices and construct our skeletal animation scheme. We verified our method by appling the captured Kinect motion data to character animation. Our approach provides an easy method for creating avatar animations.

MMORPG Gameplay is based in a Law of Spatial Maintenance. There are 4 distance types - critical distance, flight/chase distance, interaction distance, and escort distance- according to the interaction object’s types and goals. These distance are related that the player appreciates and recognizes the game space. This study is significant in the sense that it is the cornerstone of finding in gameplay's essence.

캐릭터 애니메이션 생성을 위해서는 대용량의 기하 모델 데이터와 모션 데이터 처리를 요구한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 캐릭터 애니메이션 데이터를 다기종 컴퓨터 환경에서 교환하여 사용할 수 있는 방법에 대해서 기술한다. 캐릭터는 일반 그래픽스 도구를 이용하여 H-Anim ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 표준화 그룹과 Web3D Consortium에 의해 제정된 국제표준인 H-Anim 기반에서 새로 확장된 구조로 제작한다. H-Anim은 현재 인간형 캐릭터 구조의 전송이나 저장에 필요한 계층적 데이터 구조를 X3D 기반으로 정의하고 있으나 캐릭터의 움직임 표현이나 전송을 위한 애니메이션 데이터에 대해서는 정의되어 있지 않다. 본 연구에서는 H-Anim 표준에 애니메이션에 필요한 추가적인 기능을 새로 제공하여 캐릭터 애니메이션 데이터가 호환성을 가질 수 있도록 데이터 형식을 정의하고, 이 때 H-Anim 구조를 만족시키도록 해주기 위한 캐릭터 모델링의 조건과 제작 방법을 설명한다.