The study about relationship with game use and mental health is being watched with keen interest. However, these isn't enough study on comparison within mass media just like television or SNS. In this study, we compared each media usage time and mental health factor on public. We selected game, television, radio, newspaper, book as mass media and depression, aggression, loneliness, self control, happiness, self efficacy, self esteem as mental health factor. As a result of the study, high game usage time group shows low self control, high aggression and little low self efficacy as compared with other media. And game, SNS and book show the relationship with depression, so there needs joint researches about that. We clear up the character and relationships with the game propensity analysis for the game development and studies of mental health.

The Enforcement decree of the Action on the Promotion of Game Industry was amended in November 20, 2013 and Currently being implemented. One of the Important contents of this Act is about compliance items of game providers. And it is mainly on web-board games and betting regulatory issue. Specific details are as follows : No one can use more than 300,000 won per month for the web-board game which is similar to a real poker game or a real 'gostop' game. Betting limits at once may not exceed 30,000 won. And "Game Shutdown for adults". Especially, the various possibilities for interpretation of the Enforcement decree of the Action on the Promotion of Game Industry is to be implied because of using the ambiguous expression all over. Essentially these controversys stem from the difference of view about game and game industry. What is the difference between games and gambling? At least in Korea, it would be difficult indeed and at the same time it will be important question. In the following, it may be necessary that an analysis of relation with the interpretation of game-related legislation and the limits of delegated legislation, and the constitutional standards - the principle of apparentness (definitude), the principle banning excessive enforcement when restricting the basic rights of people.

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) is to educate the people who take convergent thinking and divergent creativity. The current society is the knowledge network society. It requires these people. The alternative educational policy is focused on the learner centered based on learners' interests or concerns. The educational game is one of the best teaching and learning strategies. With taking notice of this point, this paper has studied about how amount the educational game was able to support the possibilities of STEAM support. Ten teachers who were evaluators for three educational games which were different genre's game evaluated them using a sheet for evaluating the possibilities of STEAM support using the educational game. Based on the results of this evaluation, we leaded 5 conclusions as follows: the educational game is able to support STEAM's goals, the step for presenting the situations, the step for the creative design, the step for taking an emotional experiences, and it has STEAM's elements in itself.

ADHD(Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) is a common disorder of childhood, which exhibits symptoms of hyperactivity, impulse, having difficulty in concentrating, and being easily distracted. These symptoms lead many difficulties in childhood if left untreated, and last in adolescence and adulthood in some cases. This paper analyzes serious game technology based on BCI for ADHD treatment. BCI technology is implemented by acquiring EEG via device and sending commands into input-output device by signal processing. In order to apply serious games based on BCI, it requires building a database with relevant resources of analysis and study of ADHD infants and children behavioral patterns first. Based on it, it is suggested to design and develop serious games that are well balanced in fun elements and functional elements on the consideration of levels of difficulties.

본 연구는 기존의 게임에 대한 전반적인 부정적 인식에서 벗어나 긍정적인 측면에서 스마트폰 게임을 살펴볼 필요성이 있다고 판단하여 심리적인 측면에서 스마트폰 게임 이용동기와 게임특성이 게임몰입에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 주요 결과를 제시하면, 스마트폰 게임 이용동기는 현실도피, 기분전환, 즐거움, 몰입, 성취 등으로 나타났고, 이 중 현실도피를 제외한 기분전환, 즐거움, 몰입, 성취가 스마트폰 게임몰입에 유의미한 정적 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 스마트폰 게임 이용자들이 기분전환, 즐거움, 몰입, 성취동기를 추구할수록 게임몰입도 높아지는 것으로 평가할 수 있다. 둘째, 스마트폰 게임특성 중 게임구성, 조작용이성을 제외하고 게임의 생동감은 게임몰입에 유의미한 정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러므로 스마트폰 이용자들이 게임을 통해 생동감을 높게 지각할수록 게임몰입이 높아지는 것으로 평가된다. 이상과 같은 결과를 통해 몰입 자체가 건전한 심리작용이고, 스트레스를 해소하거나 여가시간을 즐겁게 보내는데 일정 부분 기여함을 전제로 한다면, 스마트폰 게임 이용이 스트레스를 해소하고 여가시간을 보다 즐겁고 재미있게 보내는데 있어 긍정적으로 작용할 수 있을 것이다. 나아가 일정부분 여가문화 차원으로 활용할 수 있음을 시사한다.

This study analyzed the problem of internet game addiction of adolescents, which have recently been considered as serious social problem associated with internet environment, in the developmental perspective and relation with family function by using the "research on the actual condition of children and adolescents online games and family leisure 2009." The object of the study is students and parents from grade 7 to 9 of middle school nationwide. For the data analysis methods, frequency analysis and structural equation analysis were conducted by using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 16.0. In the result of the study, parents' open type communication had negative effect on game addiction, and parents' problem type communication had positive effect; among the influences of parents' open type and problem type communications on game addictions, it was shown that family function (family cohesion and family adaptation) had negative mediated effect. These findings indicated that when family played its role properly, adolescents were able to escape from the game addiction, and such influence is very powerful. The result offers significant implications in the modern society where communication with parents is insufficient, emphasizing the need to better communication between family members.

When developing games run in different web browsers, people have connected outer Plug-in with games. With the appearance of HTML5, now it becomes more convenient to develop games using HTML5 and Javascript as Multimedia like audio, video, SVG and 2D/ 3D graphic operation using Canvas are possible. However, it’s not easy to directly convert mobile games from iOS, Android, Window mobile environment to HTML 5. This paper proposes we’d like to suggest the method which could convert games made from XNA, window mobile game developing environment to cross-platform games working in the web browser based on HTML5.

If Game Rating Board tries to interpret the paragraph 4 of Article 22 of Act on the Promotion of the Game Industry as the meaning that it can revoke it’s rating of a game when the rated game falls under the category of rating rejection owing to Ordinance’s revision after the rating, the interpretation could violate constitutionalism and protection of trust. According to the paragraph 2 and 4 of Article 22 of The Act, The Board may reject a rating application filed by an entity that has requested a rating without legitimate authority or that is using other illegal methods and shall, without delay, revoke its rating when it determines or discovers that a rated game falls under the category of rating rejection. Administrative court ruled that the interpretation of a law regarding revocation of a beneficial administrative disposition should be limited in the original meaning of the law; it is desirable that the Board’s the Interpretation Criteria of Ordinance relating to the revocation of a game rating could be reconsidered in the viewpoint of constitutionalism and protection of trust.

In this paper, we proposed some direction to effective development of gamification. To achieve this purpose, we performed an extensive literature review. Based on game mechanics and game dynamics, we analyzed 145 cases for both domestic sites(15 cases) and international sites(130 cases) by keyword search methods. Results showed that the successful cases(n=32) applied more features of game mechanics and game dynamics in various ways. Through this, we tried to build up categorization of gamification, the major applications of gamification can be converged into five primary areas: public policy, medical welfare, education, environmental protection and corporation. Finally, we discussed about implications of using gamification for future direction.

This study focuses on clarifying orality on game as a medium. The media has progressed through a complicated process where the inter-relationship between media has been occurred. The orality, the oldest form of medium, has been a 'residuary medium' and the spoken word has been transformed in spite of the advent of new media. This study attempts to discuss the characteristics of 'game' as a medium through the concepts of Walter Ong's primary orality, literacy, and the secondary orality. The characteristics of 'game' as a medium based on the multimedia, interactive existence, and the user-generated narrative, and these characteristics of 'game' could be illuminated through the Ong's orality. This study makes an effort to explore the modes of the presence of the orality through the psychodynamic approach of media. The difference of mentality appeared by the medium, because background and characteristics of the medium itself could control the size and characteristics of the human experience.

This study proposed game background content production according to game genre characteristics. Above all, this study classified game background characteristics according to game genre for game background production. Game background intuitively displays a whole game and interfaces with game players. Game background is the player’s space significantly important because it gives interest and immersion of the game to the player. This study analyzed Dungeon background content production for online game PRG genre. For production of Dungeon game background contents, it is necessary to consider periodic, cultural, historical, artificial, virtual, environmental elements including periodic backgrounds and fantasy elements as background environment set elements. And it is necessary to collect related materials, establish content images, and actualize them. After completing establishment and actualization, it is necessary to finish background work by producing 3D contents based on the original picture. This study produced 2D Dungeon background contents with Photoshop and 3D with MAX, resulting in satisfactory production. From the results of analyzing Dungeon game background contents, it was found that most of content production was conducted under dark and fantasy tones with the sense of medieval weights. For future studies, it is needed to research content production with regard to various genre backgrounds and for high quality background content production.

Popular 3D printers as a new industrial revolution attract public attention. 3D printing will radically convergence many of the business models that companies take for granted today. And recently they were trying to convergence with the game industry. In this respect, this study is designed to figure out the current situations of board game and to suggest its convergence service model. To achieve this, this paper is to analyse board game cases of domestic and foreign relate to 3D printing. Finally, we suggest new service model to make on-off line contents of board game industry using 3D printing.

The ability of being able communicate in English is one of the core abilities to be reared for the students who have to live in the modern society. English is one of the important languages of today. In order to learn such English, the most basic words and idioms need to be learned first. According to the previous studies, In the elementary school, students tend to lose their interest and affection about English as they move up the grades. However, In recent, 62% of th elementary school students have a smart phone and the main function used by 58% among them is games. Due to these reasons, Interrest in learning smartphone game has been increasing. this study intends to design and implementation the educative games for the learning of English idioms on smart phone so that the students can get interest and fun. The English idioms educating game which shall be produced in this study not only is easy and fun to be played by the learner but also made it possible for the English idioms learning not to be boring by adding fun and giving motivations through competitions among the learners by making each obtainments of alphabets of each English idioms into points. In order to induce the repetitive learning of the learners, the lesson menu was used to allow the English idiom repetition lesson. Also, the acceleration sensor of the smart phone was utilized to produce this game so that the game is played fluidly and conveniently.

A new near loss-less compression method for 2D game sprite animation image is presented to reduce the amount of the game contents resources. The sprite animation data in 2D mobile game occupies a large part of the resource, and in particular the sprite animation data by using a lossless compression technique can cause a relatively very significant increase of data amount as the higher complexity of the animation. The new near-lossless method, which is an adaptive compression technique by considering the alpha value for transparency and the variance of color values of block, is proposed in order to obtain greater compression efficiency without los of quality. By using experiments, we show that the proposed method compared to the PNG compression technique is good for compression efficiency, and in particular the effect is very high in complex and dynamic 2D sprite animation.

As ICT advances, industries related to digital technology are disrupting the boundaries of corporations and increasingly interested in the industrial ecosystem. The electronic game industry is also continuously growing through convergence among various technologies, content genres and platforms. Accordingly, this study analyzed the hierarchical elements of hybrid game contents from the viewpoint of the ecosystem as well as the importance and influence their components have upon each level. To understand the importance and influence of the components of the ecosystem from the viewpoint of the value chain of hybrid game contents, an Expert Delphi Survey was conducted employing 18 experts from the game industry, academia and R&D institutions. The results of the Expert Delphi Survey were compiled, a hybrid game ecosystem defined for each layer, and a communication system diagram created depicting the relationship between the ecosystem and value chain of the hybrid game contents. Based on the analysis, to invigorate hybrid game contents, a direction for policies was presented for each hierarchy from both the micro and macro perspectives.

Location based service and AR(Augmented Reality) techniques have been one of the most important areas in current computer games and mobile application. This paper presents GPU(Graphics Process Unit) based image recognition system for outdoor games and mobile application. In learning stage, we extract features from input image sequence and convert them into meta information in database. User captures then a query image that is sent to GPU based server system. The proposed system build a descriptor codebook using BRISK and SURF descriptors, and employs codebook with re-ranking information based on homography.

Attempts to hack online game servers and abusing problems in online games have been issues in game industry. Mobile games are famous these days thanks to the widespread of smart devices. Unfortunately, mobile games have very short life cycle. Therefore, analysis of game log data becomes more important to overcome the hacking and abusing problems in online games and extend their life cycles in mobile games. In this paper, we propose a new game log data analysis technique based on the MapReduce methodology. MapReduce is a widely used programming model for analyzing and processing Big data. Instead of processing each analysis query separately, the proposed technique processes multiple analysis queries together in a batch by a single, optimized MapReduce job. As a result, the number of queries processed per unit time increases significantly. Experiment results show that the proposed technique improves the performance significantly compared to a naive method.

This paper is an advanced work for the follow-up study 'Development of Teaching and Learning Programs of Intercultural Education in Universities Utilizing German and French Commercial Movies'. Before developing teaching and learning programs of intercultural education for undergraduates utilizing movies as one of the most typical digital image media in modern times, we try to review theoretical the utilizability of digital image media and game contents as very efficient tools of intercultural teaching and learning program. The breakthrough of digital information and communication technology, and the digital revolution leading to a paradigm shift in the history of mankind make the 21th century be called 'knowledge and information age'. The integrated and interactive communication way based on the development of digital technology has a great effect on recognition way, recognition pattern and recognition process of contemporary people. In addition, it is also changing human recognition per se. First of all, digital image media have caused not only the remarkable change of social and cultural environment, but also a revolutionary change of educational field. The digital image media are thought of as one of the most efficient communication media which can satisfy optical desires of humankind and realize multilateral and sympathetic interchanges utilizing other sense organs. Therefore, the digital image media are anticipated to be a very efficient tool of teaching and learning program. Through this theoretical review we try to emphasize the needs for the development of teaching and learning program of intercultural education utilizing digital image media and game contents.

This paper empirically studies R&D investment and firm value in game companies. Found the following results First, the empirical results show that negative relation between R&D investment absolute scale and firm value. On the other hand, an increase in R&D intensity has simultaneously positive relations with firm value. On an existing research, we can conjecture that game companies should increase its R&D intensity rather than R&D investment absolute. Couldn´t find significant results when it comes to long term performance of R&D. In light of these, can be inferred that R&D investments affect more short term than long term firm value in game industry.