The digital game is a space to form a new culture community to modern people. They build a social activity through the virtual space and function as a social tool in the more aggressive dimension than existing media. Therefore, apprehending various social phenomena appearing on the digital game is as important assignment as the society study of the real world. Therefore, this paper will analyze the leadership type of the leader characters who lead the group among various social phenomena appearing on the digital game. Particularly, the researcher tried to focus on the multi-ending of Star Craft which contributed to activating the domestic game culture to apprehend the features and aspects through the type of leader characters and the goal & duty of that group.

This study conducted to solve misunderstanding in adolescent’ morality growth through finding relations between morality, psychological factors and game using time. Loneliness, Self-esteem, Self-control and Leadership were chosen for effective psychological factors on morality and game using time was chosen an independent variable, too. As a result of the first study, four psychological factors show obvious effect on morality, but game using time doesn’t show any effect. As a result of the second study, game using time shows regulation effect on the relation between loneliness and morality. This means game using is a positive way to supplement the lack of morality by relationship problems.

Go is an extremely complex strategic board game despite its simple rules and is the great challenging classic game for AI due to its enormous search space. The computer program AlphaGo finally defeated Fan Hui, the European Go champion, without handicaps on a full-sized 19 ×19 board in October 2015. Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a widely-used algorithm for game-tree search in game playing. MCTS based on statistical sampling is a best-first tree search technique to evaluate states; UCT which is a variant of MCTS uses the UCB1 formula as selection policy. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of MCTS and UCT playing against each other in the game of Tic-Tac-Toe. The experimental results show that the first player UCT is slightly superior to the second player MCTS (54.3±1.0%), the first player is always advantageous to the second player regardless of the MCTS and UCT players, and the result of each game should be a tie if both players do their best in Tic-Tac-Toe.

This study was intended to present new teaching-learning program for fine art class involving the use of smart devices. Particularly, this study aim to improve communication and comprehension of peer relationship based on self-expression and continuous recording by using smart devices. The class continued in 4 sessions with 5 Middle School students. The subjects selected the app-icon expressive of themselves and drew interpretation based on their experience, and shared the results with peers to accept the ideas and opinions of others. The results show that the class involving the use of apps helped alleviate students' fear towards expression in connection with existing fine art expression, promoting students' expressivity, and the class helped develop clear self-expression and communication ability by allowing students to draw on their unique experience for interpretation of app-icon.

A 2D barcode region detection method based on embedded system for augmented reality applications was developed. For the successful 2D barcode candidate region detection, the range of variance and frequency of gray level distribution in the test 2D barcodes was modeled and it was combined with the corner features to localize the final 2D barcode candidates. An automatic 2D barcode localization software was developed with the multiple features mixture method and we tested our system on real camera images of several popular 2D barcode symbologies.

Three-dimensional(3D) display technique is widely used in our daily life. Especially, to product augmented game contents which can interact with users, it is necessary to get high quality resolution image data to reconstruct 3D model more exquisitely. In this paper, we tried to expand depth image captured by Kinect using various interpolation methods(nearest neighbor, bilinear, bicubic) to adapt it to the size of original Kinect color image. To measure the quality of expanded depth image compared to original depth image, we used PSNR(Peak Signal-to-noise ratio) index. Besides, we implemented GPU parallel processing algorithm with OpenCL to interpolate a large amount of image data rapidly. As a result of the experiment, a bicubic interpolation method made an accurate depth image although it had a long time.

This study has investigated on the obstacles to the production of social network games. It also tried to find their production tools in order to remove existing obstacles, which will guide to design and create new production tools. The new production tool is designed to make it easy for Terrain, UI, and Object tools to be used for essential functions, game linkage, and testing. The detailed explanation about the structure design and functions of the new production tool is also written and added for better understanding. To test its functions, texture of the animation application was printed on top of the production tool. The test result showed stable processing speed. I also made a 􋺵Farming􋺶 trial-game to test how easily social network games can be developed. As a result, more stable framework, which could not be made without production tools, was able to be designed and even the time spent on developing it became shortened.

This paper aims to investigate how player's identity is built by analyzing post-apocalyptic games. The post-apocalyptic game is the game which is set in a virtual world after catastrophe. This study analyzes the settings, characters, and a narrative structure of the post-apocalyptic games. As the result, post-apocalyptic games establish the existential identity of the player. The post-apocalyptic game is a kind of realism text which precisely reflect real world, and the player could find out his identity in games as a Homo sacer which is the mixture that consists of a non-hero persona in the game and a safe person in reality. Post-apocalyptic games can be alternative media which help the player experience existential discourse in real world in 21st century.

The purpose of this study was to examine the difference of middle school students’ game-oriented life according to their game usage patterns. The subjects of the study was 1,861 school students included in the panel data from the survey conducted by The National Youth Policy Institute. For data analysis, SPSS WIN 21 program was used to conduct one-way ANOVA. The result shows that the frequency of game play, the number of hours they play game on weekdays and weekends and the time span of game play were related to the game-oriented life. However, this tendency was not applied to those who don't play game at all. This suggests it could be more desirable to regulate students to play game for an appropriate amount of time rather than prevent them from playing games at all, when it comes to the matter of the potential problem according to playing games.

There are general surveys on factors related to Life Satisfaction. However, less is known about the relationships between Life Satisfaction, personality, Social Capital, and Adaptive Game Use. This study sought to clarify several of these relationships. Using data from a survey of 981 game users in South Korea, we conducted a regression analysis to explore the association between psychological variables(Personality), social variables(Bonding Social Capital and Bridge Social Capital), Media Using Pattern(Adaptive Game Use) and demographic variables(Age and Gender). Results showed that Openness·Conscientiousness(Personality), Bonding(Social Capital), and Adaptive Game Use increase Life Satisfaction while Neuroticism·Agreeable(Personality) decrease Life Satisfaction. The implications of these results are discussed.

Catechesis is a education that tells the Christians what they should believe. Many Christians know the need, but learning is tedious and teaching is difficult. Serious game in the field of education have both the intention of learning and an element of fun. In this study, I designed a educational serious game for Catechesis and implemented the game. The Heidelberg and Westminster Catechism were content. The key game play was to choose the correct answer by the touch. The effect was confirmed by the test users. The content of later study was planned. I hope this study can be well utilized to Church Educational System.

Although various studies have dealt with gambling games so far, studies on the motives of the teenager’s gambling games are still very weak. Youths experiencing gambling games have various problems like psychiatric problems like learning problem and anxiety and depression, problem in their family and problems like increase of lie, etc. To establish a prediction and a measure of this problem fundamentally, the study on why the youth joins in these gambling games is needed. The factorial experiment and reliability analysis was done in order to investigate the validity of the questionnaire and reliability. This study also use Pearson Correlation Model and Linear Regression Analysis. Consequently, external factors such as school adaptation and parental monitoring can have a greater impact than internal factors in the motives of the teenager’s gambling games. This study will contribute to prevent youth from accessing the Internet gambling games and to solute the problem from it.

This study analyzes how and why video gamers intentionally watch media on video games that they play and like through online platforms such as YouTube and Afreeca TV. More specifically, this study utilizes the Uses and Gratification theory in order to understand game players’ psychological behaviors and patterns in detail. Among the various types and genres of video games, this study focuses on the fighting game “Tekken 7” published by the Japanese company Namco. Tekken 7 is distinguished in some ways in that its platform is an arcade rather than PC or mobile phones and that it emphasizes mind game between game players. By analyzing how and why Tekken 7 gamers watch Tekken 7-related media over the Internet and new media, this study further provides a blueprint for the future of the new media.

As a macroscopic research for the interaction of TV Console game platform, I have analyzed the differentiation & characteristic of interaction for each platform. “Odyssey” developed by Ralph Henry Baer in Magnavox was the first console which has the propaedeutic user interaction. Development of graphical technology and the release of the Nintendo Famicom which equipped with Yokoi Gunpei cross key & horizontal Pad had provided an opportunity for the development of user interaction methods like as sound & 2D. Also, multimedia function of Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 had brought the era of 3D games and multiplay. Finally, Motion technology triggered by Wii had progressed to the gesture recognition interface throughout the Playstation MOVE of SONY & Xbox 360 Kinect of Microsoft.

The purpose of this paper is to check the Game Rating and Administration Committee(GRAC), established in 2013 as revision of law to the Game Industry Promotion Act, restricts the freedom of expression. Game Rating system in Korea is not formed spontaneously in the market, unlike oversea, the Government has designed public systems. The GRAC has classified only “Rating”, but it regulates the expressions of the Game and gaming industry itself by other than raising rating. In cases the GRAC issued decisions of rating rejection are suspected to be in mistake in the interpretation of relevant laws, resulting in expressions of the game is limited. The content modification notifying system has unclear criteria, and it regulates not the contents of the game but the ways of using games. It is contrary to the principle of the content centrality of rating, and Operators have to impose self-censorship when they change game contents.

In this study, Analyzed the Battlefield4(FPS Game) through the 12 phases of Hero’s Journey, which was suggested by Christopher Vogler. Through this, we confirmed the potential of narrative in FPS game. Based on the results, This study analyzed how utilizes the narrative in Battlefield4 game. First, the narrative has been extend through trans-media storytelling. Second, campaign experience and multi-play experience play are overlapped. Third, the profit(Dogtag, Badge, Equipment etc.) obtained in the course of an narrative game experience(Campaign) can be used in the multi-play environment. As a result, we confirmed the narrative possibilities of the FPS game genre. And the game narrative of campaign is extended as to multi-play experience. It would be able to suggest a new development direction in the Korea online FPS games of the multi-play environment.

As the role of the Web as a platform has been extended and HTML5 standard is widespread, many kind of web-based applications have been developed. In many recent applications, two-way communication and server push functionality is required, but HTTP protocol does not support it. As a result, various methods have been proposed and used in order to realize two-way communication on the web. In this paper, these two-way communication methods are briefly introduced and analyzed their strong and weak points in the aspect of implementation, time responsibility, server load and compatibility. Base on the analytical results, it is proposed guidelines for selecting the best method according to the application type and the operating environment.

Epidemic model for the serious game for prevention of infectious disease was developed based on SI(susceptible-infectious) model and social network model. Epidemic spread has been understood as phenomenon of not only medical care but also preventive administration. Thus, prediction and isolation of infectious population based on social and mathematical information is the key to decreases damage to communities. Built on analysis of two model, developed game model considered indivisual vulneraasbility and the depth of social relationships between nodes. Users of this game are expected to learn how to predict the diffusion of disease with practicing computation by playing game, and realize the importance of preventive effort to restrict social outbreak caused by fatal and acute viruses.

Game items such as character's gear, potion, armor and weapons are necessary elements in enhancing user engagement and fun without regard to game genres. Due to the importance of game items regarding game level balance, game designers carefully set the values and prices for each item. Game items are used to control the consuming speed of game contents, so they affect significantly the whole level design of online games. However, most previous research about game items has mainly focused on the way how to deal with the price of the items and how to buy them. There is little research that has paid much attention to the values of game items. In order to fill this gap, this paper investigates how game designers can effectively set the value of game items based on the real economic values perspective. Results imply some of effective methods for game item values related to game level design. The results will provide a guidelines for the development of reasonable and effective level design.

Introduce the score-recognition method. E.g The note, beat and other symbols for the play music. Usually, the score-recognition is using the template matching or statistical model. This paper suggest the new method that is using the template matching and feature of pixel pattern for computer games. Typically, the morphology of general music symbol are independent on the change of font. For instance the head and line of note, staccato, crescendo, decrescendo and so on. But some music symbol aren’t keep their morphology. For instance the beat of the note, chord and beam note. This paper applying the template matching at the general music symbol and applying the feature of pixel pattern analysis method at the some music symbol. So this paper can get great accuracy of score-recognition. This paper can recognize the Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth and Sixteenth note and rest, Seminote, Staccato, Crescendo, Decrescendo, Key signature and Clef