• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.3-13
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• 2012

The study was conducted for cohering academical achievement of serious game studies as well as for attempting to give directions for interdisciplinary development. The purpose of the study were, first, it provides a rationale for integrating game studies lied scattered into a game study field or game industry. Second, by providing exemplary studies according to categories and by analyzing how those studies have been studied, this study provides a milestone for future researchers who are interested in serious game studies. In the article, the author suggests the extended definition of educational serious game study. The educational serious game study is "the study which investigates educational affordances of game including both explicitly intended designed for education and designed for fun but having implicit educational meanings, through the context of formal educational settings as well as informal environments." The author also researched how extended educational serious game studies have been researched according to four categories; game studies which researched educationally designed serious games, commercial games used for educational fields, educational serious games for informal learning, and those found meanings of games. This study has scholarly significance, especially on game study fields. for delineating game studies, a range of proposed and actual applications of educational serious game are reviewed, guiding directions for future studies.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.183-192
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• 2014

In recent times, a trend has emerged which rejects negative elements such as violence and gambling associated with games, and emphasizes positive functions such as academic study, which is a desirable phenomenon. Serious games have great potential and unlimited boundaries in their scope, and need much study and research from various perspectives. Especially today, in enhancing the national image of Korea with "Korean games" for the next generation, creative storytelling is urgently required. In this study, I aim to investigate the functions and roles of serious games and to foresee their future direction of development. I also examine the essential elements of storytelling in games suitable for the next generation.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.91-99
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to study and suggest a new classification method of the medical serious games which take the second major part of serious games after the educational games. Based on the classification suggested, various possibilities of medical serious games are suggested. Especially, how movement based language and contents can be used on various kind of medical serious games such as rehabilitation and cognitive behavioral therapy is explored.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.409-416
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• 2017

The game market has not only grown in size of the 10 trillion won but also the form and function of game use. Serious game combines the educational purpose and the fun of the game and develops it so that contents such as national defense. In this study, we analyze the cases of five application areas for the activation of serious games, and develop factors that the serious game should have, we want to see what the characteristics are and how important it is. The results of analysis show that it was analyzed that most serious games of application field were developed as 'experiential games' such as education, learning, experience, and simulation. This means that it is very effective to develop a serious game in consideration of the characteristics that a potential user should prefer a sensible game as well as a clear goal of a serious game in game development.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.761-768
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• 2013

The serious game refers to the game which is combined game's fun with the peculiar object of the field including the education, medical treatment, public, and etc. By doing so, it can help that the learners are able to acquire the knowledge and technology of the relative field with joy. Currently, the serious game of the various fields is launched. However, there are many obstacles in Korea to develop the market. This paper is the research for showing how to overcome these problems. For this purpose, first, this research investigates the present condition of the serious game in the planning and development and marketing viewpoint. Second, the obstacles of the serious game are analyzed. Finally, the methods for solving these obstacles are shown. This paper is helpful for finding out the strategies for solving the obstacles without too much consideration of obstacle elements for serious game development.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.197-204
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• 2010

This study explains the planning practical training that researches the process of functional game planning approach by developing functional games. The main focus of this study is the practical training process of planning which is an important part of game development jobs by developing games with proper functional materials, 'Framework of Planning Functional Game', and the verification of framework by developing functional games. This paper suggests that the functional game planning approach with the right function requires progressive/quantitative standard, which is different from typical process. Therefore, this paper is useful as reference materials of a functional game education through the cases of games developed by the progressive/quantitative approach standard.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.117-124
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• 2011

To minimize a negative cognition of the game, recently the game industry has been researched of serious games such as medical game, tutoring game, advertisement and game training simulation game. The development and method of those serious games is far less formalized than other software development and is still in the beginning stages. We will define three types of advertisement games in the paper and propose a serious game development method which is based on traditional activities culture. Also we will explain element technologies and process for developing a serious game and apply a suggested method to YOOT games which is a typical Korea traditional game among several games.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

Serious games are designed for special purposes of education, training, treatment as well as game-like fun and entertainment. Recently, domestic and foreign market of serious game are growing rapidly. By dissemination of smartphone, the global market for serious game will be expanded for various purposes and users. In this paper, we design and implement serious game 'QUICK REMEMBER 20' for memory improvement using smartphone. We analyze game users based on socio-demographic characteristics and evaluate the learning effectiveness of this game with statistic method.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.43-50
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• 2012

게임 사용자층이 다양화되고 확대되어 감에 따라 게임의 과몰입에 대한 우려가 증가하고 있는 것이 현실이다. 이에 따라 게임에 대한 역기능과 부정적 인식을 넘어서 "유익한 게임", "도움이 되는 게임"으로 변화하기 위한 노력도 최근 몇 년 전부터 활발하게 진행이 되어 왔다. 순기능을 기반으로 한 게임인 기능성 게임(serious game)은, 기존의 게임에서 가지고 있던 단순한 재미 요소 이외에 교육, 학습, 훈련, 치료 등의 특별한 목적을 접목시켜 게임이 가지는 순기능을 더욱 확장시키고자 하는 것이다. 본고에서는 기능성 게임의 응용 분야 및 국내 외 성공 사례를 중심으로 동향을 살펴보고 세계적 흐름을 파악하여, 날로 치열해지고 있는 세계 게임 산업에서 주도권을 갖기 위해 필요한 전략이 무엇인지를 생각해보는 기회가 되고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.21-26
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• 2011

Currently, Many serious games which combine original purpose of each fields with fun of a game has been developing in the country, abroad. This paper describes problems of development of serious game which based on the paper, analyzed development status of serious games in the country and abroad, proposes development methods. This paper should help to growth serious games industry.