Development and Application of Evaluation Model for Online Baduk Game

온라인 바둑게임 평가모형 개발 및 적용에 관한 연구

As internet populations are growing very fast, online computer game has been extensively propagated in the internet community. Currently online Baduk game haws id attention as one of the most popular games in Korea. Therefore, the game industry has developed a variety of Baduk games and internet services providers and portal sites have competitively provided Baduk game services. Considering this trend, this paper attempts to develop an evaluation model for online Baduk games, which can serve as a guideline for selecting the appropriate game by game users. In addition, this evaluation has been applied to the 2 best known Baduk games and compared each other based on the model factors. Finally, this paper suggest some practical guidelines for game developers in order to increase user acceptance.