• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2014

This paper tried to verify whether we can make NPCs generate emergent quests consistently by experiments in the persistent world of Role Playing Games where the persistent world can generate stories through interaction among game components. In this paper, we test NPC based procedural quest generation techniques assuming quest types suggested in the past research in the persistent virtual RPG world. Our system uses desire model of NPCs and dynamic resource management system to make decision of quest generation. Our decision process considers desire satisfaction, money deposit, and friendship of NPCs. These parameters are dynamically changed by quest completion status, and affect next quest generation process. This paper shows that NPCs in the persistent virtual world can generate quests based on procedural quest techniques consistently.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to analyze players' emotion pattern for conducting a quest in Role Playing Game(RPG). We have rebuilt up the action and content of gameplay related to category to set up five action classes of game players based on the literature review about the human behavior classification. Moreover, Mabinogi game includes the composition of various quests by story-centered expanse. We classified the quest structure of the tutorial mode, initial state, of its game into the cognitive action. We build the model of the correlation between cognitive behavior patterns of gameplay and emotions derived from targeting ten novices. The result of this research reveals that gameplayers' stimulus levels are identified to emotion pattern. It is enable to grope to concrete the design of the quest and the level in a specified state. Moreover, players' emotion variation is indicated to the type of expression of fun elements. We expect to use a device to induce the curiousness and the challenge for conducting the higher goal of game in the whole.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.01a
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• pp.49-50
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• 2014

본 논문은 영속적 RPG게임에서 사용자에게 제공되는 퀘스트 유형의 절차적 생성 기법에 대한 연구이다. 영속적 월드(persistent world) 환경은, 게임 사용자를 포함한 다양한 게임 구성 자원간의 상호작용을 통해 서사를 생성하는 가상 월드의 특징을 가지고 있다. 본 실험은 서사의 핵심 자원인 NPC(Non-Player Character) 및 다양한 월드 자원들을 가진 가상의 영속적 월드 하에, NPC들이 창발적인 퀘스트를 지속적으로 생성하도록 하였다. 이를 통해 영속적 가상 월드의 NPC 자원들이 곳곳에서 창발적 퀘스트 유형을 지속적으로 생성하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.105-114
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• 2016

This study analyzed a total of 1,025 quests in the 'Warlords of Draenor' which is the fifth expansion set to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, by dividing them into violent and nonviolent quests. There was a total of 515 nonviolent quests which can be categorized into 46 types and a total of 510 violent quests that can be categorized into 7 types. The balance between violent and nonviolent quests shows that the game makers limited the number of adverse factors that can cause the players to be excessively absorbed in the game while successfully incorporating factors that can have positive effect on game players.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.122-129
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• 2009

MMORPG Quest plays a strong role of motivation through compensation related with Avatar such as items and experience points rather than a role of story transfer. This situation finally made MMORPG become a difficult game that players should study the compensation of Quest for growth of a character, so it causes fixation of the user class. As a solving method of the fixation of the users, the possibility of Quest capable of strengthening play motive of various users through clarification of motivation structure of the Quest play and pluralistic understanding about players was investigated. This is a direct response to the user within the game system or how to use the player log information. The pluralistic understanding method of players will have values as a tool that can guarantee the objectivity and actual production of the data collected utilizing.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.89-95
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• 2006

The game has both directionalities that users are to choose and act accordingly. In this regard, the game scenario goes beyond just conveying the story, and trains users and guide them in playing the Same. However, this Same scenario is huge in size and every event is linked with each other so that it was rather difficult to have it made in practice. A study proposes that a script, the minimum unit, is built into a database, and based on which, quests are made, then the resulting quests are built back into a database. Scripts are classified into text, graphic and sound type and these are positioned in accordance with the quest structure. With this method, one can re-use the existing scenarios and can overcome the negatives of irregular qualities of scenarios.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.162-167
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• 2007

최근 컴퓨터 게임에 등장하는 NPC(Non-player Character)에 각종 인공지능 기법을 적용하는 연구들이 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 대부분의 연구가 플레이어를 상대하는 적대적 입장의 NPC들의 움직임 조절에 초점을 맞추고 있고 아직까지 게임 상에서 등장하는 모든 NPC는 항상 같은 말과 비슷한 행동을 되풀이하는 모습만을 보여주고 있다. 이는 플레이어가 게임을 비현실적으로 느끼게 만들고 결과적으로 게임의 재미를 저하시키는 요소로 작용한다. 플레이어에게 보다 현실적인 게임 환경을 제공하기 위해서는 NPC가 단순히 게임의 배경을 구성하는 오브젝트가 아니라 다양한 대화를 통해 플레이어에게 많은 영향을 주게 하여 게임의 기여도를 높여주어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 게임 속에서 주어지는 퀘스트를 구성하는 NPC, 몬스터, 보상 등의 속성 정보를 온톨로지로 구성하고, 인터넷에 존재하는 게임 커뮤니티에서 퀘스트 질의/응답 게시판의 글을 추출하여, 플레이어의 관련 질의에 응답하는 NPC를 구현하고자 한다. 이를 위해 온톨로지 정보를 이용한 검색 알고리즘을 구현하였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 NPC가 커뮤니티 게시글(국문/영문) 정보를 이용하여 유저에게 고정되지 않은 다양한 메시지를 전달하면서 동시에 유저의 게임 진행을 도와주는 모습을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.29-39
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• 2009

Game scenarios are playing more important role as much as games are getting more sophisticated and expanded in their applications. However, general-purpose tools for production of game scenarios are still not developed. There are similar tools for the production of films or dramas and simple tools for the development of UCG. However, analysis about them shows that they are not suitable for the production of game scenarios. In this paper, we are to develop game scenario authoring tool called 'UMa' suitable for game production and easy to use. UMa is composed of synopsis entry, quest entry, DB entry, communication, display, and control component. Since UMa provides templates to make synopsis, quest, and DB, users can produce them very easily. Especially, characters and items DB are stored independently so that they may be reused to the production of scenarios for follow-up or another game. Using UMa, users can write game scenarios more easily and quickly and cooperate with each other at the same time by Web.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.01a
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• pp.221-222
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• 2020

본 논문은 유니티 엔진을 이용하여 3인칭 육성 게임을 개발하는 것을 목표로 한다. 본 개발 게임에서는 인간족과 오크족으로 나누고, 인간족은 오크족에게 오크족은 인간족에게 대응하기 위해서 자신의 능력을 키우는 것을 기본 배경 시나리오로 계획하였다. 두 종족의 선택에 맞는 스토리 형식의 퀘스트(Quest)로 중립 몬스터를 격파하여, 이를 능력치로 키울 수 있게 하였다. 본 개발 논문에서는 스토리성 퀘스트를 기본으로 하고 있기 때문에 플레이어가 몰입 하기 쉬운 좋은 조건을 장점으로 하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.215-220
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• 2009

MMORPG is being progressed through Quest and the level and the balance are realized. Also, Quest plays a strong role of motivation through compensation related with Avatar such as items and experience points rather than a role of story transfer. This situation finally made MMORPG become a difficult game that players should study the compensation of Quest for growth of a character, so it causes fixation of the user class. As a solving method of the fixation of the users, the possibility of Quest capable of strengthening play motive of various users through clarification of motivation structure of the Quest play and pluralistic understanding about players was investigated. The pluralistic understanding method of players will have values as a tool that can design and evaluate Quest satisfying preference of the various user class.