• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.232-235
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• 2019

In recent years, Japanese style Chinese Moe-tic Ship personification games have enjoyed success in Korean game market - starting from 'Girl's Frontier' in 2017 to recent 'Azur Lane' in 2018. Their 'all female' characters have overly sexual appearance thus young male adults/adolescents are main consumers of the genre. In this paper, we investigate all 300+ character skins of the game 'Azur Lane' on how much their character illustrates have sexual exposure of the female body for the sexism and how their standard attire have different patterns with respect to the affiliated nationalities. We report that the sexual exposure is highly related to the payable skins including swim suits and there exists some sexual stereotype in characters' attire. Japanese and Chinese characters emphasize their traditional Chipao and Kimono. Japanese also wore school uniforms. German characters wore uniforms the most and many British characters wore maiden uniform. Although this game is classified as adult game, its overly sexualized female characters are harmful for young adults to cause sexual objectification of females.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.67-78
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• 2021

Since the release of and in 2017, business models for collection mobile games have been changing. Collection Mobile games are composed mainly of characters, and the business model is also highly related to user preference factors. The Delphi method and the AHP analysis were used on ten experts in each field of game production to identify preference factors, and five collection mobile games were selected for business model analysis. The result shows that 'moe' characters are a major preference factor, and accordingly, business models are also changing to focus on the completion of character collection and products such as character skins.