• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.309-310
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• 2019

매치3 퍼즐 게임은 모바일 게임에서 많이 출시되고 있으며 많은 사람들이 즐기고 있는 장르이다. 또한 유사한 규칙과 형태를 가진 게임들이 지속적으로 출시 예정에 있다. 본 논문에서는 매치3 퍼즐 게임이 많은 레벨로 구성되어 있는 점에 비추어 매치3 퍼즐 게임의 레벨 난이도를 측정할 수 있는 방법에 대해서 후속 연구의 방향성을 제시한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.21-32
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• 2017

Computer games must keep the user immersed for fun. According to the immersion theory, maintaining the user's immersive state requires a continuous balance of game skill level and game difficulty level This study proposes a game skill estimation method of 9th grade that can be applied to a casual action game that can assume a zero-sum game, and additionally proposed a difficulty guessing method. The proposed methods can be implemented quickly and easily because it is a method determining by conditional mathematical expressions. Experiments on the accuracy of the proposed methods for the customized Pac-Man game show that the accuracy of the skill level was 1.2 grade as the difference on the average and the accuracy of the game difficulty level was 1.81 grade the difference on the average. The results show that the proposed methods are accurate enough to be applied to casual action games satisfying the zero-sum condition.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.65-73
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• 2018

Game balance settings are crucial to game design. Game balancing must take into account a large amount of numerical values, configuration data, and the relationship between elements. Once released and served, a game - even for a balanced game - often requires calibration according to the game player's preference. To achieve sustainability, game balance needs adjustment while allowing for small changes. In fact, from the producers' standpoint, game balance issue is a critical success factor in game production. Therefore, they often invest much time and capital in game design. However, if such a costly game cannot provide players with an appropriate level of difficulty, the game is more likely to fail. On the contrary, if the game successfully identifies the game players' propensity and performs self-balancing to provide appropriate difficulty levels, this will significantly reduce the likelihood of game failure, while at the same time increasing the lifecycle of the game. Accordingly, if a novel technology for game balancing is developed using artificial intelligence (AI) that offers personalized, intelligent, and customized service to individual game players, it would bring significant changes to the game production system.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.19-28
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• 2011

Level design is one of the important factors in tower defense game development. The difficulty of tower defense game depends on its wave design. In general, it requires a lot of manual labor to generate well-balanced waves with fun. In this paper, we propose a new automated wave generation system by using a genetic algorithm. With our system, a game designer can easily generate an optimized wave by designating the difficulty level in the initial stage of game design. Our system can be useful in reducing the trial-errors in the initial level design process of tower defense game development.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.25-32
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• 2019

This paper proposes a automatic generation method of Match-3 game levels through genetic algorithm. It takes a lot of time and effort if persons have to control the level in the game. In this paper, the genetic algorithm is applied to create an appropriate block combination. We create block combination from integer DNA. Fitness is high if success probability played by computer is closer to given probability. Experiments have shown that computer-determined levels of difficulty have a significant impact on the results of game played persons.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.37-46
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• 2014

In this paper, by using Visual C # XNA game development application relates to a technique. This paper proposes the design and an implement effective algorithms Effect Based on XNA Game Development Environment. Existing in the development of the game using Directx C++ game developers, game development, it is necessary to position a lot of the source code. Particularly effective effect was much difficulty in the processing section. However, to eliminate this difficulty was proposed in the paper. The possibility of developing the game in XNA-based group. For the superiority of the proposed paper and the comparative analysis of existing games were designed for the development of the game was. The future study will be the design of various effects and events which give more immersive game implementation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

Function Point(FP) is well spread and advanced methodology in software costing. But FP is not common in game contents costing. It is one reason that Game Contents is a new area in software costing. And, ISO/IEC FDIS 19761(final draft) recommends not to use FP method in game contents costing. So we suggested new methodology in that area which is called Game Factor Point Method(GFPM). In this paper, we studied more about the weight of the game factor. We hope this will clarify them. We made definition of game factor, and studied more detail about Mission which was a little ambiguous in prior study. We also studied difficulties of game factor which will be a very important factor in game contents costing.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.93-104
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• 2011

For development of physical interactive game recognized as next generation game, this study examines the present situation of physical interactive games and analyzes the problem that game contents lack development compared to the hardware. This paper firstly divides the problem of physical interactive game contents into three parts: demand of the contents and biased game genre, low level of game difficulty, and limited use and/or misuse of the motion controller. Then, the possible solutions for each part are suggested afterward. As the discussion on the development methods in physical interactive game will also develop and therefore, as the next generation game, physical interactive game will play a positive role in th growth of game industry as well as game culture.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.3-11
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• 2011

The learning by computer games, is in the spotlight as an effective education method for the game generation. The current design methods for educational games is to design all needed game elements and learning elements which should be included in. So to design an educational game for motivation and learning effects, is generally difficult. In this paper, we propose the G-learning model IGLM which is interworked with gameplay and learning play by motivation mechanism, in order to solve the difficult problem. The comparative analysis of the proposed model IGLM on the design difficulty with the current design methods for educational games or G-learning, shows the proposed method can be a solution of the design difficult problem and is the best on the difficulty of, the freedom of, and the scope of designing the component parts of educational games or G-learning.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.467-476
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• 2008

The success of Nintendo's Wii has changed the paradigm of console game. Existing games and consoles set up the game-playing system of complicated commands, narratives, and significantly advanced the degree of difficulty by the device's excellent capacity and the superiority of graphic in order to draw so called "Game Manias", while Nintendo established the easy game-playing system for not only game manias but women and elderly people. Such an innovation has carried out the most important role for Nintendo to dominate the market all over the world by 47.4% market share of consoles. In addition, it provided the users with unique interaction and emotional experience. In this study, we analyze the case above in terms of product design strategy, particularly emotional design strategy between Nintendo & Sony.