• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2010

Method of making For the improved game industry, this society was permitted as an incorporated association for spearhead of game society from Ministry of Culture & Tourism on February 14, 2001 with a sense of duty and a strong will toward a powerful game country. This society has objectives of academic research and distributions on creations of game contents, technologies of game producing and developments of game cultures. We will develop the game culture and industry through an industry-academic cooperations by each expert field, and spread out academic activities for cultivation of policy, technology, education, etc of the game industry in the future.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.15-26
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• 2018

Virtual Reality(VR) is one of the most remarkable technologies in the current game industry. Nevertheless, it is difficult for the game industry to actively invest in the VR technology because of the technical problems to overcome and the uncertainty about the market possibility. Therefore, this study attempts to estimate the future possibilities of the VR game market in various angles. For the purpose, we explore the domestic game market from the past to the present, and forecast the game industry ecosystem using the Scenario Network Mapping. Based on the result, we propose a short and long term future prospect and suggest the possible strategies for each stakeholder of the VR game market.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.117-126
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• 2011

This study has an objective to analyze economic impact of building game industrial complex in Incheon. There are few studies about economic impact of game industry, despites of the high expectations for game industry development as important cultural content in the regional economy. Therefore, this study gives value as an intuitive analysis in terms of understanding the game industry. Regional input-output analysis was conducted based on construction sector, game related manufacturing and game related service sector in case of fulfilling establishment of game industrial complex in the Incheon Free Economic Zone. From results of this study, we find out the importance of game industry's effects on both regional and national level and it is expected a big impact on the future direction of related studies.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.289-295
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• 2013

Arcade game up until early 2000 had been highly influential and profitable industry that occupied most of the market share for the Korean domestic game industry. However, extensive and yet tightened restrictions were imposed to the industry in 2006 due to the problems of speculative games such as winning rate manipulation, serious addictiveness, and etc. This resulted in damaging healthy arcade game business and eventually caused it seemingly impossible to comeback up until now. This study is to address the current arcade game industry in Korea along with the best practices in other countries to come up with propositions for the comeback of domestic arcade game industry and improvement of competitiveness. Ultimately it is to develop diversification and flexibility and to induce new business opportunities in the domestic arcade game industry by proposing the ways to convert the bad perception and introduction of functional games.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.149-154
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• 2018

A game story that used to be free needs a work of concrete and artificial organizing and arranging these days. This is because a game story is frequently made into a new genre such as a movie or an animation. As shown in many previous studies, most of the movies made from successful digital games failed to receive satisfying box office results. To overcome this, narratively completed storytelling should be presented from the development phase of a game. The methods are as follows: It is necessary to maximize the synergy effect through the interaction between storytelling experts, game developers, animators, and movie producers in developing a game. This will help to create a game with more sophisticated and complete narrative structure than now. It is necessary to secure the diversification of game genres. Currently in Korea, online games are unusually leading the game industry. PC games or console games are more advantageous than online games for putting a finished narrative structure into a game.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.29-38
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• 2016

The Korean game industry has stopped growing due to internal and external instability. It is the fourth industrial revolution that has been mentioned as a new breakthrough in the domestic game industry in front of these internal and external instabilities. The fourth industrial revolution is changing the paradigm of the existing industrial structure, and has brought ecological changes not only to the manufacturing industry but also to the contents industry as a whole. In this paper, we will explore the development direction of domestic game industry through the 4th industrial revolution and study the relation between development of AI and AR / VR and game industry which will be the main core of the fourth industrial revolution in the future.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.184-194
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• 2023

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the game industry, which has become more spotlighted due to the beginning of the metaverse, and the industry is gradually expanding and developing. However, workforces leading the game industry are increasingly complaining of fatigue due to the COVID-19 situation. Also, as the situation crosses online and offline at the same time, a 52-hour workweek is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, this study sought to conduct research on the acceptance of a 52-hour workweek system according to the characteristics of the game industry. This study proposed various research questions and presented academic and practical implications by verifying them.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.415-425
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• 2016

Game industry is certain to change rapidly as its attribute. Therefore, It's not easy that the law response to reflect the technological change of game industry properly, and a new legal issue that is difficult to cover with the existing law. Recently, Court battle or cases about games are socially receiving attention. Nevertheless, Research accumulation about the legal action to response this is rare situation. The legal system that is related games mostly approach in the regulation and punishment of one-sided administration so far. Relatively, Approach from the game industry development and promotion act standpoint is low. Shrinking rapidly the current game industry is not an irrelevance to this. So It is necessary to reconstruct rationally in side that embrace with variety of views of members of the society and interests about current game-related laws, systems and regulation instruments. Access to how will develop competitiveness of the game industry in legal aspects and how will promote the balanced development between game industries are needed. The problems that needs to handle in legal aspect such as game development, game distribution, and game usage which in the part of the game industry are getting more and more in the future. Therefore, there is a need to review consistently in the legal aspect for the game industry promotion.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.104-112
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• 2006

Game industry developed much from fast development of an information communication technology and an internet technology. Game industry is getting attention by high value-added industry in 21th century And genre of various game appeared. On-line game is taking charge of important role of latest IT industry Now, game software market for education is expanded, but a lot of side effects exist because of wrong game software. In this paper, we investigate existent researches about quality evaluation of on-line game's qualitative improvement. Also, we present improving quality evaluation constituent additionally.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.57-65
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• 2009

This study explored the current supply status on Contents Technology R&D(research and development) and friendly function Game Industry targeting to elderly consumers. The game contents including the functional components are categorized the sixth category of CT R&D's fundamental planning. The function game targeting to elderly focused on emotional and physical recovering to barrier, user friendliness, simplicity and certainty of game performance. The purpose of game participation are health, well-being, psychological wellness and communication. The functional game consisted of various version procedure by socio-demographic, the accessibility to game media and device.