The Growth History of Mobile Game Industry in Korea

The mobile game industry has been growing rapidly in both the number of games and revenues. Choosing the right interactions for a game has become a major challenge for developers. Some developers use inappropriate interactions in their games which causes them to be less fun than they should be. This research focuses on gathering and defining possible mobile game interactions so as to guide and enable designers and developers to choose the right interactions for their games. The researchers have extensively reviewed and explored various mobile game interactions both through research studies and through existing mobile games. Subsequent to observations, mobile game interactions were then categorized as follows: 1) Touch interaction 2) Motion/Movement interaction 3) Video interaction 4) Sound interaction 5) Special purpose interaction 6) Location interaction 7) Electroencep-halography (EEG) interaction 8) Date/Time interaction 9) Weather interaction 10) Light interaction 11) Proximity interaction 12) Network interaction 13) Social interaction and 14) Bioinformatics interaction. These 14 interactions can be used to support gameplay, ideas, and innovation of mobile games.

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The Effect of Population-Level Learning on Entry Likelihood in the Mobile Game Industry

Asia Marketing Journal ◽

10.53728/2765-6500.1347 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Dusan Seong ◽

Sahangsoon Kim

Keyword(s):

Population Level ◽

Mobile Game ◽

Game Industry

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Customer Perceptions Toward Mobile Games Delivered via the Wireless Application Protocol

Unwired Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-664-8.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 48-65

Author(s):

Clarry Shchiglik ◽

Stuart J. Barnes ◽

Eusebio Scornavacca

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Consumer Perceptions ◽

Wireless Application Protocol ◽

Mobile Games ◽

Mobile Game ◽

Customer Perceptions ◽

Main Driver ◽

Wireless Application ◽

Game Industry

The rapid uptake and increased complexity of mobile phones has provided an unprecedented platform for the penetration of mobile services. Among these, mobile entertainment is composed of a variety of services such as ringing tones, games, gambling, and so on. Games are predicted to replace ringing tones as the main driver of mobile entertainment. This chapter contributes to the development of the mobile game industry by understanding corresponding consumer perceptions towards wireless application protocol (WAP) games. A series of focus groups were conducted to gain in-depth qualitative insight of perceptions towards WAP game services. The results indicate a number of clear areas for the delivery of successful WAP game services. WAP games were perceived as lacking complexity, but at the same time, were also seen as possessing several beneficial qualities. The chapter concludes with some recommendations and predictions regarding the future of WAP games.

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‘The fate of Shenmue is in your hands now!’: Kickstarter, video games and the financialization of crowdfunding

Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies ◽

10.1177/1354856518780478 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (5-6) ◽

pp. 985-999

Author(s):

Dario Lolli

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Video Game ◽

Effective Capacity ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Ecosystem ◽

Digital Convergence ◽

History Of ◽

Game Industry ◽

Funding Mechanisms

In July 2015, a crowdfunding campaign launched to revive the notoriously unprofitable video game series Shenmue closed with the record figure of above US$6 million, to date the highest amount ever raised on Kickstarter for video game funding. This article takes this campaign as an endemic case study of the changing funding mechanisms concerning video game production in the digital ecosystem of Web 2.0. Although the campaign displays some of the participatory elements often attributed to crowdfunding and digital convergence, it also sheds doubts on accountability and the effective capacity of crowdfunding to substantially challenge and de-hierarchize power relations in the video game industry. In particular, the Shenmue III campaign illustrates how the crowdfunding initiative was instrumentally mobilized by its organizers to attract further corporate sponsorships and stakeholders outside crowdfunding. This controversial episode shows how commercial platforms like Kickstarter are increasingly facilitating a process of financialization of crowdfunding, whose main effect is not so much the equal coming together of media consumers and producers as the minimization of risks for large video game corporations. By mapping the history of the Shenmue franchise from its original failure in the era of physical distribution to its recent crowdfunded success, this article argues that the empowering potentials of crowdfunding cannot be readily assumed without a contingent analysis of the cultural and political economy underlying Web 2.0 and its digital platforms.

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‘Cease and desist?’ The persistence of Marlboro brand imagery in racing video games

Tobacco Control ◽

10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055300 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. tobaccocontrol-2019-055300

Author(s):

Susan Forsyth ◽

Patricia A McDaniel

Keyword(s):

Video Games ◽

Video Game ◽

Real Life ◽

Smoking Prevention ◽

International Policy ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Philip Morris ◽

History Of ◽

Negative Publicity ◽

Game Industry

BackgroundSince 1972, Philip Morris (PM) has sponsored motorsports. Racing video games are a popular genre among youth and often emulate the branding of their real-life counterparts, potentially exposing youth to tobacco imagery. We examined racing video games for the presence of Marlboro imagery and explored the history of efforts to remove or regulate such imagery.MethodsWe searched the Truth Tobacco Industry documents for relevant documents and used information from video game-related websites and game play videos to identify racing video games that contained Marlboro trademarks and imagery. We also collected information on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s (ESRB) tobacco-specific and overall game ratings.FindingsIn 1989, negative publicity surrounding the presence of Marlboro logos in racing games led PM to threaten legal action against two game makers for copyright infringement. PM also launched a media campaign promoting this intervention as evidence of its commitment to youth smoking prevention. Nonetheless, we identified 219 video games from 1979 to 2018 that contained Marlboro trademarks and/or Marlboro-sponsored drivers and livery. Among the games in our sample with an ESRB game rating, all but one received an ‘E,’ indicating appropriateness for everyone, and all but three lacked tobacco content descriptors.ConclusionRacing video games have been and continue to be a vehicle for exposing adolescents to the Marlboro brand. Because voluntary efforts by PM and the video game industry to prevent youth exposure to tobacco brands in video games have been ineffective, USA and international policy-makers should prohibit tobacco content in video games.

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Examples of twinning and parallel growth in zircons from some Precambrian granites and gneisses

Mineralogical Magazine ◽

10.1180/minmag.1974.039.305.13 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 39 (305) ◽

pp. 587-594 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

J. Jocelyn ◽

R. T. Pidgeon

Keyword(s):

Late Stage ◽

Common Occurrence ◽

Chemical Corrosion ◽

Growth History ◽

History Of ◽

Growth Zones ◽

The Common ◽

Transverse Fractures ◽

Parallel Growth

SummaryGrowth twins, parallel growths, and necked crystals are described from zircon populations from granitic gneisses from the Precambrian of SW. Greenland. From observations of the distribution of internal growth zones it is concluded that whereas twinning takes place early in the growth history of elbow twins it can occur at any time during crystallization of the zircon. Parallel growth is attributed to a process of synneusis or attachment of zircons that have initially undergone separate growth histories. This implies that viscosity conditions of the rocks were low enough to permit the movement and collision of growing zircon crystals. The common occurrence of zircons with central constrictions, sometimes superimposed on transverse fractures, in zircon suites from the granitic gneisses is explained in terms of late-stage chemical corrosion accompanied by brittle fracturing.

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