http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/ Hello~~ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:59:00 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.cmpevents.com/GD08/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=6981 Game Design Based on Micro-Transactions in Online Games Speaker: Gyuhwan Oh (Assistant Professor, Ajou University), Taiyoung Ryu (Graduate Student, University of Southern California) Date/Time: Friday (February 22, 2008) 9:00am — 10:00am Location (room): Room 2002, West Hall Track: Game Design Secondary Track: Business and Management Experience Level: All Session Description The presentation covers issues of micro-transactions in Korean online games. Firstly, it deals with comparison between two payment models in online games: subscription based payment model and micro-transactions and discusses with drawbacks of the subscriptions based payment models. We then briefly characterize micro-transactions in online games : features, methods and advantages of micro-transactions. The presentation also introduces various online games with various genres from MMORPGs to casual-style online games which have been successfully adapted micro-transactions as their business model as their case studies. The expansion of micro-transaction based online games is bringing about many changes in the overall game development process from game design, sales to distributions. Finally, the presentation discusses game design issues to efficiently accommodate micro-transactions in online games: how to balance between in-game items obtained by game-money and in-game items purchased by real money, how to abstract the function of such items, and how to strength events and communities. Idea Takeaway Participants are provided with current status of micro-transactions in Korean online games. Intended Audience Anyone who is interested in micro-transactions in online games in Korea would benefit from this. No prerequisites needed.]]> http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2008/01/my_session_in_gdc2008.html http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2008/01/my_session_in_gdc2008.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:59:00 -0800 http://www.gdmag.com/homepage.htm ]]> http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/12/my_article_in_game_developer_m.html http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/12/my_article_in_game_developer_m.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:51:10 -0800 http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/085.pdf]]> http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/10/my_paper_in_digra_2007.html http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/10/my_paper_in_digra_2007.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:38:58 -0800 1. Modification of Particle System 2. Simple Flicker http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/08/test.html http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tryu/2007/08/test.html Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:31:06 -0800