2007년 11월 2일 금요일

Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis

- Jose P. Zagal, Michael Mateas, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Brian Hochhalter, Nolan Lichti

Chair : chee onn
Panels :

1. Introductoin of article

Top level ontology consist of five elements
~ Interface
~ Rules
~ Goals
~ Entities
~ Entity mainpulation

Traditional View: category based on similarity
Prototype View : based on attributes of what is perceived as well as characteristics of the perceptual apparatus itself.

Game Ontology Project - categorize things we see in games

2. Issues

2007년 10월 18일 목요일

Collaborative Games: Lessons learned from board games

- Jose P.zagal, Jochen Rick, Idris Hsi

chair: Seok Jun
panels: Taehoon Lee, Giwon Song, Kyoungho Lee

1. Introductoin of article
The article approached with analyzing collaboration in games. The main writing material of this article is the board game; "Load of the Ring". The authors researched collaborative mechanism. Many games have this system. However this game has a transparency. This transparency makes them more accessible for in-depth analysis.

1) Designing collaborative games
- To avoid the game degenerating into one player making the decisions for the team, collaborative games have to provide a sufficient rationale for collaboration.
- For a game to be engaging, players need to care about the outcome and that outcome should have a satisfying result.
- For a collaborative game to be enjoyable multiple time, the experience needs to be different each time and the presented challenge needs to evolve.

2) Conclusion of article
- Games have a unique potential to engage people in collaborative activities.
- Computer games not only have the potential for addressing many of the issues discussed but also many affordances to solve them.
- Game designers might be able to use to create more and better collaborative games

2. Issues
- Tension between individual and team
- Communication method
- a point of different

Why we need collaborations?
Is it essential element of human activities?

2007년 10월 16일 화요일

[final paper outline]

1. Title
Meaning of the numeral in Digital world.

2. Motive of subject
How prove the individual identity? Actually, we use a numeral to define ourselves.
Because it is easy to preserve one's information.
The digital world we live in, will show similar phenomenon to humans.

3. Paper summary
The minimum constituent unit of Digital world is numeral.
The numeral can represent all things. I want to research meaning of numeral in digital world.
(Maybe, main material is the games)

4. keyword
Numeral, numerical representation, Digital Games, Digitization