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Behavior Patterns and Visualization by Playing Experience in FPS Game

FPS게임의 플레이경험에 따른 행동패턴과 시각화

  • Choi, GyuHyeok (Dept. of Visual Contents, Graduate School, Dongseo University) ;
  • Kim, Mijin (Division of Digital Contents, Dongseo University)
  • 최규혁 (동서대학교 일반대학원 영상콘텐츠학과) ;
  • 김미진 (동서대학교 디지털콘텐츠학부)
  • Received : 2016.07.10
  • Accepted : 2016.08.16
  • Published : 2016.08.20
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Abstract

To apply the player's experiences to the design process of the game levels set by the developer, gameplay behavior analysis is needed. The player's behavior which is different by how much he got experiences from the play has generally been studied by one computational approach based on numerical data and the other HCI(human-computer interaction) approach through heuristic analysis. For the analysis of the player's behavior with the level design patterns in FPS(first-person shooter) games, in this paper those methods are used to code 12 main types of action, which in turn is simply categorized into 5 kinds of behavior pattern. Along with it, an optimized visualization is proposed to intuitively compare the flow of behavior pattern with the time of playing game.

게임플레이 행동분석은 개발자가 설계한 게임레벨에 대한 플레이어의 경험을 게임레벨 디자인 단계에 적용하기 위해 필요하다. 플레이어의 경험수준에 따라 차이를 보이는 플레이행동을 분석하는 방법은 크게 수치적 데이터를 기반으로 한 컴퓨팅적 접근과 휴리스틱 분석기법을 통한 HCI적 접근으로 연구되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 FPS게임의 레벨디자인 패턴에 대한 플레이어의 행동을 분석하기 위해 2가지 분석방법의 장점을 복합적으로 활용하여 12종의 주류행동을 코드화 하고 5종의 행동패턴으로 단순화 하였다. 또한 게임플레이 시간에 따른 행동패턴의 흐름을 직관적으로 비교하기 위해 최적화된 시각화방법을 제시하였다.

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