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A Study on User Interface Design of MMORPG Game Based on Affordance: Focused on Comparative Analysis of UI Design according to Platform Differences of

어포던스 기반한 MMORPG 게임의 UI 디자인에 관한 연구: MMORPG Game 의 플랫폼 차이에 따른 UI 디자인의 분석을 중심으로

  • Choi, Yoo Na (Department of Newmedia, Seoul Media Institute of Technology) ;
  • Chun, JiYoon (Department of Newmedia, Seoul Media Institute of Technology)
  • 최유나 (서울미디어대학원대학교(SMIT) 뉴미디어학부) ;
  • 전지윤 (서울미디어대학원대학교(SMIT) 뉴미디어학부)
  • Received : 2017.10.27
  • Accepted : 2017.11.25
  • Published : 2017.11.30

Abstract

The domestic game market is still on a trend of growth. Particularly, as the demand for mobile games is increased, the mobile version is developed in a growing number of cases even after the launch of the games for PCS. In a bid to search for the effective method of UI design depending on the differences between the platforms, this study analyzed the types of different media in the first place and as the approaches to the UI design based on the affordance concept, implemented on the platform of PCS and implemented on the platform of mobile devices were analyzed as the cases which are the same MMORPG games. Since the differences between the game platforms can cause the variations in the physical size of the screens depending on the environment in which the user interface (UI) is rendered and may often involve the controls implemented by the touch of screens rather than the manipulation based on the keyboard and mouse, they usually give the influences on the direction of UI designs. By analyzing these UI elements based on the affordance concept, it may be possible to find the effective method of UI design in the future.

국내 게임 시장은 현재 여전히 상승세에 있다. 특히 모바일 게임의 수요가 증가함에 따라 PC 게임이 출시되더라도 모바일 버전의 게임을 개발하는 경우가 늘고 있다. 본 연구에서는 플랫폼 차이에 따른 UI 디자인의 효과적인 방법을 모색하고자 먼저 미디어의 유형을 살펴보고 어포던스 기반의 UI 디자인에 대한 접근을 동일 MMORPG 게임인 PC 기반의 <리니지 2>와 모바일 기반의 <리니지 레볼루션>을 사례로 분석하였다. 게임 플랫폼의 차이는 UI를 생성하는 환경에 따라 물리적 화면의 크기가 다르고 키보드, 마우스 조작과 같은 제어가 스크린을 터치하는 방식의 컨트롤러로 나타날 수 있기 때문에 UI 디자인 방향성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 이와 같은 UI 요소는 어포던스 개념을 기반으로 관찰해보면 향후 UI 디자인의 효과적인 방법을 모색할 수 있을 것이다.

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