"Games, the Contents and the Economy" written by Acean D Park]

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] Blockchain and right game   June. 28. 2018. I dealt with the subject of the Bechdel test and right game in the last column. I'd like to talk about another meaning of right game this time.   Recently, there's been a lot of talks about blockchain-related subject across the content industry. I also discussed the impact of blcokchain technology on the content industry in a related government agency just hours before writing this article. I have predicted that blockchain will not only change a large part of the content industry but also contribute to developing the content field. I still haven't changed my thought.   However, I think that the recent talks about the new technology is putting the cart before the horse. Blcokchain is literally a technology. It doesn't make anything. Blockchain solution brings up transparent transactions based o...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] The Bechdel test and righteous games The Bechdel test   There is the Bechdel test which is a method of evaluating the portrayal of women in fiction. It is first appeared in comic strip of the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel in 1985. And it just needs to satisfy the following requirements:   1. The movie has to have at least two women in it, 2. who talk to each other, 3. about something besides a man.   It's not easy to find films which meet these simple-looking standards. Recently released Korean movies generally fail to meet the requirements. All movies meeting the above criteria don't portray gender equality. However, the fact that just less than half of the movies pass the simple test means that film industry is a largely male-dominated filed. It's more clear when applying the requirements to men and women in reverse.   ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   The nuclear power generation industry and the video gaming industry   The Shin Kori Nuclear Power Plant Units 5&6 construction is scheduled to begin again soon. Last July, the Moon administration launched an ad-hoc committee to gather public opinion on whether to permanently halt the building of the nuclear reactors while temporarily called off constructing power plants. The committee offered a variety of sources to about 500 "citizen jurors", conducted surveys, hold public hearings over about four months and submitted the final recommendations to the Government. According to the recommendations, 59.5 percent supported a reconstruction with 40.5 percent objecting to the current policy. Also, 53.2 percent recommended to gradually lower reliance on nuclear power from now on.   I believe that stop building the 5&6 plants is desirable. Nuclear fission energy,...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   A break for South Korea's gaming industry   Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will be held soon. I have kept writing for a newspaper for four years since around the 18th film festival in 2013. But it seems like just yesterday. I'm not trying to show off although I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the long-period time and there were many pleasant memories. Frankly speaking, the opening sentence of the column is nothing short of a struggle to escape from finding a new subject because I simply can't decide what to write about today. This quite often happened for the past four years as the deadline drew near. I used to sit in front of a computer looking at the monitor for a good while with no definite idea.   In this case, I usually try to have my attention drawn away running through a book or playing a video game. I used to find myself begging a subject from ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Mechanized man and humanized AI   Recently, I started to give a lecture on game design to students majoring in video games at a university. I was so excited for the new classes that my heart was pounding. Of course, it was not a new experience for me and I also have given special lectures several times. However, this opportunity seemed very significant for me because I was an ineffectual teacher ten years ago and when it comes to the occasional lectures since then, they were mostly about not game design but investment-related topics. So I started the new semester promising myself to make my lectures helpful and valuable for all educatees.   Frankly speaking, the first few times of lessons were unpleasant, contrary to my expectations. I guess that student's low levels of understanding content ranked at the top of the main causes.   A tutee who wants ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, and Space Invaders   Technology seems less relevant to a video game. A language created and used by artificial intelligence (AI) was reported on the news recently. To sums up, machine intelligence, which was in the process of learning how to negotiate with the other AI, made the new language for itself to bring about better results. The method of AI communication was so quite unlike any other existing human languages that nobody could understand their conversation.   The brand-new language can imply many meanings. In the first place, human languages might not be effective. Negotiators usually exchange a lot of opinions to find a way to cope with a problem. AI may have made the entirely-new one which can replace inefficient human words. Secondly, technology on artificial intelligence has already developed enough to create a new la...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Past, present, and future of Steam (Part 5)   Steam is now a video game distribution service based on electronic software distribution (ESD). The platform will keep making up for the weaknesses and building on the strengths. It will also expand its service into many diverse fields using its dominant subscriber pool. Steam users are expected to choose controller hardware including Steam Controller, which lets users play its entire collection of Steam games, and select a currency or a language as they wish as it expands its service to many countries. It is attempting to support VR content and to expand the business into non-PC games. The Steam platform is supposed to sustain steady growth based on its extensive experiences and a flood of users. So, let's find out what domestic developers should prepare to go into foreign markets through Valve's channel which has the potential...