Identifying Critical Factors for Successful Games by Applying Topic Modeling


Mookyung Kwak, Ji Su Park, Jin Gon Shon, Journal of Information Processing Systems Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 130-145, Feb. 2022  

https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.04.0236
Keywords: Critical Factors, SRDG Model, Successful Game, topic modeling
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Abstract

Games are widely used in many fields, but not all games are successful. Then what makes games successful? The question gave us the motivation of this paper, which is to identify critical factors for successful games with topic modeling technique. It is supposed that game reviews written by experts sit on abundant insights and topics of how games succeed. To excavate these insights and topics, latent Dirichlet allocation, a topic modeling analysis technique, was used. This statistical approach provided words that implicate topics behind them. Fifty topics were inferred based on these words, and these topics were categorized by stimulation-response-desire- goal (SRDG) model, which makes a streamlined flow of how players engage in video games. This approach can provide game designers with critical factors for successful games. Furthermore, from this research result, we are going to develop a model for immersive game experiences to explain why some games are more addictive than others and how successful gamification works.


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[APA Style]
Kwak, M., Park, J., & Shon, J. (2022). Identifying Critical Factors for Successful Games by Applying Topic Modeling. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 18(1), 130-145. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.04.0236.

[IEEE Style]
M. Kwak, J. S. Park, J. G. Shon, "Identifying Critical Factors for Successful Games by Applying Topic Modeling," Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 130-145, 2022. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.04.0236.

[ACM Style]
Mookyung Kwak, Ji Su Park, and Jin Gon Shon. 2022. Identifying Critical Factors for Successful Games by Applying Topic Modeling. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 18, 1, (2022), 130-145. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.04.0236.