Design and Development of Unity3D Game Engine-Based Smart SNG (Social Network Game)

Abstract

As the number of smartphone users has been largely increased, games are highlighted because of their roles to promote the correlations by strengthening functions of SNS (Social Network Service). The SNG(Social Network Service) connects many people who don't know each other’s around the world under one theme, therefore, becomes a communication tool for establishing a new human network. The games provided by social network service have increasingly drawn attention. In particular, a continuous expanding is exhibited in a sale along with the increase of users of SNS service, suggesting that the game industry is further activated. The growth of social network game market shows a multi-platform expansion of social network game by linking the off/online of mobile app store and web one. However, the problem of it is a lack of related experiences and developers. And the current social network games are mostly created in a flash-based form, thus, there are problems in terms of multi-platform support and limits of 3D games. Therefore, the Unity3D Engine developed by Unity Technologies, an engine which capable of making high-quality games in a relatively easy and fast way used to overcome limits of 2D social network games, and design and develop the 3D social network game(SNG) using 3D multi-platform engine unity. This is expected to contribute to an activation of the multi-platform-based smart SNG game market.