Final tournament for Korean online game in Japan will be held.

Final tournament in Japan for the third year 'World game festival GNGWC 2008' will take place on coming 25th. Participants will strive for tickets to the GNGWC 2008 world finals.

This coming finals in Japan follows the regional finals that took place in Germany, Singapore, US, Brazil and Korea. Representatives from six different continents will come together on November 16 for world championship that is sponsored by Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) and KT.

Japan is well-known for excellent games. Not only video games but Internet online and mobile games recently became popular as well.

Japanese Yano Research Institute Ltd. announced on February 21 that Japanese online game market has increased from 30.7 billion Yen in 2004 to 82 billion Yen in 2007. It is also expected to grow up to 160 billion Yen in 2011. This research shows that game publishing industry has increased from 27.8 billion Yen in 2004 to 80.2 billion Yen which is a remarkable 400 % increase.

Japan's fever for online game has influenced Korean online game market. A great number of Korean online games are becoming popular in Japan.

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A company which excels in making Internet flash contents, Climbx(Represetative, Kim Seong-sun and Woo Jong-ho, www.climbx.com), with its famous product, Flash Egg, has been selected as one of the global service platform(GSP) users by Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency(KIPA). And it will soon appear on GSP official website, www.gamengame.com on mid October.

GSP is aimed to improve competitive power in global market by establishing and utilizing public infrastructure, in order to send out Korean online games to abroad. Through this GSP project, a lot of prominent domestic online games are introduced abroad and the outcome is positively increasing every year.

Climbx is a professional in developing Internet flash contents. They have been aiming to make inroads to foreign markets from the very beginning.

Flash does not require users to install or download the program. Therefore it makes them easier to access. It has a big potential market since 'Wakfu', a MMORPG flash game developed by Ankama Studio who made 'Dofus', has become one of the four most popular online games in Europe. They are ambitious to become a world best flash contents developer in that sense.

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South American regional finals for Korean online game competition, GNGWC 2008, will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 5.

GNGWC 2008 regional rounds have been finished in Europe, Southeast Asia, US and Korea. South American and Japanese rounds are coming soon. South American regional finals will take place in Sao Paulo, the capital of Brazil. Brazil is a rising market for online games since there has been a rapid expansion of Internet infrastructure recently.

GNGWC 2008 is sponsored by Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) and KT. It is intended to promote excellent Korean online games and help Korean online game companies to make inroads into Brazilian market.

This year's GNGWC South American regional finals have three games: Shot Online(Onnet), Silk Road (JoyMax) and Atlantica(Ndoors) players who survive the regional rounds will make to the world finals that will take place in Korea.

Survivors will compete against other representatives from 6 different countries at G-Star, Kintex, Ilsan, Korea, on November 16.

Director Taek-min Kwon from KIPA which sponsors GNGWC 2008 said, "Recently there has been a diversification of export markets. It used to be leaning to Asia

'A global game festival, GNGWC 2008', that is held by Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) and is sponsored by KT, its most competitive regional finals in Korea will begin at Yongin (Yongin Youth Training Center) on 28th this month. US final round has just come to an end with a great success on 20th.

GNGWC 2008 had its regional rounds in Europe, Southeast Asia and US. The remaining rounds will be held in Korea, Brazil and Japan which will take place on September 28, October 4 and October 25 respectively. The final round for GNGWC will happen in Korea on November 16 following the regional finals in Japan.

GNGWC 2008 has gamers from 6 different continents where they get together to compete for world championship by playing Korean online games. Gamers have to survive an online preliminary and offline finals in order to play as a representative of each nation or continent. Shot Online (Onnet), Atlantica (Ndoors) and Navy Field (SD Enternet) are the ones that have been selected as official games in Korea round.

This coming Korea round is expected have a lot of Korean gamers since all of its official games are made in Korea. It will be a big festival for gamers and their families.

NDoors plans to get feedback from users and run a test to check stability of its own developed MMORPG game, Atlantica(http://atlantica.gamengame.com), in July, before it begins servicing internationally.

Atlantica has been the only game that fared well through the first half of the year. After gauging its success in domestic market, Atlantica is now ready to take the air to markets abroad.

Producer Kim Taegon who has been taking charge of Atlantica confidently told us that Atlantica is fascinating enough to attract foreign users. He also said that usually after developing a game manpower are reallocated to produce new games. However, as for Atlantica, more workers are recruited to complement its contents.

The Atlantica troop, with its leader, Producer Kim, is about to land on foreign markets starting from North America that is followed by Europe and Southeast Asia.

We asked NDoors by letter regarding their preparation to penetrate North American market.


Q : What feedback did foreign users give with regard to Atlantica?

A : We posted CG Trailer Movie on a teaser site to get feedback from users in North America. Because Atlantica was on a teaser site, that means it has not been f

NDOORS Corporation plans to gather users’ feedback and test stability in July with respect to its piece of work, ‘Atlantica’ which is a MMORPG game that will give worldwide services.

 “MMORPG Atlantica was created by Producer Kim, Taegon who wanted a change from the original MMORPG.”

Producer Kim, Taegon who has 15 years of game producing experience have produced ‘Atlantica’ to grow out of original MMORPG. That is why Atlantica has a very unique style: Turn-base method and business management like strategy. We aimed to attract 20 plus male adults and let users to be more accessible to the game. That brought us to a conclusion that hunting games have many limits.

“Turn-base method is the basis of Atlantica’s battle strategy.”

Turn-base method is the basis of Atlantica’s battles. A user takes charge of a troop that is composed of a hero and a number of soldiers to fight with monsters. A user can have 8 soldiers maximum and have to decide how to assault in 30 seconds. It is interesting to see that outcome of a battle is often determined by stationing 9 characters including the hero in a 3x3 box.