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Gender Analysis of Disney Characters in Video Game: Focus on Disney Magical Dice

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This study does the gender analysis of Disney characters of the United States in video game through “Disney Magical Dice”, a dice game whose genre is Board Game developed by South Korean company. After South Korean game company Netmarble purchased the copyright of Disney characters, they published a dice game that contains several Disney Characters with mobile platform. During the game, players choose a certain Disney Character and compete with other players in a dice game, and they win the game as one players goes bankrupt. This game has a great advantage that players all around the world can play together Specifically, this study critically does the gender analysis of all of Disney characters by 1) Appearance(how characters appear differently) 2) Ability (how characters have different several abilities) 3) Ranking (how characters are ranked in the leader board) appeared in Disney Magical Dice. Throughout this, it not only discusses the gender issue in video game which is an important issue like the real world, but also explores various traits of Board Game as a genre that is popular regardless of gender, age, region, etc.

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This study does the gender analysis of Disney characters of the United States in video game through “Disney Magical Dice”, a dice game whose genre is Board Game developed by South Korean company. After South Korean game company Netmarble purchased the copyright of Disney characters, they published a dice game that contains several Disney Characters with mobile platform. During the game, players choose a certain Disney Character and compete with other players in a dice game, and they win the game as one players goes bankrupt. This game has a great advantage that players all around the world can play together Specifically, this study critically does the gender analysis of all of Disney characters by 1) Appearance(how characters appear differently) 2) Ability (how characters have different several abilities) 3) Ranking (how characters are ranked in the leader board) appeared in Disney Magical Dice. Throughout this, it not only discusses the gender issue in video game which is an important issue like the real world, but also explores various traits of Board Game as a genre that is popular regardless of gender, age, region, etc.

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