KR102422955B1 - Game quality management system using block-chain and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a blockchain-based game quality management system and method, in which the quality management ledger is distributed and stored, and when there is a user experience different from that described in the quality management ledger during game execution, the quality management ledger is modified to Full nodes that generate a quality control distributed ledger, light nodes that distribute and store the quality control distributed ledger generated by the full nodes, and select whether to agree, and game quality test results are generated as the quality control ledger In addition, it may include a game service server for improving the quality by prioritizing the quality improvement according to the agreement ratio for the quality control distributed ledger.

Description

Blockchain-based game quality management system and method {Game quality management system using block-chain and method thereof}

The present invention relates to a game quality management system, and more particularly, to a blockchain-based game quality management system and method that can continuously manage the quality of a game in the course of a game test service and a formal service.

With the development of communication technology and smart phone technology, various games such as education and entertainment are being released, and the number of game users is continuously increasing.

Various factors work in the quality control of a game in which multiple users simultaneously access the server and enjoy the game.

For example, the quality of the game itself, such as graphic quality, user interface layout, item acquisition probability, balance between game character occupations, and story quality that appears in the process of playing the game, hardware quality such as server saturation and network connection speed, and the game It is necessary to manage the emotional quality of the players.

It was the hit shock that brought the quality control of the game to the fore. As the video game market was revitalized with the success of the Hitari2600, in order to keep other console development companies in check, Hitari supplied a large amount of software while ignoring the quality of the game. However, due to the low-quality game software, the sales of Hitari2600 decreased significantly, and during the development period of 5 weeks, a low-quality game that turned the movie E.T into a gamified game was released, and in the end, it was turned away from the market even after paying a high license fee. there was.

After this incident, Nintendo created a quality control department to verify and certify games made by game makers running on Nintendo to prevent quality degradation.

Such quality control is a very important factor in the current game industry.

As a related technology, registered patent No. 10-2029428 (registered on September 30, 2019, game quality management system) has a terminal playing an evaluation target game and an evaluation questionnaire transmitted to and outputted from the terminal, and an evaluation questionnaire through the terminal When a response is inputted, the configuration for evaluating the emotional element of the game using the result is described.

However, since this quality control uses a questionnaire, the content of quality control is very limited, and it is difficult to collect more diverse quality-related opinions and reflect them in the game.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a blockchain-based game quality management system that can collect various opinions on game quality management and reflect them in improving game quality.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a blockchain-based game quality management system that can increase the satisfaction with the reflection of improvement opinions of game users by automatically setting the priority of game quality improvement.

The present invention blockchain-based game quality management system distributes and stores the quality management ledger, and when there is a different user experience from the description of the quality management ledger during game execution, the quality control ledger is modified to create a quality control distributed ledger. Created full nodes, distributed and stored the quality control distributed ledger generated by the full nodes, and light nodes that select whether to agree or not, and generate the game quality test result as the quality control ledger as well as the quality It may include a game service server that improves quality by prioritizing quality improvement according to the consent ratio for the managed distributed ledger.

In an embodiment of the present invention, further comprising a network management server for generating a network management ledger including minimum download and upload speeds and a shutdown plan for the communication network, so that the full nodes have different experiences from the description of the network management ledger If there is, a network management distributed ledger can be created, and the light nodes can select whether to agree or not, so that a network management improvement request can be performed.

In an embodiment of the present invention, authentication and authorization are designated for the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger, and the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are authenticated for which consent has been selected by the light nodes. It may further include an authentication server.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent has been selected may be a quality management distributed ledger and a network management distributed ledger in which a ratio set in the total number of light nodes or more has been selected to agree or not. have.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger may include only modified portions of the quality control ledger and the network management ledger, respectively.

A block chain-based game quality management method according to another aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of: a) generating a quality control ledger in which game quality test results are written in a game service server; b) network quality maintenance in the network management server generating a network management ledger describing Creating a quality control distributed ledger or network management distributed ledger in the full node; d) whether the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are agreed on in the light node that distributes and stores the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger Selecting and distributing storage, e) checking the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent is confirmed in the game service server and the network management server, respectively, and applying to quality management and network management may include steps.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are authenticated and authorized by the authentication server, and consent is selected by the light nodes. Ledger can be authenticated.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent has been selected may be a quality management distributed ledger and a network management distributed ledger in which a ratio set in the total number of light nodes or more has been selected to agree or not. have.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger may include only modified portions of the quality control ledger and the network management ledger, respectively.

The present invention has the effect of confirming the various needs of game users by introducing the block chain technology to the quality control of the game, and reflecting it in the improvement of the game quality.

In addition, by allowing the improvement priorities to be automatically determined through the consensus network on improvement items, it is possible to increase the satisfaction of users by preferentially improving the quality from the parts that require a lot of improvement.

1 is a block diagram of a game quality management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the game quality management system of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The embodiments of the present invention are provided to more completely explain the present invention to those of ordinary skill in the art, and the embodiments described below may be modified in various other forms, The scope is not limited to the following examples. Rather, these embodiments are provided so as to more fully and complete the present invention, and to fully convey the spirit of the present invention to those skilled in the art.

The terminology used herein is used to describe specific embodiments, and is not intended to limit the present invention. As used herein, the singular form may include the plural form unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Also, as used herein, “comprise” and/or “comprising” refers to the presence of the recited shapes, numbers, steps, actions, members, elements, and/or groups thereof. and does not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other shapes, numbers, movements, members, elements and/or groups. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any one and any combination of one or more of those listed items.

Although the terms first, second, etc. are used herein to describe various elements, regions and/or regions, it is to be understood that these elements, parts, regions, layers, and/or regions are not limited by these terms. . These terms do not imply a specific order, upper and lower, or superiority, and are used only to distinguish one member, region or region from another member, region or region. Accordingly, a first member, region, or region described below may refer to a second member, region, or region without departing from the teachings of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings schematically illustrating embodiments of the present invention. In the drawings, variations of the illustrated shape may be expected, for example depending on manufacturing technology and/or tolerances. Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention should not be construed as limited to the specific shape of the region shown in the present specification, but should include, for example, a change in shape caused by manufacturing.

1 is a block diagram of a game quality management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, the game quality management system of the present invention provides a game service so that a plurality of users can run a game through a terminal, and a game service server 10 that creates a quality management ledger and provides it to a distributed network; A network management contract with the game service server 10 is made, a network management ledger is created and provided to a distributed network, and a game provided by the game service server 10 is executed and quality The full node 40 that can check the contents of the managed ledger and create a distributed ledger, and the game service server 10 run the game, and share and share the distributed ledger created by the full node 40 It can be checked and is configured to include a light node 50 that can determine whether to agree to the distributed ledger, and an authentication server 20 that authenticates the creation of the distributed ledger and consent to each distributed ledger.

Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the present invention game quality management system configured as described above will be described in more detail.

First, the game service server 10 is configured to include a game platform 11 that provides a game service, and a blockchain-based quality management platform 12 (hereinafter abbreviated as a quality management platform) that manages the quality of a serviced game. do.

The game platform 11 may support a mobile game, an online PC game, or a console game according to a game method. The game platform 11 stores the ID and password of the game user to support the member to play the game after authentication.

Since this is a function of the normal game service server 10, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The quality management platform 12 shares the quality management ledger, which is the function, system, and service-related test result confirmed from the development stage of the game service provided by the game service server 10, to the devices of users of the game platform 11, It is assumed that improvements can be identified by checking the distributed ledger derived from the shared quality control ledger.

That is, the quality management platform 12 creates and shares the items necessary for quality management as a ledger.

The game service server 10 makes a contract for the management of the network management server 60 and the communication network 61 . The management contract of the communication network 61 guarantees the minimum download and upload speeds to be maintained, and manages the game service so that the interruption of the game service does not occur due to the down of the communication network 61 .

For the maintenance and management of the communication network 61, it includes periodically shutting down the communication network 61, and in this case, a shutdown start time and an end time are defined.

The network management server 60 creates a network management ledger for minimum speed (download and upload) and shutdown schedule and shares it with the distributed network.

In addition, the user device that actually executes the game provided by the game service server 10 may be various devices such as a smartphone, PC, notebook, tablet, console, etc. In the present invention, the user device is a full node 40 and a light node. (50) is divided and defined.

Both the full node 40 and the light node 50 can connect to the game platform 11 of the game service server 10 through the communication network 61 to execute the game, and also act as a node of the distributed network. .

The division between the full node 40 and the light node 50 may be determined by agreement between the game service server 10 and the user in advance.

As another example, the full node 40 may be a device of a user recruited for beta testing after game development, and the light node 50 may be a device registered with the game service server 10 after official service.

It is assumed that the full node 40 can check the entire contents of the quality management ledger shared by the game service server 10 and the network management ledger shared by the network management server 60 .

It is assumed that the light node 50 cannot check the quality management ledger of the game service server 10 and the network management ledger of the network management server 60 .

2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

The quality management ledger 100 and the network management ledger 200 are shared after authentication through the authentication server 20 . The present invention uses a blockchain concept, and the quality management ledger 100 includes function, system and service test result documents as mentioned above.

The quality control ledger 100 may be created in one or a plurality.

That is, all quality control test results can be written in one quality control ledger 100 or a plurality of quality control ledgers 100 can be created by dividing the test results by field.

The network management ledger 200 specifies a minimum speed and includes a shutdown plan, and is preferably provided as a single ledger.

The authentication server 20 authenticates the quality management ledger 100 and the network management ledger 200 according to the requests of the game service server 10 and the network management server 60, encrypts them, and sends them to the nodes connected to the distributed network. share (S21).

Encryption at this time includes granting a block chain ID to data and multi-encryption, and the authentication server 20 includes license management.

In particular, the quality control ledger 100 and the network management ledger 200 can be checked only in the full node 40 . That is, it is assumed that the quality control ledger 100 and the network management ledger 200 are encrypted and distributed and stored in each of the full nodes 40 .

The full node 40 can check the quality control ledger 100 and the network management ledger 200, and when there is information of a quality different from that of the quality control ledger 100 while using the game, the quality control distributed ledger (110) can be created.

For example, in the quality control ledger 100, if the game is interrupted due to a power outage, etc. during the game, the test result to save 100% of the game situation is recorded, but in the same situation during the actual game, the game is transferred to the game service server ( 10), the quality control distributed ledger 110 can be created by modifying the contents of the quality control ledger 100 when it is not stored.

The quality control distributed ledger 110 can be created in multiple numbers as needed, and the contents of the entire quality control ledger 100 including the modified contents are not described, but only the modified contents are included.

The quality control distributed ledger 110 may be distributed and stored in other full nodes 40 and light nodes 50 by setting encryption and reading rights through authentication of the authentication server 20 . It can use blockchain technology.

In the same manner, the full node 40 may check the network management ledger 200 and create the network management distributed ledger 210 when a different item from the description of the network management ledger 200 occurs during the game.

For example, 1Mbps is designated as the minimum download speed in the network management ledger 200, but if the download speed becomes less than 1Mbps while the full node 40 is running a game, the download speed is modified to distribute the network management A ledger 210 may be created.

At this time, the network management distributed ledger 210 is also authenticated by the authentication server 20 and then stored in the full node 40 and the light node 50 in a distributed manner (S23). Blockchain technology can also be used for this.

Each of the quality control distributed ledger 110 and the network management distributed ledger 210 sends an authentication request to the authentication server 20 only when there is at least a set number of full nodes 40 consent before authentication in the authentication server 20 . It is preferable to decide what can be done.

That is, it is possible to prevent the quality control distributed ledger 110 or network management distributed ledger 210 from being generated by the extremely personal experience of the user of the full node 40 and from requesting authentication.

Then, the light nodes 50 check each quality control distributed ledger 110 and network management distributed ledger 210 in the consultation network 30, and the quality control distributed ledger 110 or network management distributed ledger 210 ), you can choose to agree or disagree with the contents (S24).

The authority of the light node 50 is limited and cannot create a new distributed ledger, check the contents of the quality control distributed ledger 110 and the network management distributed ledger 210 created by the full node 40, and If there is a similar experience with respect to quality, agree, and if there is no similar experience, disagree.

Then, the quality control distributed ledger 110 or the network management distributed ledger 210 for which consent or non-consent has been confirmed is authenticated by the authentication server 20 .

Confirmation of consent or non-agree is assumed to be completed when more than a set ratio of light nodes 50 participate in the selection of consent or disagreement, even if all light nodes do not participate.

The authentication server authenticates the verified quality control distributed ledger 110 or network management distributed ledger 210, and allows it to be confirmed by the quality management platform 12 (S25).

At this time, the quality control distributed ledger 110 and the network management distributed ledger 210 checked by the quality management platform 12 have a difference in the number of consents or the consent ratio, respectively, and the quality control distributed ledger 110 and the network with a high consent rate. The content of the managed distributed ledger 210 may be determined as the factor in which game users have the most dissatisfaction with the quality.

That is, if the agreement rate for the contents of a specific quality control distributed ledger 110 #1 is 70% and the other quality control distributed ledger 110 #n is 60%, game users will ) can be judged to be a larger quality complaint.

According to the determination result, the game service server 10 can easily determine the factors that users are dissatisfied with, and can improve the game quality by preferentially improving them.

In particular, there is a feature that can achieve quality improvement that can be directly felt by game users by automatically determining factors that are more dissatisfied by game users and improving them first.

In addition, after the selection of consent or non-agreement of the light node 50 with respect to the network management distributed ledger 210 is completed, the network management distributed ledger 210 authenticated by the authentication server 20 communicates with the quality management platform 12 . It is provided to the network management server 60 , and the network management server 60 can improve the communication network 61 so that the contract with the quality management platform 12 can be kept well.

As such, the present invention distributes and stores the quality control ledger and network management ledger in the full node 40 using block chain technology, and then stores the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger generated in the full node 40 again in the full node ( 40) and distributed storage in the light node 50, security and reliability can be improved.

Therefore, it is possible to check the game quality improvement requirements of users who actually use the game without distortion, and it is easy to check the priority of the requirements, so the quality improvement priority can be easily determined and reflected.

It is obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment and can be variously modified and modified within the scope without departing from the technical gist of the present invention. will be.

10: game service server 11: game platform
12: Quality Management Platform 20: Authentication Server
30: negotiation network 40: full node
50: light node 60: network management server
61: communication network

Claims (9)

Full nodes that distribute and store the quality control ledger, and modify the quality control ledger to create a quality control distributed ledger when there is a user experience different from that described in the quality control ledger during game execution;
light nodes that distribute and store the quality control distributed ledger generated by the full nodes and select whether to agree or not; and
A blockchain-based game quality management system including a game service server that generates game quality test results as the quality control ledger and improves quality by prioritizing quality improvement according to the agreement ratio for the quality control distributed ledger . According to claim 1,
A network management server for generating a network management ledger comprising minimum download and upload speeds and a shutdown plan for the communication network;
If the full nodes have different experiences from the description of the network management ledger, create a network management distributed ledger,
By choosing whether to agree with the light nodes,
A blockchain-based game quality management system that allows you to perform network management improvement requests. 3. The method of claim 2,
Authentication and authorization of the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are designated,
The blockchain-based game quality management system further comprising an authentication server for authenticating the distributed ledger for quality management and the distributed ledger for network management whose consent has been selected by the light nodes. 4. The method of claim 3,
The quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent has been selected,
A blockchain-based game quality management system, characterized in that the quality control distributed ledger and network management distributed ledger that selects whether or not to agree more than a set ratio in the total number of light nodes. 5. The method of claim 4,
The quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are,
A blockchain-based game quality management system, characterized in that it includes only the modified parts in the quality management ledger and the network management ledger, respectively. a) generating a quality control ledger in which game quality test results are recorded in the game service server;
b) generating a network management ledger in which network quality maintenance items are recorded in the network management server;
c) When users of the full node where the quality management ledger and the network management ledger are distributed and stored have different experiences from the quality management ledger or network management ledger, the quality management distributed ledger or network management distributed ledger in the full node creating a;
d) selecting whether to agree on the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger in the light node that distributes and stores the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger, and distributing and storing the same; and
e) The game service server and the network management server check the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger, respectively, for which agreement is confirmed, and apply to quality management and network management. Way. 7. The method of claim 6,
Authentication and authorization of the quality management distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are specified in the authentication server,
A block chain-based game quality management method, characterized in that the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent has been selected by the light nodes are authenticated. 7. The method of claim 6,
The quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger for which consent has been selected,
A blockchain-based game quality management method, characterized in that the quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger select whether or not to agree or not with a ratio greater than or equal to the set ratio in the total number of light nodes. 9. The method of claim 8,
The quality control distributed ledger and the network management distributed ledger are,
A block chain-based game quality management method, characterized in that it includes only the modified parts in the quality management ledger and the network management ledger, respectively.

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