Requirements and Specification
shallWeGame provides neat and efficient platform for gamers to share daily game routines. Users can freely show their identities as an active playing gamer by posting their game lives. Also, they can look for other gamers to play with, see posts about games they like or that their followers have posted. In shallWeGame, users can send 'shallWe' privately to whom they hope to play with through posts. We expect our service to be a platform that users actively communicate with other gamers on specific games they like, and easily accessible to those who are interested in games.
shallWeGame targets gamers...
- who likes to share their game lives
- who wants to find anonymous gamers to play with
- who likes to see posts about games or gamers they like
shallWeGame is a microblog for gamers. Microblog is a kind of social network service(SNS), which delivers fragmented information with one or two sentences posted by individuals in real time. In this section, we compare shallWeGame with two existing services: 'Instagram', a microblog service, and 'Inven', a non-microblog SNS for gamers.
The characteristics of two services are specified below.
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Instagram
- Instagram is a microblog worldwide which focuses on sharing images.
- Users follow people who are their friends in real life.
- Users follow people who post images they are interested in.
- Hashtags are used to search posts related to certain topics.
- Some users posts images and follow others for commercial purposes
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Inven
- Inven is a non-microblog SNS that is actively used by many gamers in Korea.
- Bulletin boards are distinguished by games so that users can upload related posts.
- Posts are relatively long and can contain many images.
- Information and news about games are provided by journalists or normal users.
shallWeGame is similar to Instagram in the form of microblog. Users can share posts with short texts and images. Also, shallWeGame borrows the concept of 'follow' in Instagram, so that users form and reinforce social relationships through posts and communication. We expand the use of this functionality for gamers to play game together. If users follow other users, they not only see posts of followers but also invite them to chatroom. shallWeGame is also alike Inven as SNS for gamers. Posts in Inven have no limitation in the number of pictures or length of texts, on the other hand, shallWeGame simplifies the form of posts to show posts in a catchy way. Also, unlike Inven which has bulletin boards focused on games, shallWeGame provides private space for individuals such that they can express their identity as gamers and share their own gaming lives.