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===Line Game===
===Line Game===

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====Cookie Run ====
===History===
LINE’s GAME is the game LINE corporation (SNS, was started from 2011) provides . LINE corporation invented LINE Channel which transmits games.
It gave game bussiness NHN Japan. (4, 1, 2013) It provides a lot of applications.
For example, LINE fortune-telling, LINE weather report. (wikipedia)
LINE corporation announced its games had been downloaded 2 hundred million times.(9, 6, 2013) Regardless of age and sex, many people around the world play the games.
And LINE’s game have established current firm position of the smart phone business.



===Problem===
These days, more and more children are too much depending on smartphones, LINE. In SNS, bullying is a serious problem. LINE’s games accelerate this tendencies. If they don’t have their smartphone, they use parents’ smartphone or have ipod touch, so they can play line’s game.They pay attention to too heavy use of LINE’s game.
And in LINE’s game , the system of charging money exists. So many players charge money to enjoy more and get higher scores. By doing so, finally some players charge a large amount of money and struggle with life’s hardships or go bankrupt.
Furthermore, a new serious problem has appeared. It is to pretend another person. On the Internet, we do not communicate with others, so we cannot see others’ face. This is the reason why we do not find that the person we intend to communicate is not himself or herself.We have to be careful to tell our personal information, for instance, address , phone number or professional, because it is not rare that the person you give your information is not your friend.





==== Disney　Tsum Tsum ====
This game is invented from stuffed animals of [[The Walt Disney Company]] characters
When you play this game, we trace , connect and delete the Disney’s characters on the screen of our smart phone.By using various items, you can get higher scores.

⚫
===Cookie Run ===
Line Cookie is available for iOS and Android. Presented by Naver Japan, it is built for Line, a Japanese social network App like Facebook or Twitter. Line Cookie Run is a side-scrolling running game. The first start by playing as an Brave Cookie that looks like the gingerbread man in the Shrek films. There are two keys placed respectively at the bottom left and bottom right corner. You can tap the left key to jump, tap two times to perform a double jump, and tap the right key to slide. As you run, you collect coins and power-ups, dodge obstacles, and watch out for pitfalls, just like what you’ve done in any other endless runner. While the mechanics are seemingly pretty simple to understand, it takes a lot of practice to truly master. It could be a lighthearted run at first, but turns to be a real challenging and adrenaline-pumping escape in mere seconds. Your character can even have a pet as his/her company. Each pet has a particular skill. For example, Drop of Choco, it is pet lover of Brave Cookie and can generate jelly bear that can increases score and coin, it also power up. So equipping different pets will grant you totally different gaming experience. Line Cookie Run played with connection to the Line social network. If you have a Line account and log on with it, you can play with your friends, and you can also send and accept lives to and from your friends and earn more gift points. <ref>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/line-cookie-run/id743669894?mt=8</ref>
Line Cookie is available for iOS and Android. Presented by Naver Japan, it is built for Line, a Japanese social network App like Facebook or Twitter. Line Cookie Run is a side-scrolling running game. The first start by playing as an Brave Cookie that looks like the gingerbread man in the Shrek films. There are two keys placed respectively at the bottom left and bottom right corner. You can tap the left key to jump, tap two times to perform a double jump, and tap the right key to slide. As you run, you collect coins and power-ups, dodge obstacles, and watch out for pitfalls, just like what you’ve done in any other endless runner. While the mechanics are seemingly pretty simple to understand, it takes a lot of practice to truly master. It could be a lighthearted run at first, but turns to be a real challenging and adrenaline-pumping escape in mere seconds. Your character can even have a pet as his/her company. Each pet has a particular skill. For example, Drop of Choco, it is pet lover of Brave Cookie and can generate jelly bear that can increases score and coin, it also power up. So equipping different pets will grant you totally different gaming experience. Line Cookie Run played with connection to the Line social network. If you have a Line account and log on with it, you can play with your friends, and you can also send and accept lives to and from your friends and earn more gift points. <ref>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/line-cookie-run/id743669894?mt=8</ref>

====LINE Theater Town====
In this game, you make towns as you like as an mayer. You can play the game with friends. Residents in your town request a lot of things ,so you meet the request and make your town better and more beautiful.To make a town as it is in picture books, you need cooperate with your friends.

====LINE pokopann====
This game is a puzzle game. Though it is simple, it has addiction. All you have to do is draw a line. If you do upgrade of raising attack points, you will get higher score.
You can call animals which help you, you fight with them. And until 5,9 , 2014 Funassyi emerged in this game. This game sells much all over the world, and especially it is downloaded in Thailand most times.

====LINE turisuta====
This game is an action game. When you play this game, you experience fishing. Because you can control reels quickly , you can experiience feelings of fishing line straining. Characteristics of various fish’s actions are reflected in this game.And fishing contests are held four times in a day . This contests have three levels , so various people can enjoy this game .

====LINE POP====
In this game, you slide many blocks on the screen and make set of more than two blocks. If you make a set of more than three blocks, you can get higher score than the score, 250 which you get when you make a normal set. The whole game is basically free, but you can buy various items for yen. The server gives you many quests, and you can get many kind of presents.

===System===
Most LINE games adopt inviting system.
On　the screen of playing LINE’s game, scors of your friends display in the order of the ranking. By seeing the ranking , players make efforts to get higher scores. or compete each other with their friends.And sometimes players help each other . For example, in Disney’s tsum tsum, your friends sometimes give you hearts which you need to play the game and you can ask hearts from your friends.

===Ranking===

1.LINE Disney Tsumtsum
2.LINE Pokopann
3.LINE Cookie Run
4.LINE Dozer
5.LINE Dream garden

===Line Camera===
===Line Camera===
Provides users with the ability to decorate [[photo]]s and share with friends via [[SNS]]. The photo database features over 700 Line stickers and over 100 frames, and these pictures can also be shared on platforms such as [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]].<ref>{{cite web|title=With 28 Million Using Line VoIP App, NHN Japan Launches ‘Line Camera’|url=http://www.techinasia.com/line-camera-nhn-japan/|work=Tech In Asia|publisher=Tech In Asia|accessdate=8 July 2013|author=Rick Martin|date=13 April 2012}}</ref>
Provides users with the ability to decorate [[photo]]s and share with friends via [[SNS]]. The photo database features over 700 Line stickers and over 100 frames, and these pictures can also be shared on platforms such as [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]].<ref>{{cite web|title=With 28 Million Using Line VoIP App, NHN Japan Launches ‘Line Camera’|url=http://www.techinasia.com/line-camera-nhn-japan/|work=Tech In Asia|publisher=Tech In Asia|accessdate=8 July 2013|author=Rick Martin|date=13 April 2012}}</ref>

Revision as of 05:21, 15 December 2014

Line
Developer(s)Line Corporation
Initial releaseMarch 2011
Repository
Operating systemiOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nokia Asha series, Firefox OS.
Available inEnglish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
TypeInstant messaging client
LicenceProprietary
WebsiteLine.me

Line (styled "LINE") is a Japanese proprietary application for instant messaging on smartphones and personal computers. Line users exchange text messages, graphics, video and audio media, make free VoIP calls, and hold free audio or video conferences. Line, launched in Japan in 2011, reached 100 million users within eighteen months and 200 million users only six months later.[1] Line became Japan's largest social network in 2013; on October 2014, it announced that it has 560 million users worldwide, of which 170 million are active user accounts.[2][3]

Line was originally developed as a mobile application for Android and iOS smartphones. The service has since expanded to BlackBerry (August 2012),[4] Nokia Asha (Asia and Oceania, March 2013),[5][6] Windows Phone (July 2013),[7] and Firefox OS (February 2014).[8] The application also exists in versions for laptop and desktop computers using the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS platforms.

Line began in 2011 as the brainchild of engineers at NHN Japan, the Japanese arm of Naver Corporation (formerly NHN) based in South Korea. Today the popular messaging service is operated by Line Corporation, a spinoff company headquartered in Japan, which still remains a subsidiary of Naver.[9]

Development

Line began as a response to disaster. Japan's devastating Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 damaged telecommunications infrastructure nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan, a unit of Korea's NHN Corp, to rely on Internet-based resources to communicate. The company's engineers developed Line to facilitate this. NHN Japan released Line for public use in June 2011.[10]

The application proved hugely popular and by late October Line experienced an unexpected server overload.[11] After concluding that the scalability process needed to be improved, NHN Japan chose to adopt HBase as the primary storage for user profiles, contacts, and groups.[12] Within eighteen months of its release Line reached 100 million users; six months later it reached 200 million[1][9][10] and on November 25, 2013 is used by 300 million users or doubling in just 7 months.[13]

On July 3, 2012, NHN Japan announced the new Line features "Home" and "Timeline." The features allowed users to share recent personal developments to a community of contacts in real-time, similar to the status reports in social networking services such as Facebook.[14]

On 6 February 2013, the success of Line led NHN Japan to announce a new spinoff company named Line Corporation. Line Corporation, based in Japan, continues to develop Internet resources such as Line, the Naver Japan search portal, and the Livedoor ISP and blog platform. Games, including those for the Line Game brand, remain under the auspices of Hangame Japan. A new joint venture named Line Plus Corporation, also based in Japan, develops overseas markets. At launch the majority of Line Plus shares were held by the newly created Line Corporation (60%) with the remaining shares (40%) held by its Korean parent NHN Corp.[9]

Market share

Line began in summer 2011 as a communication system for NHN Japan employees, then saw explosive growth when released to the public in June of that year. By January 18, 2013, Line had been downloaded 100 million times worldwide.[15] The number expanded to 140 million by early July 2013 and to 200 million by July 21.[16] As of February 2014, Japan claimed 50 million users, Thailand 22 million, Indonesia 20 million, Taiwan 17 million, while India and Spain 16 million each.[17] NHN Company representatives promptly announced plans to reach 300 million by further expansion in East Asia, Spain, and Chile.[18] In April 2014, Naver Korea announced that Line has reached 400 million worldwide users.[19]

Features

Line is an application that works on multiple platforms and has access via multiple personal computers (Windows or Mac OS). The application will also give an option of address book syncing. This application also has a feature to add friends through the use of QR codes, by line id, and by shaking phones simultaneously. The application has a direct pop-out message box for reading and replying to make it easy for users to communicate. It also can share photos, videos and music with other users, send current or any specific location, voice audio, emojis, stickers and emoticons to friends. User can see a real-time confirmation when messages are sent and received or use a hidden chat feature, which can hide and delete a chat history after a time set by the user. The application also makes free voice and video calls. Users can also chat and share media in a group by creating and joining groups up to 100 people. Chats also provide bulletin boards on which you can post, like, and comment. This application also has timeline and homepage features that allow users to post pictures, text and stickers on their homepages. Users can also change their Line theme to the theme Line provides in the theme shop for free or users can buy other famous cartoon characters they like. Line also has a feature, called a Snap movie, that users can use to record a stop motion video and add in provided background music. Line also has the possibility to create "Hidden Chats", giving the user the ability to set a timer after which messages disappear from both involved devices and Line servers.[20]

Stickers

Features a Sticker Shop where users are able to purchase virtual stickers depicting original and well-known characters. The stickers are used during chat sessions between users and act as large sized emoji. Users can purchase stickers as gifts, with many stickers available as free downloads, depending on country availability. Purchased stickers are attached to an account and can be used on other platforms. New sticker sets are released weekly. Line's message stickers feature original characters as well as a number of popular manga, anime and gaming characters, movie tie-ins, and characters from Disney properties such as Pixar. Some sticker sets, such as those that celebrate special events like the 2012 Summer Olympics, are released for only a limited time.

There are over 1 billion stickers sent by worldwide users on a daily basis.[21]

Limitations

Single-device only. It is impossible to use the same Line account on multiple devices, e.g. a tablet and a phone. The exceptions are

  1. It is possible to use the same account on the PC version with one additional mobile device. [22]
  2. It is possible to use the same account on iPhone/iPod with one additional iPad installed with Line for iPad app.[23]

Censorship

LINE has censored the content of messages sent and received by Chinese users since 2013. [24] Analysis by Citizen Lab showed that accounts registered with Chinese phone numbers download a list of banned words that cannot be sent or received through LINE. [25] Most of the blocked words involve government officials and political events such as the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

LINE has publicly confirmed the censorship.[26]

“LINE had to conform to local regulations during its expansion into mainland China, and as a result the Chinese version of LINE, ‘LIANWO,’ was developed. The details of the system are kept private, and there are no plans to release them to the public”.

— Hazuki Yamada, LINE's public relations official

Line Game

History

LINE’s GAME is the game LINE corporation (SNS, was started from 2011) provides . LINE corporation invented LINE Channel which transmits games. It gave game bussiness NHN Japan. (4, 1, 2013) It provides a lot of applications. For example, LINE fortune-telling, LINE weather report. (wikipedia) LINE corporation announced its games had been downloaded 2 hundred million times.(9, 6, 2013) Regardless of age and sex, many people around the world play the games. And LINE’s game have established current firm position of the smart phone business.


Problem

These days, more and more children are too much depending on smartphones, LINE. In SNS, bullying is a serious problem. LINE’s games accelerate this tendencies. If they don’t have their smartphone, they use parents’ smartphone or have ipod touch, so they can play line’s game.They pay attention to too heavy use of LINE’s game. And in LINE’s game , the system of charging money exists. So many players charge money to enjoy more and get higher scores. By doing so, finally some players charge a large amount of money and struggle with life’s hardships or go bankrupt. Furthermore, a new serious problem has appeared. It is to pretend another person. On the Internet, we do not communicate with others, so we cannot see others’ face. This is the reason why we do not find that the person we intend to communicate is not himself or herself.We have to be careful to tell our personal information, for instance, address , phone number or professional, because it is not rare that the person you give your information is not your friend.



Disney　Tsum Tsum

This game is invented from stuffed animals of The Walt Disney Company characters When you play this game, we trace , connect and delete the Disney’s characters on the screen of our smart phone.By using various items, you can get higher scores.

Line Cookie is available for iOS and Android. Presented by Naver Japan, it is built for Line, a Japanese social network App like Facebook or Twitter. Line Cookie Run is a side-scrolling running game. The first start by playing as an Brave Cookie that looks like the gingerbread man in the Shrek films. There are two keys placed respectively at the bottom left and bottom right corner. You can tap the left key to jump, tap two times to perform a double jump, and tap the right key to slide. As you run, you collect coins and power-ups, dodge obstacles, and watch out for pitfalls, just like what you’ve done in any other endless runner. While the mechanics are seemingly pretty simple to understand, it takes a lot of practice to truly master. It could be a lighthearted run at first, but turns to be a real challenging and adrenaline-pumping escape in mere seconds. Your character can even have a pet as his/her company. Each pet has a particular skill. For example, Drop of Choco, it is pet lover of Brave Cookie and can generate jelly bear that can increases score and coin, it also power up. So equipping different pets will grant you totally different gaming experience. Line Cookie Run played with connection to the Line social network. If you have a Line account and log on with it, you can play with your friends, and you can also send and accept lives to and from your friends and earn more gift points. [27]

LINE Theater Town

In this game, you make towns as you like as an mayer. You can play the game with friends. Residents in your town request a lot of things ,so you meet the request and make your town better and more beautiful.To make a town as it is in picture books, you need cooperate with your friends.

LINE pokopann

This game is a puzzle game. Though it is simple, it has addiction. All you have to do is draw a line. If you do upgrade of raising attack points, you will get higher score. You can call animals which help you, you fight with them. And until 5,9 , 2014 Funassyi emerged in this game. This game sells much all over the world, and especially it is downloaded in Thailand most times.

LINE turisuta

This game is an action game. When you play this game, you experience fishing. Because you can control reels quickly , you can experiience feelings of fishing line straining. Characteristics of various fish’s actions are reflected in this game.And fishing contests are held four times in a day . This contests have three levels , so various people can enjoy this game .

LINE POP

In this game, you slide many blocks on the screen and make set of more than two blocks. If you make a set of more than three blocks, you can get higher score than the score, 250 which you get when you make a normal set. The whole game is basically free, but you can buy various items for yen. The server gives you many quests, and you can get many kind of presents.

System

Most LINE games adopt inviting system. On　the screen of playing LINE’s game, scors of your friends display in the order of the ranking. By seeing the ranking , players make efforts to get higher scores. or compete each other with their friends.And sometimes players help each other . For example, in Disney’s tsum tsum, your friends sometimes give you hearts which you need to play the game and you can ask hearts from your friends.

Ranking

1.LINE Disney Tsumtsum 2.LINE Pokopann 3.LINE Cookie Run 4.LINE Dozer 5.LINE Dream garden

Line Camera

Provides users with the ability to decorate photos and share with friends via SNS. The photo database features over 700 Line stickers and over 100 frames, and these pictures can also be shared on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.[28]

Line Card

Allows users to send and share cards for celebrations such as birthdays and anniversaries. Users can also add a personal message.[29]

Line Brush

Line Brush is a painter app that allows users to edit their pictures with 27 style brushes and 15 photo brushes, and fine details can be adjusted. Initially available on the iOS system,[30] the app was later made available for Android devices.[31]

Line Tools

An all-in-one app featuring all the essential tools one needs. Tools included are compass, protractor, flashlight, timer, sound level meter, QR code reader and more. [32]

On December 16, 2012, the Line application was shown in rap artist Big Sean's music video for the song "Guap".[33]

On May 16, 2014, Warner Music Italy released the music video for Italian singer Annalisa's "Sento solo il presente", in which the recording artist is seen using the Line application at the beginning of the video.[34]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Line Hits 200 Million Users, Adding 100 Million in Just 6 Months". Tech In Asia. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  2. ^ Horwitz, Josh (9 October 2014). "Line finally reveals it has 170 million monthly active users".
  3. ^ Akky Akimoto, 2013-12-17, Looking at 2013′s Japanese social-media scene, The Japan Times
  4. ^ "Line is Now Available for BlackBerry!". Line Official Blog. Line Global. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Line for Nokia 'Asha' Device Scheduled to be released in March 2013!". Line Official Blog. Line Global. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  6. ^ Steven Millward (26 February 2013). "Line App to Hit Nokia Asha Phones in March, Keen to Chat Up Emerging Markets". Tech In Asia. Tech In Asia. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  7. ^ Rick Martin (13 June 2012). "NHN Japan Launches Popular Line App for Windows Phone". Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo! Inc. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  8. ^ Scott DeVaney (4 February 2014). "Line Lands on Firefox Marketplace". Mozilla Apps Blog. Mozilla Foundation. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  9. ^ a b c http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/02/06/nhn-japan-spins-off-its-line-messaging-business-to-focus-on-its-international-expansion/
  10. ^ a b Saito, Mari (16 August 2012). "Born from Japan disasters, Line app sets sights on U.S., China". Reuters. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  11. ^ admin (1 November 2011). "Naver Line App is Back Online in App store". My Phone Daily. WordPress. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  12. ^ Esen Sagynov (2012). "The Story behind Line App Development". CUBRID.org. CUBRID.org. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  13. ^ "Line messaging app doubles size in seven months, has 300 million users". Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  14. ^ Dr. Serkan Toto (4 July 2012). "Line App Gets More Social With "Home" And "Timeline" Features [Social Networks]". Dr. Serkan Toto - Japan Mobile And Social Games Consulting. Dr. Serkan Toto - Japan Mobile And Social Games Consulting. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  15. ^ Josh Robert Nay (19 January 2013). "Line VoIP and Messaging App Now Has More Than 100 Million Users". TruTower. TruTower. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  16. ^ "Line exceeds 200 million users worldwide!". 23 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Number of registered Line app users in selected countries as of February 2014 (in millions)". statista.
  18. ^ John Ure (7 July 2013). "Asia's Internet challenge". Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Line app tops 400 million users - The China Post". The China Post. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  20. ^ Jon Russel (22 July 2014). "Messaging app Line gets serious about privacy with Telegram-inspired 'hidden chat' feature". TheNextWeb. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  21. ^ "Taiwan market has great potential for Line". ZDNet. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  22. ^ "FAQ: Can I use the same Line account from multiple devices?". Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  23. ^ "Line for iPad". Line Corporation.
  24. ^ "Asia Chats: Investigating Regionally-based Keyword Censorship in LINE". 14 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  25. ^ "Asia Chats: LINE Censored Keywords Update". 30 April 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  26. ^ "Asia Chats: LINE Corporation Responds". 6 December 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  27. ^ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/line-cookie-run/id743669894?mt=8
  28. ^ Rick Martin (13 April 2012). "With 28 Million Using Line VoIP App, NHN Japan Launches 'Line Camera'". Tech In Asia. Tech In Asia. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  29. ^ http://download.cnet.com/LINE-Card/3000-10440_4-75693769.html
  30. ^ PRNewswire (27 July 2012). "NHN Japan Releases 'Line Brush' -- Official Drawing App for Line for iPhone, iPad" (Press release). dna. Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  31. ^ Erez Zukerman (28 May 2013). "Create Fun Doodles And Paint Over Photos With Free Line Brush for Android". MakeUseOf. MakeUseOf. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  32. ^ "Line tools". 24 March 2014.
  33. ^ BigSeanVEVO (16 December 2012). "Big Sean - Guap (Explicit)" (Video upload). YouTube. Google, Inc. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  34. ^ "Annalisa - Sento solo il presente (Videoclip Ufficiale) - YouTube". Warner Music Group (WMG) Italy. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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