week 4 late post

Week 4:  how does the fantasy genre relate to modern media such as video games?

There are many modern media around us such as computer games, Facebook, email, video games.  Through the text, I can tell most of the video games are made from fantasy. “The Lord of the Rings gave rise to one of the most popular of the modern game-genres, the RPG (roleplaying game).” (Burn, 2005, n.p).

Harry potter stories have been considered as a good structure of games. In the video game, players don’t need to be Harry Potter,  they can be themselves in the game they can play the way they like. Now days, players don’t like the game is too safe and regulated. Although the video game is based on fantasy genre, it’s different from the book or film. In the film, we only see Harry has the power to against the spider, in the game is different players’ skill become most important power , they have their own way to make game has the scene only happens in the game.  So actually, a fantasy move could be shown so many types in the video games.

Furthermore, Harry is gaining his power for later challenges by go the lesson in the games, in the meantime,  the players  is improving their play skills as well.  One of the group, they are caring about how they feel of Harry, is like in the move. They do feel the same position. However, there are some plays don’t have time to worry about Harry’s feeling.  That’s may is the difference between film and games. The person controls the feeling whoever is the narrator or the players.

Reference:

Burn, A (2005). ‘Potter-Literacy-from book to game and back again; literature, film,game and cross-media literacy’, in papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature Vol 14,NO3