The Dawn Of Literature: Video Games As The New Breed of Modern Popular Literature

Abstract

. Video game is a new form of modern popular culture among the people these days. The purpose of this research is to analyze the formula of video games. Writer uses a descriptive qualitative method by analyzing video game using ludology as the discipline, moreover identify narrative and narration along the storyline in video game. This research concludes that video games and storyline bound each other tightly, then creates a thick dramatic form as narrative elements based on the player’s decision and choice. This matter as the hint to show that video game is a new form of literary work that is included in the field of modern popular culture. Through video game, a creator creates a special pattern in the process of making a story that gives its users the freedom to explore and engage in stories freely according to their desires and thoughts.