The Effects Of Popular Culture In Digital Industry On Videogames

With the social development, popular culture has permeated into every respect of social life. However, the traditional form of popular culture can not meet the satisfaction of human nowadays. People have begun to pursue more visual and vocal form-----videogames, which are the outcome of development of technology and network. The contents and styles of videogames bear the stamp of contemporary social culture and they have produced powerful influence on people's everyday life.Film, literature, music, and other social phenomena can be found in videogames and they exert a subtle influence on videogames. The contents of the videogame such as story data, system structure, and interactive mode originate from pursuing popular culture.Videogames are more a new component of the pop culture than just games. As a part of popular culture, they play an intrinsic part in shaping our value and in releasing pressure for human. The love towards videogames embodies our spiritual demand, aesthetic needs as well as change of life style. With deployment of videogames, game players share common understanding of social phenomenon, which spread quickly and help new popular culture get its start.This thesis makes a concrete analysis of a few examples of videogames, study effects of popular culture on videogames as well as the reaction of videogames on popular culture, and discuss a new trend of popular culture. The purpose of this thesis is to provide theoretical basis of design of videogames, based on analysis of interrelation between popular culture and videogames.