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Research The Culture Spirit Of The Online Game Experience Form The Pattern Design

Posted on:2012-08-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y XiongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2218330338968213Subject:Art of Design
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Boom followed by continuous development might be five proper words to depict China online games, the influential radius of which has far exceeded what people expected. On the other hand, as the existing gamers age, the effects of online games have conspicuously manifested.First and foremost, the influence is reflected in the thinking patterns, lifestyles, and even values of the recipients. Accordingly, with more and more tremendous influences, online games have already met all the requirements for becoming a culture, which would more or less impact the direction of social developments.Second, globalization has rendered diverse cultural circles vague. As a newly-emerged culture area affected by both technology and market, the role of online games culture, whether conforming to or even blindly following the mainstream cultures or serving as a trailblazer, has become the cynosure. Needless to say, the different communication patterns and the cultural connotations will undoubtedly push online games to be a new research topic.Third, in the present online gaming industry, it should be noted that most companies are concentrating on technology and plot instead of other two essential factors-cultural connotations and their influences, which are collectively reflected in the experience and feedbacks of online gamers.Based on the abovementioned facts, this articles aims to analyze the gamers of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) using different methodologies such as sampling, comprehensive summarization and comparative analysis. Moreover, this article will summarize the characteristics of the patterns of China online games and focus on the experiences of online gamers, the most obvious reason being that games meet different needs of different gamers. By doing so, we will have a better understanding towards the decision-making processes of those gamers, the effects online games on the current cultural development. Consequently, this article will offer constructive advices to the developing online games and point the way for the online gaming industry.
Keywords/Search Tags:Online games, Patterns, Gamers, Experiences
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