Description
Video Games and Mythology explores how ancient mythological traditions continue to shape contemporary video games. Drawing on classical mythology, narrative theory, and game studies, Flávia Gasi examines how interactive media reworks archetypal stories, gods, heroes, monsters, and symbolic worlds for the digital age.
The book focuses on how mythological structures are reshaped through interactivity, player agency, and choice. In video games, myth is not only narrated or represented, but experienced through play. Through analysis of influential games, Gasi shows how narrative design, mechanics, and world-building echo enduring mythic patterns such as the hero’s journey, descent into the underworld, and cycles of death and rebirth.
Written in a clear and accessible style while remaining firmly grounded in scholarship, Video Games and Mythology is well suited for students and researchers in game studies, media studies, classics, and digital humanities, as well as game designers, writers, and engaged players interested in the cultural foundations of interactive storytelling.
This English edition presents the first translation of the author’s original work, making Gasi’s influential perspective available to a broader international audience.
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