Why is the setting of the game flooded with the final world "post · apocalypse" after the collapse of humanity's civilization?

BySteven Guzzardi

The view of the world of many games is drawn by "post · apocalypse" set in the world after humanity's civilization collapsed, but why the world's end matches the world view of the game, BBC I explain it.

BBC - Future - Why video games are obsessed with the apocalypse
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According to BBC, post-Apocalypse has a perfect setting in a sense in drawing the world view of the game. In the world after the collapse of the civilization, the main character of the game is obliged to survive the harsh nature, and naturally violence is indispensable element there. There is no law in the world after the collapse of civilization and it will not be tied to other social constraints so that the hero can obtain an "excuse" for repeating violence against monsters and foreign enemies.

As the game that adopted the earliest post · apocalypse, the 1982 shooting game "Robotron 2084"Can be cited. In the world where robots who judged humans as unnecessary broke the banner and the civilization collapsed, the hero who became a super powers fighter from genetic manipulation experiment confront the robot as the last hope of mankind. At the same time British designer Sandy White developed a game called "3D Ant Attack", a monochrome game where boys and girls fight against ants in a city called Escher in a world occupied by huge ants. doing.

3D Ant Attack can play from the following page.

Ant Attack • ZX Spectrum online


Although the early post-apocalypse game was drawing a fight against robots and huge ants, it is the creator of a zombie movieGeorge A. RomeroSince the advent of the post-apocalypse fighting zombies increased. Representative works are from 1996 to the present a new work has appeared "Resident EvilSeries, and a story fighting human beings zombied by biological warfare virus "T-virus" is drawn.


In recent years, in the Moscow subway where human beings can not live due to the final war, fighting mutant mutated by radiation "Metro 2033"And survive the world where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant again exploded and again devastated"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL"Drawing the world that was destroyed by a pandemic of a parasite of Nazo"The Last of Us"Evaluation is received for such works as.


The flow of post-apocalypse that depicted a zombie has evolved to an online game. Zombie survival game pursuing reality "DayZ"In addition to surviving from a lot of zombies, there are also cases where they are attacked by another online player, and" Do not believe anyone "contains a psychological element of playing in the suspicion of being a rule It has become a game.


Many games create a view of the world where violence stems from post-apocalypse, but Luis Dartner's book "Knowledge (How to make science civilization after this world disappears)"Manual that rebuilds industrial society and science society after the collapse of civilization is written, and we provide" optimistic apocalypse "different from game. The BBC concludes that "few people surviving after the collapse of the civilization have no video game to rebuild the glory of civilization?"