A Study Of The Usage Of Chinese Traditional Culture In Role Play Game

From the visual style to the game mode, Chinese game has long time imitated American game and Japan game. We spend some ten years and now we can made our own online games independently. The real change is that players had become more interesting to our own games, they want to see more Chinese traditional culture in games. This is the real intention of people in internet, and it is worthy of recognition.The history of domestic role-playing game is short and disarray, there exist no clear understanding about the use of Chinese culture in RPG (role-playing game), however, few people had done this job except some specialized game developers. I start this paper with the concept and history of RPG, then analyzed the traditional culture element of Europe and the United States and Japan in it.In order to analyze the use of Chinese traditional culture element in RPG, I choose a good game named Xunxian. And due to it I summed up some basic application methods and principles of design in RPG. The main part of this paper is Role Concept Design, Architecture and scene Concept Design and Props Design in RPG, so I have also do the study of the clothes, architecture, objects and Ornamentations in other objects in Chinese traditional culture. Then, I choose some Chinese traditional element to Design new works. Some other designer can learn more from the collection of material to the Process of design.The innovation of this paper is that I have not only analyzed Chinese traditional culture from the aspect of concept design of game, but also according to some basic application methods such as Copy and Reproduce, Collage and combination, Deconstruction and Innovation, and some Principles such as Entertainment nature, visual nature, rational nature to create new works to test and verify the use of Chinese traditional culture in RPG.