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Adarna: Remediating Philippine Source Texts Through Video Games, Philip Adrian L. Gungab
Adarna: Remediating Philippine Source Texts Through Video Games, Philip Adrian L. Gungab
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This paper will explore the possibilities of using video games as a means of remediating Philippine source texts. This begins by defining Philippine Source texts based on Dr. Joyce Arriola’s book Pelikulang Komiks: Toward a Theory of Filipino Film Adaptation (2019) and understanding how remediation changes perception of the material through concepts defined in Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin’s book, Remediation (2000). Video games will later be explored as a form of new media in the 21st century, and how media convergence and globalization has brought it to its current state. This paper will then analyze Adarna (2015), a video …