The Qualification of Shahnameh based on the triple patterns of adaptation for writing screen gameplay

The language of video games as a universal language with global perspective provides communication among humans from every culture and race anytime and anywhere. On the other hand, the works originated from the customs and culture of our country are good raw materials to harmonize between two media of videogames and literature. The dif ference between the nature of literature, relying on its written words and purposes, with video games which creates images for its audience, provides a good opportunity for the production of cultural goods for introducing the heritage of Persian literature through videogames in national and international arena. Adaptation as the art of transforming the motifs of the system of literary text into the visual system becomes a good approach to harmonize literature and visual media. Discovering common areas of expression between the source of adaptation and the produced text is the most important and most effective way for maintaining artistic values and conveying the spirit of work. In the process of adaptation, identifying structural commonalities between videogames and Iran’s rich literature. With a focus on Shahn ameh, three practical models are provided to restore the text of Shahnameh to videogames and gameplays. The three models –selection of individual lines of poem, selection of individual topics, and selection of poems according to the genres of computer games– is based on Dudley-Andrew’s (1945) views, as a contemporary theorist in the areas of theory and aesthetics of cinema, who has raised three fundamental relationship between adaptation and a literary text: Loyalty, Borrowing, and Confluence.