The role of visual grammar in online 3D games

This research focuses on the role of visual grammar in online three-dimensiongames (MMORPGs). The three-dimension games are a new convergent media form, and ithas strongly influenced the real and virtual world among the young generation. The researchaims to investigate and develop a new theoretical framework of visual language andtherefore analyzes the elements of visual design in online three-dimension games. Ofcourse, there are some theoretical frameworks which have been applied to existing media,such as media studies. These have been used to analyze printed media, images, arts,television, film, advertisements, etc., but they still study a common media which concerns acommunication process. Multimodal analysis is seemingly to go further than other theories,but it is a broad extensive tools and not sufficient to deeply analyze the designed elementsand other effects in online three-dimension games. Online games are a newly emergingmedia which constitute a new cultural form, game culture; and it needs more specificallydeveloped analytical tools. Therefore, we need to extend the existing frameworks tounderstand, make sense of interpret three-dimension online games