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This paper considers computer games which are based on famous pieces of works from both classic and modern popular literature (“Dante’s Inferno”, “VIY”, “The Witcher”, “Hogwarts Legacy”). Different types of games are defined. In the first type of game, the authors only use the literary plot to create a chain of tests for the hero in the game. In the second type of game, the classics help screenwriters to not only create a story of trials, but also to present their own interpretation of the original text. It is especially important in the situations where the player turns to the primary source to reference the literary pra-text which should help them to understand and complete the tasks, etc. It is only the second type of game, as defined above, which can be used to form students’ competencies related to the formation of skills to use the achievements of world culture in professional activities in non-philological specialties and professional skills in working with a literary text in philologists. According to the authors of the article, computer games, although they meet the needs of modern students, can only be an additional tool for achieving educational goals. And they should be used alongside other methods of gamification of the learning process. The conclusions are drawn from the basis of studying the features of computer games, the content of their scenarios and the main tasks for the players, the features of the “images” of the games’ heroes, as well as the students’ survey responses.
D. Moroseeva—Independent Researcher.
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Tyutelova, L., Lisovitskaya, V., Sundukova, K., Moroseeva, D. (2023). Computer Games and Literary Education: Opportunities and Limitations. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) The World of Games: Technologies for Experimenting, Thinking, Learning. PCSF 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48016-4_12
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