Safeguarding Malaysian Folktale Through Adventure Game

Abstract

Folktale is part of people's culture and heritage that represents the identity of a society. Malaysia is prosperous with folktale, which is traditionally diffused verbally from generation to generation. Inopportunely, this heritage is slowly being forgotten by the younger generations especially by teenagers. The study aims to safeguard local folktale through an adventure game made for teenagers. In the context of the study, Bawang Putih Bawang Merah was selected. The study seeks to discover the adventure game's elements from the game guideline and from the user (teenagers). Once found, it is a question of how both the elements can be employed to design and develop the folktale adventure game branded as Orkid Emas in the study. Based on the definitive version of the game, it is a question of obtaining the teenagers' feedback about the game's design and development and safeguarding aspects. The methods employed in the study are the formal and semi-structured interview, document analysis, flowboarding and prototyping. The results of the study show that both the elements of the adventure game from the guidelines and users were ascertained. The Orkid Emas adventure game was successfully designed and developed using the combination of the elements. At large, positive feedback was obtained from select representing teenagers regarding the Orkid Emas' design and development, and folktale safeguarding aspects.

“life/death” binary opposition in folk prose narratives

“…A folk fairy tale is part of a folk culture and heritage that represents society's identity. It exists in the form of a story that conveys meaningful messages and embodies cultural identity (Alwi et al, 2019). Researchers emphasise that fairy tales are a special body of creative work that reflect ancient Slavs' archaic ideas (Davydiuk, 2005).…”

“…Utaker (1974), considered linguistic binary opposition to be a criterion for distinguishing different phenomena. Rosengren (2018); Alwi et al (2019); Vinogradova (2005); Yarmolenko (2015); Guseva et al (2019); Dunaievska (2009); Oliinyk (2009); Kyryliuk (2005); Naumovska (2009); Yakovleva (2014), conducted a study of folk prose narratives and the role of the image of Baba Yaga in a "life/death" binary opposition. Phindane (2019), applied binary opposition to analyse the meaning of folk fairy tales.…”