This paper aims to investigate how player's identity is built by analyzing post-apocalyptic games. The post-apocalyptic game is the game which is set in a virtual world after catastrophe. This study analyzes the settings, characters, and a narrative structure of the post-apocalyptic games. As the result, post-apocalyptic games establish the existential identity of the player. The post-apocalyptic game is a kind of realism text which precisely reflect real world, and the player could find out his identity in games as a Homo sacer which is the mixture that consists of a non-hero persona in the game and a safe person in reality. Post-apocalyptic games can be alternative media which help the player experience existential discourse in real world in 21st century.

ABSTRACT
 1. 서론
 2. 포스트 아포칼립스 세계관의 구성과 특징
  2.1 포스트 아포칼립스 게임의 배경과 캐릭터
  2.2 포스트 아포칼립스 게임의 비-영웅적 서사
 3. 포스트 아포칼립스 게임 플레이어의 실존적 정체성 구축
  3.1 리얼리즘으로서의 포스트 아포칼립스 게임
  3.2 호모 사케르로서의 유사체험
 4. 결론
 감사의 글
 참고문헌

• 한혜원(Division of Digital Media in The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University) | Hye-won Han Correspondence to
• 장세연(Division of Digital Media in The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University) | Se-yeon Chang