ABSTRACT

Digital games propagate mythical stories and revitalize medieval legends. Amplification of gothic elements in contemporary media and in digital games reflects an ideological and aesthetic transformation of cultural products in contemporary society. This essay discusses distinctiveness in game narratives by citing diverse theories, including semiotics and theories of psychoanalysis, as well as mythology and theology. Game narratives tend to deconstruct the conventional timeframes of chronological order seen in the narratives of traditional literature. Contrary to the formulaic structure of mythology described by Joseph Campbell, digital games introduce a new dimension of time in narratives akin to biblical apocalypse. Digital games deploy synchronic time, exclusively in the form of the present tense, which Tillich identifies as relating to kairos contingent on Heidegger’s notion of time. At their forefront, digital games visualize elements of literary stories as a result of deploying synchronic time in reimagined narratives. While digital games attract users via this new concept of transformative time and their visual embellishment of mysticism, innovative narratives in digital games function as a new means of ideology, resonating with the social psychology of users under the challenges of the contemporary world.

摘要

数字游戏传播神话故事并重振中世纪的传说。当代媒体和数字游戏中哥特元素的放大反映了当代社会文化产品的意识形态和审美转变。本文通过引用不同的理论来讨论游戏叙事的独特性，包括符号学和精神分析理论，以及神话和神学。游戏叙事倾向于解构在传统文学叙事中看到的按时间顺序排列的传统时间框架。与约瑟夫坎贝尔描述的神话的公式化结构相反，数字游戏在类似于圣经启示录的叙事中引入了新的时间维度。数字游戏采用同步时间，完全以现在时的形式，根据海德格尔的时间概念，蒂利希认为这与凯罗斯有关。在他们的前沿，数字游戏将文学故事的元素可视化，这是在重新想象的叙事中部署同步时间的结果。虽然数字游戏通过这种变革时间的新概念和神秘主义的视觉点缀来吸引用户，但数字游戏中的创新叙事作为一种新的意识形态手段，与当代世界挑战下用户的社会心理产生共鸣。