論當代角色扮演電玩作為藝術媒介

Abstract

本文以當代的角色扮演電玩為主題,旨在說明當代的角色扮演電玩,在資本主義時代貶抑人文精神的脈絡下,如何以作為一種藝術媒介的方式,揭露出人類精神與想望的負隅頑抗。本文首先從文化工業的概念入手,說明資本主義如何以文化的大量複製操控市場攫取資本。在電玩的情況,許多論者以電玩作為商品或娛樂的應用為由,否定電玩作為藝術的可能。然而,電玩,尤指角色扮演電玩,從自身的內容出發,可以開展出作為藝術的可能性。接著,藉由批判遊戲的本質主義式分析,本文說明遊戲與藝術的不相容性分析如何無法成立。由此指出遊戲的本質主義式分析,如何限縮了遊戲的概念,並且使之無法相容於藝術的領域。最後,透過本文對於藝術媒介的分析,闡述當代角色扮演電玩的元素與結構,如何作為不同意義之下的藝術媒介。

This thesis is about contemporary role-playing digital games. It aims to illustrate, in the era of capitalism where the humanistic spirit has been tremendously undermined, how contemporary role-playing digital games, as an artistic medium, resist for the human spirit and aspiration. First of all, this thesis begins with the concept of ‘culture industry’, which shows how capitalism manipulates the market to extract capital by treating culture as an industry, i.e. the mass production of culture. In the case of digital games, many commentators from the game industry, with the view of digital games as a commodity, have denied the possibility of digital games being a kind of art. However, digital games, especially the role-playing type, can demonstrate this possibility just through their own content. Second, by criticizing the formal analysis of game essentialism, this thesis shows how incompatibility analysis of game and art cannot be established. From this point of view, this thesis shows how game essentialism limits the concept of the game, and making games incompatible with artworks. Finally, through the analysis of the artistic medium and elaborating on the element and structure of the contemporary role- playing digital game, this thesis shows how it serves as an artistic medium under different meanings.