中国当代游戏史的思想谱系:从本土现代化到资本与市场逻辑

The Thought Genealogy of Chinese Modern Gaming History: From Local Modernization to Capital and Market Logic

在游戏史与社会史的互动脉络中考察游戏,可以窥见当代中国社会思想的流变。1980年代以来的中国游戏史,可被概括为本土的国家现代化脉络向全球资本逻辑的转变历程。中国游戏史的思想主题,1980年代是在国家现代化的框架下培育符合社会主义建设需要的时代新人;1990年代是在民族主义情绪对海外游戏的忧虑里询唤以爱国主义为底色的游戏玩家;2000年代是在“数字化生存”的浪漫想象与消费主义的碰撞中扩张互联网游戏的用户规模;2010年代的各类电竞游戏则以加速的方式打开了“游戏梦工厂”的大门。从中国游戏史的思想演变中可以发现,资本的逻辑不断驱逐游戏的逻辑,游戏世界正异化为网络资本平台。与此同时,玩家则由“知识”的学习者被“无产阶级化”、商品化与算法化,最终被询唤为以游戏消费者为表象的游戏/劳动者。中国当代游戏史表明,元宇宙只是平台逻辑的延伸,并非游戏史的未来。游戏产业需要探索市场与思想共存的辩证法,重拾游戏的精神与担当,在思想层级上实现有价值的文艺创造。

Chinese game history is a glorious history of growth and variation. The historical consciousness of Chinese gaming history in the 1980s was to cultivate newcomers of the era that meet the needs of socialist construction under the framework of national modernization;the 1990s was to interpellate players with patriotism under the agitation of nationalist sentiments;the 2000s was to expand the user scale of online games in the collision between the romantic imagination of “digital survival” and consumerism. Finally, in the 2010s, various e-sports games opened the gate to the “Game Dreamwork”. From the ideological evolution of Chinese game history, we can find that the logic of capital continues to expel the logic of game, and the game world is alienated into a network capital platform. At the same time, players are “proletarianized”, commercialized and algorithmized by “knowledge” learners, and finally called into online games/workers represented by game consumers. Chinese contemporary game history shows that the meta universe is only an extension of platform logic, it is not the future of game history. The game industry needs to explore the dialectics of the coexistence of market and thought, regain the spirit and responsibility of the game, and realize valuable literary and artistic creation from the ideological level.