游戏讲故事?——论游戏与叙事

Games Telling stories?——A brief note on games and narratives

游戏是否在讲故事的问题,学界意见不一。许多电脑游戏包含叙事要素,大多数游戏都具有故事介绍和背景故事,玩家也可以讲述某段游戏的故事;但是游戏与故事并不能像其他叙事文本那样相互转换,互动性的"当下"与叙事的过去或"预先"之间存在固有的矛盾,读者/文本与玩家/游戏之间的关系也不同。因此游戏与叙事是具有很多差异的,而对二者差异的探讨有待进一步完善。

There are several arguments about the problem whether the game tells story. Many computer games contain narrative elements. Most games feature narrative introductions and back-stories, and the players can also tell stories of a game session. But games and stories actually do not translate to each other in the way that other narrative texts do, and there is an inherent conflict between the now of the interaction and the past or 'prior' of the narrative. The relations between reader/story and player/game are completely different. So there are much difference between games and narratives, and the discussion of the difference will be further improved.