网络文学叙事形式游戏化的辨析与批判

From“Game Literature”to Gamification of Internet Literature:A Critique of Gamification of Narrative Form of Internet Literature

从“游戏文学”到游戏化网文(网络文学)的发展,这个过程并非渐进式的文学形式的演变,而是在网文的产业化进程中,在占据支配性的网文生产机制主导下的整体大转型。如果说“游戏文学”的写作尚且体现了作者对“文学性”的坚守以及对现实世界意义与价值的追问,游戏化网文则是文学创作商业化、功利化的表现。游戏化网文在借鉴电子游戏的世界设定与运作逻辑的基础上,向着虚拟世界游戏化与“拟交互性”两个维度不断发力。在叙事形式走向游戏化的过程中,传统的阅读行为正在逐渐向电子游戏式的“玩”转变。

The process from“game literature”to gamified internet literature is not a gradual evolution of literary forms,but an overall transformation led by the dominant production mechanism of Internet Literature in the process of industrialization of Internet literature.If the writing of“game literature”reflects the author’s adherence to“literariness”and the questioning of the meaning and value of the real world,gamification of internet literature is a manifestation of the commercialization and utilitarianization of internet literature.On the basis of the world setting and operation logic of video games,gamification of internet literature has been continuously developing towards the gamification of the virtual world and the“proposed interactivity”.In the process of gamification of narrative forms,the traditional act of reading is gradually changing to the video game style of“playing”.