数字游戏中神话的重构与传播——以王者荣耀为个案的分析

The Reconstruction and Transmission of Myths in Digital Games——Based on the Analysis of the Digtital Game Glory of the King

现代社会对神话资源的利用在数字游戏的发展过程中占据重要地位。随着移动互联网通信技术的发展,数字游戏由端游向手游转型,其文化语境、媒介生态和游戏工业生产机制发生了重大的变化,神话的重构与传播也呈现出新的特征。大众文化生产方式“角色消费”参与游戏神话文本的重铸,神话故事角色化,突出了神话人物现代隐喻形象的建构。以虚实越境游戏体验为准则,数字化、符号化、皮肤化的神话人物在游戏工业的生产中实现想象与真实、规则与意义、历史与现代、传统与流行等多维度的结合。当游戏中的规则系统占据主导地位,其叙事建构地位下降时,片段式的神话文本在媒介融合的传媒生态中激发了口头构成式的传播,展现出数字叙事中的神话演述场景。在移动互联网时代,数字游戏对中国神话的重构和传播中,一方面可以看到神话碎片化、扁平化、空心化现象,呈现出降维的特征,另一方面也可以看到口头构成式传播中具备广泛性和丰富性的当代神话演述的回归。降维的神话符号生产和不可降维的神话演述传播都是神话生命循环中的一部分,也是神话与神话主义互动的图景之一。

The utilization of mythological resources plays an important role in the development of digital games.With the development of mobile Internet communication technology,digital games have transformed from client games to mobile games.As cultural context,media ecology and the mechanism for game industrial production changing greatly,the reconstruction and transmission of of myths show new characteristics.The production mode of mass culture“role consumption”takes part in the recasting of game mythological texts,and the mythological stories become characters,highlighting the construction of modern metaphorical images of mythological characters.Based on the virtual and real cross-border game experience,the digital,symbolized and skinned mythical figures realize the multi-dimensional integration of imagination and reality,rules and significance,history and modernity,tradition and popularity in the production of the game industry.When the rule system in the game is dominant and the narrative is demoted,fragmented mythological texts stimulate the communication of oral composition in the media ecology of media fusion,and show the mythological scene in the digital narrative.On the one hand,we can see that myths are fragmented,flat and hollowed out,which shows the characteristics of dimension reduction.On the other hand,we can also see the return of abundant and extensive mythological performances in the new narrative based on oral rules.The production of mythological symbols shows the characteristics of dimension reduction,and mythological performance presents the characteristics of non reducible dimension,Both of them are part of the cycle of mythological life and interactive status between myth and mythicism.