亲密关系的新技术想象:恋爱养成类游戏情感文化的底层逻辑与批判性分析

New Technical Imagination of Intimate Relationships:The Underlying Logic and Critical Analysis of the Emotional Culture of Love Formation Games

在充斥着流动性的现代社会中,人们陷于冷亲密的情感困境之中。而以情感和亲密关系为基石的育成游戏——“恋爱养成类游戏”,作为一种新技术产物,将玩家置于完美爱情的“乌托邦”之中,帮助玩家实现亲密关系的替代性满足。一方面,这类游戏通过性别的差异化建构,帮助玩家进行自我与他者的身份认同;另一方面,这类游戏又在符号、叙事、技术这三重要素的加持下,形成了情感互动的闭环,让玩家对游戏产生情感依赖,以在游戏世界中实现亲密关系的美好想象。然而,在恋爱养成类游戏为玩家塑造纯爱乌托邦的疗愈世界的同时,其背后也暗藏着资本和消费的陷阱,以及现实生活的规训。

In the modern society,people are trapped in the emotional dilemma of cold and intimate.The emergence of-“love cultivation game”,based on emotion and intimacy,as a new technology product,puts players in the imaginary utopia of perfect love and helps players to achieve alternative satisfaction of intimate relationships.On one hand,these games help the player to identify with others through gender differentiation;on the other hand,with the support of symbols,narrative and technology,these games form a closed loop of emotional interaction and enable the player to imagine intimate relationships in the game world.However,while the love development games create the healing world of pure love utopia for players,they also hide the traps of capital and consumption,as well as the discipline of real life.