探索与争鸣 ›› 2022, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (2): 146-162.

• 技术创新与文明重构——探索与争鸣青年学人专刊 • 上一篇    下一篇

游戏与媒介|“机关术”:游戏中的技术想象与文化传承多元路径

李倩倩,王敬仪   

  • 出版日期:2022-02-24 发布日期:2022-02-24

Jiguan Fabrication Technique: The Imagination of Technology in the Video Game and the Diversification of Cultural Output

  • Online:2022-02-24 Published:2022-02-24

摘要:

“机关术”,主要指一种在20世纪末被运用于游戏设计的概念。它既用以定义游戏场景中某类结合了中国古代文化元素与西方技术原理的机械“人”“鸟”“船”“武器”等形象,又可以表述一种产生于赛博空间的中国“古风”风格。在短短20多年时间里,“机关术”的内涵与外延伴随媒体技术的发展而扩充,其影响由游戏的内容与视觉场景延展至文学、音乐、动漫、电竞等多个领域。在数字技术的推动下,“机关术”融会于当下新媒体景观与大众文化之中,参与形塑了青年一代的文化认知。我们一方面应厘清“机关术”在数字游戏领域的概念建构过程与文化影响;另一方面,通过审视这类文化符号的展演与传播方式,可反观我国古代文化遗产开发利用、文化输出的多元路径以及所呈现的诸多问题。

关键词: 机关术, 游戏, 中国古风, 文化传承

Abstract:

The Jiguan Fabrication Technique mainly refers to a notion applied to the modern video game which was created at the end of the 20th century. It is not only used to define the specific roles in the game which are so-called mechanical“human”“bird”“boat”“weapon”, and so on. The Jiguan Fabrication Technique combines ancient Chinese culture and western technology elements in the video game scene,and it has been regarded as a kind of Chinese Antique style in cyberspace. Over two decades, the connotation and extension of the Jiguan Fabrication Technique have been widely used in the content, and visual design of video games along with the development of media technology, and its influence has extended such as literature, music, animation, and electronic competitive sports and other fields. Under the impetus that came from digital technology, Jiguan Fabrication Technique merges into the current new media cultural landscape and popular culture, and it participates in shaping the younger generation’s cultural cognition. On the one hand, it attempts to clarify the conceptual construction processes and cultural influence of the Jiguan Fabrication Technique in video games. On the other hand, by examining the ways of performance and the dissemination of cultural symbols, it examines how the Chinese ancient cultural heritage be applied, developed, and output through diverse ways and tries to explore the problem presented.

Key words: Jiguan fabrication technique, video game, Chinese antique style, cultural heritage