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A Study on the Game Criticism: Meta-analytical Approach to Game Critiques

게임비평에 대한 연구 : 게임비평 텍스트의 메타분석적 접근

  • 전경란 (동의대학교 디지털콘텐츠공학과)
  • Received : 2013.05.22
  • Accepted : 2013.06.10
  • Published : 2013.06.20

Abstract

Digital games have become a major part of the modern popular culture, but little attention has been paid to understanding the textuality of games and what the game texts have the cultural meanings. As the games develop, however, the academic and journalistic game critiques and reviews that try to understand and to deconstruct the game texts are on the rise. This study explores how the game criticism characterizes the game texts, creates and shapes the understanding of games. The finding shows that game criticism is rich and varied in terms of themes and approaches covered, more generally, games criticism can also help preserve game history by focusing on the distinctive game textuality, forms and meanings, and by contextualizing the links and cultural meanings that exist between games and between games and the cultural context.

게임은 현대 대중문화의 주요 콘텐츠로 평가받고 있지만, 상대적으로 게임 텍스트와 그 문화적 함의를 이해하려는 노력은 저조한 편이다. 그러나 게임이 발전하면서 게임의 텍스트적 특징, 그 형식과 내용을 설명, 해석하려는 학술적 비평과 언론비평이 함께 성장하고 있다. 이 연구는 게임비평이 게임 텍스트를 어떻게 특징화하며, 게임에 대한 이해를 어떤 방식으로 구성하고 있는지 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 게임비평은 게임을 다양한 주제의식과 관점에서 고찰하고 있으나, 특히 게임 플레이를 통해 게임 텍스트가 구조화되는 방식, 내용적 특이성 및 그것이 수반하는 사회문화적 함의가 주요하게 다루어지고 있었다. 게임비평은 게임 텍스트 자체 및 게임과 사회문화적 현상간의 관계를 맥락화함으로써 게임의 역사를 구성해내는데 기여하고 있다.

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