游戏场域内的权力重构 ：游戏模组创作者的数字劳动实践

On Power Restructuring in the Game Field: The Digital Labor Practices of Game Mod Creators

摘要:

通过游戏模组创作劳动，游戏模组创作者能够在原生游戏的基础上造就次生游戏。而游戏模组创作者通过劳动生产出的游戏模组与次生游戏能够满足玩家对原生游戏的个性化想象，由此，游戏模组创作劳 动能够折射玩家对原生游戏的态度。游戏厂商为了激活玩家的游玩活跃度，需要获取玩家的信息，因而需要利用游戏模组创作劳动。在这一基础上，游戏模组创作劳动成为连接游戏厂商与玩家的中介，游戏模组创作者成为“编外游戏开发者”。值得注意的是，模组创作者能够通过劳动生产出的游戏模组为自己累积一定的经济资源与社会资源，从而在游戏生态内掌握一定的话语权。这意味着，游戏模组创作劳动突破了原生游戏对玩家的规制，重构了游戏场域内的权力关系。

Abstract:

Through the creative labor of game mods, modders can develop derivative games based on the original game. As the mods and secondary games produced through this labor satisfy players' personalized imaginations of original games, the game mod labor consequently mirrors players' dispositions toward the canonical games. To enhance player engagement metrics, game corporations appropriate player data through the exploitation of the game mod labor. Consequently, the game mod labor becomes an intermediary linking game corporations and players, with mod creators becoming unoffi cial game developers". Notably, game mod creators can accumulate economic and social capital through their mod production, gaining certain discursive power within the game ecosystem. This suggests that the game mod labor breaks through the original games' regulations on players, reconstructing power relations within the game fi eld.