ǂThe ǂsecret of the point and click adventures

psychoanalytic point of pointing in a bygone genre

Povzetek

This article analyzes the general characteristic of once exceptionally popular genre of adventure video games, which reached its peak with the famous pirate series Monkey Island. Although there have been various attempts to revive it, it is inevitably situated among the relics of history. The reason could be traced to a variety of developmental, economic and conceptual features, but in the final instance it was its own structure that led to its downfall or death. Since its formation, the adventure genre was namely imbued with an unabolishable contradiction, which certainly situates it alongside psychoanalytic practice. It was simultaneously striving for something too much and too little. The adventure games are on the one hand based on the assumption that all the in-game possibilities are pre-arranged, so that the player is only left to acknowledge and approve the already adopted path. But on the other, the genre thrived on experimenting with the game mechanism, where the contingent acts of pointing retroactively undermined the necessity of such preconditioned actions. The article is accordingly based on the premise that the ensuing inference doesn't solely indicate a specific feature of this genre, but also highlights the peculiarity of human existence as such.

Ključne besede

Videoigre;Kulturne študije;Psihoanaliza;

Podatki

Jezik:	Angleški jezik
Leto izida:	2014
Tipologija:	1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
Organizacija:	UL FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
Založnik:	Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo v Ljubljani
UDK:	794-028.23:159.964.2
COBISS:	32560477
ISSN:	0040-3598
Matična publikacija:	Teorija in praksa
Št. ogledov:	820
Št. prenosov:	198
Ocena:	0 (0 glasov)
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Ostali podatki

Sekundarni jezik:	Slovenski jezik
Sekundarni povzetek:	Članek analizira splošno značilnost nekoč izredno popularnega žanra pustolovskih videoiger, ki je doživel svoj vrhunec s serijo Monkey Island. Kljub številnim poskusom oživljanja tega žanra se je njegov čas nedvoumno iztekel. Razloge za to lahko iščemo v različnih razvojnih, ekonomskih in pojmovnih posebnostih, vendar je bila konec koncev njegova lastna struktura tista, ki ga je pokopala. Ta žanr je bil vse od svojega nastanka prežet z neodpravljivim protislovjem, zaradi česar ga lahko brez zadržkov uvrstimo ob bok psihoanalitični teoriji; stremel je hkrati po nečem preveč in premalo. Po eni strani so avanture namreč utemeljene na predpostavki, da so vse možnosti znotraj igre že vnaprej predvidene, tako da je igralec potreben samo zato, da prehodi že zarisano pot. Po drugi strani pa se je žanr razvil ravno skozi eksperimentiranje z igralnim mehanizmom, kjer kontingentna dejanja kazanja retroaktivno spodkopljejo nujnost omenjenih vnaprej pripravljenih delovanj.
Sekundarne ključne besede:	Video games;Cultural studies;Psychoanalysis;
URN:	URN:NBN:SI
Vrsta dela (COBISS):	Delo ni kategorizirano
Strani:	str. 22-42, 186
Letnik:	ǂLetn. ǂ51
Zvezek:	ǂšt. ǂ1
Čas izdaje:	jan.-feb. 2014
ID:	9105843