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A Study on the Alt-genre of Digital Game based on User Tags

사용자 태그를 통한 대안적 게임 장르의 가능성

  • 안진경 (이화여자대학교 융합콘텐츠학과)
  • Received : 2018.07.28
  • Accepted : 2018.08.28
  • Published : 2018.08.31
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Abstract

The genre of digital games is not a fixed and invariable system, but a generative system of revisions and changes. The purpose of this study is to define a concept of alternative genre for digital games. The alternative genre of digital games should be presented in combinations of various genre elements and reflected the genre awareness of the user. In this context, user tags of the game transform the classical genre concept into a family resemblance based categorization and establish a user-driven bottom-up genre system. User tags as the form of alternative genre can spread the 'small' genre through multiplicity of genre elements and strengthen the communicative function of the genre.

디지털 게임의 장르는 고정 불변의 체계가 아닌, 수정과 변화를 거듭하는 생성적 체계이다. 본 연구는 디지털 게임의 장르에 대한 기존의 접근이 보편적 분류 체계의 도출에만 머물러 있었다는 문제의식 아래, 대안적 장르로 자리할 수 있는 사용자 태그의 가능성을 고찰한다. 디지털 게임의 대안적 장르는 다양한 장르 요소의 조합으로 표현되는 동시에 사용자의 장르 인식을 반영할 수 있어야 한다. 게임의 사용자 태그는 고전적 장르 개념을 가족유사성 기반의 범주화 과정으로 전환시키고, 사용자 주도의 상향식 장르 체계를 구축함으로써 대안적 장르의 형식을 실현한다. 대안적 장르로서의 사용자 태그는 장르 요소의 다중성을 통해 '작은' 장르를 확산시키며, 장르의 의사소통적 기능을 강화한다는 점에서 의미를 갖는다.

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