Video Game Playing Memories and Topographic Nostalgia

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 11 Sayı: 2, 403 - 421, 08.01.2025

Levent Y. İnce

Öz

This study delves into the concepts of memory and nostalgia as they relate to video games, utilising an interdisciplinary framework. Drawing on Edmund Husserl's phenomenology of time-consciousness, Svetlana Boym's theories of nostalgia, and Martin Jay's insights into experience, this research provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how video games serve as temporal objects that evoke and sustain nostalgic experiences. It explores how memory operates within the framework of time-constituting consciousness in gaming, investigates the creation and reflection of nostalgic aesthetics in digital art, and analyses the mediation of memories and emotions through interactive narratives and audiovisual design. Additionally, this study introduces the concept of topographic nostalgia, examining how players' memories are shaped by the physical locations where they played the games and their vivid recollections of the virtual landscapes within the games themselves. Through an extensive review of existing literature and theoretical perspectives, this study provides an overview of the exploration of digital game-playing experiences. By synthesising personal experience with philosophical insights, artistic analysis, and communication theory, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the role of interactive media in shaping memory and nostalgia in contemporary life, setting the stage for future empirical research.

Anahtar Kelimeler

videogames, experience, memory, retention, topographic nostalgia

Dijital Oyun Oynama Anıları ve Topografik Nostalji

Öz

Bu çalışma, dijital oyunlarla ilgili olarak bellek ve nostalji kavramlarını disiplinler arası bir çerçevede ele almaktadır. Bu doğrultuda Edmund Husserl'in zaman-bilinç fenomenolojisi, Svetlana Boym'un nostalji teorileri ve Martin Jay'in deneyim üzerine olan görüşlerinden yararlanılmış, dijital oyunların nostaljik deneyimleri uyandıran ve sürdüren zamansal nesneler olarak nasıl işlev gördüğüne dair teorik bir temel sunulmuştur. Çalışma, belleğin oyun içerisindeki zaman-kuran bilinç çerçevesinde nasıl işlediğini incelerken, dijital sanatta nostaljik estetiğin yaratılması ve yansıtılması konularına da odaklanmaktadır. Ayrıca, oyunların etkileşimli anlatılar ve görsel-işitsel tasarımlar yoluyla anılara ve duygulara nasıl aracılık ettiğini analiz etmektedir. Bu çalışma, aynı zamanda “topografik nostalji” kavramını tanıtarak, oyuncuların anılarının, oyunları oynadıkları fiziksel mekânlar ve oyunların sanal manzaralarına dair canlı hatıraları tarafından nasıl şekillendiğini incelemektedir. Mevcut literatür ve teorik perspektiflerin kapsamlı bir incelemesiyle, bu çalışma dijital oyunların oynanma deneyimlerinin irdelenmesine dair genel bir bakış sunmaktadır. Araştırmacının kişisel deneyimlerinin, literatürde yer alan felsefi içgörüler, sanatsal analizler ve iletişim teorileriyle sentezi yapılmış; böylelikle etkileşimli medyanın çağdaş yaşamda bellek ve nostaljiyi şekillendirmedeki rolüne ilişkin incelikli bir anlayış kazandırılması ve gelecekteki ampirik çalışmalara zemin hazırlaması amaçlanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

dijital oyunlar, deneyim, bellek, hatırlama, topografik nostalji

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