Drawing from Bakhtin’s idea of the chronotope, this chapter proposes the concept of the ludo-narrative chronotope as an apparatus to analyze the spatiotemporality of survival horror zombie games. It explores how the chronotope scaffolds a zombiist game world and situates the player’s contingent kinematic dynamics into a predeterminate linear procedure which would eventually lead it to the zombiist state. By revealing the essence of the game’s chronotope as an unsustainable economic system, this chapter argues that the zombiist state is one of the defining features of survival horror zombie games. This zombiist state is incarnated in games in terms of the temporal parallelism, predeterminate linearity, and interpretation of finitude of the ludo-narrative chronotope, where all these characteristics are unified in the games’ space-led principle. Therefore, survival horror zombie games present the player a ludo-narrative chronotope that not only resonances but also incarnates the zombiist state.

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The Ludo-Narrative Chronotope in Survival Horror Zombie Games

  • Ruikang Wu

摘要

Drawing from Bakhtin’s idea of the chronotope, this chapter proposes the concept of the ludo-narrative chronotope as an apparatus to analyze the spatiotemporality of survival horror zombie games. It explores how the chronotope scaffolds a zombiist game world and situates the player’s contingent kinematic dynamics into a predeterminate linear procedure which would eventually lead it to the zombiist state. By revealing the essence of the game’s chronotope as an unsustainable economic system, this chapter argues that the zombiist state is one of the defining features of survival horror zombie games. This zombiist state is incarnated in games in terms of the temporal parallelism, predeterminate linearity, and interpretation of finitude of the ludo-narrative chronotope, where all these characteristics are unified in the games’ space-led principle. Therefore, survival horror zombie games present the player a ludo-narrative chronotope that not only resonances but also incarnates the zombiist state.