Epilogue: Game Adaptation in the Age of AI
摘要
This brief Epilogue returns to another iteration of the Arabian Nights—theAI-enabled 1001 Nights by the Ada Eden team—in order to make a case for why we ought to study literary game adaptations in our current cultural climate. In their explicit ties to sources and contexts and their promotion of playful processes over efficient productivity, I argue that literary game adaptations can act as useful tools for helping our students and ourselves appreciate literature and art as experiences of cultural communion rather than (as certain voices in Silicon Valley seem to be promoting) hoards of information to be exploited for individual gain. While I am under no illusion that literary game adaptations can solve the problems this generation faces (no piece of art can on its own), the perspectives they promote—the interconnectivity of systems, the malleability of meaning, the agency of individuals, and the value of experience for experience’s sake—are not only bulwarks against the abuse of AI tools, but pre-requisites for changing the world for the better.