作为一种参与式游戏,橙光游戏具有多重属性,它既是粉丝参与创造的视觉小说,又是一个网页游戏分享社区,还包括平台所提供的游戏设计软件。就游戏角色而言,“耽美”是橙光游戏的核心标签,亦是中国大众文化的重要思潮之一。一方面,此类角色建构了游戏中的越轨行为,从性别政治维度将其用户塑造成“越轨者”,为玩家提供了一个性别异托邦。另一方面,橙光游戏又让玩家获得了一种社会位置幻觉,限制了玩家的社会位置想象力。
<<As participatory games,Orange Light Games refer to visual fictions created by non-professional game fans,an online community for users to share browser games,and the game developing software provided by the platform.In terms of game characters,TANBI (Boy's Love),an important part of contemporary Chinese popular culture,has been recognized as the core label of Orange Light Games.On the one hand,TANBI characters constructs the deviation in the game world,forming deviants on the level of gender politics,and creating a gender heterotopia for players.On the other hand,Orange Light Games provides users a kind of social status illusion,which actually constrains users' ability to imagine their social social status.
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