DONG YUXIANG

We Asian people have frequently been (un)consciously associated with video games. Game consoles like Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation dominate the market. Game producers like Hideo Kojima find themselves with celebrity status in the West. A large number of Asian immigrants work in the global video game industry as software engineers and visual designers. As consumers, we have been often depicted as e-sports fanatics. Among recent video games, Assassin's Creed Shadows raised a controversy since it is set in the Sengoku period in Japan but has an African protagonist... These associations between the Asian and video games are techno-orientalism, imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in cultural productions and political discourse. Asian GameObjects (in progress) investigates the mechanism of game production to speculate an innovative approach to Asian beyond its designation as ethnicity and/or nationality.