Abstract:

    In the digital age, repetitive operations in indie games are undergoing a paradigm shift from simulating mechanical labor to enabling an ethical construction of subjectivity.Characterized by cyclical action patterns and immediate feedback, these operations enable players to achieve selfethical verification through embodied practice: operations shift from passive execution to active choice, allowing them to exercise agency within repetition and reconstruct an‘ authentic temporality’ that resists algorithmic efficiency. Indie developers,prioritizing self-expression over commercial imperatives,refuse to reduce repetition to mere mechanical function.Instead, they endow repetitive actions with expressive and conceptual purpose. As players engage in strategic optimization, they embody ethical qualities such as focus and autonomy,transforming operational cycles into practices of value through temporal embodiment. This ethical reconstruction is not an escapist retreat but a new possibility for self-ethical construction via technical media in the digital age: when repetitive operations are structured around subjective choice, mechanical actions are elevated into an ethical practice that affirms‘ Dasein’.