# 一款全漢字解謎遊戲，接下了櫻井政博的最後一棒

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- 日期: 2026-09-26
- 分類: 我知故我在
- 標籤: 台灣獨立遊戲, 東京電玩展, 遊戲

![一款全漢字解謎遊戲，接下了櫻井政博的最後一棒]

##### 字，本身就是關卡

《文字遊戲》裡沒有怪物、沒有血條，主角是漢字本身——場景、道具、對話都用字符拼成，玩家推字、拆字、擦字來解謎。這個設計聽起來像文字遊戲的雙關，其實就是字面意思。一個五人小團隊，台灣獨立工作室 Team9，把繁體中文原版改寫成日文版本，送進了日本遊戲產業最重的一個獎項現場。

2026 年 9 月 15 日，東京電玩展期間，Japan Game Awards 頒出 Game Designers Award，《文字遊戲》拿下這座獎。同場拿下 Grand Prize 的是《Pokemon Pokopia》。一邊是任天堂體量的作品，一邊是五個人做的解謎遊戲，站在同一個頒獎現場。

##### 十七年，找不到接班人

這個獎項的份量在於它的主持人。[櫻井政博](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AB%BB%E4%BA%95%E6%94%BF%E5%8D%9A)從 2010 年創立這個獎項開始主持了十七年，評選標準壓根不看銷量，只看原創性。今年，主辦方 CESA 宣布獎項停辦——理由是找不到接班人。也就是說，《文字遊戲》拿到的不是某一屆的獎，是這個獎項存在期間的最後一屆。評審用壓倒性票數選出它，稱讚的是解謎手法本身的巧妙。

停辦不是敗給誰，是十七年後這套評選邏輯走到了盡頭，而走到盡頭前接住最後一棒的，是一款用繁體中文字符做關卡的台灣遊戲。這個順序本身比任何得獎感言都更值得留意。

##### 同一週，同一個展場，還有另一個獎

《文字遊戲》不是台灣獨立遊戲在東京電玩展唯一的獎項。同一屆展會期間，另一款作品《阿雷塔》拿下 SELECTED INDIE 80 的金獎——這個獎項當屆全球僅發出一個白金獎與少數幾個金獎。兩款作品分屬不同獎項體系，一個走設計原創評選，一個走全球獨立遊戲評比，同時出現在同一場東京電玩展裡，構成雙獎並列的局面。

把這件事簡化成「台灣遊戲產業崛起」是偷懶的講法。市場願意選台灣團隊的作品站上頒獎台，牽涉的是內容本身的完成度、跨語言改編的執行力，還有台日兩地展會、通路多年累積的交流基礎——不是單一原因，也不是某種民族天賦的證明。真正值得記住的，是一個五人團隊把漢字拆成關卡零件的那個具體設計決定，以及日本評審用壓倒性票數認可了它。

##### 獎項停辦之後，留下的是什麼

Game Designers Award 不會再有下一屆評審主持人，這件事本身已經定案。留下來的紀錄是：十七年裡最後一個被選中的作品，用的是中文字符，來自一個五人團隊，從繁體中文改寫成日文版本才送進評選。獎盃會被收進某個展示櫃，而這個順序——先有台灣team做出東西，後有日本評審選它收尾——不會被重寫。

— 黃冠霖

### A Chinese-Character Puzzle Game Just Closed Out Sakurai’s 17-Year Award

##### The Puzzle Is Made of Characters

There are no monsters in *Word Game*, no health bars. The protagonist is the Chinese character itself — scenery, objects, dialogue, all built from characters that players push, split apart, and erase to solve puzzles. It sounds like a pun. It isn’t. A five-person team, Taiwanese indie studio Team9, took their Traditional Chinese original, adapted it into Japanese, and carried it into the biggest design award in Japan’s game industry.

On September 15, 2026, during Tokyo Game Show, Japan Game Awards handed out its Game Designers Award to *Word Game*. In the same ceremony, *Pokemon Pokopia* took the Grand Prize — a Nintendo-scale release sharing the stage with a puzzle game made by five people.

##### Seventeen Years, No Successor

The weight of this award comes from who ran it. [Masahiro Sakurai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Sakurai) created and hosted the Game Designers Award starting in 2010, judging purely on originality, never on sales figures. This year, organizer CESA announced the award’s end — no successor could be found to carry it forward. *Word Game* didn’t just win a category. It became the final recipient of an award that no longer exists. Judges picked it by an overwhelming margin, praising the puzzle mechanics themselves.

An award ending isn’t a loss to anyone. It’s a seventeen-year judging framework reaching its limit — and the last thing it recognized before closing was a Taiwanese game built entirely out of Traditional Chinese characters. That sequence matters more than any acceptance speech would.

##### Same Week, Same Show Floor, Another Award

*Word Game* wasn’t the only Taiwanese indie title winning at Tokyo Game Show. During the same event, another title, *YARETA*, took gold in SELECTED INDIE 80 — a category that awarded only one platinum and a handful of golds globally that year. Two different award systems, one for original design, one for global indie evaluation, both landing on Taiwanese-made games at the same show.

Calling this a single-cause “rise of Taiwan’s game industry” oversimplifies it. A market rewarding Taiwanese studios involves the finished quality of the work, the execution of a cross-language adaptation, and years of exhibition and distribution ties between Taiwan and Japan — not one factor, and not some inherent national talent. What’s worth remembering is narrower and more concrete: five people decided to turn Chinese characters into puzzle pieces, and Japanese judges picked it by an overwhelming vote.

##### What’s Left After the Award Ends

There will be no next host for the Game Designers Award. That’s settled. What remains is the record: the last work chosen across seventeen years was built from Chinese characters, made by five people, translated from Traditional Chinese into Japanese before it ever reached the judges. The trophy goes into a display case somewhere. The sequence — a small Taiwanese team built it first, Japanese judges chose it to close it out — stays as written.

— 黃冠霖