Videogames e ansiedade: um estudo sobre sensorialidades, mediação e modulação dos afetos na experiência sensível do jogo Hue

Abstract

This research analyzed the relationship between video games and anxiety, making an effort to question how the sensoriality enhanced by the media, especially games, can be a device for (pre) mediation and modulation (GRUSIN, 2010) of the experience of anxiety in digital games. By conducting a literature review of cognitive science theories, with emphasis on the concept of embodied cognition (VARELA, THOMPSON, ROSCH, 2001; KASTRUP, 2007, 2008), we exemplify the cyborg body (HARAWAY, 2009; REGIS, 2012) as fundamental record for the understanding of the human-machine coupling process. As a methodology, a sensitive analysis of the experience in the game Hue (CURVE DIGITAL, 2016), an adventure game of the puzzle genre was carried out. A study was developed on aspects related to the narrative, mechanics, programming and gameplay (GALLOWAY, 2006), as well as about the graphic, visual (JACOB, 1981) and sound (LEVITIN, 2010) compositions of the game, in order to connect theories studied. We also illustrate the hypothesis worked here, which concerns the possibilities of producing affections (MASSUMI, 1995), states of attention and anxiety (SIMONDON, 2020; GRUSIN, 2010; MASSUMI, 2002, 2005; FREEDMAN; SHAPIRO; ASTIN et al 2006) in the experience of player-game interaction (BAVELIER, GREEN, JOESSEL et al 2020; MCGONIGAL, 2011).