Além do jogo: a narrativa transmídia e o conteúdo fá como um influenciador do processo de decisão do jogador em videogames competitivos multiplayer

Abstract

As we advance into the 21st century, video games show themselves as one of the fastest growing branches of entertainment, both in terms of investment, popularity, and social relevance, especially in the case of competitive multiplayer games. In this style of video game, narrative elements are minimized during the game experience in favor of focusing on the player's performance, leaving a gap to be explored both by video game developers and by the fans themselves. Through transmedia storytelling, these games explore the barriers of interaction between players and video game systems, becoming a popular form of engagement. From arts to videos and music, another type of content that is also growing are fan-made productions, which are created and broadcast from gamers to gamers heavily in the context of this style of video game. Through League of Legends (2009) and Overwatch (2016), the general objective of this work is to understand how the relationship between paratexts such as those from transmedia and fan creations in the process of playing on these videogames takes place. The studies present in the dissertation start from a theoretical analysis on the magic circle of game studies by Huizinga, Juul and Ferreira, the concept of mood by Grusin, and a questionnaire focused on the engagement and performance of participants within videogames focused on user performance in the context of transmedia and fan content through Jenkins. The results obtained by the questionnaire affirm that there is a group of players that recognizes and remembers events in which transmedia and fan content were able to influence them during game sessions.