O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós-Minecraft

Abstract

This work aims to investigate an aspect observed in the game Minecraft. Its mass dissemination occurs despite a feature that diverges from the practices of the highest layer of the video game industry: the game makes no effort to bring the player to the center of its functioning. We call this attribute decentralization of the player, and define it as our object of research, setting the goal of describing how it works. Through the prism of the post-Minecraft context, we separate this objective into three chapters: the first aims to define an empirical scope and guideline, characterizing the decentralization from the point of view of the sensorial dynamics that unfold from the communication between the gameworld (a set of stimuli displayed by the game) and the human senses. The second chapter makes use of these definitions to investigate the history of the decentralization in the games that influenced and were influenced by the emergence of Minecraft. Finally, in the third chapter, we select two games that lead to extreme decentralization, aiming to sift through their game worlds to investigate how the player positions himself amidst their dynamics