Exploração de ambientes em jogos eletrônicos

Abstract

This research is based on the observation of a practice that occurs in video games, identified as exploration of environments . The object consists in the actions, processes and contexts that serve as stages for this practice that is played by the gamers, in an ensemble formed with the other agents that make the game work. The objective is to conceptualize the exploratory behavior in video games, along with the environments in which it materializes itself from which it s inseparable. To that end, a division in three parts aims to redefine this practice with distinct theoretical perspectives. The first one refers to the particularities of exploration in digital environments. We demonstrate how the game represents the abilities that integrate this process (locomotion, navigation, recognition, manipulation), and what are the communicative properties of exploring the game. The second one expands this same reflection to a ludic sense, in pursuit of the relation between game and exploration in open world games, besides its formal and fictional properties. The last one links exploration to a process of invention and experimentation with the possibilities of the game