O museu de game como experiência gamificada

Abstract

Based on the state of art of games production and reception, this research has as an objective to propose the construction of a game museum conceived in the way of produce a gamified experience to those who visit it. Understood as gamification the phenomenon that has been widely released and incorporated in various fields of human activity. Gamification is taken as the application of game dynamics to day-to-day situations. The proposal comes with justifications that emphasize what is relevant to build a museum when you have as an object such a recent media as videogame. The main justification finds itself in the enormous cultural relevance of games and its indubitable penetration in people s lives, not only the young ones, in which we can conclude also about its relevance to future generations. Having as a theoretical basis mainly the studies of Huizinga, Schuytema, Zimmerman, Salen and other game scholars, it was possible to establish connections between game theory and the gamified experience that it provides to different means. This research corpus covers games as FIFA 2010 (2010), God of War (2005), Shadow of the Colossus (2006), among others. The methodology uses a case study from the Computerspiele Museum, in Berlin. By this study, and furthermore, it was possible to elaborate the history of games in a gamified experience that becomes relevant to a visitor of a Game Museum. This way, the gamified experience, that can prove itself very interesting to visit a Game Museum was elaborated having the following five essential points that are essential parts of game development: rules, narrative, interactivity, challenges and gameplay