A idealização de um jogo digital para divulgação científica a partir da receptividade de crianças

Abstract

Museums are educational institutions that carry in its exhibition a speech that is disseminated to its visitors. To reach that, the museums teams prepare their exposure so that it is not only understandable, but also attractive, so that the visitor may be interested in the exhibition, interact with its objects and consequently with the expositive discourse. Among several possibilities for activities that the museum can offer, games present themselves as instruments that have a potential to be used for science communication, since they are able to engage players, while entertain and challenge them. A combination that allows the museum to engage the visitor for a longer time on a portion of its exhibition discourse, increasing the process of appropriation of this discourse. Thinking about this, we idealized a game whose central theme is the problems of building highways for native fauna. Then we transform the game script in a story, in order to present it for children 6-10 years in a puppet theater. By the receptivity of the children to the story of the game and its characters and from their narratives, we did an analysis of the aspects that should be modified to the creation of game. We proposed the design of more challenging goals that gives the player an active role in the interaction with the game; the development different levels with increasing difficulty; different mechanisms of reward, not restricted only to score and the opportunity and incentive to interaction with other players. These changes were proposed to make the idealized game more appropriated, engaging, entertaining, and permeated by a speech of great relevance and importance to society.