O Level Design nos Videogames A Arquitetura como Experiência
Nenhuma Miniatura disponível
Data
2022
Tipo de documento
Monografia
Título da Revista
ISSN da Revista
Título de Volume
Área do conhecimento
Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
Modalidade de acesso
Acesso aberto
Editora
Autores
Gonçalves, Diogo Augusto
Orientador
Nesteriuk, Sérgio
Coorientador
Resumo
Os videogames evoluem em sua forma e linguagem constantemente e concomitantemente com os avanços tecnológicos. Cada nova geração de console inaugura novas potencialidades e formas de jogo. Nesta perspectiva, é imperativo que os estudos acerca dos videogames acompanhem essa evolução e ressignifique os entendimentos
referentes às possibilidades de discurso que os avanços tecnológicos propiciam à experiência imersiva dos jogos. Sendo os videogames uma mídia interativa, a ação dramática que influencia as histórias acontece a partir da ação do jogador em um espaço projetado digital. Diante disso, a presente tese busca compreender como acontece a relação entre o level design e a arquitetura, no sentido de engajar e provocar o jogador ao criar experiências distintas nos diferentes gêneros de jogos, dado que, nos videogames, as próprias mecânicas de gameplay influenciam a consolidação desses gêneros. Para tal compreensão, a pesquisa foi articulada a fim de desenvolver uma taxonomia a respeito do level design, a qual acontece através de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, que tangencia conhecimentos referentes a videogames, mais especificamente ao level design, à arquitetura e à arquitetura narrativa. Após o desenvolvimento de tal classificação, são realizados cinco estudos de caso, que visam aplicar e testar a taxonomia. Dessa forma, foi possível conceituar os princípios de level design e compreender como ele se apropria dos estilos arquitetônicos tencionando a criação de experiências imersivas complexas, que funcionam em diferentes composições espaciais. A arquitetura sendo um agente importante da composição lúdica dos jogos, atua como um elemento de suporte ao gameplay. Assim, o estudo referente à arquitetura acontece sob a perspectiva de diferentes
jogos que emulam ou referenciam estilos arquitetônicos visando a experiência
narrativa, além de outras funções inerentes aos videogames, como definir limites, proporcionar estratégias de jogo ou mesmo estabelecer relações entre agentes narrativos. Desse modo, este estudo pretende estabelecer critérios de análise e desenvolvimento de level design a partir de uma arquitetura narrativa.
games, as a relatively recent media, have been evolving in form and language constantly and simultaneously with technological advances. Each new console generation leaves the previous one behind in its potentialities and playing aspects. In this perspective, it is imperative that studies about video games must follow this evolution by bringing new meaning to the understandings about the discourse possibilities that technological advances provide to the immersive experience of games. Since video games are an interactive media, the dramatic action that influences the stories takes place from the player’s action in a projected and digital space. Therefore, this thesis seeks to understand how the relationship between level design and architecture happens, in the sense of engaging and provoking the player by creating different experiences in different game genres, given that, in video games, the gameplay mechanics influences the consolidation of these genres. For this understanding, the research was articulated from some case studies that were planned to verify the player’s interaction characteristics with the digital space. Therefore, it was made extensive bibliographical research, based on knowledge related to video games, more specifically to level design, architecture, and narrative architecture. So, it was possible to conceptualize the principles of level design and understand how it appropriates architectural styles intending to create complex immersive experiences that work in different spatial compositions. Even though the architecture is an important agent of the ludic composition of games, it acts as an element to support gameplay. Thus, the study related to architecture takes place from the different game’s perspective that emulates or reference architectural styles aimed at the narrative experience, in addition to other functions inherent to video games, such as defining limits, providing game strategies, or even proposing relationships between narrative agents. Therefore, this study intends to establish level design analysis and development metrics from narrative architecture.
games, as a relatively recent media, have been evolving in form and language constantly and simultaneously with technological advances. Each new console generation leaves the previous one behind in its potentialities and playing aspects. In this perspective, it is imperative that studies about video games must follow this evolution by bringing new meaning to the understandings about the discourse possibilities that technological advances provide to the immersive experience of games. Since video games are an interactive media, the dramatic action that influences the stories takes place from the player’s action in a projected and digital space. Therefore, this thesis seeks to understand how the relationship between level design and architecture happens, in the sense of engaging and provoking the player by creating different experiences in different game genres, given that, in video games, the gameplay mechanics influences the consolidation of these genres. For this understanding, the research was articulated from some case studies that were planned to verify the player’s interaction characteristics with the digital space. Therefore, it was made extensive bibliographical research, based on knowledge related to video games, more specifically to level design, architecture, and narrative architecture. So, it was possible to conceptualize the principles of level design and understand how it appropriates architectural styles intending to create complex immersive experiences that work in different spatial compositions. Even though the architecture is an important agent of the ludic composition of games, it acts as an element to support gameplay. Thus, the study related to architecture takes place from the different game’s perspective that emulates or reference architectural styles aimed at the narrative experience, in addition to other functions inherent to video games, such as defining limits, providing game strategies, or even proposing relationships between narrative agents. Therefore, this study intends to establish level design analysis and development metrics from narrative architecture.
Palavras-chave
Design, Videogames, Level Design, Arquitetura Narrativa, Arquitetura