Um modelo de tomada de decisão baseado na teoria da persuasão aplicado à classe de jogos MMORPG

Abstract

It is of common knowledge that at every moment, people have to make decisions over different matters regarding to a wide range of issues and that, in making such decisions, they use of previous experiences, values, beliefs, expertise, skills and even of their own philosophies. From a videogame perspective, decision-making is a crucial activity that happens at all times and at different levels of perception. Moreover, it has direct influence over a game‟s performance, a fact that also concerns to RPGs as they can act as tools to enhance the improvement of the proximal development zones of the involved individuals, due the need these individuals have to create groups and work together in order to complete different objectives of a game (known as quests). A need that results in higher exchanges of previously acquired knowledge, as well as their social knowledge. As the RPG has an inherent cooperative character that stimulates socialization, interaction and the improvement of communication skills, it was thought that it would be interesting to take advantage of the RPG to built a model using UML and Petri Net, based on the Game Theory and on a application of the Theory of Persuasion to an Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game environment, that involves the user in some kind of plot, at the same time that favors a greater ease in decision-making.