Gamifcação: pesquisa – ação em um role - playing game

Abstract

This article presents an experience with programming a Role - Playing Game (RPG) in Basic Education, entitled The Journey Of School, which aims to improve the level of motivation to carry out school activities. In this sense, learning and motivations are investigated in two processes and subjects involved. In the first, whose stage consists of the elaboration of the game, the stimulus to the construction of narratives and the optimization of the logical reasoning that the RPG genre provides to its programmers and designers are discussed. In the second, where the group of players is configured, there are changes in attitudes and behaviors arising from the elements present in the dynamics and mechanics of the game, showing a trend in the educational area directed towards the engagement of people, very common in the productive and corporate names, known as Gamification or Gamification. Therefore, it is essential to say that this proposal resulted in the involvement and necessary motivation of the apprentice, since having recognized content inherent to the disciplines, he was unable to participate in these activities, since the game involved him and made it possible for him to reflect and apply previously acquired knowledge to actively participate in the game.