Games como mídia narrativa: análise dos elementos que possibilitam uma experiência interativa e imersiva

Abstract

The work analyzed games from a narratological perspective, in an effort to understand how this media arranges and presents narrative content, articulated from interactivity as one of its main characteristics and tools. Aiming at this objective, the ludological and functional elements of games as a system were delimited, as well as elements of the narrative experience lived in this medium. With these notes, intersection points were defined allowing the analysis of games from categories “rules, game structure and narrative”, “interface and its insertion in the fictional world”, “implementing interactivity” and “exploration of an environment as storytelling”. Three games of different nature were chosen for analysis, with the objective of identifying similarities and divergences between them and their genres and styles, namely: The Last Of Us Part II (2020), Detroit: Become Human (2018) and Hades (2020). In this sense, they were approached using the content analysis methodology of Roque Moraes (1999), which led to the first identification of basic categories and observation of objects based on them. The theoretical path was traced based on the work of authors such as Janet Murray (2003), Sebastian Domsch (2013), Marie-Laure Ryan (2001) and Henry Jenkins (2004).