Medo do escuro: jogo digital

Abstract

This work describes the creation of the Fear of the Dark Game: Digital Game and how digital games can help us overcome our fears.Fear in digital games can present itself in many ways, from simple to dark. Regardless of which way, the digital game challenges us to face situations that generate emotions in us and stimulate cognitive processes (perception, memory and reasoning), which allows us to gain experience, solve problems and make plans.The research carried out is divided into two aspects: a) the theoretical research of how fear affects the player and how we can use it in a positive way in digital games; b) practical research involves the best conduct in the development of digital games.For theoretical research, the works of authors such as, for example, neuroscientist and researcher Joseph LeDoux (whose research focuses mainly on survival circuits) and professor and researcher Dolf Zillmann (developer of the excitation transfer paradigm) were used. . And in practical research, the works of authors such as Maureen Murdock were used. The creation of the story of the Medo do Escuro game was based on studies of his work A Jornada da Heroína (2022). To create the Game Design, we analyzed Donald Norman's Mental Model (2002), we used Nielsen's ten Heuristics (1993) and Steve Swink'sReal-Time Control Spheres, Simulated Environment and Polishing (Game Feel) (2008)