Gamificação para o aprendizado: projeto e desenvolvimento de um text-based game voltado para o ensino de História sobre o Brasil colonial

Abstract

It is increasingly challenging to engage students in disciplines without having a good methodological strategy. Disputing students attention with digital devices and their endless entertainment possibilities becomes a problem that may require banning or turning off cell phones, tablets, notebooks, among other devices. But there is a possibility to find new ways to engage people through gamification, a practice already used in many digital applications, as well as games. This undergraduate thesis aims at the study of gamification tools; different learning theories; human motivation; and the human-computer interaction leading to the development of the prototype of an interactive game that can help elementary school students, improving their motivation to learn about the history of colonial Brazil. At the end of the work, data from a questionnaire applied to players who tested the “Kepler project” were analyzed, to qualify improvements and implementations according to the users feedback. The experience was developed taking into account several gamification strategies, based on text-based games, being, therefore, a game created through the Twine platform for internet browsers. The project uses, in its narrative structure, elements of the history of colonial Brazil in order to help classroom lessons to engage students in the construction of the knowledge of the discipline, immersing them in the interactive process and providing pleasure while lerning.