Jogo do boto: design e implementação de um serious game para sensibilização ambiental de estudantes da região amazônica

Abstract

The Serious Games are games that go beyond the idea of entertainment and offer other kinds of experiences, and may be directed to environmental and conservation and learning in this case is called as an educational game or Game-Based Learning. This work had as main objective to develop a Learning Game-Based, titled by Game Dolphin, to raise awareness of children of the public schools of the brook regions in the state of Para islands where there is the presence of species of river dolphins (porpoises). The game was developed in the engine Game Maker Studio: Professional (Educational) and had the following objectives perform a theoretical study of the tool and the design of the game design applying documentation techniques such as Short Game Design Document, based on teaching techniques of a ethnozoological study by researchers at the UFPA. The methodological hike was mainly analysis based on qualitative methodology and involved, as well as documentary and bibliographic research, field research at a school in the metropolitan area of Belém do Pará, where software tests were conducted with a group of elementary school, questionnaires being applied before and after the game experience. The survey results show that the set goals were achieved, enabling teachers to talk about topics related to dolphins in coastal classrooms, since they are aggregates the image of mystical entities, causing fear among the population and threatens the species of dolphins in the Amazon region. So the game is validated as an educational tool that presents a serious matter in a playful and fun way.