"Fiz por querer" - o papel das escolhas do jogador na construção do sentido em narrativas de jogos digitais

Abstract

This thesis presents the investigation over the roll of the player on the construction of meaning in games with digital narratives through the application of concepts from literary theory. The works of Vladimir Propp, Claude Bremond, Algirdas Greimas, and Tzvetan Todorov, concepts of interaction and hypertextuality from communication and semiotics, and studies about the process of reading, and the structure of games used by developers of entetainment software were adopted as referencial to support the research. This volume presents the results of such concepts to analyse the computer game Fallout 3. It concludes that the player is not only the receptive reader of the narrative presented by the game, but becomes the interpreter of a value system in the quest for the attainment of skills, shapping the narrative and the mechanics of the game into material for his own expression.