O gameplay é a mensagem : um olhar sobre as formas de jogar propostas por everything

Abstract

This research paper offers a reading perspective on the digital game Everything (David OReilly, Double Fine Presents, 2017) and aims to understand how the formal elements of the games, articulated in the gameplay experience contribute to the dissemination and understanding of an unconventional message in games. In order to contemplate this proposal, Fernández-Vara's (2015) block analysis methodology was adopted, in order to study the properties of digital games and other constituent elements. Thus, it is possible to understand how these elements articulated in the game experience act in the formation of a discourse outside the traditional patterns, whose digital text is formed from the articulation between the control with the machine, granting to it the role of player. In this way, the human agent not only plays on the machine, but also with the machine, in a proposal in line with the precepts of the philosopher Alan Watts. This unusual message to the medium promotes ruptures with its traditional structures.