Inside: A Video Game about Depression

• Autor(a) principal: Botelho, Beatriz Brasil Costa Cabral
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10860
• topic: Depressão; Educação; Jogo Digital; Jogo Sério; Moral; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes::Jogos Digitais

Video games are increasingly becoming a part of people’s daily lives. More importantly, digital games have been increasingly built as products that challenge the player morally and ethically. Video games do not only demonstrate their moral and ethical influence, they also influence people's behavior by their own social, economic and historical context. The choices people make in video games start from a moral, social, economic and historical contextualization and it is important to understand the relationship that is developed between players, their contextualization, and video games, in order to understand how digital games can constitute themselves as moral and educational challenges. Thus, it is intended to highlight the educational potential of digital games through the influence they can have on shaking, challenging and consolidating people's moral systems. The aim of this dissertation is to create a game about depression in order to build not only an educational object, but also a product of self-expression that can help depression-affected patients cope with their illness. The developed game aims to explore the power that digital games can reveal in creating moments of reflection, contemplation and moral challenges in the player. Basically, the aim is to find out if digital games have the power to educate through the challenges they present to players. The video game described in this dissertation was developed using the Unity game engine.