Indie Games: a atuação dos independentes no design de videogames

• Main Author: Castro, Vinicius Oppido de
• Publication Date: 2015
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Download full: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/26101
• topic: design; games; Indies Games; projeto; independents games; project; design; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DESENHO INDUSTRIAL

This dissertation in the area of Architecture , Urban Planning and Design investigates the projective practices involved in the production of independent video games. Indie Games are addressed as cultural artifacts produced by individuals or groups interested in expressing themselves with originality and creativity by an interactive medium that allows trials in graphic and narrative language. The aim was to explore the projective practices adopted by these producers , from an experiment that went through the stages of creation, production and publication of a game with the use of internet technologies and computer graphics. The proposed summary contains 4 chapters , starting with an investigation of how the Creative Economy and new forms of production leveraged indie culture, following with the current role of video games and the relationships within this industry, through the stages of game design that then are used as instruments for understanding the design practice, and finally , the experience involving design , development and distribution of an independent video game