RITMUSIC: um jogo eletrônico para apoiar o ensino de ritmo

Abstract

Music is an art form that is part of people's lives, it shapes cultures, and is present everywhere. After Law No. 11.769/08, which made the teaching of music compulsory in schools, it was more important to talk about it. One of the parts that makes up the song is the rhythm, which is important in determining the duration of each sound and silence in the song. Some of the problems of music teaching, besides the number of trained professionals, are the tools of support of the instructors, the insertion of motivation, the lack of interest on the part of the students and the passive study (FARIA, 2015). The games have proved very effective in supporting the teaching of many subjects, including physics, mathematics, chemistry and even music. Among the games that work with music, but do not teach, you can cite as an example the game Guitar Hero, in which the player aims to keep pace with the music played. Games in this format are very famous and have millions of followers. As shown in the preceding paragraphs the importance of music, the difficulties in teaching its components and how much a game can be a supporter of content teaching, the proposed work aims to create a rhythmic game to support the teaching of rhythm. The game was developed in Unity 3D and has runner rhythm genre. The evaluation experiment was carried out with 20 people. A quantitative analysis was performed with the data generated by each participant to analyze the participant's performance and qualitative through an online questionnaire, based on the work of Savi (2010), to collect the students' perception about the support to rhythm teaching and the motivation to use the game. The results obtained from the experiment showed that participants' perceptions were positive and that they feel motivated to continue playing. Even with caveats, the work was well evaluated and yielded good results.