Super cientistas: um jogo digital para divulgação científica de mulheres na ciência e tecnologia

Abstract

Through scientific dissemination it’s possible to get to know scientists and relevant contributions to science and technology. In many cases, scientific dissemination is potentiated through digital media, including through digital games. However, digital games of the genre rarely approach or represent women scientists, providing a narrative that relates participation and contributions in science and technology only to the male gender. In this work was created Super Scientists, a digital game to promote the scientific dissemination of contributions made by women scientists. To create the game, it was necessary to define the aspects of the game in detail in the Game Design Document (GDD), a document used as a guide for the process of developing a game. The Super Scientists game, result of this work, was validated through a questionnaire. According to the results of the research, the participants got to know women scientists and their contributions so that each research participant knew at least one new woman scientist. Most of the research participants also considered the game fun and a suitable method for scientific dissemination of women scientists. Thus, it is possible to conclude that the objective proposed by the work was achieved.