Avaliação textual da jogabilidade em jogos

Abstract

Electronic games have developed a lot over the years, some genres have emerged and others have gradually evolved, one of these developments is RPG games, which have a large number of forks in games of their type. Role-playing games allow players to role-play within a story while making decisions that change its flow. They seek to give their players an experience of total immersion and freedom, which is why they were successful with the public even before becoming an electronic game genre. However, creating this experience in the player is not easy as different players have different motivations and reactions. This work presents a proposal to evaluate the player’s experience in turn-based RPGs through the analysis of texts collected from comments made by players on gaming platforms. It consists of identifying the facets of the games that were most talked about in comments, understand which facets were essential for the game to be able to entertain the player and thus be able to understand what makes these players have a good experience during their playing time. To study these facets, the comments were classified using the Sanchez heuristic and counting the frequency in which they appeared. The evaluation process was separated into three parts, theoretical study, choice of games and finally the case study where techniques for textual evaluation were applied to the chosen games. The results obtained showed the efficiency and effectiveness of the evaluation since the developer knows what brings fun to his games, the evaluation allows him to understand what is missing and what he managed to achieve with the developed game. Therefore, the combination of textual analysis, sanchez heuristics along with the advantage of indie development of developing games alongside the end players can help a lot to guarantee quality in indie development.