PessoasX: um jogo empático sobre a comunidade Queer

Abstract

This work presents the use of empathic games to provide a good queer representation and to demonstrate stories of the LGBTQIA+ community in digital games, thus seeking to generate debates and to aproximate the gamer public contact with these stories while seeking to generate a connection between the game’s characters stories with the audience through empathy. For the development of this project, it was necessary to study theoretical research in different areas such as: Queer theory, queer representation in games as well and what defines a digital game is an empathic game. Field research was also carried out with the queer gamer community, seeking to analyze forms of queer representation that is positively accepted by the community and another research with the queer community of Quixadá, seeking to know their experiences and stories that happened in the city, which would serve as inspiration on the creation of the game PeopleX. For the development of the game, the game creation tool RPG MAKER MZ was used, which allowed the creation of a point-and-click adventure RPG, which through theoretical research was elected as the best game model to develop the project. After designing the final version of one stage of the game, a survey was carried out with the queer community seeking to analyze whether the project fulfilled its initial proposal, and in particular, its narrative. The tests were carried out with 11 users and obtained positive results to what was analyzed, especially the diversity of representation presented by the game that sought to show different stories from those that are normally displayed when talking about queer representation. Based on the results, it is possible to validate the initial idea of the project and seek to further improve the PeopleX game and the different ranges of representations presented in the project.