Caucaia: um jogo de tabuleiro sobre a cidade

Abstract

Cities are constantly changing. Understanding their historical and social context helps in understanding the current situation. The objective of this work was the creation of a board game about the municipality of Caucaia, Ceará. For its development, authors Italo Calvino and Sandra Pesavento were mainly used to understand about cities, and Marcelo La Carreta, who teaches how to produce board games. A bibliographic research was carried out followed by the development of five proposals for games. They were presented to a group of people to evaluate the best game option. After the acceptance survey, we continued with the development of the product, creating a rules manual and applying playtests in order to evaluate and improve its gameplay. As a final product, we created the Caucaia game. It is suitable for people aged 10 years and over. It has 318 components, including: board, mepples, chips, tokens and cards. Matches have an average duration of 60 minutes. Developing a board game requires extensive work, but it can educate in a dynamic and fun way.