Olimpus : o design como facilitador dos processos técnicos do role playing game (RPG)

Abstract

Fantasy is the men's natural environment of interconnection between the inside and outside world. When it is allied with games, fantasy carries the act of knowing yourself and the world to the sphere of pleasure, and this is Men’s natural tendency when facing the discover. However, this tendency is blocked by artificially conditioned fears, turning the unknown into something terrifying. In the renewal of pleasure of knowing, RPG has important contributions to Men, because, in an ever less fantastic society, where, for example, having fertile imagination is a flaw, it is comforting to find a space of valorization of this characteristic, and a group where the interaction between these fantasies happens in a spontaneous and friendly way. Therefore, this paper presents as the theme the development of a platform that facilitates the technical processes of Role Playing Game, bringing a synthesized approach about Design, branding, archetypes, behaviorism, and RPG, which objective is to deconstruct the technical overload of the user while player. The result of this development is an even better experience of ludic immersion, in which the revaluation of individualistic values is constant. For this to occur in the best way, aiming the problem solving, it is used the linear Design divided into stages, and to identify the systemic problems of execution of the act of playing, the study is based in storytelling and behavioral stereotypes. To obtain more assertiveness during the research, a questionnaire and a Case Study were done with the target audience. Thus, the proposal of this project is the contribution of knowledge of the player, by means of the characters, about the object in question inside the RPG, from their beliefs, values, emotions, and imagination, so that there are a deeper interaction and cooperation between the players (sic).