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Tese Ivan Mussa Tavares Gomes.Pdf Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Centro de Educação e Humanidades Faculdade de Comunicação Social Ivan Mussa Tavares Gomes O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós-Minecraft Rio de Janeiro 2018 Ivan Mussa Tavares Gomes O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós- Minecraft Tese apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do título de Doutor, ao Programa de Pós- graduação em COMUNICAÇÃO, da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Área de concentração: Comunicação Social. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Vinicius Andrade Pereira Rio de Janeiro 2018 CATALOGAÇÃO NA FONTE UERJ / REDE SIRIUS / BIBLIOTECA CEH/A M989 Mussa, Ivan. O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós-Minecraft / Ivan Mussa Tavares Gomes. – 2018. 212 f. Orientador: Vinicius Andrade Pereira. Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Faculdade de Comunicação Social. 1. Comunicação Social – Teses. 2. Videogames – Teses. 3. Jogador – Teses. I. Pereira, Vinicius Andrade. II. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Faculdade de Comunicação Social. III. Título. es CDU 316.77 Autorizo, apenas para fins acadêmicos e científicos, a reprodução total ou parcial desta tese, desde que citada a fonte. ___________________________________ _______________ Assinatura Data Ivan Mussa Tavares Gomes O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós- Minecraft Tese apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do título de Doutor, ao Programa de Pós- graduação em COMUNICAÇÃO, da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Área de concentração: Comunicação Social. Aprovado em 27 de abril de 2018. Banca examinadora: Prof. Dr. Vinícius Andrade Pereira (orientador) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ Profª. Drª. Fátima Cristina Regis Martins de Oliveira Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ Profª Drª. Letícia Perani Soares Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF Prof. Dr. Thiago Pereira Falcão Universidade Federal do Maranhão - UFMA Prof. Dr. Emmanoel Martins Ferreira Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF Rio de Janeiro 2018 DEDICATÓRIA À memória da minha vó Marly, que me ensinou a brincar. AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço antes de tudo ao meu orientador, Vinicius Andrade Pereira, não apenas pelos comentários e leitura cuidadosos, mas pela amizade e companheirismo dos últimos quatro anos. Este trabalho é fruto dessa colaboração. I also thank my academic supervisor during my visiting period at the IT University of Copenhagen, Prof. Espen Aarseth, for his insightful comments on my research, but also for the welcoming environment of his research group. For that, I also thank the remaining researchers and students of the Center for Computer Games Research, specially Pawel Grabarczyk, Anders Løvlie, Hans-Joachim Backe, Rune Nielsen, Joleen Blom and Michael Debus. Agradeço à minha família de acadêmicos: minha mãe, Margarida; meu pai, Hélio e meu irmão, Vítor. Talvez seja possível vislumbrar um pouco de urbanismo, políticas públicas e ciências sociais nesse trabalho. Se sim, são eles os “culpados”. Aos funcionários e professores do PPGCOM Uerj, o lugar que veio a se tornar minha segunda (por vezes, primeira) casa no Rio de Janeiro nos últimos seis anos. Agradeço a Amanda Neves, Luzinete Cardozo e particularmente à minha heroína, Eliana Siciliano. Agradeço também à Profa. Denise Siqueira, ao Prof. Ricardo Freitas e à Profa. Cíntia Sanmartin Fernandes, cujos esforços foram fundamentais – em diferentes momentos – para que eu e outros colegas de turma desfrutássemos da oportunidade única de fazer o doutorado sanduíche. Aproveito para agradecer à Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior (CAPES), por ter concedido tanto a bolsa de doutorado quanto a de doutorado sanduíche, que financiaram essa pesquisa. Devo agradecimentos especiais aos professores da linha de pesquisa em Tecnologias da Comunicação e Cultura da Uerj. Em específico, agradeço ao Prof. Márcio Gonçalves e à Profa. Fátima Régis pelo comando das disciplinas de metodologia de pesquisa e seminário de tese, respectivamente. Ambas foram essenciais para que eu chegasse ao final da pesquisa com o resultado que desejava. Agradeço com carinho especial aos meus colegas do PPGCOM Uerj (e agregados). Em especial, Rafael Barbosa, Filipe Feijó, Ana Camila García, Zé Messias, Alessandra Maia, Yuri Garcia, Ramon Bezerra, João Guilherme, Camila Augusta, Tetê Mattos, Gustavo Audi e tantos outros. Que nossa pesquisa conjunta continue acontecendo nos bares. Aos amigos-mestres-companheiros pesquisadores dos game studies no Brasil. Letícia Perani, Mariana Amaro, Emmanoel Ferreira, Thiago Falcão, Daniel Marques, Luiz Adolfo Andrade, entre muitos outros – e que venham muitos mais. Aos meus companheiros farofeiros de Copenhague: Bia Provasi, Luiz Adolfo (novamente), Nina, Sally, Kemilla, Tiago, Isabela, Elver, Rafael e Victor. I also thank my good friends, Rainy James and my roomate Oscar, for making me feel welcome in this beautiful city. Special thanks for Mark Johnson for giving me the opportunity of working as a beta tester in his game, Ultima Ratio Regum. Um agradecimento de apoio e admiração a Alexandra Elbakyan, fundadora do SciHub, bem como aos mantenedores do Libgen.org. É um dos maiores absurdos imagináveis que ainda existam forças interessadas em sequestrar conhecimento e cobrar resgate em troca de acesso. Minhas saudações a qualquer pessoa que combata esses parasitas. Todos os artigos desbloqueados pelo SciHub usados nessa pesquisa estão nas referências com seus endereços DOI. Basta colá-los no site para ter acesso grátis. Ver: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/. Uma nota de agradecimento pessoal aos game designers que pensam por meio de seus jogos e que inspiram em grande parte este trabalho: Brian Moriarty, Jonathan Blow, Tarn Adams, Stephen Lavelle (thanks for the coin!), Derek Yu, e à comunidade persistente e insistente de desenvolvedores roguelikes. E, finalmente, agradeço a Flávia, por ser uma fonte inesgotável de energia e bons sentimentos. We do not stand in the shoulders of giants. But if you are lucky, like me, you may one day experience the sublime humiliation of standing in the shadow of the Moon. Brian Moriarty RESUMO MUSSA, Ivan. O jogador descentralizado: comunicação humano-videogame no contexto pós-Minecraft. 2018. 212 f. Tese (Doutorado em Comunicação) – Faculdade de Comunicação Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2018. Este trabalho objetiva investigar um aspecto observado no jogo Minecraft. Sua disseminação em massa ocorre apesar de um traço divergente da camada mais alta da indústria dos videogames: o jogo não faz qualquer esforço para trazer o jogador ao centro de seu funcionamento. Chamamos esse atributo de descentralização do jogador, e o definimos como objeto de estudo, estabelecendo o objetivo de descrever de que modo funciona. Sob o prisma do contexto pós-Minecraft, separamos esse objetivo em três capítulos: o primeiro almeja definir um escopo e diretriz empírica, caracterizando a descentralização sob a ótica das dinâmicas sensoriais que se desenlaçam na comunicação entre mundo de jogo (conjunto de estímulos manifestados pelo videogame) e os sentidos humanos. O segundo capítulo faz uso dessas definições de modo a investigar a história da descentralização nos jogos que influenciaram e foram influenciados pela emergência de Minecraft. Finalmente, no terceiro capítulo, selecionamos dois jogos que levam a descentralização a seu extremo, de modo a vasculhar seus mundos de jogo para investigar como se posiciona o jogador em meio a sua dinâmica. Palavras-chave: Videogames. Comunicação. Jogador. ABSTRACT MUSSA, Ivan. The decentralized player: human-game communication in the post-Minecraft context. 2018. 212 f. Tese (Doutorado em Comunicação) – Faculdade de Comunicação Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2018. This work aims to investigate an aspect observed in the game Minecraft. Its mass dissemination occurs despite a feature that diverges from the practices of the highest layer of the video game industry: the game makes no effort to bring the player to the center of its functioning. We call this attribute decentralization of the player, and define it as our object of research, setting the goal of describing how it works. Through the prism of the post-Minecraft context, we separate this objective into three chapters: the first aims to define an empirical scope and guideline, characterizing the decentralization from the point of view of the sensorial dynamics that unfold from the communication between the gameworld (a set of stimuli displayed by the game) and the human senses. The second chapter makes use of these definitions to investigate the history of the decentralization in the games that influenced and were influenced by the emergence of Minecraft. Finally, in the third chapter, we select two games that lead to extreme decentralization, aiming to sift through their game worlds to investigate how the player positions himself amidst their dynamics. Keywords: Video games. Communication. Player. LISTA DE FIGURAS Figura 1 - Pac-Man (1980) .............................................................................................. 17 Figura 2 - Estado do mundo do jogo de Pac-Man após algumas mudanças causadas pelo processo de jogo. ............................................................................................ 18 Figura 3 - Representação do processo de colisão no jogo Braid (2008) ........................
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