A conveyance em jogos digitais: transmitindo mensagens e significados através de imagens

Abstract

Images have different meanings in varied contexts in which they are inserted, so to comprehend the informative potential that images carry requires to learn how to read the messages they convey. Such learning, denominated visual literacy, grants the capacity to interpret and to perceive these imagery informations in different medias. Current digital games have an interdependent relationship with images, being these of great importance to the game as a interactive functional system. Therefore this article objectives to investigate how images can, indeed, convey relevant informations about the digital universe of a game to a gamer, resulting in exploratory notes regarding this question.