Guerra do Contestado: um jogo educacional em 3D

Abstract

The History teaching is based on the understanding of processes and social subjects through the cumulative acquisition of information and the ordering of historical events. However, the Education field approaches the difficulty found on the new generation of students that lives surrounded by technological devices and is constantly connected to media information in the computer tend not to find History classes engaging or involving. This may lead to students having difficulty finding relevance and not being able to link the subject matter to their day-to-day situations. An important fact found on History classes in Paraná is the ContestadoWar. Based on the historical importance of the Contestado War, and from the perspective of teaching through digital games, this work proposes the development of a 3D educational game addressing the Contestado War. Initially, extensive bibliographic research was carried out to gather information about the events of the Contestado conflict over the social, economic and religious spheres, allowing us to organize facts, identify characters and scenarios. Then, we aim to describe the development of a 3D digital game through the process of game development. The result of this work is a proposal of an immersive experience of the Contestado War trough a 3D educational game. We hope that the game enable the students to have an accurate perspective of the social and historical scenario and a digital immersive experience is useful for new generations of students as a pedagogical tool to teach history.