Theater vs. Game: the gamificated drama

Author(s)

Ivan Artur Miranda de Andrade

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-09-26

Examining board members

Antônio Carlos de Araújo Silva; Renata Correia Lima Ferreira Gomes; Silvia Fernandes da Silva Telesi

• Advisor: Antônio Carlos de Araújo Silva

Abstract

Based on the practice research \"INCUBADORA\", which occurred concomitantly with the theoretical study, this thesis aims to confront theater with games, using the simulation game The Sims as reference. The focus was to study the mechanisms of appropriation of gameplay by dramaturgy, staging and performance. This procedure was done through a specially developed software that allowed viewers to interact with the scenic game using their own mobile phones. This procedure was called interfacing scene. This proposal aimed to disrupt the space of \"spectator-beholder\" and test the possibility of a \"spectator-interactor\". In order to rethink the theater in the cultural context of digital media, it is proposed the concepts of \" gamificated drama\" and \"gamespetacle\". (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/02875-9 - Theatre and game: contemporary narratives and hybrid poetics
• Grantee: Ivan Artur Miranda de Andrade
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master