CREATIVE CYCLE OF COLLABORATIVE GAMES: A METHODOLOGY TO CREATING EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Cooperative games have acquired importance in the field of educational methodologies because they are a language accessible to young people, prone to working together and solving problems that would be difficult to access individually. This methodology provides the use and learning of common skills and competences jointly, valuing learning with others, however, the design of these games is still emblematic of educators since the field of studies presents only specific actions, especially when we deal with methodologies for game creation. Our objective, with this study, is to contribute to the methodological field, providing a tool experimented by the LIJC - UFCA, in the design of cooperative games, that structures and interrelates the creative process of decision making. This research uses a bibliographic study that permeates both article and the metod proposal, this study is exploratories research and a game production experience report, a product refined by the project and applied to participants from different institutions. This work resulted in an activity of a playful character, full of meanings and structured in concepts such as horizontal education, learning with others, mutual respect and dialogical; where we conclude that for the success of a method, the conceptual contribution and experimentation must be allied, without forgetting the primacy of the sense of an integral education of the human being.