Arquitetura e jogos virtuais: uma análise da inserção do arquiteto e urbanista no mercado de jogos eletrônicos

Abstract

Architects act in the Gaming Market as a fundamental piece to ensure it's success and promote significant changes in it's development process. Having technological and technical habilities in their range of skills, it's of much relevance to understand how this professional is inserted in said area. This study aims to analyze competences architects possesses in respect of the processes of architectural projects methodology, their curriculum knowledge and professional attributions to comprehend in which way these correlate and possibly contribute to electronic games development. The methodology is based upon bibliographic research derived from data bases, repositories and digital libraries. The main results refer to the relevance of specific knowledge in architecture major in elaborating and conceptualizing virtual games, since to emulate real world into virtual spaces, it's of necessity to take aesthetic and sensitive factors into consideration, those being present in architectural projects conceptual basis. An architect professional, in it's attributions, finds in the gaming scenery a potential career area, not only limited to market vision, but also validating it's position into society, with social and cultural contributions, also improving it's technological leaning.