The Role of Prototyping in the Game Development Process with Creative Game

More and more people are using digital games in their daily lives. Some studies prove that these resources, when used in education, engage, motivate and promote learning in a more meaningful way. Paper prototyping can be configured as a multidisciplinary activity, providing students with the acquisition of diverse knowledge in a fun way. The objective of this work is to verify if paper prototyping is efficient for the realization and understanding of the game design of games produced by students in the classroom. The exploratory study was carried out in a public school in the semi-arid region of Potiguar, with students in the 6th year of elementary school. The results indicate that paper prototyping proved to be efficient in implementing, understanding, testing and validating the games produced by the students.