Representações do mito de El Dorado no jogo "Uncharted: Drake's fortune" e possibilidades de uso no ensino de História

Abstract

This article aims to present the study of representation in the electronic game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, as a teaching object for history teachers. In presenting it, the imagery and historical context used by the game developers to display an archaeological plot will be analyzed through the adventure enriched by elements that refer to the cultures of pre-Columbian peoples, the representation of the myth and history of El Dorado, in a narrative with a historiographical basis but with a fictional systematic. Thus, this article tends to analyze this representation with the purpose of expressing the historical content that games present and the result of them to be used by history teachers in the classroom, on the possibilities of using the game as a complementary material for teaching, in the content of the history of pre-Columbian America.