The Importance of Using Games to Understand the Pollution Problem and the Water Management Complexity: an Analysis Based on Collective Subject Discourse

In the context of Environmental Education, games can help in understanding a particular theme and allow the observation of the approach from the perspective of a player. In this way, each person can develop strategies that she/he considers relevant in the game. We analyze players' strategies in an RPG (Role-Playing Game) in the water resources domain. This study analyzes the importance of water for survival and the problems of role representation, i.e., the lack of connection between reality and the game. In addition, we also analyze the importance of using the game to understand the pollution problem and the complexity of water management. As a result, we present speeches through a semi-structured interview based on the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) technique.