This article questions whether educational gaming technology used in learning about the Unified Health System (SUS) benefits imagination, fun, spontaneity and reflection in the training of health professionals. The objectives were to develop the (IN)DICA-SUS board game, centered on the dialog between health policies and play; to analyze the components of fun, pleasure, formative aspects of learning, the emotions and the game tactics in the development of the (IN)DICA-SUS game; and to identify indicator variables for playability in educational technologies for health. This was exploratory, descriptive research with a quantitative and qualitative approach, of the case study type. Test matches were undertaken with 160 participants, involving the administration of a questionnaire, participant observation, content analysis and the Pearson statistical test. The indicator variables for the playability of the educational technologies for health include the pleasure and tension in the game. The (IN)DICA-SUS game brings together inventive and sharing characteristics to optimize multiple learning and goes beyond teaching about the Unified Health System, although it starts from that.
Professional education in public health; Learning; Nursing Education
