Aplikasi Adventure Game Berbasis Mobile Pada Komunitas Pendaki Gunung bandung

Perkembangan teknologi saat ini semakin pesat, teknologi bereperan baik sebagai media interaksi sosial, sarana edukasi, maupun sarana hiburan. Dengan menerapkan teknologi dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, diharapkan dapat membantu dan mempermudah pekerjaan. Salah satu bentuk kegiatan adalah pendakian dan petulangan, yaitu sebuah kegiatan dengan mengkombinasikan olahraga dan rekreasi yang sangat digemari oleh kalangan muda. Komunitas Pendaki Gunung Bandung (KPGB) merupakan Komunitas dengan kegiatan pendakian atau petualangan yang berperan sebagai media komunikasi dan informasi antar pegiat alam. Komunitas ini diharapkan menjadi jalur komunikasi terjalinya silaturahmi untuk membentuk kokoh rasa kekeluargaan antar sesama pendaki khususnya di Kota Bandung. Kesibukan dan padatnya jam kerja menyebabkan para anggota kesulitan dalam mengatur jadwal untuk melakukan aktivitas pendakian. Banyaknya rintangan dan tingkat kesulitan di medan pendakian, membuat banyak orang merasa takut untuk mendaki. Para pendaki yang mengalami kecelakaan dan hilang, bahkan meninggal dunia, menambah rasa takut bagi orang-orang yang ingin melakukan pendakian. Dari permasalahan yang ada perlu adanya gambaran tentang bagaimana menyelesaikan masalah ketika banyaknya aktivitas dari semua anggota yang tidak dapat melakukan pendakian. Maka aplikasi game yang bertemakan petualangan pendakian ini, dibentuk untuk memenuhi kepuasan para anggota Komunitas Pendaki Gunung Bandung, dengan pemrograman Cocos 2d-x berbasis game engine Android menggunakan smartphone yang menghasilkan game petulangan pendakian yang berkarakter 2D (dua dimensi). Aplikasi ini dirancang dengan fitur yang sederhana, oleh karena itu pengguna dapat memainkan game petualangan ini dengan nyaman. Terdapat pula fitur yang akan menghubungkan langsung pengguna dengan website KPGB, yang didalamnya terdapat informasi mengenai perlengkapan mendaki. Aplikasi ini diharapkan dapat memberikan kesenangan bagi anggota Komunitas Pendaki Gunung Bandung yang tidak bisa melakukan aktivitas berpetualang atau mendaki secara langsung. The development of technology is currently increasingly rapid, technology plays a role both as a medium of social interaction, a means of education, and a means of entertainment. By applying technology in everyday life, it is hoped that it can help and make work easier. One form of activity is climbing and adventure, which is an activity that combines sports and recreation which is very popular with young people. The Bandung Mountaineering Community (KPGB) is a community with climbing or adventure activities that act as a medium of communication and information between nature activists. This community is expected to be a communication line for establishing friendships to form a strong sense of kinship between fellow climbers, especially in the city of Bandung. Busy and busy working hours cause the members to find it difficult to arrange a schedule for climbing activities. The number of obstacles and levels of difficulty in the climbing field, makes many people feel afraid to climb. The climbers who had accidents and disappeared, and even died, added to the fear of those who wanted to climb. From the existing problems, it is necessary to have an idea of how to solve the problem when there are many activities from all members who cannot climb. So this game application with the theme of climbing adventure, was formed to meet the satisfaction of members of the Bandung Mountaineering Community, with Cocos 2d-x programming based on the Android game engine using a smartphone that produces climbing adventure games with 2D (two-dimensional) characters. This application is designed with simple features, therefore users can play this adventure game comfortably. There is also a feature that will connect users directly to the KPGB website, in which there is information about climbing equipment. This application is expected to provide pleasure for members of the Bandung Mountaineering Community who cannot carry out adventure or climbing activities directly.

What is a Visual Novel?

Visual Novel (VN) is a widely recognizable genre of narrative-focused games that has grown in popularity over the past decade. Surprisingly, despite being so widely recognizable, there is not a singular definition to help guide the design and analysis of such games---with academic definitions and implementations ranging from "interactive textbooks" to "adventure games with multi-ending stories". In this paper, we present a unified definition of VNs drawn from an analysis of 30 prior academic definitions. We also examined 54 existing VNs to further refine our definition and employ a deeper analysis of the interactivity within VNs. We highlight key features of VNs that arise in our definition, and discuss resulting implications for the design of VNs. This work is relevant for narrative game designers and researchers, affording a more unified structure and clearer guidelines to identify, analyze, and design future VN games.

PENGARUH SCRABBLE VERSUS PETUALANGAN MAHARAJA DAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA ANAK DISLEKSIA

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan scrabble versus petualangan maharaja pada motivasi membaca siswa disleksia, mengetahui perbedaan motivasi tinggi dan rendah pada kemampuan membaca siswa disleksia, dan mengetahui interaksi antara permainan dan motivasi pada kemampuan membacasiswa disleksia. Metode Penelitian menggunakan eksperimen. Sampel penelitian ini sebanyak 8 siswa. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling.Teknik analisis data menggunakan Anava dua jalur dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar α = 0,05. Hasil penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa ada perbedaan scrabble versus permainan petualangan maharaja pada motivasi membaca siswa disleksia, ada perbedaan motivasi tinggi danrendah pada kemampuan membaca siswa disleksia, dan ada interaksi antara permainan dan motivasi pada kemampuan membacasiswa disleksiaAbstractThis study aims to determine the difference between scrabble versus maharaja adventure on the reading motivation of dyslexic students, knowing the difference between high and low motivation on the reading ability of dyslexic students, and knowing the interaction between play and motivation on the reading ability of dyslexic students. Research methods using experiments. The sample of this study were 8 students. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling technique. Data analysis technique used two-way Anava with a significance value of α = 0.05. The results of the study concluded that there were differences in scrabble versus maharaja adventure games on the reading motivation of dyslexic students, there were differences in high and low motivation on the reading ability of dyslexic students, and there was an interaction between games and motivation on the reading ability of dyslexic students.

Adherence to Kinect Adventure Games in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease – An Experimental Study from Mysore, India

BACKGROUND Individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience reduced balance ability and are prone to fall. As the disease advances with age, the traditional forms of physiotherapy are prone to fail in long-term exercise intervention as patients lose interest in performing the exercises. The use of virtual reality game technology consists of tasks in virtual environments that combine physical and cognitive demands in a fun and motivating manner which leads to adherence in a long-term exercise intervention. The objectives of the study were to know the adherence of Kinect adventure games in individuals with PD by attendance percentage of prescribed sessions and analyse the impact of balance after the games in them. METHODS An experimental study with pre-post design in which 11 individuals were selected, with a mean age of 67.8 years. Home-based balance exercises were given three days a week up to 6 weeks (18 sessions). Kinect adventure games were implemented for another six weeks. Adherence was measured by attendance percentage in terms of the frequency of sessions completed. The secondary outcome measure was to assess balance. Participants were evaluated before intervention and post-intervention using BESTest. Descriptive statistics were used to compare the BESTest scores of pre and post-intervention. RESULTS The adherence percentage of Kinect adventure game therapy was 38 %. The adherence percentage of home-based balance exercises was only 9 %. The best scores improved in home-based balance exercise compared to Kinect adventure game therapy. CONCLUSIONS The participants with Parkinson’s disease did not adhere to Kinect adventure game therapy. For the attended sessions the balance improved for home-based balance exercise compared to Kinect game therapy. KEY WORDS Exercise Barrier, Adherence, Balance Training, Virtual Reality, Video Games

Penerapan Algoritma A-Star Dalam Mencari Jalur Tercepat dan Pergerakan NonPlayer Character Pada Game Petualangan Labirin Tech-Edu

Games are a means of entertainment that are in electronic media such as smartphones that are made as attractive as possible so that players get inner satisfaction. The development of the game industry is growing quite fast from mobile to desktop. There are many categories of games such as action, strategy, sports, shooter, adventure and simulation. Adventure games are one category of games where players are trained to think in order to complete the game. There are many things that need to be considered, such as visuals on maps or interactions with NPCs (NonPlayer Character), by utilizing technology now learning can be delivered through a game. The characteristics of entertaining games and interesting visual activities will make learning more attractive. Making games will of course use algorithms as features or systems in game making. The a-star algorithm is one that is widely used in making maze games. The a-star algorithm can be applied to the help of the fastest path or movement of the NPC. The purpose of the research is to make a maze educational game using the a-star algorithm as the fastest path search and NPC movement. The test results on games on seven devices got the results that they were successfully run, in CPU usage on mobile devices a minimum of 7% and a maximum of 57%. CPU usage on desktop devices is a minimum of 2% and a maximum of 33%.

The Animation of Gamers and the Gamers as Animators in Sierra On-Line’s Adventure Games

Produced throughout the 1980s using the company’s Adventure Game Interpreter engine, the digital adventure games created by American software publisher Sierra On-Line played an important and largely overlooked role in the development of animation as an integral part of the digital gaming experience. While the little historical and theoretical discussion of the company’s games of the era focuses on their genre, it ignores these games’ contribution to the relationship between the animated avatars and the gamers that control them – a relationship that, as argued in this article, in essence turns gamers into animators. If we consider Chris Pallant’s (2019) argument in ‘Video games and animation’ that animation is essential to the sense of immersion within a digital game, then the great freedom provided to the gamers in animating their avatars within Sierra On-Line’s adventure games paved the way to the same sense of immersion in digital. And, if we refer to Gonzalo Frasca’s (1999) divide of digital games to narrative-led or free-play (ludus versus paidea) in ‘Ludology meets narratology: Similitude and differences between (video) games and narrative’, then the company’s adventure games served as an important early example of balance between the two elements through the gamers’ ability to animate their avatars. Furthermore, Sierra On-Line’s adventure games have tapped into the traditional tension between the animator and the character it animated, as observed by Scott Bukatman in ‘The poetics of Slumberland: Animated spirits and the animated spirit (2012), when he challenged the traditional divide between animators, the characters they animate and the audience. All these contributions, as this articles aims to demonstrate, continue to influence the role of animation in digital games to this very day.