Diagnosa Model Player Experience pada Konteks Dasar User Experience Game "Belajar Huruf Angka Balita"

Abstract

Abstrak

Generasi muda seperti anak-anak merupakan salah satu pengguna game yang mesti diperhatikan terkait dengan proses tumbuh kembang karakter anak. Seiring dengan kemunculan game digital, game edukasi merupakan salah satu Genre game dan media interaktif yang mampu memberikan metode pembelajaran yang berbeda dari yang konvensional. Game Belajar Huruf Angka Balita merupakan salah satu game digital berbasis edukasi  yang bisa ditemui dan diunduh di PlayStore secara gratis dimana sampai tahun 2017 telah diunduh sebanyak seratus ribu unduhan dalam konteks game lokal. Salah satu yang diunggulkan dalam konten game ini yakni fitur yang sederhana sehingga mudah dipahami oleh pengguna game terutama anak-anak. Penelitian ini menawarkan kajian menggunakan model Player experience dalam konteks dasar User Experience dengan didukung menggunakan metode kuantitatif-kualitatif serta pengamatan. Luaran yang dihasilkan pada penelitian ini berupa hasil kajian melalui model Player experience dalam konteks pengalaman pengguna game Belajar Huruf Angka Balita yang bermanfaat sebagai rujukan pengembangan game edukasi serupa.

Kata Kunci: balita, game, media edukasi, player experience, user experience

Abstract

Young generation like children is one of the game users who must be considered related to the process of developing the character of the child. Along with the emergence of digital games, educational games is one Genre of games and interactive media that is able to provide different learning methods than the conventional. Game learning the Figures of Toddlers is one of the educational digital games that can be found and downloaded on the Play Store for free where until 2017 has been downloaded as many as one hundred thousand downloads in the context of local games. One of the main features in this game is a simple feature that is easily understood by game users, especially children. This study offers a study using the Player experience model in the basic context of User Experience with the support of using quantitative-qualitative methods as well as direct observation and interviews of children. The results produced in this study are the results of the study through the Player experience model in the context of the game user experience Learning Letter Figures Toddlers are useful as a reference for the development of similar educational games.

Keywords: toddler, game, media education, player experience, user experience