Multimedia Adventure Game Folklore "Doyan Nada" For Improving The Cultural Understanding of Sasak (Lombok) to Children

Many folklore of Sasak in modern age only
regarded as the old myth that outdated because of the lack of a
sense of pride in the local culture as a national culture. The
development of information technology, especially the gaming
industry which is one of the growing gaming industry is
important for brain development, to improve concentration and
train properly and solve problems quickly because in the game
there are various conflicts which requires us to solve it quickly
and precisely. With the existence of these problems then made a
game application where the game contains elements of cultural
knowledge especially of Sasak culture as a medium to improving
the cultural understanding so that children know much more
about of Sasak culture and more motivated to get to know and
love the local culture.
In this research, used models of multimedia game side�scrolling with the added element of adventure which a game that
offers adventure in exploring the various levels are available.
There are 3 levels in this game. The software used is Adobe Flash
CS3 and other support software that is CorelDraw X4,
Photoshop CS3 and Action Script 2.0.
The results of the research is the establishment of a
multimedia adventure game folklore “Doyan Nada” for
improving the cultural understanding of Sasak (Lombok) to
children. There is a significant difference in scores obtained by
children between before and after testing.