Does the Education Games with adding some Entertainment Game Elements will attract the children?

Abstract

This research is a continuation of previous research to find out why early childhood children are not too interested to playing educational games than entertainment games, even though both are games, why the children more prefer to play entertainment games? Even though, if the children love to play educational games, there are many benefits they will get, such as new knowledge, productivity and many other benefits. This research aims to determine the level of user acceptance of educational games that build with adding some common elements of entertainment games. This research methodology begins with questions and answers, surveys and interviews to parents who have early childhood aged 5 to 8 years, with the aim of obtaining information, what are entertainment games are favored by children, then, in this research step, the research will continue with the analysis, design and creating education game that applies elements of entertainment games, such as character elements, animation, praise sound and also an attractive colorful user interface to determine the level of user acceptance of the education game application that was built with the addition of entertainment game elements. After creating an education game application with the addition of game entertainment elements, and after testing user acceptance, it was found that the education game with the addition of several entertainment game elements has not been able to attract early childhood to continue playing education games, this is shown from the average result of the questionnaire is only 57.6%, which indicates that there is a need for a significant increase from the education games that have been made.