HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM VIDEOGAME DESIGN FOR CHILDREN AGED 4-6 YEARS OLD

• Main Author: Aditya Kurniawan, Hans
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/76120
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The hospital waiting room is a place where patients can wait before entering the examination room. A number of pediatric patients experience fear, boredom, anxiety, and confusion while waiting to enter the hospital examination room. This happens due to several factors that cause these feelings, including an unfamiliar hospital environment, hospital equipment, and also the examination process. Therefore, an interactive game design was made with the aim of increasing the emotional quality of children overcoming feelings of fear, anxiety, and boredom that children have. The process of making this final project starts from examining the problem in terms of topic, media, and the target audience. Then data collection and research were carried out which consisted of literature studies and interviews with expert sources on child psychology and health. Literature studies were conducted to understand the problems that occurred and interviews were conducted to understand how to solve the problems that occurred. After the data and literature review were obtained, it was continued with the production process of designing this videogame. This game is a side scroller shooter game that has 3D visuals. The output of this final project is a low fidelity prototype of the gameplay that the game itself has