Educational Games as A learning media of Character Education by Using Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC)

摘要

Multimedia has been used in various fields, such as business, education, entertainment, as well as various other public interests. Especially for the field of education, today multimedia has a very important role, namely to enrich and promote the learning process. Character education is a very important key in shaping the child’s personality. In addition to home, character education also needs to be implemented in schools and social environments. to support instill a character education in elementary school environment then made adventurous educational game Dino and Dina. In the educational game has 2 characters that Dino and Dina who do the adventure and through the obstacles will then emerge theories about character education that can facilitate them to understand the 5 main values of the character of religious, nationalist, independent, mutual cooperation, and integrity. In games designed using the MDLC method consisting of six stages, namely concept, design, material collection, manufacture, testing, and distribution. Students tend to lack material understanding with conventional methods so that this game can serve as an effective learning tool and fun for elementary school students to understand the character education.