BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

As we all know, at this present period of time, almost all of the people are living in the world of technology that is evolving rapidly. There lots of technology that were being invented to make one’s life more comfortable to live with. Because of the wide spread use of technology, people of this present time became more reliant in using it. Example of which is the way of studying. Before, the students need to read their books page by page just to completely understand their lessons. But now there are already some other way to make studying a lot more easy and effective.

Computer games have been well-known for most of the people especially for the students at this moment. Several students spend most of their time playing games in their computer or other gadgets. Because of this instance, students sometimes forgot to study their lessons. Students find computer games more interesting than reading books and listening to their teacher’s lessons. Indeed, computer games are very entertaining and can easily get people’s attention that is why many are being fascinated on it. But, what if these computer games were educational? It will surely be useful and helpful to the students because they will not only enjoy the game at the same time they will also learn something from it. Thus, lots of educational video games were being invented because most of the students find it more interesting and enjoyable than reading pages of their books.

Hence, the proponents are proposing an educational PC game to sustain the needs of some students. The game is all about the life and works of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. As a student, the proponents also experienced some hardships in studying the life and works of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. They are countless information’s that are needed to be considered and remembered like names, places, events and etc. for you to fully understand the story. That is why sometimes losing of interest in reading the book and listening to the teacher’s lecture cannot be avoided.

RA 1425 (Rizal Law)

The links below talks about the implementation of RA 1425 (Rizal Law). RA 1425 is an act that aims to include the Life, Works and Writings of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal in the curriculum of both private and public schools and other education institutions here in the Philippines.


http://mscaghampanlipunan.multiply.com/journal/item/10?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem
http://sepiroth.hubpages.com/hub/Ra_1425
http://www.joserizal.ph/lw02.html


Most of us only know Dr. Jose Rizal by his name and title (national hero of the Philippines). But behind being a national hero of our country what else do we know about him? Here are some of the responses of the people.

http://www.filipinasoul.com/2006/03/jose-rizal-seen-in-a-different-light/

After reading the article, we noticed that the responses of the people are only based to what they know or what they heard about Dr. Jose Rizal. Most of their comments indicate that they obviously don’t know the whole story about him. Based on our experiences as a student, before we took up the subject “Life and Works of Jose Rizal”, like any other ordinary people we thought that our knowledge about him can define who he really was. But the truth is, all our knowledge are just common and even not half of the entire story about him. As we go along in our study, there are difficulties that we’ve encountered. For us student we find it hard to memorize all of the information that is written in the book because there are a lot of important places, names and events to be considered. Even though how many times we read the book and listen to our teacher still we cannot recall all the details. In some instances, we cannot avoid to lose our focus on our teacher and even get bored in listening. It also very tiring to read pages in the book over and over again just to fully understand what is the true meaning of the story. Thru the help of the proponents proposed game, learning will be more enjoyable not only for students but also to those people who are interested to know more about the life and works of our national hero. 

Environment

The environment of our proposed application is that, at first there will be a brief introduction about the life of Jose Rizal and how did he fought against the invaders of his country. Then, there will be a map, as it will serve as a guide to the player throughout the game. In the map, we will highlight the places where rizal visited not only in the Philippines but also abroad. Each places (we also called as levels), there are 3 questions that need to be answered by the player correctly to proceed to another level. Before and after the player will start another level, their will be a journal book that will appear. In the first instance, the book will show a trivia of place that was visited by Jose Rizal and after the level it will show again showing another trivia in which the highlight is the experiences of hero in that certain place. This journal book will also serves as a guide or a reference to the player of the journey of Rizal which the player also traveled trough the game in short all the trivia of a certain place that the player answered correctly in every level will be put in to the journal book. Once the player got the wrong answer, his life will be deducted/decreased. Regarding to the "life" of the player, the map of the philippines will serve as his life. If he gets the wrong answer, the philippines will be slowly invaded by other countries. And once the whole map of the philippines will be invaded, the game is over.But there a twist in this application, because it will not focus only in one game but it is a compilation of games. Every level has a different game. It could be a simple question, finding in the given picture the answer of a question, a crossword puzzle and etc.

We will use english as the language of our proposed game so that all people not just Filipino will understand the game and also the story of rizal. We are doing this not just to entertain people especially children but also to educate them, to help them know more about rizal by playing this game.

What are the existing technologies that are similar to your idea?

The existing technologies or applications that are similar in our ideas are applications that are found in 
facebook such as Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga.


http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=sino-ka-ba-jose-rizal
http://kidsgodigital.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/jose-rizal-online-word-search-game/

What are the tools that you will be needing to build this idea? (devices, software, programming language, etc.)

The tools that we are planning to use are the ff:

-computer or laptop

-language: action or java script, html5

-software: macromedia flash, Photoshop

Concept

The proponent's proposed thesis is an offline PC game. The game is all about the places which were traveled by Dr. Jose P. Rizal. The game will be played through series of levels. Every level there will be a question that should be answered correctly so that the user will proceed to the next round. Each question is based on the events that happened to the life of Dr. Rizal in a certain place. The user has only five (5) lives throughout the game.

This game entitles not only to entertain people most especially the young ones and the students but also to educate them about our national hero especially that some student nowadays doesn't know who is Jose Rizal and as we all know reading textbooks nowadays is very tiresome, most of us wants to learn in the easiest way. Thus, with the help of this game, the player will be able to know Dr. Jose P. Rizal well at the same time the player will be entertained while learning.