Tonni Limbong, Efendi Napitupulu, S. Sriadhi
Game is a medium that can be used in the learning process to stimulate students in teaching and learning activities in the classroom. The development of technology is always a lot of innovation and progress very quickly. Playing is the activity most liked by children, besides playing, children need to get a learning process that is usually done at school. One of the innovations is the development of games that have been adapted to the needs of learning in the classroom called game based learning or educational games. Toba Batak Script is a subject which is a subject that is directed to encourage, guide, develop and foster abilities and foster a positive attitude towards the Toba Batak language, both receptive and productive. Receptive ability is the ability to understand other people's speech and understand reading. Productive ability is the ability to use the language of communication tools both orally and in writing, so the use of learning media is needed to attract students' interest in studying the subject. In this study, an educational game was used which consisted of writing, reading, listening which was built using the Action Script 2.0 programming language from Macromedia Flash CS6. The research steps are potential and problems, data collection, design validation, product design, design revisions, product trials, product revisions, final products. Based on the results of the research, game based learning applications are declared valid and suitable for use in learningx © 2023 Author(s).
Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Katolik Santo Thomas, Medan, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan, Indonesia