Casual game design to introduce jamu

Jamu is an Indonesian traditional herbal medicine that has been practiced for many centuries in Indonesian community to maintain good health and as medication. Modern and conventional medicine is becoming increasingly important in Indonesia, Jamu tends to be ditched and resulting Indonesian in urban area has a few amounts of knowledges of the benefits of Jamu. The aim is to using games as a medium for Indonesian learning process as games could increase interest in focused topic. In this research, we developed a game application and technology to increase user knowledges in the benefits of Jamu herbal medicine. Application is tested and evaluated with a sample of users to increase user knowledge and interest in herbal medicine. The post-test results shows that 70% of users shows increased interest in herbal medicine and 85% show increased knowledge of the benefits of herbal medicine.