A Framework for Development of Serious Game for Learning Musical Instrument

Serious Game (SG) has been used in many area of education and training. It has been used to help teacher or educator to teach students so that they can increase their ability to understand the subject using a realistic simulations of real-life situations. On the other hand, music has become a big element in the world of entertainment. Thus, this paper propose a new framework for the software developer to create new Serious Game for learning musical instrument. This paper discusses the notion of a SG schema and how pre-existing SG for musical practice can be used to provide design guidelines by developing a framework. Thus, SG developer for musical instrument game can easily map the learning aspects, describe software design, and describe ways to control them with new interfaces for musical expression. The framework is developed from analysis of several previous researches and associated to the game design process component of musical instrument. The framework has been implemented using three case studies of musical instrument (saron, kendhang, and angklung). Each components of the framework are mapped to the new case studies which produce three software game applications. Each application has been evaluated by 20 users. The result shows that the framework has been able to effectively and efficiently help game developer to create musical instrument game.