Doctor Herb: A Mobile Game Application

Dr. Herb: A Mobile Game Application is a game project designed for the game users who have a lack of knowledge and information about the effects of herbal medicine on our body. The system is designed to help the game users to have knowledge and information about the ten (10) herbal medicines in the country, Philippines. During the game, every captured medicine will have its information or a brief description. Each mission has its own goal to finish before heading to the next mission. A challenge of time is included, the obstacle course is around the environment and lastly, a player can get additional health to his character. The Administrator has the capacity to control all the components in the system such as editing the game, adding and removing features and to check the game system application. The researchers used a spiral model as it matches the processes of the game. There are two (2) users in the system: the administrator of the game and the game users. The users needed to use a Bluetooth connection to get the Android Package Kit (APK) and install it to their cellphone devices to play the game. The researchers conducted an evaluation that aims to test the developed game. There were thirty (30) Users, five (5) Medical Practitioners and five (5) IT experts to test the developed game. The result of the evaluation was marked as Excellent and Very Good in terms of functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, and portability