Design of mini synchronous game food fest in social game food merchant saga on Android devices

• Published in: 2017 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Intelligent Manufacture, and Industrial Automation (ICAMIMIA) pp. 342 - 345
• Main Authors: Kuswardayan, Imam, Hariadi, Ridho Rahman
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2017
• Subjects: Data Synchronization; Games; Massively Multiplayer Online Game; MySQL; Servers; Smart phones; Social Games; Synchronization; Testing; Unity 2D; Web Service; Web services
• DOI: 10.1109/ICAMIMIA.2017.8387615

Now games are not just games on a device that is played by one or two people at a time, but it is a game that can be played by many people indefinitely. Games that support the interaction of many players are called social games. Food merchant saga is an Indonesian cuisine business theme of social games that can be played in mobile device. Players have a food court that manage some food stands. Food Merchant Saga has mini game called Food Fest. This mini game is an online mode game that lets players interact synchronously. Synchronization process is managed by web service, that players will exchange their information. Every players' data exchange will be known by other players. The mini game is a whole supporting module for the main game Food Merchant Saga. In this research, Game Food Merchant Saga is developed to explore the technology of web service in multiplayer online game. The software test is conducted by black box method which observe the results of functionalities, integrity, and system performance. The synchronization of the application developed can be done smoothly, but with the large number of players will affect respond time from system. All assets in mini game will be accumulated in the main game. Hence the mini game will be a prominent feature in the Food Merchant Saga game.