TARUMAS

TARU = POHON, literally translating into English as "TREE"

MAS = MAWAS (Orangutan)

TARUMAS : MOBILE GAME DESIGN - 2012

Mobile game is a game that can be played or being specialized only for mobile phone. Right now Smartphone is such a popular phenomenon in Indonesian citizen. The most Smartphone user is the adult community, they also became the most active Smartphone user.

The orientation of this mobile game design application is one of the most current issue about environment these day, particularly about Indonesian endangered species.

The mobile game application itself generally aimed to improving the efficiency of time and became one of entertainment media, while this mobile game application design aimed to the user so that they have the interest in playing a mobile game application that also had being inserted with some informative and persuasive exposure that intend to introduce and build awareness to the Indonesian endangered species that have already threatened with extinction.

ORANGUTAN FACTS

Orangutans are born with an ability to reason and think. This large, gentle red ape is one of humankind’s closest relatives, sharing 97% of the same DNA. Indigenous peoples of Indonesia call this ape “orang hutan” literally translating into English as “person of the forest.” In times past they would not kill them because they felt the orangutan was simply a person hiding in the trees, trying to avoid having to go to work or become a slave.

Orangutans are unique in the ape world. There are four kinds of great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. Only the orangutan comes from Asia; the others all come from Africa. There are two separate species of orangutan – the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)