Brush Rush: A Mobile Game Application for Promoting Oral Health Awareness

"Game-based learning has a really constructive way that can enhance the students learning process and improve retention through playing. With the increasing number of mobile device users, it makes a good opportunity to use technology as an innovative learning tool. The use of game-based applications is a helpful strategy in order to gain the interest of the users in learning. Game allows learners to expose themselves with selected topics by repeatedly using it. The proponents developed a mobile game-based application for promoting oral health awareness. The game was developed using Unity 3D with the aid of Android SDK to make it compatible to android devices. In designing the game interfaces proponents used the appropriate tool for designing which is the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS6. After successful development, the application underwent testing and evaluation. It was tested in various devices to seek compatibility considerations. Based from the testing, the game was found out to be more suitable in android versions of kitkat and lollipop and above with a dual or quad core processor. On the other hand, the respondents rated the game as an acceptable application for this research study showed that Brush Rush was successfully developed and attained its main objective to be a tool for promoting oral health awareness."