CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDY

This chapter contains the review of related literature and related studies that

contains relevant and useful information related in conducting and conceptualizing this

study.

Related Local Studies

According to “gamedesigning.org” (2018), there is another way to learn how to

write game plots, and it involves playing all kinds of games–yes, even the ones you

wouldn’t normally play. Play through games and really pay attention to what’s happening

with the story. There’s a lot of power in unpacking what others before you have done. It

is, whether you know it or not, how most creative work comes to fruition. We don’t say

that to devalue the work you’ve produced so far and the work you’ll go on to produce –

not at all. We’re using it as a way to persuade you of one more tool in your belt: inspiration

from others.

According to “gamedesigning.org” (2018), it was Mark Twain who said “There is

no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put

them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and

curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but

they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

According to the authors Conder and Darcey (2014), the Android SDK is a robust

and full-featured set of APIs that Java developers will find familiar and easy to use.

OpenGL ES support enables developers to write graphics-intensive applications, while

Android's built-in basic graphics and animation libraries enable simpler games to look

awesome without a lot of work.

According to Promatics Technology (2018), in mobile app development, APIs

make it possible to exchange data with web services like Google Maps, Facebook or

other web services and take advantages of their popularity and offerings. For example,

many game apps allow you to post your score or achievements on your Facebook page,

which is a good example of intelligent use of APIs (Facebook APIs to be particular). When

you’re part of a mobile app development company, it is hard not to bump into some

references of APIs and SDK at different stages of the development process. For those

who don’t know, APIs are the foundational elements of mobile app development and are

essential so as to get massive volumes of enterprise data into the usable framework of

mobile apps. API refers to a way of accessing information from the system. The

integration of APIs takes into account several factors like the protocol of the platform or

the destination system and connectors that support the API. In the API integration space,

there is no such thing as pre-packaged and the integration between two systems is

performed between multiple access points. Though both systems are integrated in some

way, they are not coupled together. The API integration application which is responsible

for point to point integration for the exchange of data, lives outsides both systems.

According to Emil (2019), user interface design is responsible for the transference

of a brand’s strengths and visual assets to a product’s interface as to best enhance the

user’s experience. User interface design is a process of visually guiding the user through

a product’s interface via interactive elements and across all sizes/platforms. User
interface design is a digital field, which includes responsibility for cooperation and work

with developers or code.

According to “iconcept.com.ph” (2018), developing, testing, and launching

a mobile app in the Philippines is hard and tedious, but getting the functionalities right

and executing the proper working user interface isn’t actually the end of the job.

Creating a mobile app is also a creative process and content is important in helping

your app stand out. Among these content, your app icon might be the most “iconic”

aspect of them all.

According to “kidscompany.com.ph” (2018) UNO Stacko is the ultimate stacking

block game with an UNO twist. Players try to remove blocks of the same color or number

without knocking over the tower. Command tiles (Wild, Reverse, Draw 2 and Skip) add

an element of strategy that's fun for the whole family. UNO Stacko combines the skill of

stacking with the fun of UNO. It's great family entertainment with commands on the tiles

and pull out blocks by color, number or command.

According to maicesboardgame (2018), Uno Stacko is a fun adaption of the

original uno rules. The Uno Stacko rules differ quite a bit as it is an entirely different type

of game. Uno Stacko includes plastic blocks colored red, blue, yellow, and green. The

blocks are numbered one to four, (but another version has more blocks labeled “reverse”,

“skip”, and “draw two”.). In another version there are purple blocks that act like wild cards.

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According to Vishrantwadi (2018), in imagining a fascinating story believe it or not,

creating Android games with a good and original story line is not easy. In fact, we could

say, “it’s all been done before” probably without failing to say the truth. There are

hundreds of android games that deal with war, fantasy, racing, and many other concepts.

When we are speaking about setting up a good story in mobile game development, we

are referring to its story line? or to the game’s dynamics in the absence of such story line?

Creating a captivating story will always better when it comes to retaining users.

According to “redbytes.in” (2019), in design concepts and limitations without a

proper, thoughtful design, an android game does not really exist. A successful game

design demands a lot of mature expertise about target devices including its interactive

capability and support features. It is a challenge for designers and programmers alike to

incorporate current trends and practices while crafting a spot-on structure of android

games along with common device-independent features.

According to TOPS Infosolutions (2018), APIs serves as bridge for apps to interact

with each other. By integrating popular APIs in your app, you can enhance the user

experience and increase the popularity of your app. For developers, APIs help build apps

faster by eliminating the need to code repetitively. Mobile app development companies

foresee the important role that APIs will play in creating a successful app and thus the

importance of APIs in mobile app development will grow day by day.

According to Mcconville (2017), we already rely on APIs so much without us

knowing. Whether you use an app to view current traffic or to check the weather, these

apps frequently rely on APIs to pull this data. With all this codependence, it opens up
realms of opportunities for applications to become integrated. It also allows developers

and technology to advance much faster, as the web and applications share data with one

another.

According to Gudivada (2014), any mobile application on any platform such as ios

or android depend mainly on two characteristics - idea and design. An idea is a very

crucial aspect of making a successful app. Many popular mobile applications tackle

mainly problems faced by the current consumer market. Whereas design and user

interactivity governs the other half so these are two main aspects to look into.

According to Ribeiro (2014), while the many potential benefits that exist in

technology, they will be rendered ineffective as older adults are not able to interact with

such game. It is known that older adults often experience difficulties in interacting with

technology, namely smartphones, and that designers should place special care in how

User Interfaces (UIs) are designed, so that they are accessible, usable and inclusive.

According to Robertjoan (2018) there are some parameters in evaluating a mobile

app. You need to have a client reviews. Getting an opinion from former clients is a great

way of understanding the work style and quality offered by a developer. This can help

learn about any delays or data security threats that may have arisen in the past and can

help gain confidence in the developer.

According to Lee (2017), while this game looked like a UNO version of Jenga, you

wish it is as innocent as that. The block you draw must follow the number or the colour of

the previous player, and there is a draw two block. Once you pull that, the next player will

have to draw two blocks. But those are still UNO features. What makes UNO Stacko
stands out is its physical structure. Jenga blocks are made of wood. UNO Stacko blocks

are made of plastics and empty in the centre.

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Related Local Literature

According to Viswanathan (2016) - portable applications or versatile applications

will be applications created for little handheld gadgets, for example, cellular telephones,

cell phones, PDAs and so on. Portable applications can come preloaded on the handheld

gadget and in addition can be downloaded by clients from application stores or the

Internet. The researchers developed project is a mobile game.

According to the authors Autriz, Casitas, Enriquez, Nocon (2016), the handiness

of cell phones has expanded incredibly as of lately permitting clients to perform more

assignments in a portable setting. This expansion in handiness has come to the detriment

of the ease of use of these gadgets in a few connections. The researchers developed

project is a mobile application.

According to Sloane (2016), the application programming interface (API) has been

a key part of software development for decades as a way to develop for a specific

platform, such as Microsoft Windows. More recently, newer platform providers, from

Salesforce to Facebook and Google, have offered APIs that help the developer and have,

in effect, created a developer dependency on these platforms.

According to Margaret (2014), operating systems and middleware tools expose

their features through collections of APIs usually called "toolkits," and two different sets

of tools that support the same API specifications are interchangeable to programmers,
which is the basis for compatibility and interoperability claims. Microsoft's .NET API

specifications are the basis for an open source Linux equivalent middleware package now

supported by Microsoft, for example. The internet is currently the primary driver for APIs,

and companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo publish APIs to encourage developers

to build on their capabilities. These APIs have given us everything from new internet

features that browse the sites of other services, to mobile device apps that offer easy

access to web resources. New features, such as content delivery, augmented reality and

novel applications of wearable technology, are created in large part though these APIs.

According to Gene (2015), UI are the tangible interfaces that users can see and

feel. The field intersects quite a bit with user experience (UX) design since a designer

must understand the larger experiential context for every interface detail. Shortly, UI

design creates the medium through which users interact for the experience. Our goal as

a UI designer is to make the user’s interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms

of accomplishing user goals.

According to Gagolingan (2015), a lot of people think that UI design is about

shapes, colors, pixel perfect accuracy and all that technical stuff but it goes beyond it. UI

designers have to always consider different disciplines like user behavior, psychology,

business, marketing, statistics, engineering, communication, and all that before coming

up with a purposeful UI design. As long as there are consumers facing products being

developed, UI/UX will remain the future.

According to Mortensen (2018), UNO Stacko is basically UNO meets Jenga. There

are two different versions of UNO Stacko. The older versions of the game have players

remove blocks and place them on the top of the stack based on what is rolled on a special
die. The later versions remove the die and have players take a block that either matches

the color or number of the previous block that was taken. The later versions also include

special action blocks which work the same way as their corresponding cards from normal

UNO. The player that knocks over the tower loses the game.

According to Mei (2018), UNO Stacko is one of the many variations of Uno card

games. This game is a stack-block game tower that combines Uno and Jenga gameplay.

There are two versions of the game: the previous version requires the use of a die, while

the newer version eliminates the die, making the gameplay closer to Jenga. Uno Stacko

is played in a style similar to Jenga. There are 51 Uno Stacko blocks in each set, usually

made of plastic and are red, yellow, green, blue and purple. Previous versions of the

game have blocks numbered 1 to 4, while newer versions add blocks containing the Draw

Two, Reverse, and Skip symbols. The newer version also includes the Purple Wild block,

which serves the same purpose as Wild and Wild Draw Four cards. However, unlike the

Jenga blocks, they look like a lips beam, making the tower more unstable as the game

progresses. Previous versions of Uno Stacko include a die, called Uno Cube, for example

as follows: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, "Reserve", "Skip", and "Draw Two".

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According to Eden (2019), some developers believe that well-written narrative in

mobile games can give an extra kick by making them more engaging, and eventually

boosting some extra profit.

 According to Hulick (2014), in that sense it is tremendously helpful to think of

onboarding not in terms of activating features, but in terms of how your product makes its

users successful. Put another way, you earn their engagement by making them better

people, not simply by making a better product. For that reason, your onboarding

experience shouldn’t be defined by the touchpoints you create, but instead by the

improvement you provide. It’s not about getting people from Point A to Point B in your

app; it’s about getting them from Point A to Point B in their lives: better video marketers,

better daters, better relaxers. That is the recipe for loyal, ongoing engagement.

According to “developer.android.com” (2019), every new Android version

introduces changes that bring significant security and performance improvements – and

enhance the user experience of Android overall. Some of these changes only apply to

apps that explicitly declare support through their target SDK version manifest attribute

(also known as the target API level). Configuring your app to target a recent API level

ensures that users can benefit from these improvements, while still allowing it to run on

older Android versions. Targeting a recent API level also allows your app to take

advantage of the platform's latest features to delight your users.

According to Harris (2018), without APIs in our tool belt, most software couldn’t

exist. It’s not just access to the data we need, but it’s also the mechanics of many other

APIs that we depend on to make software go. For maps, there is the Google Maps API.

Amazon has an API that lets you tap into their inventory of products.

According to Reimann (2017), qualitative research can also help the progress of

design projects: It gives the design team credibility and authority, because design

decisions can be traced to research results. It gives the team a common understanding
of domain issues and user concerns. It also helps us identify patterns of behavior among

a product’s users and potential users much more quickly and easily than would be

possible with quantitative approaches. It empowers management to make more informed

decisions about product design issues that would otherwise be based on guesswork or

personal preference.

According to Cooper (2017), research is the systematic investigation into and study

of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. In

designing an interactive user interface for game application, research is vital for the

proponent to determine which satisfies the enjoyment of the users. Rather than

quantitative, best to apply in research will be qualitative method. Qualitative research

helps us understand a product’s domain, context, and constraints in different, more useful

ways than quantitative research does.

According to the authors Alhuhud and Altamimi (2016), due to the large exposure

to mobile games because of the availability of the cell phone with individuals, a vital role

of game assessment is raised in order to help in developing healthy games. A great

attention should be paid to the important issue which would raise the importance of

serious games assessment.

According to “lelong.com” (2018), later versions of the game eliminate the Uno

Cube. As a result, when a player pulls a block and places it on the top of the tower, the

color and number or symbol of that block determines what color or number or symbol of

the block the next player should pull out. While the "Reverse" and "Draw Two" blocks

serve the same purpose as the their respective counterpart faces in the Uno Cube, the

Skip blocks pass the play to the player next to the next player. When a Purple Wild block
is pulled by a player, that player names the color of the block the next player should pull

out. As in Jenga, the game ends when the tower collapses and the person whose last

move did not cause the collapse wins.

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