Promoting Tourism of Semarang City and Semarang Regency through Game Technology Sisforma vol.2 no.2 November 2015 : 53-59 53 Promoting Tourism of Semarang City and Semarang Regency through Game Technology Lidya Oktorina Kusuma Sakti Department of Information System, Faculty Computer Science, Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, Indonesia, 50234 lidyaoktorina@gmail.com T. Brenda Chandrawati, ST., MT.,IPM. Department of Information System, Faculty Computer Science, Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, Indonesia, 50234 brenda@unika.ac.id Abstract-Semarang is the capital city of Central Java province that has many tourist attractions. In addition to Semarang, there is Ungaran, the capital city of Semarang Regency which covers the areas of Ungaran and Ambarawa that also has various tourist attractions which attract domestic tourists. But the results of data collection through library study and questionnaire show that object of attractions in Semarang City and Semarang Regency are known only by few tourists.. One of the factors that causes tourists’ unfamiliarity with tourism attractions in Semarang City and Semarang Regency is the lack of tourism promotion in the form of media technology. Based on the above facts and considering the opportunities offered by technology which is increasingly recognized by the community, surveyors laid out a game that can be used as one of promotional media of tourism in Semarang City and Semarang Regency. This game will be designed by displaying a map of tours and tourist information in Semarang Cityand Semarang Regency. Keyword: tourism, tourism object, tourism map, promotion, game I. INTRODUCTION Semarang is a city that has the appeal of such a diverse population of different culture, ethnic, and religion. Semarang city is also known as ATLAS city which has various tourist attractions, natural wonders, history, and cultural heritage that deserve to be explored. Semarang city has many tourist locations such as the natural reserve and historical heritage with interesting architecture [1]. Although it is a city that has many attractions, but it turns out the attractions of the city of Semarang and Semarang regency are still not optimal in terms of promotion. The poor promotion causes many tourists to become unaware of places of tourism in the city of Semarang and Semarang district. The lack of this promotion can be proved by a quote from antarajateng.com, August 27, 2015 which mentions that Sovan Haslin Pradana, a member of Commission D in DPRD (House of Representation Semarang gave order to the Government in order to further enhance tourism promotion. The House of Representation in Semarang found out during the assessment that the tourism sector in Semarang is less promoted so, compared to other cities, Semarang tourism sector is losing compared to other cities in Indonesia. DPRD (House of Representation) members asks the government to maximize more the potential tourism promotion social media [2]. A journal article entitles “Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Multimedia Interaktif sebagai Media Promosi Pariwisata Kota Cirebon menggunakan Adobe Flash” mentions that using multimedia as a promotional medium can convey information digitally so easily understood by travelers with an entertaining concept [3]. Based on the data collected, the weakness of the existing media promotion