MOBILE TONG-ITS: A CARD GAME PLAYED BY TOUCH
An Information Technology Project
Presented to the Faculty of the Institute of Computing
University of Southeastern Philippines
Obrero, Davao City
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Bergonia, Franny V.
Elid, Katrina Cecilia A.
Festejo, Teodoro III D.
Gallardo, Phoebe Angelie H.
Gloria, Micheal Reggie M.
Tamara Cher R. Mercado, Ph.D.
Adviser
March 2012
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Card games are popular among people since the ancient times. Cards are the primary
device in playing these games; moreover, it involves techniques and strategies that make
people addicted on playing this over and over. In the Philippines, Tong-Its is a traditional card
game that is very popular among Filipinos. It can be played anywhere and anytime as long as
the deck of card is present.
Mobile Tong-Its is a Filipino card game which is brought to android mobile phones fir
entertainment. Since Filipinos are hooked in playing tong-its, the team decided to integrate an
application that will be synthesizing both the traditional and modern technology to play the
card game. This project contains the phases, requirements and tools that are essential during
the development of Mobile Tong-Its. The project uses SCRUM Methodology in the development
of the project.
The Mobile Tong-Its is a multiplayer game application for Android phones that was
developed using AndEngine as the gaming engine. An access point is used to allow all devices to
connect with each other and play the game. Different devices were used upon testing the
application but Mobile Tong-Its only worked on a particular version of Android which is Android
v2.2.1. The game was developed for a maximum of three players but it was only tested and
played by two players. Mobile Tong-Its is a two to three players card game that is played by
touch.