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Gamification with Unity 5.x

By : Lauren S. Ferro

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Gamification with Unity 5.x

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By: Lauren S. Ferro

Overview of this book

Are you looking at implementing gamification techniques for your business and wondering where to get a complete rundown of all the tricks and techniques? Well, you have come to the right place! This book will start right from the basics such as gameplay elements and their functionalities before gradually moving onto creating your first gamification project from scratch. You’ll be given the tools and shown how to perform various techniques for creating gamified applications in different contexts. Finally, you will implement various game elements into Unity, publish your own task management application, and get to know the best practices and approaches when designing gamified experiences.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. The Anatomy of Games

1. The Anatomy of Games

Not just pixels and programming

Playing to learn

Gamify all things with gamification

What is game design?

Competency and complacency; where do we draw the line?

Summary

2. Who or What Am I? Understanding the Player

2. Who or What Am I? Understanding the Player

The players - who are they and where do they come from?

Who is our application targeting?

The user

Deciding on what you want your users to achieve

Creating a user profile system in Unity

Summary

3. An Engaged Player is a Happy Player

3. An Engaged Player is a Happy Player

Keeping 'em engaged

How am I doing?

Someone call a doctor!

On point!

You've come this far, keep going

Showing off how awesome you are

Taking in the view with dashboards

There is no I in team

Summary

4. Organized Chaos - Getting Ideas Out of Your Head and on to Paper

4. Organized Chaos - Getting Ideas Out of Your Head and on to Paper

Brainstorming - getting it all out on the table

Tools and methods for getting ideas out and organizing thoughts

Brainstorming activities

Implementing a brainstorming tool in Unity to shuffle ideas

Summary

5. Sculpting the Conceptual Beast

5. Sculpting the Conceptual Beast

Creating a Game Design Document

Creating a prototype - what you'll need

Methods of prototyping

Tools for prototyping in Unity

Getting basic core concepts into Unity

Revisiting the prototype

Summary

6. Breathing Life into Your First Creation - Creating and Importing Assets for Your Application

6. Breathing Life into Your First Creation - Creating and Importing Assets for Your Application

Designing the application

Creating the game elements

An introduction to Illustrator

Importing and setting our assets in Unity

Summary

7. Get Your Motor Running

7. Get Your Motor Running

Designing our application

Getting started

Creating the application interface

Defining tasks

Dealing with tasks

Summary

8. Break, Destroy, and Rebuild - the Art of Playtesting and Iteration

8. Break, Destroy, and Rebuild - the Art of Playtesting and Iteration

Playtesting

Methods of playtesting - game time!

After the game

Iteration

Data persistence in our application

Connecting our application to a database

Summary

9. Graduating Your Project to Completion

9. Graduating Your Project to Completion

Finishing the application

Optimizing the project for a mobile platform

Getting it ready to publish

Where do I begin?

Towards new horizons

Summary

10. Being the Best That You Can Be!

10. Being the Best That You Can Be!

Getting your game on without overdoing it

New and future directions

Improving your skills once you have finished this book

Summary

The players - who are they and where do they come from?

Imagine that the next person that you will pass on the street is your future client. It is your job to create a gaming experience that will captivate them; to keep them engaged and curious for long enough to explore the world that you have spent a tireless number of hours perfecting. What do you know about them and what do you need to know about them in order to create such a game? A few questions that immediately strike a game designer are:

Are they someone who responds well to challenges, or do they run from them?
Do they like games with a good story, or do they prefer action?
Or is it that they like a combination of the two?

Before we commence with the game designing process, we need to find out more about these things. We do this in order to provide an optimal game environment for not just this person, but for other people like them. For many years, attempts have been made to categorize gamers into what is known as player types. Player...

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