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Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

By : Detrick DeBurr
Book Image

Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

By: Detrick DeBurr

Overview of this book

Gamification involves the process of leveraging the features of real games into real life. A gamified website has the potential to increase user engagement, ROI, and learning. This book will help you build gamified websites with PHP and jQuery by making you understand the gamification design process to implement game mechanics in practical applications. Gamified websites are very popular amongst Internet users. The gamification of a web content draws users into action to empower them and help them develop new skills. Games engage user attention into the task and each task accomplished will mean the development and enhancement of new skills. This book will help you to apply the essence of games into real word applications such as business and education. Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery aims at empowering and educating the users with an educational gamified website. The book walks through the process of developing a gamified website. Through the course of the book, you will learn gamification development process. The book emphasizes on the application of game mechanics to motivate the user. You will then use the Fogg behaviour model to influence the user behaviour. By the end of the book, you will see yourself building more engaging yet simple websites based on rational principles.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Fun


After we have done the work of identifying our objectives, defining target behaviors, scoping our players, and laying out the activities of our system, we can finally think about the area of the system where many novice game designers start: the fun. Other gamification practitioners will avoid, or at least disguise, the fun aspect of the gamification design process. It is important that we don't over or under emphasize the fun in the process. For example, chefs prepare an entire meal with spices, but they don't add all spices together. They use the spices in a balanced amount in their cooking to bring flavor to their dishes. Think of fun as an array of spices that we can apply to our activity loops.

Marc Leblanc has categorized fun into eight distinct categories. We will attempt to sprinkle just enough of each, where appropriate, to accomplish the desired amount of fun. Keep in mind that what one player will experience as fun will not be the same for another. One size definitely does...