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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)

Gamification design matrix (Table A – 2)


Objective

Target Behavior

Player Type

Motivation

Feedback

Dimension of Fun

Tools

Increasing engagement in discussion with others

Check their discussion thread count

Killer

To see if their discussions thread count is the highest. Who is the player out pacing? Who is ahead of them?

Where they stand relative to other players?

Challenge

Points

Leaderboard

Increasing the level of consideration for different perspectives

Review the Differing Point of View section

Killer

To see if the player can review more than anyone else.

How many reviews have they done to date relative to other players in their cohort?

Discovery

Points

Leaderboard

Increasing engagement in discussion with others

Set a target discussion amount for a particular time period

Killer

To meet this target discussion amount more than any other player.

Statistics of meeting their discussion target compared to how well others are meeting their discussion target.

Challenge

Badge

Increasing the level of consideration for different perspectives

Set a Differing Points of View target to review

Killer

To meet their Differing Points of View, set a larger target than other players.

Statistics of meeting their Differing Points of View target compared to how well others are meeting their target.

Challenge

Points

Badge

Increasing engagement in discussion with others

Watch instructional material on the how to use the discussion area

Killer

To watch and participate in the instructional videos sooner than anyone else.

Statistics of how long it has taken them to participate in the instructional items.

Challenge

Points

Increasing the level of consideration for different perspectives

Watch instructional material on the value of viewing other perspectives

Killer

Statistics of meeting their discussion target compared to how well others are meeting their discussion target.

Statistics of how long it has taken them to participate in the instructional items compared to their cohort.

Challenge

Points

Increasing engagement in discussion with others

Participate in the discussion groups

Killer

To be the most active player in the discussion groups.

Statistics of how many discussions the player has participated in.

Fellowship

Expression

Points

Increasing the level of consideration for different perspectives

Read through other users' discussion posts

Killer

To be the most active player in the discussion groups.

Statistics of how many discussions the player has viewed/read.

Discovery

Points

Increasing engagement in discussion with others

Participate in the discussion groups over time

Killer

To be the most consistent participant in the discussion groups.

Statistics that show how long the player's been participating and the last time the player participated.

Fellowship

Expression

Points

Badges

Leaderboard

Increasing the level of consideration for different perspectives

Read through other users' perspectives over time

Killer

To be the most consistent participant in the discussion groups.

Statistics that show how long the player's been participating and the last time the player participated.

Discovery

Points

Badges

Leaderboard