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Gamification with Unity 5.x

Gamification with Unity 5.x

By : Lauren S. Ferro
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Gamification with Unity 5.x

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
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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
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2. Who or What Am I? Understanding the Player
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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