Gamification with Unity 5.x电子书

Gamification with Unity 5.x

Gamification with Unity 5.x

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. The Anatomy of Games

Not just pixels and programming

Finding your preferred type

Playing to learn

Minecraft

Kerbal Space Program

Sid Meier's Civilization

Stop kidding around, be serious!

America's Army

Foldit

Moonbase Alpha

Keeping it real with simulations

Virtual Heroes

SimCity

From Dust

Gamify all things with gamification

Language learning with DuoLingo

Game elements and mechanics

Becoming a better human with Habitica (HabitRPG)

Game elements and mechanics

Shop till you drop with AliExpress (mobile application)

Game elements and mechanics

What is game design?

Conjuring the elements

Getting elemental

Getting mechanical

Difference between gameplay and game mechanics

Competency and complacency; where do we draw the line?

Examples of feedback and reinforcement

The internal flame for doing...anything

Read this and you'll get candies

A little bit of conditioning to control user behavior

Classical conditioning

Operant conditioning

Avoid spoiling the player

Summary

2. Who or What Am I? Understanding the Player

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

Getting contextual

Who is our application targeting?

The user

The amount of dedication

Defining the role of your player

Deciding on what you want your users to achieve

Getting the player to achieve it

Engaging the player

Getting loopy about engagement

Engagement loops

Progression loops

Creating a user profile system in Unity

Setting up the Unity project

Getting personal with some profile information

Showing off that beautiful smile

Summary

3. An Engaged Player is a Happy Player

Keeping 'em engaged

How am I doing?

Keeping it visual

What's that noise?

Someone call a doctor!

Circular health bar

Lives counter

On point!

You've come this far, keep going

Making progress

Showing off how awesome you are

Badges, badges, badges

Achievement unlocked!

Implementing an achievement system

Example of usage

Taking in the view with dashboards

There is no I in team

Adding an element of fun to agile frameworks

Summary

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

Start pinning with Pinterest

Starting with a fresh slate

Never forget with Evernote

Brainstorming activities

Spinning the wheel of randomness

Getting in and among it

Game on with Gamicards

The great exchange

Getting moody with mood boards

Creating the ideal ideation sessions

Implementing a brainstorming tool in Unity to shuffle ideas

Making a new friend with editor scripts

Creating an editor script

Opening a new editor window

Drawing something inside our editor window

Adding a scrollable text area

Inserting a button and implementing the shuffle function

Showing the extracted idea

Testing our brainstorming tool

Summary

5. Sculpting the Conceptual Beast

Creating a Game Design Document

Google Drive

Word (and Microsoft Office)

InDesign

Creating a prototype - what you'll need

Gathering your humans

Having a plan!

Setting a date

Scoping it out

Keeping it short and to the point

What's your poison?

Getting your jam on!

Failing is an option

Touching base

Methods of prototyping

Paper prototyping

Rapid prototyping

Tools for prototyping in Unity

Placeholder sprites

Composing figures

Arrow

Star

Assets mock-up

Substituting the temporary assets

Using labels

Gizmos

Getting basic core concepts into Unity

Quick navigation

Revisiting the prototype

Testing with the closest people

Testing with external people

How to test

Revisiting your prototype and iterating

Summary

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

Designing the application

Creating the game elements

Adobe Illustrator

Vector graphics

An introduction to Illustrator

Creating badges in Illustrator

Getting all rounded

Using the Shape tool

Using the effect

Showing the best of you with badges

Aiming above the bar

Putting it all together with sprite sheets

Importing and setting our assets in Unity

Importing assets

Import Settings

The Sprite Editor

Testing our settings

Testing the packing tag

Testing the dimensions of the sprites

Summary

7. Get Your Motor Running

Designing our application

Getting started

Creating the application interface

The lateral menu

The interface

Opening and closing the menu

Adding items to the menu

The Home page

The Tasks page

Navigating through the different screens

Defining tasks

Object-oriented

The Task class

Dealing with tasks

A prefab as Task panel

The Task manager

Allowing the user to create new Tasks

Create Task button

Delete task button

Adding the icon

Inserting the title

Inserting the Due date

Selecting the Task priority

Setting up the Tasks page

Summary

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

Playtesting

Methods of playtesting

Going solo

Group testing

Open or controlled

Getting the info - have a plan!

Recruiting the chosen ones!

People you know

People you don't know

The people who you are targeting

Setting up the play-date for playtesting

A little goes a long way

Getting everyone on the same page

Play time!

Methods of playtesting - game time!

Observing how testers are playing

Asking the right questions

During the playtest

After the game

Asking them to explain the game to you

Keeping it balanced with rules

Interacting and the interface

Post-mortem - evaluating the playtest

Reflecting at the end of it all

Iteration

The iteration cycle

When to stop?

Data persistence in our application

PlayerPrefs in Unity

The Set function

The Get function

Erasing an entry

Erasing all the data

Saving local data in a custom file

Using a database

Connecting our application to a database

Why are databases important for playtesting?

Services for databases

Playfab in Unity

Downloading the SDK from the website

Importing and setting the SDK in Unity for databases

Creating a login system for your users

Exchanging data

Summary

9. Graduating Your Project to Completion

Finishing the application

Optimizing the project for a mobile platform

Processing the power

For 2D games

For 3D games

Other considerations

Test, test, and test again

Don't have access to many devices? Not a problem

Getting it ready to publish

Don't be modest, promote your game!

Sharing is caring

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Instagram

Snapchat and Vine

YouTube

Blogs and websites

Documenting the process

Describing updates

MailChimp

Paying attention to statistics

Engaging with your audience

Rewarding engagement

It's a hoot! Managing social networks

Remembering time zones

Tag! You're it

Getting commercial

Terms, conditions, policies, and agreements

The publishing checklist

Now it's time to press the Build button

Where do I begin?

Short-term

Long-term

Towards new horizons

Summary

10. Being the Best That You Can Be!

Getting your game on without overdoing it

Understand what gamification is and what it is not

Kids see through chocolate covered broccoli, and so do adults

Using gamification in moderation

Getting tangential

Be prepared to fail

Test it!

The iterative cycle

Backup...everywhere

Teamwork...play nice

New and future directions

Uses within education

Homework management

Who wants to be a knowledge-aire?

Hide and seek

The ultimate race

Uses within business

Uses within personal life

Improving your skills once you have finished this book

Become a researcher

Make design a daily habit

Redesigning your favorite games as board games

Never. Stop. Learning

Play to win and play to explore

Read game guides

Participate, compete, and get together

Summary