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Create a user interface system for pop-ups and menus Develop a game framework that supports multiple scene files for multiple missions Design a system to handle objective and mission tracking in the game Implement an inventory system for the player to collect objects Create interactive objects to populate the game world Program Non-Player Characters to interact with the player Use a 3D camera, character and control systems for your game Design eLearning game missions to teach, test and reinforce learning

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SizzlingPopcorn May 09, 2014

Horachek's "Creating E-Learning Games with Unity" is a great book for all game developers using Unity. Although he doesn't go through the basic overview of Unity, which can be found in several other books such as Mike Geig's "Unity Game Development in 24 Hours", he does use language that novice and advance users can understand.3 Things I Like About This Book:1) Horachek not only explains the scripts and classes in a step-by-step fashion, but also explains the logic behind them.2) More than one level is created in this book project. Most of the other books on Unity only go through one basic level.3) The knowledge and scripts learned from this book can be applied to any project, whether it be for e-learning or not. In the book you'll go through how to build an inventory system and also a mission system.

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Jennifer Doring Apr 25, 2014

What David Horachek has done here is much more than a book it is a universal framework,the Swiss Army Knife of e-learning architecture, a masterpiece.Comes with the perfect unity package available on the publisher's website for free.This package is THE framework every one needs to implement any E-Learning application and more in a breeze.Perfect for beginners who are afraid of C# programming.You start at page 1 with a zero level of programming, you end up at the end of the book super easy with C# and ready to do whatever you feel like doing.A Masterpiece.

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eduardo guendelman May 16, 2014

An easy to read book that is aimed to people with no previous knowledge (beginners) as well as to developers with years experience.Ed.

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Marie Broyles May 14, 2014

Creating E-Learning Games with Unity by David Horachek is a great book for beginning game programmers interested in developing interactive eLearning serious games. I reviewed this book from two different perspectives – from a game developer’s perspective and the other from an instructional designer’s perspective.Each chapter included screen grabs with specific instructions and coding that allows the user to create their own 3D eLearning game incorporating gamification, systems design and gameplay. You do not need to know C# but, it is helpful to have a logic structure base understanding. David walks you through building Geography Quest. The game’s primary goal is to teach learners about the US 50 states. As the learner collects state flags, they learn state name and state trivia. Creating E-Learning Games was easy reading and included specific game build instructions. The developed game does teach facts and presents a great structure to teach game mechanics. As an instructional designer, I envision how the game structure can be adapted to other instructional subjects as well as adding additional levels by creating new interactive objects and flushing out the condition-and-response classes.I also read the book from an instructional designer’s perspective since anything identified as eLearning will capture instructional designers’ attention. Some instructional designers’ will have little training in game development or C# but, they will review this book because it focuses on eLearning. I thought the first chapter would present a more in-depth eLearning discussion. He does not discuss that in many eLearning projects that an instructional designer is involved throughout game design and development.An instructional designer wanting to build this game should have some basic Unity functionality and some C# logic understanding. The first chapter (Chapter 1, Introduction to E-Learning and the Three Cs of 3D Games), you begin building Geography Quest. Each game development task includes examples and detailed step-by-step instructions. Each following chapter presents development tasks showing examples with detailed instructions culminating in Chapter 10, An Extensible Game Framework Pattern in Unity, where you integrate your game levels into the game framework and package your game to run on a PC. In addition, in Chapter 3, Mission One – Find the Facts, David does a great discussing game difficulty & player skill. It is critical that the learner/player be challenged enough that they want to continue playing but, not so difficult that they want to quit the game.Game developers and programmers will have no trouble following David’s detailed instructions. However, instructional designers new to Unity should become familiar with Unity before attempting to build Geography Quest. Instructional designers with some experience with Unity should have no problem working through David’s instructions.Final ThoughtsAs much as I liked the game structure, I found myself thinking how Geography Quest framework could be repurposed with different content and educational uses. But, the book did not really reinforce this concept throughout the book. The book divided its focus between teaching someone how to build one 3D game and creating C# scripting.Creating E-Learning Games with Unity didn't spend enough time re-enforcing (game modifications) this point throughout the book, part was about teaching someone new to Unity 3D how to use the tools and the other part on the subject at hand. It might have been better to focus on what makes great educational games and have the reader need a certainly level of knowledge about Unity 3D before reading. However, the title states games and other games are not covered.With all that said, I would highly recommend this book to game and instructional designers interested in developing eLearning games.Pros• Great job on explaining educational content in a game development book• Instructions easy to follow with game build continuing in each chapter• Contains a chapter focusing on the Unity3D GUI system (Chapter 5, User Interfaces in Unity)• Covers closing the loop and reinforces what you have learned• Presented a solid game architecture that can be applied to other educational gamesCons• Directed at two distinct audiences, (designers and game programmers *does not mention instructional designer) would have been better to target experienced Unity3D developers to give them new skills.• Does not really discuss what makes a great educational game.• Some game tasks require additional coding that the author does include but, does not always explain the why that is being done – doing this would help experienced Unity developers.[...]

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L. R. May 18, 2014

This book is a hands-on guide mainly focused on the e-learning gamification domain. It covers all the stages of game development but considering it as part of a learning process. Through the chapters of this book is described all the building stages of a e-learning game from scratch.In the first chapter it introduces the e-learning basics and the three Cs of 3D Games: Camera, Character and Controls. Therefore this chapter explores the scene creation, character system and how to represent them, camera and controls creation.The second chapter focuses on the creation of the mission manager, it describes how it is implemented from scratch and how to use it within the game development.The third chapter defines the first level considering a mission where the user must collect a set of flags belonging to the North American states. The level aims to make the learning process easy and funny. Therefore the entire implementation is described.The fourth chapter explains how to improve the scene view of the game, introduces finite state machine and show how to implement a game manager considering the use of more than one level and other useful features.The fifth chapter introduces more about the user interface interaction, creating the menu game and popups. It shows how to implement the UI for the game at each step and explores the related Unity UI classes.The sixth chapter shows how to implement non-player characters, their behavior and interaction with the human gamer and also how to adapt it to the entire game.The seventh chapter focuses on the creation of the second level. It shows how to implement the structure, framework and inclusion to the mission manager. The second level is a race where the player competes with other two NPC and is evaluated about the first level learning about the flags and North America states.The eighth chapter shows how to include the animation at the game using Unity, moreover shows how to get free 3D resources and how to customize them to create and animate 3D characters to being employed within the book’s e-learning game.The ninth chapter focuses on the learning theory and on the creation of the final stage of the game, it describes how to create the score and evaluation system.The last chapter integrates all the previous work in order to get the final version of the e-learning game framework that could be adapted to learn different topics through the game.This book provides a very practical guide to create a framework that enables to learn, validate and improve the knowledge of the player by playing. The book gamificates the e-learning process making it easy and funny to the player. I really liked the clear way that the author employes to explain how a learning process could be applied in a game level and then validate the acquired knowledge using a second level following the psychology of flown to solidify the acquired knowledge.

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