Gamification: the process of using game thinking and mechanics to engage users to participate in non-game activities in your website, service, or community. Understanding how and why gamification works, the areas it is most effective, and what the limits are will help you determine the best approach. These topics will be discussed throughout this blog [...]

We previously published a brief tutorial showing how to set up a Spring RabbitMQ Template. Now, let’s take a step back for a broader view of what RabbitMQ is and how you might use it. This article introduces the relevant concepts, hopefully helps you to navigate around one or two common “gotchas,” and provides links [...]

Welcome back for Part 2! We covered the following topics in Part 1 of this Unity 3D tutorial: Introduction to Unity Introduction to KeyShot Using multiple cameras to implement a background logo JavaScript and C# Implementations (including how to use nested generics in JavaScript and how to call C# scripts from JavaScript) How to use 3D models [...]

Unity is a development environment for creating professional-level games. It is built on top of MonoDevelop, and utilizes it to achieve the deployment of the same code to many platforms. Unity comes in two versions, but this post will focus on the free version with no add-ons. The free version (which is the one I use) [...]