Game techniques within Captivate

Hi,

I'm interested in gamification as well, with a keen distinction between game-based learning and principles of game theory.
Primarily, the concept of "leveling up", so that as a user succeeds on various challenges - their progress is tracked and milestones can be achieved.

It does not need to be tracked by an LMS (although I'm sure it would be a bonus if it could be) but simply tracked within the course itself as the user progresses.

There have been a few questions lately on integration of javascript-based content (including UNITY/UNREAL )

 Integrating directly into captivate is certainly an attractive solution.  Folks seem to also be happy with the "web-object" approach, where the interaction is developed externally from Captivate and incorporated as an IFRAME on the page.   there are good ways to communicate between the embedded IFRAME and the captivate course through javascript, and the development process is actually faster if you keep the two as separate developments.

Thanks very much!

JavaScript (and it's libraries) is the way to go if you want to get creative with games and Captivate.  It allows you to move beyond the limiting dropdown-window programming  of advanced actions. It makes Captivate work like Flash, just clunkier.  You can reuse code, put the functions in an external file and call them when needed.  The JS interface is challenging to learn without a course on it.   Jim Leichliter (CaptivateDev) once offered an online course on Cp8 and JS using the Captivate JS interface.  If you can get access to that rare course, that will help.  The JS interface is also somewhat confining because you are restricted to the documented JS commands, but it is documented by the Captivate team.  It would add value if someone picked up where Jim left off (hint to IconLogic).

There is also the undocumented interface, which offers the creativity you may need.  David Crawford at TLC Media Designs knows the undocumented interface better than anyone I know.  https://www.tlcmediadesign.com/

There is also a course on Lynda.com that combines games and Captivate, a good introduction but is limited.

Note that JS for Captivate only runs in HTML5 .

I agree with Lilybiri's conclusion about Flash.  Sad.

Gamification is not the same as games (took a MOOC about gamification), but you are not the first to confuse both terms.

Yes, you can call JS from Captivate, there is a JS API for Captivate: Learn about the Common JavaScript interface for Adobe Captivate

Gamification is perfectly possible in Captivate, simple games can also be created in CP, using some JS functions. You can create HTML5 games and insert them into Captivate. You can connect to a webobject as well. I don't think it is a good idea to use Flash anymore...