Stefan, hi
do you have a link for unity tools-in terms of your question and what you want to know-be helpful for me
Dawn
Not sure how something as sophisticated like a 3d gamemaker would work out in Moodle, except as a special one years foundation course. It has got a longer learning curve than learning Moodle.
http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new
A simular software, but as free and open source, an extremely popular open source software is Blender. If you are a fan of 3d game making and movie making, this will save you a lot of money.
For most 3d games , you need a character. Here is a beginner tutorial. There is also a PDF intructions at blender.org.
Those links show a fine example of why education should be using open source in education, including libre office for Microsoft office, Impress for powerpoint, Gimp for photoshop and of course Blender against those highly expensive 3d softwares. It just doesn,t make sense any more.
State secondary schools certainly can't afford such waste of money.
I don't think it will be a big deal for most students to change from Microsoft Office to Libreoffice. And Libreoffice is compatible with office when importing and exporting documents to and from microsoft users. Impress makes a brilliant Powerpoint alternative, and libre draw is not only good at drawing, but makes an excellent PDF editor. A good vector drawing FOSS software is Inkscape https://inkscape.org/en/
Yes, to use blender to it full potential has a long learning curve and will take some time, but so are all the other expensive 3d commercials such as 3ds Max, Maya, and Unity. The great thing about Blender is that you simply download it, and they don't even ask for your email address. Within two minutes you will have it installed whatever system you use, Windows, Linux or Mac. http://www.blender.org/
Art loving students can have fun using Blender 3d from day one, thanks to the massive tutorial and forum support that Blender has. My son has loved using Blender since he was four and still does at the age of eight, and likes to make his favourite game characters. Of course, if he wants to be a movie or game maker in the future, he'd better go to college for further specialist studies.
For a WYSWYG web designer from your desktop there is Kompozer, so no need to pay for Dreamweaver. http://www.kompozer.net/
"badges" and "level up" plugins, might be of interest to you.
never messed with it but keep seeing poodle and ways they have integrated different things into moodle.
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suggest start copy/pasting from a module (activity / resource) ((www.yoursite.com/moodle/mod)) and building off from that. and slowly adding / creating different types of plugins moodle uses. from grade/quizzes, to other. pending on how tightly you want integrate things into moodle.
groups / grouping, at categories for courses then at course level, and then at enrollment level, and then per activity / resource might be something worth while for creating "clans" there is also "cohorts" that is mixed into it.
pending on how integrated game is. you might look at a new "course format" and then turning on "meta courses" within "site admin menu" and then creating some additional blocks and/or using blocks already that come with moodle. for chat or like.
the completion and availability API's turn them on in "site admin menu" can bring in some basic stuff. but not to overly complex data sets. for setting up quests and like in larger detail. it might be good enough for simple basic game and handling stats. and levels. if going this route... you are looking at more of either "hosted" on your servers, or publishing course into moodle.net so all your completion and availability settings get passed on.
