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No, this is not a web browser for Unity. This is a means of directly connecting your Unity project with the WordPress database via the WordPress API. This means that you use Unity to create your game as normal but you use WordPress as a means of identifying you for logins, store your high scores and save game content etc directly to your WordPress database.  

This essentially means that all your games become cloud games since you can start playing on your web browser at work, continue playing on your phone while on the bus and then at home you can continue on your PC. Your progress, achievements, high scores, unlocks, everything is automatically synced since everything saves to one location and everything fetches it back from there again.

You can see an example of it in action here: http://guild.site/bad-dreams 

It's a free-to-play game that showcases how this asset logs you in via WordPress, displays your actual Gravatar avatar, stores your score and a leader board, has a shop where you can unlock stuff and then save your unlocks / upgrades / stock / currency online. Also, the kit includes virtual currency and obviously that is showcased also. Kill zombies, get cash, spend the cash to upgrade your weapons, get more cash for killing more zombies more easily, upgrade some more :D

I struggled to figure out how to showcase the serials and anti-piracy stuff since using it means you simply cannot play the game if you didn't pay for it... and yet I wanted to make this game free to play. So I used the third mode of the serials kit instead. Instead of forcing you to pay in advance or after a few levels I leave the game free to play but I give you in-game advantages IF you actually went ahead and bought a serial via the WooCommerce integration I added to the kit. Yes, you CAN buy virtual currency for the game via my WooCommerce store, sure, but that's optional. Just wanted to showcase that.

Then there are the achievements you can unlock and the candy crush style "you have 5 lives. If you die it will take 30 minutes before you get another life. Come back later" timers on display as well. All of this running on a WordPress back end with a Unity front end. 

This, of course, means an entire array of options that can be set via the WordPress dashboard. Each individual part of this kit has it's own configuration tab under the WUSS main menu and allows you to do all manner of things. 

For one, it lets you see exactly what data any player has stored on your server and allows you to edit or remove it. Remember: install once and then you can run as many games as you want off of this single website. Now imagine you have 3 games and 100 players each and all their progress and unlocks etc is saved to your site. Via the dashboard you can view and edit that info per user as and when required.

On the flip side of the coin you can also save game data for other users to use in game. Examples may include chaning how many hitpoint an enemy boss requires to be defeated or how many coins you get when you unlock chest 3 or what character is unlocked when you reach spot x or where spot x is, even. Stuff like that can be edited after launching the game and all changes are live instantly and don't require the game to be downloaded again for your updates to take affect.

Another nice little feature is being able to kick or ban a user from being able to log in to the game. Just click on ban to ban and unban to unban. One click. Alternatively, set the days, hours and minutes to kick the person off the game for and their status is automatically restored when the timer runs out. 

Generate serials for physical copies sold in stores, one click. Generate serials to use with WooCommerce sales or to hand out manually, one click. Assign a serial to a user/ friend/ whoever, one click. Revoke the serial (you guessed it) one click. View all available serials per game / view all allocated serials per game / view all the games a specific user has a serial for... check, check and check.

And then of course there is the WordPress shortcodes that generate game posters, banner links to product descriptions, shows the currently logged in person's status (banned or good standing) for the game, the leaderboards (also available as a widget).  Check out the available shortcodes here: http://mybadstudios.com/wordpress-systems/wuss-portal/

Not shown there is the shortcode to display your WebGL game inside your WordPress pages / posts. To show Bad Dreams, for instance, all it takes is this [wuss_webgl name=BadDreams height=500] and that is that.

Truly, as I said a few paragraphs back, WordPress for the back end and Unity for the front end. :) The stuff listed on the product page is the features available right now but there is a heck of a lot more coming including a friends system, PM, something similar to a FB wall, an online auction house to allow users to sell/auction off rare in-game items between each other... just to mention a few.

This is what this kit is all about :)