GS2-AdReward

Ad Reward Feature

It has become common practice to have players view ads and earn rewards from ad platforms as a monetization method for mobile games. When an ad is viewed correctly, the ad platform notifies GS2 via server-to-server coordination and rewards GS2, thereby preventing cheating.

Ad Viewing Point

In general, GS2 exchanges resources by setting compensation and rewards, but since the specifications for server-to-server communication differ among advertising platforms and the granularity of data also differs, GS2-Reward adds one “ad viewer point” when an advertisement is viewed. GS2-Reward adds one “Ad Viewing Point” when an ad is viewed.

The “Ad Viewing Point” earned can be consumed as a spend action that can be used in GS2-Exchange, GS2-Showcase, and other services.

graph TD InGame["Game"] -- view Ad --> ViewAd["Ad"] ViewAd -- Ad has been viewed --> AdPlatform2["Ad Platform"] ViewAd -- Ad has been viewed --> InGame2["Game"] AdPlatform2 -- Notification that ad has been viewed --> AdReward["GS2-AdReward"] AdReward --> AddPoint["Give Points"] AdReward -- Notify that points have been awarded --> InGame2 InGame2 -- Exchange viewing points for items --> Exchange["GS2-Exchange"]

Supported Advertising Platforms

GS2-AdReward currently supports the following advertising platforms. Please contact support if you would like to add additional support.

AdMob(Google Mobile Ads)
Unity Ads

AdMob Settings

You need to enable “Server Side Verification” in the “Ad Unit” settings and set the URL issued by GS2. Please refer to the following for the setting procedure.

https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9603226

Set the ad unit ID to be rewarded in the namespace settings.

Example of Callback URL

https://ad-reward.{region}.gen2.gs2io.com/callback/{ownerId}/{namespaceName}/admob

Unity Ads Settings

Specify the Game ID issued by Unity Ads and the URL issued by GS2 to have the private key issued. See below for the setup procedure.

https://docs.unity.com/ads/en-us/manual/ImplementingS2SRedeemCallbacks

Set the private key in the namespace configuration.

Example of callback URL

https://ad-reward.{region}.gen2.gs2io.com/callback/{ownerId}/{namespaceName}/unityad

Implementation Example

Start watching videos

You can directly use the SDK of each advertising platform to watch videos. The implementation example here shows an implementation example using the utility classes provided by GS2-SDK.

    await AdMobUtil.InitializeAsync(
        new RequestConfiguration() {
            TestDeviceIds = new List<string> {
                "4cd8a25ecc6250e3c140e365e5a543ff", // Test Device ID
            },
        }
    );
    await AdMobUtil.ViewFuture(
        "ca-app-pub-8090851552121537/9708453802", // Ad Unit ID
        GameSession // Login Session
    );

Unity Ads

Game Engine:
Unity

    await UnityAdUtil.InitializeAsync(
        "5416096" // Unity Ads's Game ID
    );
    await UnityAdUtil.ViewAsync(
        "test", // Placement ID
        GameSession // Login Session
    );

Get current points

    var domain = gs2.AdReward.Namespace(
        namespaceName: "namespace-0001"
    ).Me(
        gameSession: GameSession
    ).Point(
    );
    var item = await domain.ModelAsync();

    const auto Domain = Gs2->AdReward->Namespace(
        "namespace-0001" // namespaceName
    )->Me(
        AccessToken
    )->Point(
    );
    const auto Future = Domain.Model();
    Future->StartSynchronousTask();
    if (Future->GetTask().IsError())
    {
        return false;
    }

Viewing point accrual callback

    gs2.AdReward.OnChangePointNotification += notification =>
    {
        var namespaceName = notification.NamespaceName;
    };

    Gs2->AdReward->OnChangePointNotification().AddLambda([](const auto Notification)
    {
        const auto NamespaceName = Notification->NamespaceNameValue;
    });

Detailed references

API Reference