Questions tagged [analytics]
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What type of dashboard should I create to understand how my game is performing?
This is a two part question. Let's say I release a new Flash game to the web. Once players start playing I want to understand how it is performing:
What common performance criteria do people track? (...
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How do I calculate player retention (and other industry accepted stats) for a single-player RTS game?
Suppose there is a typical desktop RTS game without online multiplayer on a Windows platform, like the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. It still connects to a server to log basic anonymous info ...
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Legal restrictions if using Google Analytics on PC game?
I'm thinking of using Google Analytics to collect various user information (including hardware information) in my PC desktop game I'm making with Unity.I figured I can do this by setting up a new ...
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Is there a difference between analytics and telemetry?
We are developing a mobile game (using Unity3D). We report various game analytics events to our backend systems so they can be aggregated and analyzed later on.
I've recently watched this session ...
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Analytics in an Offline Game
I'm attempting to program an offline puzzle game in C++. I'm trying to figure out the best way (particularly during the alpha) to report back to me
Whether people finish the level
Where people died
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How to get a good picture of the health of a level-based game from analytics?
I am designing a level-based game where the user completes the level 1, then 2, 3 and so on. There are 200 levels and each is rather short: 60-ish seconds.
I am tracking
Each played, completed (...
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How should one design an analytics system for an online multiplayer game?
For my simple MMO, the MySQL database stores things like user experience, user level, user coins, health points, etc.
We wanna have an analytics system that can show me trends through daily averages,...
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Analytics for PC games: is there anything similar to localytics, flurry, etc?
I would like to know if there exists any service such as Localytics or Flurry but for PC? These ones are mobile focused. It would be really great if they had support for PC too.
In the case there's ...
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How to draw a charts by flash cs5
Hey all , I want to make something more interesting in my game some thing like a charts Analysis for a flash game. When THE PLAYER FINISH THE GAME . The score appears in charts . I want to integrate ...
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Create ROI tools for analysis
I want to create some ROI tools on my game for personal analysis.
Let's say that I have 3 different level of special powers with a recursive cost and certain bonus. So, I want to see when certain ...
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Ways to improve player retention
I've recently released my first free to play game on Android and I've spent a few £ on advertising to try and get players involved and see what happens.
Below are my retention stats courtesy of ...
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How to use open dota api?
OpenDota, A community driven platform for DotA 2 matches and players data is the best open-access API in gaming scene. I found no casual tutorial for using its API, So, I decided to make a one. Your ...
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What should I use for the event name when logging metrics with Flurry?
I'm working on a multiplayer game and I want to use Flurry to record game events.
In the game you can build, grow and train troops. In Flurry you can log an event (optionally with parameters).
It ...
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Tracking how many people play my Unity game in which language?
In my game the user can change the language of the game and I'd like to know how many people play it in English, German, etc.
I'm using Unity, so possibly I would like to implement in Unity Analytics.
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Unity Analytics: I see custom events in funnels, but not in the Event Manager?
I've just started using Unity Analytics, and I send two custom events: level1Started and level2Started.
After 1,5 days, the first results came in:
The funnels are working, so my custom events do ...
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How do I tag a specific build for sorting/filtering in Unity Performance Reporting?
I am working in a Unity project where there are multiple versions of the app being build from the same code base. The app being built is determined by a Script Define. I want to be able to sort ...
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Reliability of Google Analytics data
I have developed an iOS game and currently the game is in beta phase. I have integrated Google Analytics (GA) to understand the users' behavior. I am distributing the game to my beta testers using ...
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Google Analytics collect and visualize custom data [closed]
I was wondering if Google Analytics (GA) can be used to collect custom metadata about app usage and performance.
An example would be to measure and collect the average frame rate (fps) of the app on ...
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What does UA mean?
When reading different articles about gamedev here and here I see the abbreaviation UA. What does UA mean?
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How can I analyze which level on which of three difficulty settings causes players to quit my game?
I have a puzzle game with N stages where each stage has 3 difficulty levels. Users have to finish current unlocked stage to access next stage, but they can access any difficulty level for unlocked ...
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Analyzing movement data for a checkerboard
For a psychology experiment - subject has to learn that the 2D grid is a checkerboard, and collect all the 1s (rewards). How do I test if subjects are actually doing it in the most optimal way -- ...
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Where did the Unity Market Insights button go in Unity Dashboard?
I'm currently trying to find the Market Insights button in the Unity Dashboard. I'm following this youtube video by Code Monkey called "Make your Game Better with Unity Analytics!" where he ...
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Unity Firebase Analytics is not working
I have been working on a new project in Unity 2021.2.12, where we need to implement Google Analytics. I have done as follows:
Imported Firebase Analytics package
Added the services.json file to the ...
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I want to show total time spent by all players around the world in my game
I am developing a Unity3D game. I want to show in my game:
Total time spent playing all time by all players around the world
Total time spent playing in last 24 hours by all players around the world
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multiplayer tic-tac toe checking if other player is in game or not
I am developing a multiplayer tic tac toe game. The issue I'm facing at the moment is knowing whether the other player is in the game or not. Each player is running their own session, and should a ...
