Game Analytics

Hello to all,

I don't see this much relevant for classic P&C games. This genre is very slow and mostly follows simple game mechanics (pointing and clicking) and mostly has narrative driven gameplay. I dont believe that there are places for Ingame purchases or how much a player start up your game here. 

It's true for P&C games we don't need advanced analytics, agree on that.

You can write a simple log file. Log all actions that the players made with timestamps:

2017/04/20 15:30:42 = Player enters room "Diner"
2017/04/20 15:30:45 = Player walks to x = 400, y = 345
2017/04/20 15:30:48 = Player walks to hotspot "service staff"
2017/04/20 15:31:10 = Player talks to hotspot "service staff"
2017/04/20 15:32:10 = Player choose dialogue line 3200
...

the you can write a program, that parses such log files and so on....

Thanks Lebostein, yes this could be a great first step. You know if this would be possible currently with VS?

Thanks Lebostein, yes this could be a great first step. You know if this would be possible currently with VS?

Well, there is Lua Socket & libcurl support, so yes... in theory you could use one of those features to store data somewhere online, maybe via a text file or a mySQL database or something.

Thanks Lebostein, yes this could be a great first step. You know if this would be possible currently with VS?