The Poor Man's Gameplay Analytics

Created on 2024-01-24T05:17:52-06:00

OODA loop: observe data, orient to the data, make decision, act.
Finding people who can test your game without their feedback trying to seem nice or being tainted by placeholder assets is hard.
Commercial analytics tools are based on sales statistics more than instrumenting individual levels or game mechanics.
Create a replay system and upload replays from players to your servers. Mine the replays for information like what people do leading up to quitting.
Replay systems store the events input to the game for playback in an editor.