Games - Ian-Albert.com. YouTube. The 12 Best Games for the iPad. Ben Chong's Blog - Indie Game Analytics 101. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Call it designer ego, but I think the world owes me something when I release a game. I mean, I spent like 5 months making this thing from scratch and now it's SO pretty and therefore everybody including my hero Jordan Mechner should be playing this. Ignore everything I just said.
Obviously the first version bombed and I went back to drawing cute levels on my napkins. Shiny new term I heard about this new thing they call analytics. I googled for "game analytics" and found this free cross-platform service called Playtomic . Background of my game Private Joe is a 2d platform shooter. Here are some metrics that I'd like to share from my game's 30 levels. Metric #1 - Beginnings and Deaths Blue line: steep player drop rates right after Levels 1 and 6. Metric #2 - Heatmaps Heatmap of Level 6 Summary. Urustar - a coin operated company.