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How Splitting Point caught 80% more bugs with real-time data

Game Analytics

You have to rely on the data,” Janzen added. Expanding the reach of their data. Now that Splitting Point had the data they needed, they were able to fix bugs and game design issues with every new update. Then, they could start to explore how else their data could help. “In Building out difficulty using data.

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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

Deconstructor of Fun

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). compared to $827M in 2019.

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On the topic of bits, I have heard that certain game uses different bit counts for maintaining different data of the game. How often decide which bit count (16/32/64 bits) goes to each data counter, and why don’t 64 bit games just use 64 bits for everything?

Ask a Game Dev

Imagine that I’m working on a game that has committed to four playable races - dark elf, hot elf, keebler elf, and santa elf. However, locking myself in to two bits for the player character race means that I’m also committing to never adding a fifth supported race (e.g.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

Key Components of Multiplayer Games in Unity Networking: Manages data transmission between clients and servers. Optimizing bandwidth usage through data compression and server load balancing is crucial for large-scale multiplayer experiences. Synchronization: Ensures that game states remain consistent across all clients. What worked?

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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

a remarkable +100% QoQ; read a full case study on Supercent’s games); Car Race 3D: Car Racing (+22% QoQ); Race Master 3D – Car Racing (+4% QoQ); Going Balls (+0.1% QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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How to Build Better Live Events with the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker

Game Refinery

If you’re unfamiliar with the GameRefinery Motivational Driver Framework , it’s a data framework that breaks down mobile game players into 12 motivations across six categories: social, mastery, management, expression, exploration, and escapism. It can open up new ways to interpret and integrate live event data.

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Forza Horizon 5 Stuck on Syncing Data: How to Fix It

Game Errors

Many players complain about the known Forza Horizon 5 stuck on syncing data issue. Why is Forza stuck on syncing data? How to fix Forza Horizon 5 stuck on syncing data? If the previously listed fixes don’t result in you get past stuck on syncing data, proceed with the following solutions.

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