Developing a successful game in today’s market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players’ time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding player behavior and enhancing the quality of the player experience. It has led to a paradigm shift in the development and design strategies of digital games, bringing data-driven intelligence practices into the fray for informing decision making at operational, tactical and strategic levels......Read more
GAME USER RESEARCH
This book is focused on providing the foundational, accessible, go-to resource for people interested in user experience (UX) and user research (UR) in games. It is a community-driven effort—it has been written by passionate professionals and researchers in the GUR community as a handbook and guide for everyone interested in user experience, user research, and games.......Read more
Game Data Science
Game data science, defined as the practice of deriving insights from game data, has created a revolution in the global game industry—informing and enhancing production, design, and development processes. Almost all game companies collect data from games and have adopted some type of game data science, —yet, there has been no definitive resource for professionals, academics and students in this crucial and rapidly developing aspect of games until now.......Read more