Telemetry

The gathering is done on the players device. Each event that one wish to sample is stored in a buffer. The buffered data is then is sent to the telemetry when possible to minimize the impact of the gameplay experience.

Spatial Tags

Most metrics for a game can be associated with navigational data. That is a location, line or a area. For example a chat message with encoded position can be used to look for where the players ask questions to other players. To make this data useful a spatial visualization tool is also needed.

Sample

Each data message is called a sample and the sample type decide what the message contains. Below follows an example of messages that can be used.

• • Played: The player played the game. Start time and the amount of time played.

  • Crash: If the game did not shut down correctly.

  • Progress: How far the player is along in the game.

  • Fail: The player failed in the game and needed to restart from last checkpoint.

  • Hardware: Collect info on the users hardware.

  • Options: The options the player choose to use when playing.