Tracking in-game / gameplay stats in an HTML5/JS Game?

[koobazaur]

Howdy,

 

I want to track some gameplay stuff for my game, like how long gamers are playing, if certain key events were reached, choices made etc. Are there any online services that provide a JS API I could use? Don't want to re-use the wheel.

I know there's Yahoo's Flurry and Google Analytics, but they don't seem like the best fit for tracking gameplay stats. Unity also has stats, but it's for Unity games (currently using Phaser). Put a request to Clay.io but it's invite-only. And looking at Playtomic, but it rcently ended official support so not sure if it's the best solution (reading on the new open source thing you set up on your own server. Trying to set it up Heroku and it's pretty confusing, not understanding how it all works together) I tried searching but not getting much luck outside of these, and would rather not build my own PHP/DB and API again.

 

Thanks for suggestions!

[mattstyles]

I've always used GA or Omniture (Adobe, its horrible), not naturally fitted to games but at the end of the day you're just pinging off small events and you want something to collate and display those events.

[koobazaur]

Thanks guys! Im starting of thinking of using GA for just general visitor info and rolling my own thing for gameplay. Even a simple URL that just dumps an event to a log file I can parse out later would probably do for now. 

[BobF]

I use Google Analytics' custom event tracking for that purpose and have found it to work very well for tracking the type of events you mentioned. It's a nice bonus that my game event stats are integrated with my GA traffic stats, and it's all free. :-)

[koobazaur]

Aye, just hooked up GA. Will see how it works out when I start testing If anyone is interested, send me a PM!