Collecting online statistics for a non-online game

Question

I want to collect statistics from an RPG game. This data should be stored in one place, online, so I can analyse it later.

Example of events -

1. Player achieved something
2. Player win the game using this way

So the question is : what is the best way, with minimum effort, to implement this functionality ?

I understand that I will have anyway to implement message sending functionality on the game's side.

I know that this can be implemented using Amazon SQS, but this doesn't seem to be the easiest way.

Idealy - it should be like that : I just send data from game, in form of messages. After that - I can retrieve the data from cloud storage and parse/analyze it.

PS I don't want a server at home

Answer 1

根据您要编写游戏的平台，但我使用了Flurry Analitica，它适用于我的手机游戏，如Flurry Analitics

Answer 2

If you don't want to use an existing service, you can build a simple webapp & receive events by REST urls.

Example:

http://my.statistics.server/achieve?player=123&category=456&level=789
http://my.statistics.server/win?player=123&score=12345

You could also packet the events up & append a keyed hash, if you want to make falsification a bit more difficult.

Example:

http://my.statistics.server/record?packet=<base64 data..., plus HMAC>

See:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authentication_code