Gameplay analytics type stuff??

[knexer]

It would be awesome to see:

• how many people are playing
• which upgrades people get first
• when people stop playing, or if they finish the game
• win/loss rates for each board size
• the relationship between all those things - e.g. do people finish the game more often if they unlock medium boards before autoclicker?

But there's a definite pandora's box here - data collection ethics, infrastructure (I would need an endpoint for it to hit with metrics I assume?), adding dependencies, etc. Probably not worth doing yet.

[knexer]

Looks like google analytics with custom events might just be fine. Otherwise https://plausible.io/ is not free, but is probably cheap enough, and is lighter and less ethically gross

[knexer]

Alternative here - just set up a dynamodb or similar, keyed by a player id (generated when their save data is created). Each record could have a sequential list of events, a last updated time, that kind of thing.

[knexer]

Okay, definitely want some version of this before posting the game somewhere, if only to get a sense of player count and stuff.

Leaning towards plausible.io currently