{"id":1202,"date":"2012-10-10T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:27:07","slug":"dynamite-jack-the-settings-stats-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/dynamite-jack-the-settings-stats-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite Jack: The Settings stats post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, a few months ago I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymoore.ca\/2012\/02\/measuring-the-value-of-music\/\">a post by Andy Moore about the value of music in games<\/a> where he did some stats recording on games to discover how often audio was muted, etc.  I decided to do something similar for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/dynamitejack\/\">Dynamite Jack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following are the results I got from the paid iOS version:<\/p>\n<p>95% of players don&#8217;t change ANY settings.<br \/>\n2% of players quieted or silenced the audio.<br \/>\n2% of players change the controls to Virtual Stick only.<br \/>\n0.5% of players change the controls to Line Drawing only.<br \/>\n2% of players change the Touch Button Location \/ Virtual Joystick options.<br \/>\n1% of players change the HUD options.<\/p>\n<p>1.7% of the users completed the campaign, which means they probably played the game for over 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Of the users who completed the campaign:<\/p>\n<p>34% of users changed options.<br \/>\n19% of users quieted or silenced the audio.<br \/>\n17% of users changed the controls to Virtual Stick only.<br \/>\n5% of users changed the controls to Line Drawing only.<br \/>\n10% of users changed the HUD options.<br \/>\n12% of users changed the Touch Button Location \/ Virtual Joystick options.<\/p>\n<p>The piracy rate could be as high as 74%.  Here are factors that make that number questionable:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Each purchase can represent several devices<br \/>\n&#8211; Each purchase can represent several GameCenter accounts<br \/>\n&#8211; Each purchase can represent multiple IP addresses<\/p>\n<p>Concluding interesting facts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Long term players are over 10x more likely to change options.<br \/>\n&#8211; I used royalty free music from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\">shockwave-sound.com<\/a> and only had 2% of users turn off the audio.<br \/>\n&#8211; I spent probably over 20 hours scouring through the tracks on that site to find the exact ones I wanted for my game.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\n-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, a few months ago I read a post by Andy Moore about the value of music in games where he did some stats recording on games to discover how often audio was muted, etc. I decided to do something similar for Dynamite Jack. The following are the results I got from the paid iOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamitejack","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}