Game Analytics Platform: Empowering Data-Driven Game Development While Cutting Technical Overhead

Solutions Architecture

Challenge

A video game company needed to collect player session data from their live games to inform data-driven decisions for game updates, revenue optimization, and player retention. They required a system where data analysts could independently define data formats and perform transformations.

Our Approach

We built a user-friendly data platform on AWS with two key components, an admin API allowing analysts to define and manage data models, and an ingestion API for games to submit player data. The solution featured SQL-based data transformations, with results accessible through dashboards for stakeholders, while maintaining SQL access for advanced analysis.

Results

The platform launched successfully in September 2023, delivering low total cost of ownership, high security and scalability, expanded adoption to the company’s flagship game, analyst self-sufficiency, reducing engineering support needs, accelerated feature development.

Future Plans

We’re enhancing the platform with improved data model migration capabilities, near real-time PII detection (currently daily), and multi-region deployment for increased availability and performance.

Team Expertise

Five specialists with expertise in AWS architecture, big data processing, analytics, and data visualization.