Category: Game KPIs and performance

In this post I look at 2 different categories of KPIs, and show in what context – and for what purpose – each one of them can be useful.

There is a common assumption that giving players free hard currency is a good way to increase monetization metrics. The idea is that when you

Looking at what players are doing before and after spending – both focusing on the missions played or considering more granular in-game actions – can provide good insights into the situations most conducive to spending. It can also shed a new light on the motivations to spend.

In this post I suggest ways to look at what is driving user spending, as well as ways to measure that in your game.

It’s very likely you are looking at the daily active users in your game. But are you also looking at your daily active customers? This post discusses why looking at customers is important to get a good reading on your game, and appropriately define who you are developing features for.

Users install and play games on a very regular 24-hour/7-day cycle. This post discusses what that means for your game, and how you can leverage that to design features that capitalize and reinforce that natural tendency.