Playtomic - Free analytics, leader boards, player data, etc

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I posted about playtomic in another thread, and realised it might be worth sharing a bit more blatantly. Also a bit of a shameless ploy to get me some referral links (see below).

Playtomic is an online service offering free analytics, leader boards, level data storage, and other features. They have recently introduced paid services but have made a commitment to keeping everything that was free… free forever. In other words almost all analytics, leaderboards, etc.

There’s a Unity API available and I can verify that it works on mobile as well as web player and standalone.

If you do sign up it would be great if you could use my referral link (I’m not affiliated but everyone who signs up can refer others for the chance to win stuff):

playtomic.com

If you don’t want to use my referral link, you can just go straight to the site:

playtomic.com

cough no idea why that link shows up smaller cough

The service had a little bit of an outage (on and off over a few days) while they upgraded their servers in December, but since then it has been pretty stable. There was another service interruption for around 24 hours during April where requests were processed at a slow rate (all the data sent in was eventually processed, but from the client point of view time outs were received).

Here’s a sample of some level analytics from Phronix:

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Are you using any of the advanced features like

  • leaderboards
  • level_sharing
  • game_vars

And if so would you mind telling us a bit about your experience with them ?

Thanks

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LOL?! what’s with the game type? my game is not casual, social, or mobile! why are those the only options?I just want level sharing…

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I’ve used level sharing in PhRONIX (see sig). It works well in terms of speed/etc. The rating, find newest and find popular searches work well. The API is a little limited in its text search options because you have to search on direct matches (i.e. find where title =“XXX” or find where custom data name = “YYY”). In order to enable partial matches based on level name I’ve added custom data fields like title5 (which is first 5 letters of title), and I run a couple of queries instead of one. Generally over 3G a search which pulls back all the level data for 6 levels will still reply in a second or two.

I haven’t used high scores.