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Dynamically Adapting Games Using Vanity and Actionable Analytics to Increase Session-Level Retention.

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Title/Author:	Dynamically Adapting Games Using Vanity and Actionable Analytics to Increase Session-Level Retention./
Author:	Harrison, Brent E.
Description:	1 online resource (164 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: B.
Subject:	Computer science. -
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ISBN:	9781321408980

Dynamically Adapting Games Using Vanity and Actionable Analytics to Increase Session-Level Retention.
Harrison, Brent E.

Dynamically Adapting Games Using Vanity and Actionable Analytics to Increase Session-Level Retention. - 1 online resource (164 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references

The ability to control player retention has been long sought after by both game designers and game researchers.With casual games becoming more popular, it has become increasingly important to have a good understanding of how to influence player retention. In the game industry, there are many accepted rules about how to best maximize player retention in a game environment (Fields, 2014). These rules are based on expert knowledge and were created based on years of experience making games, but have not been explicitly validated. In academia, many researchers have studied what contributes or detracts from player retention in various game environments with varying amounts of success. Typically, those studying retention choose to examine how well games can retain players over the entire lifetime of the game. In my work, I examine the problem of session-level retention.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781321408980Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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554714
Electronic books.

Dynamically Adapting Games Using Vanity and Actionable Analytics to Increase Session-Level Retention.
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520 $a The ability to control player retention has been long sought after by both game designers and game researchers.With casual games becoming more popular, it has become increasingly important to have a good understanding of how to influence player retention. In the game industry, there are many accepted rules about how to best maximize player retention in a game environment (Fields, 2014). These rules are based on expert knowledge and were created based on years of experience making games, but have not been explicitly validated. In academia, many researchers have studied what contributes or detracts from player retention in various game environments with varying amounts of success. Typically, those studying retention choose to examine how well games can retain players over the entire lifetime of the game. In my work, I examine the problem of session-level retention.
520 $a Given the recent rise in popularity of social and casual games, I believe that learning to influence session-level retention can be just as useful as learning to influence long-term retention. In this dissertation, I propose an analytics-driven technique for increasing session-level retention through the use of dynamic game adaption. This technique leverages two different types of analytics, vanity analytics and actionable analytics, to create models of player retention and then use them to dynamically alter game worlds to increase session-level retention. Vanity analytics are those that hold a great deal of predictive power but are difficult to directly affect, whereas actionable analytics are difficult to directly use in modeling player behavior but can be manipulated in real time.
520 $a This technique offers several benefits to both game designers as well as game researchers. Since this technique is data-driven, the insights gained are grounded in data which gives them more strength than some of the insights gained from expert knowledge. Also, this technique uses the inherent strengths of both vanity and actionable analytics and provides researchers with a method for incorporating models of player retention into game environments.
520 $a My research will proceed in three phases. First, I will use data-driven techniques to create computational models of session-level retention using sets of vanity analytics. Then, I will use these models to determine how to adapt two different game worlds in an attempt to influence session-level retention. Finally, these adaptions will be evaluated based on how well they actually do influence session-level retention.
520 $a In addition, I evaluate the side-effects that dynamic game adaption has on player experience to make sure that any gains in session-level retention do not come at the cost of player experience. During this evaluation, I measure the effects of dynamic game adaption on two measures of play experience, intrinsic motivation and player engagement.
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