How to Boost your Game using Roblox Funnel Analytics — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello my fellow gnomes today I'm going
2. 0:01to show you how to take advantage of the
3. 0:03new Roblox analytics funnel in order to
4. 0:05help you gain a better understanding of
5. 0:07what's going on in your game now
6. 0:10analytics can be fun but why would you
7. 0:12want to do this well I'm going to be
8. 0:14setting up for my new do game Gnome
9. 0:17hotel that we launched last month it's a
10. 0:19fairly basic doors copy and really it
11. 0:21was made as more of a tutorial demo
12. 0:23rather than a full on game but I noticed
13. 0:25I've been getting quite a lot of
14. 0:26dislikes since I launched and it's now
15. 0:28sitting at only 6 5% approval rating now
16. 0:32for my game gome hotel is actually
17. 0:33really simple because the entire game is
18. 0:35linear so we can take advantage of the
19. 0:38onboarding funnel this is kind of how
20. 0:40it's going to work so you say you have a
21. 0:41player and we'll draw a little box here
22. 0:44and this is when they join the game okay
23. 0:49and then when they join they're going to
24. 0:50be in the lobby area and I want to see
25. 0:52if they get to the next point which is
26. 0:54getting in an
27. 0:56elevator and hopefully then they get
28. 1:00teleported into the game my handwriting
29. 1:03is very shoddy but you have to go with
30. 1:05it but obviously some people are going
31. 1:06to go into the lobby and they're never
32. 1:09going to teleport to the game so maybe
33. 1:12there's like a
34. 1:1390% of people actually get into an
35. 1:16elevator and then all those people who
36. 1:18get into an elevator I want to see if
37. 1:21they get
38. 1:23successfully
39. 1:25teleported into the game and so again
40. 1:28there's going to be another drop off
41. 1:30there maybe only 90% of those people
42. 1:33actually successfully teleport possibly
43. 1:36there's a bug or there's some network
44. 1:39issues that prevent them from actually
45. 1:41teleporting successfully hopefully this
46. 1:43would be higher than 90 it's probably
47. 1:45more likely to be
48. 1:4699 uh and then our game itself is really
49. 1:49simple because we just have a series of
50. 1:52rooms we have door one door two door
51. 1:57three and so on all the way up to in my
52. 2:02case room 60 and I just want to measure
53. 2:07how many people are getting through each
54. 2:12door and then I can see at the very end
55. 2:15what percentage of people maybe it's 50%
56. 2:19are actually finishing the game and then
57. 2:21I can use that to adjust the difficulty
58. 2:24accordingly so the good thing is that
59. 2:25Roblox are going to process all of this
60. 2:28for us we just need to tell it where the
61. 2:31bits in our code that all of these
62. 2:32things are occurring when they go into
63. 2:35the elevator when they join and they
64. 2:37enter each room so in my main lobby in
65. 2:42my server script I'm just going to go to
66. 2:44the very top and I'm going to access
67. 2:47analytics service and then I can use
68. 2:50analytics service inside of my player
69. 2:53added event just to detect that a player
70. 2:55has added the game and we're going to
71. 2:58use the log method and you can you see
72. 3:00there's loads of different ones for
73. 3:01different types but we're going to use
74. 3:03log onboarding funnel step event which
75. 3:06is perfect for a linear game like ours
76. 3:10so the first thing we need to provide is
77. 3:12the player we've already got that from
78. 3:13the player added event uh then we need
79. 3:16the step this is happening and so the
80. 3:17first step this is going to be one and
81. 3:20then we'll give a name for it so this is
82. 3:22just going to be joined game so then for
83. 3:26our second step we'll go into our
84. 3:27elevator script and you can see here is
85. 3:29where I teleport all the players and
86. 3:32just before I do the teleportation logic
87. 3:34I Loop through every player and I log
88. 3:38step number two in the funnel and I
89. 3:41assign the name elevated teleport and
90. 3:44then if we go into our main Hotel game
91. 3:46place now this has a server script as
92. 3:49well with a player added event and I'm
93. 3:51just going to connect to that and that's
94. 3:53step number three with the joined Hotel
95. 3:55event and then inside my door script
96. 3:58when a player opens a door well I'm just
97. 4:01going to log that again so it's going to
98. 4:03be the number plus three cuz I've
99. 4:05already created those three initial
100. 4:06steps and then the number of the door so
101. 4:08we should go right up to
102. 4:1163 and the name of it is just enter door
103. 4:14and the number of that door now once
104. 4:17we've set all of this up we're going to
105. 4:19need to publish the changes and then
106. 4:23really it's just a case of waiting so if
107. 4:26we go and check out our games analytics
108. 4:28in the funnel section
109. 4:30well we're not going to see any fancy
110. 4:32charts just yet it's been 24 hours for
111. 4:34me but still I haven't got anything but
112. 4:36if we go on to view events we can see we
113. 4:39already have some data coming through so
114. 4:42we can see here that player has entered
115. 4:45door 27 so we can see that our events
116. 4:48are coming through but it's going to
117. 4:50need to gather a bit more data in order
118. 4:52so it can build out a nice little chart
119. 4:55for us and now it's been a couple of
120. 4:57more days due to the magic of video
121. 5:00editing and you can see we have some
122. 5:01fancy data to look at so we've had 6,000
123. 5:05people play the game and we've been able
124. 5:08to see exactly what those players have
125. 5:11been up to so we can see that
126. 5:1425.82 of those 6,000 players have made
127. 5:17it all the way through so we scroll down
128. 5:19to the very bottom you can see that this
129. 5:22uh this little bar chart slowly gets
130. 5:24smaller and smaller until we're left
131. 5:27with 25.82 per. or 1,500 people of that
132. 5:31initial 6,000 managed to actually escape
133. 5:35the hotel and it's really interesting
134. 5:37because we can see where the biggest
135. 5:39drop offs are there's a bit of a drop
136. 5:41off between joining the lobby and
137. 5:44actually getting into the elevator so we
138. 5:47can see that only 85% of people who join
139. 5:50the lobby actually do anything right
140. 5:53maybe they're just talking to people or
141. 5:56maybe they they decide that they really
142. 5:58hate the look of the lobby who who knows
143. 6:00maybe we could get that number up
144. 6:02somehow um but our biggest drop is
145. 6:05actually entering door
146. 6:0722 which is during the bacon chase that
147. 6:11happens on door 20 and we can see this
148. 6:14is when we start to have a big drop off
149. 6:17it's fairly steady uh and then the first
150. 6:20one happens actually on entering Door
151. 6:23Nine which is when the shadow monster
152. 6:25will spawn so you can see there's a a
153. 6:29bit of a drop there and then the next
154. 6:30one and this is quite a big one happens
155. 6:33down here where the bacon Chase starts
156. 6:34and we can see players are dropping off
157. 6:37but then after that point it's fairly
158. 6:39consistent a few people get wiped out I
159. 6:42think by another Shadow Monster uh and
160. 6:46then some people get killed and don't
161. 6:48manage to make it to the end um but
162. 6:50overall there's no huge drop off that's
163. 6:53worrying me I don't think there's any
164. 6:56major uh bug or quit moment other than
165. 7:00that bacon Chase which maybe we should
166. 7:02see if we can make it a little bit
167. 7:04smoother for the players add in a little
168. 7:07hint to show them what to do so they
169. 7:08don't get instantly killed but really to
170. 7:10be honest I'm quite happy with this
171. 7:12we're all in the green for the step
172. 7:14completion if you have any big red bars
173. 7:18that's something you really need to take
174. 7:20a look at um but this is fairly positive
175. 7:23I would say hopefully this little video
176. 7:25has inspired you to start extracting
177. 7:28some data for your own game let me know
178. 7:30how you get on down in the comments and
179. 7:33I'll see you in another video thank you
180. 7:35very much for watching and goodbye
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