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Achievements (lemmy.world)
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[–] 154 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Semi-fun fact: The tops ones are sometimes a really easy way to do basic analytics without setting anything fancy up, which is handy for small/indie studios. That's why you might see ones for simple things like starting an online match, beating the tutorial, equipping a item, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's the other way around, you build in the analytics earlier in development and add the achievements during polishing. Why would you add achievements when you don't even know if that feature will make it to release.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    You'll have to forgive me because I'm barely a developer, but what I've seen indie devs use is when the game is ~95% completed or in early-access or beta, you add achievements to keep track of general player's progress and see what features are being used or not, which lets you hone in on areas of the game that may need attention or aren't being used.

    Sometimes this is just for post-1.0 patches but it can also be to determine what the next project is going to look like if certain features didn't seem to get any attention.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The achievements are an after-thought. You add the analytics during development, it's hard to make meaningful decisions without data and you would do work on achievements that you would throw away. Each time I have had to add achievements they end up beside the analytics code inside the same abstraction layers. Some of the cool achievements do require adding more tracking code, the the amount of data that is gathered is wild.

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