User Tracking and Analytics with Unity
In this series, Richard Morwood (XNA side-scroller) will teach you to track how users are interacting with your Unity project - but the core concepts can be extended to anything, be it websites or phone apps.
It will use AWS Mobile Analytics for data capturing, S3 for data storage, Apache Spark running on DataBricks for transforming the data, and C# with Aurora for presenting the data back inside of Unity
. All of this would be done using free tools and the AWS free tier.
Richard, as well as his "student" Nick Carton, will dive deep into this project and give a very solid grounding in cloud computing, managed services, Data Warehousing, reporting, and Analysis!
- Language: C#
- Discipline: Game Dev, Programming
- Software: Unity
Sections
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8 videos /
01:20:35
Game Creation
In this section, Richard and Nick will give an overview of the course, as well as setting up a basic Unity project to use during this training. Don't worry! No extra assets are needed, you'll create everything you need as you work along!
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9 videos /
02:32:10
Initial Tracking Setup with AWS Mobile Analytics
Now you'll really start diving into the meat of this project. You'll set up an AWS account and get the resources needed. Then you'll begin coding everything you need to capture the raw data from your game!
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8 videos /
01:20:42
Tracking Player Pathways
In this section you'll plan and implement Analytic Events. Allowing the capture of specific data to specific events in your project.
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17 videos /
04:05:12
Working with Apache Spark
It's time to look at Richard's favorite language, SQL! In this section you'll cover a SQL refresher, set up a device farm, and write some queries to get valuable data
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8 videos /
01:29:23
Exporting Data from Spark to AWS RDS
In this chapter, we'll set up or database and connections to store our processed data.
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9 videos /
01:45:15
Hosting an API on AWS
MVC.NET, SQL, EC2 servers, and WebAPI... Oh my!
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17 videos /
03:30:04
Displaying Data in Unity
Now that we have captured data from our game, it's time to create a way to display that data in Unity. We'll also make sure updated captures are making it to S3 and pushing to the database!
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11 videos /
02:44:41
Bonus Content!
AWS released new tools and libraries while recording this series, lets see how we can use them in our analytics system getting our costs even lower!