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GameAnalytics
Company blog · gameanalytics.com/bloggamesdata
GameAnalytics is the company blog at gameanalytics.com, writing about games and data. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link to a GameAnalytics blog post on Apple Arcade developer payments, plus API documentation and a market-intelligence page. None of them judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
GameAnalytics is the leading growth platform for game studios, offering a connected suite of products that help developers understand players, optimize performance, and scale success.
What Hacker News says?
GAMEANALTICS | London (UK) | On-site and remote | https://gameanalytics.com/careers GameAnalytics is the #1 free analytics tool designed to help game developers and publishers drive conversions, refine critical flows, and boost retention for their titles by making the right decisions based on data. Currently, 17,000+ game developers use GameAnalytics to track performance in 38,000+ titles around the globe. By joinin…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS as a story · 280 points
HN discussionApple is paying what amounts to an advance. Game developers are guaranteed a minimum. https://gameanalytics.com/blog/apple-arcade-mobile-game-deve... In their latest report, Apple announced that they want to help developers get set up on their service by paying for some of their costs, which should take some pressure off when building your game. How much they’ll contribute is still yet to be revealed, so maybe don’t…
Comment linking /blog/apple-arcade-mobile-game-developers.html
on “Secret iPad”Submitted iOS 14 Opt-in-Rate Is Higher for Mobile Games as a story · 4 points
HN discussionprotobuffs is an option that could work for SDKs, but the API is also a public documented REST one: https://gameanalytics.com/docs/item/rest-api-doc . Also, in the responses could be possible to just not include a body, and AWS does not charge for data transfer in, so the size of the request JSON is not relevant for the cost
Comment linking /docs/item/rest-api-doc
on “Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS”Submitted GameAnalytics for Developers goes free as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.gameanalytics.com/market-intelligence Straight up spyware developers embed in games. Several competitors exist too.
Comment linking /market-intelligence
on “Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules”Submitted Reduce costs HTTPS API in AWS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Hyper-Casual Gameplay Mechanics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from the 9 Best Mobile Games of 2019: Part Three as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game Analytics - Analysis metrics for games as a story · 1 points
HN discussion