Defold Integration for GameAnalytics (DEF-3024)

gameanalytics · February 18, 2019, 9:11am

Thanks @Pkeod. Sorry for the late reply. I have been on holiday the whole of last week but I have merged your PR and made a new release version as well.

Pkeod · February 24, 2019, 12:12am

Could you check the Linux build? I am having errors when building Linux version on Linux Mint (not sure that matters). I tested building the example https://github.com/GameAnalytics/GA-SDK-DEFOLD

errors.zip (24.1 KB)

Update: I tested building on a Linux target on Windows machine and building/bundling worked?

marat.giliazov · February 25, 2019, 8:38am

I see empty lines here: https://gameanalytics.com/docs/item/defold-sdk#setup-for-html5

@gameanalytics so, are there any specific steps for HTML5?

UPD: and yes, it does not work just as is and breaks my HTML5 build on load attempt now:

exception thrown: ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: gameanalytics,eval code

UPD2: ok, I supposed maybe there simply should be GameAnalytics.js tagged somewhere and this seemed to make it work:

<script type='text/javascript' src="GameAnalytics.js"></script>

UPD3: it seems to be registering sessions from HTML5, but does not track Progression events and Design events. when the same code works both for OSX and iOS builds. In the web tools I see how network request with event is sent, but I don’t see events in the dashboard:

sent events

[
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “progression”,
“event_id”: “Complete:level_43”,
“attempt_num”: 1
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “LevelAchieved:41”
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “Level:level_43:Finished:user_level”,
“value”: 41
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “Level:level_43:Finished:completion_time”,
“value”: 725.2
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “Level:level_43:Finished:taps_count”,
“value”: 9
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012271,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “Level:level_43:Finished:level_tries”,
“value”: 1
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012273,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “progression”,
“event_id”: “Start:level_26”
},
{
“v”: 2,
“user_id”: “ddf5f728-95a0-49ef-4862-c23df5ef2a32”,
“client_ts”: 1551012273,
“sdk_version”: “defold 2.1.1”,
“os_version”: “mac_osx 10.14.1”,
“manufacturer”: “unknown”,
“device”: “unknown”,
“browser_version”: “safari 12”,
“platform”: “mac_osx”,
“session_id”: “8ae3b485-d1b0-47d1-cbc1-22a04188dc6b”,
“session_num”: 4,
“connection_type”: “lan”,
“engine_version”: “defold 1.2.147”,
“build”: “1.1.9”,
“category”: “design”,
“event_id”: “Level:level_26:Started:user_level”,
“value”: 42
}
]

UPD4: Ok, I can see the amount of Progression and Design events, but can’t filter by exact subcategories. Maybe it just needs some time to be processed properly…

UPD5: After about 24 hours subcategories are also here. So everything seems working, but anyway documentation regarding HTML5 needs to be fixed

marat.giliazov · February 23, 2019, 11:52pm

And I can see events from HTML5 build now, and game looks working correctly, but there is still some error in the web console:

does it some how related to GameAnalytics?

mts · February 25, 2019, 9:41am

@Pkeod @marat.giliazov i will look into both issues now

sven · February 25, 2019, 10:31am

Regarding getParameter, it should only be a warning (due to us querying for some WebGL features inside the engine), more info here: Facebook instant error (SOLVED)

mts · February 25, 2019, 11:00am

Yeah adding <script type=‘text/javascript’ src=“GameAnalytics.js”></script> should solve the problem. I have also updated the docs page with the missing information (I think the information was during a transition to the documentation page for all our SDKs)

mts · February 25, 2019, 11:04am

I don’t think this has anything to do with the GA SDK

mts · February 25, 2019, 11:07am

I have also opened for issues on the github repo https://github.com/GameAnalytics/GA-SDK-DEFOLD/issues for specific issues/bugs related to the GA SDK for Defold

marat.giliazov · February 25, 2019, 11:15am

Thanks! There was also a pair of minor typos I’ve noticed on the docs page, but I did not find a proper way to point on them, so will just put them here:

“set a custom dimensionvalue” -> space missed
“TThe SDK will” -> double T

Mathias_Westerdahl · February 25, 2019, 11:33am

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mts · February 25, 2019, 11:43am

Thanks for reporting this. I have corrected typos now on the docs page.

mts · February 26, 2019, 12:55pm

This should be fixed now in the latest version (v2.1.2)

Pkeod · February 26, 2019, 1:12pm

Awesome! Will test soon.

marat.giliazov · May 7, 2019, 9:06am

Hi there, I saw there was an update to version 2.2.1 and it seems breaking my HTML5 builds. On try to run web-build I see in browser’s console errors inside ProjectName_asm.js and _wasm.js (depends on what is used, checked both). And the issue disappears after reverting to 2.2.0.

Does anyone else faces the same issue? I was using only Design events, nothing more.

Check please

UPD: raised the issue for this - https://github.com/GameAnalytics/GA-SDK-DEFOLD/issues/14

marat.giliazov · May 7, 2019, 9:48am

Should be already fixed in 2.2.2

totebo · June 8, 2021, 11:54am

Is Ad Events part of the Defold API? I can’t seem to find it in the documentation. If not, is there a plan to add it?

gameanalytics · June 9, 2021, 9:03am

There is documentation on how to use ad events with GameAnalytics Defold SDK here: Knowledge Base

But yeah you need to able to send the event from ad callback function from the ad SDKs like onAdDisplayed() or something like that for it to work properly.

totebo · June 9, 2021, 9:26am

Thanks, I must have missed that in the documentation before. Great stuff!

totebo · April 23, 2024, 9:37am

I’ve dusted off the GameAnalytics extension to be used in a web game. When building inside the editor ( ⌘B) there is a build error. This happens in my project as well as in a blank project with just the extension dependency.

As a side note, I’m using the generic link to the extension, since the project itself doesn’t have any builds (only tags):

Any idea what’s going on here?

build_errors.txt (44.8 KB)
minimal_project.zip (1.2 KB)