New Free Data Mining Tool for Game Developers

Game developers have a new tool in their arsenal courtesy of Jenkin's Software, an instrumenting and data analysis suite called RakNet.

By using Jenkins's open-source network game engine RakNet or other programming libraries, developers can record game metrics during play o a remote SQLite backed database server. The company says this setup minimizes the performance impact on he game as processing is handled on the server.

During Echo Chamber's analysis, data can be "queried with SQL statements and displayed using table, line graph, histogram, symbol chart, pie chart, heat map, and 3D scatter plot formats." The utility's playback supports static views, animation, and single step by frame count.

The software is free and open-source, available for modification. Get all the details, including a demonstration movie, at www.raknet.net/echochamber/

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