Player Experience Panel, Phillips at GDC 2010.
(slides, mostly about FPS games)
Each dot represents the average number of days taken to complete a particular achievement. DLC achievements are farther because DLC were released later (not because they are harder or take more time to complete).
Box gameplay peaks when new DLC is released: new content does increase the number of people playing. However, later DLC packs do not peak as much as the first DLC pack.
Huang et al. Influence of Gameplay on Skill in Halo Reach, 2013
Data: 3m player data (entire population) for the first 7 months of Halo Reach, and 70 players in a survey. Mixed methods: use survey data to help explain the big dataset.
Most played mode is Team Slayer: from 3v3 to 5v5, one point per kill, first team to reach 50 kills. Match ends after 15 min.
Player skill metric: TrueSkill's mean μ.
More frequent players have bigger μ drop at week 1, but their μ increases faster over the weeks.
The longer the break between two games, the bigger drop in skill. It takes 10 games (3h of gameplay) to regain the skill lost after a break of 1 month.
Most of the top 100 players use the DMR (same range as sniper rifle) and sniper rifle.
Either go to their website and select your version, or: For Linux 32 bits:
wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime%20Text%202.0.1.tar.bz2 -O sublime.tar.bz2
For Linux 64 bits:
wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime%20Text%202.0.1%20x64.tar.bz2 -O sublime.tar.bz2
Unzip into user folder, and add symbolic link so that you can launch sublime from the command line:
tar vxjf sublime.tar.bz2 mv Sublime\ Text\ 2/ sublime mkdir ~/apps mv sublime ~/apps sudo ln -s "~apps/sublime/sublime_text" /usr/local/bin/sublime
Open sublime (command line), then Preferences, and Settings - User should open a document.
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"highlight_line": true,
"rulers":
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"tab_size": 3,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"caret_style": "blink"
}