Guardians of the Game: How Online Gaming Developers Continue to Combat Trolls and Hackers

@0xjoel Great article! You did a really good job of explaining Reputation Score and it’s importance.

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You mentioned that Reputation Score is 

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> very proprietary and under wraps, but this is what I could gather

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This is somewhat correct, for a long time the technology involving Reputation Score or Spending Score, for example, wasn’t patented. We are a new startup, so we couldn’t be as open as we wanted to be in fear that Google or some other company would take our idea while we had no protection. But recently our [patents](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11567852) went through successfully! Feel free to take a read.

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You still covered everything perfectly though. Like you said, Reputation Score is an evaluation of gamers actions in games. It sticks with players, similar to a credit report, as they go from game to game. 

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We believe that it’s every game developers’ responsibility to protect their game community. For this reason, we believe that every game developer should use MIKROS. All it takes is a simple if-condition at the start of your app to ensure that your game is protected against hackers, trolls, and predators.

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From Pixels to Profits: Boosting Revenue with Analytics in Game Development

@dylanmich Great article! This was well written. Let me post some additional links for you.

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1. **Tracking Purchase Events** - Game developers can keep track of all purchases by using [track purchase](https://developer.tatumgames.com/documentation/log-preset-events#track-purchase). You will be able to see this data under [Which Users Are the BIG Spenders?](https://developer.tatumgames.com/documentation/preset/big-spenders) on your MIKROS dashboard. 
2. **Analyzing Conversion Rates** - We are improving upon this. Nonetheless, our artificial intelligence is a great feature that can help game developers learn how to improve adoption, conversion, revenue, ect. In a release coming soon, you will be able to talk to MIKROS and receive valuable answers to your data and KPI questions.
3. **Personalizing Offers** - You can also track any events that you want using [custom event tracking.]() It’s just a few lines of code.
4. **Iterating and Optimizing** - Our A.I. combined with Global Analytics is a powerful combination to help game developers iterate on their product. Global Analytics shows you, in real-time, KPIs and Insights for the gaming industry as a whole. For example, you can see what is the most popular type of game or game content, or what type of game or content is trending, or what type of game earns the most revenue, or what sort of dollar amount is purchased the most, ect.

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The Battle Against Trolls and Hackers: A Guide for Game Developers

@michealchukwube Amazing article! You are spot on about using users’ Reputation Score to handle hackers and trolls before they do anything destructive in your game.

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For more context, you can think of [Reputation Score](https://developer.tatumgames.com/documentation/scores#reputation-score) like a Credit Score. Users build up their score by playing games without cheating, trolling, bad mouthing, rage quitting, hacking, ect. Doing negative actions while in any game will drop users’ Reputation Score.

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This allows game developers to key off the Reputation Score to take some sort of action. Maybe it’s to prevent users with really poor reputation from playing their game entirely, or sending emails about acceptable behaviors, or set a watcher so that developers can keep a close eye on particular players. It’s up to the developers, MIKROS only provides the data. The important part is that MIKROS is the **only** solution that offers a proactive approach to dealing with users that ruin game experiences and sometimes destroy entire game companies. 

The Hidden Gems of Game Analytics: Unveiling Trends and Insights for Game Developers

@ivyhackwell Great article! Thank you for writing. Let me drop a few differences about MIKROS vs Google Analytics below.

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Note: As a precursor, MIKROS tracks everything that Google and/or Unity Analytics tracks and a whole lot more.

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**Key Differences**


1. While maintaining anonymity, you can see side-by-side comparisons of your KPIs vs your competitors. For the first time ever you always know where you stand against other games similar to yours, allowing you to create realistic product and business goals/milestones.
2. MIKROS tracks users’ entire gaming history, allowing you to know about your users before they do anything in your game. Some example use cases would be looking at users’ [Reputation Score](https://developer.tatumgames.com/documentation/scores#reputation-score) to know if they are a hacker or troll. Or looking at users’ [Spending Score](https://developer.tatumgames.com/documentation/scores#spending-score) to know if they are a big spender. This upfront info allows you to better fine tune your game to cater to specific types of users.
3. We not only show you collected data on your dashboard, but our artificial intelligence--co-developed with Google--gives you advice and suggestions. For example, MIKROS can tell you in plain English what changes to make in your game to earn more revenue or get more users.

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Google Analytics vs Mikros: Exploring Key Differences

@leasetechinfo Great article. Thank you for covering MIKROS Analytics. As you mentioned, MIKROS is new (\~7 months old) so there isn’t too much information out there just yet. Especially when compared to Google Analytics which has been around for a couple decades. But to add some history, MIKROS was built by two developers. The entire team is just four people plus a dog. I am the Founder, Leonard Tatum, and the main developer for MIKROS. I can help answer some of the unknown questions you posted in your article.

Tatum Games