This is my compo right here and here is the story of how I discovered it got nabbed.

HOW TO BE ANAL-ITICS

For The Hunger, I had no idea how many people played it and where they were stuck. So I added in some analytics using Countly, which I like because it’s real time.

Numbers are super high at … 20 new players a day, well super high for me I guess since I didn’t promote this thing so I was a bit surprised the other day when I saw this.

Exponention growth, but from where?

I did post it on Kongregate and Playdot, could K be that popular? Problem with Countly is it’s not made for web, it’s for mobile, so they don’t capture the source url. So I spent a few minutes implementing Google Analytics to a new build, that didn’t work so I did something very low tek: verion prefix with the domain, 1.1p for playfot and 1.1k for kongregate and in case they hotlinked it to my server I kept 1.1 for http://mcdroidgame.com. Then I waited to see which number was increasing the most. And got a surprise.

Sourcing from the stone age

Someone nabbed the .unity3d package and placed it on his own server.  

THE GRAND LARCENY

Making something for free is fun because if it sucks, who cares. But how is it if someone steals your free thing and makes some money off it? It does suck a little but what I am really interested is finding what site gets THIS MUCH TRAFFIC, because 1500 play a day is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than Kongregate.

So I google Water Miner Unity and find this…

This is not the Water Miner you are looking for.

The file was probably renamed and google leads nowhere.

What do you guys think, any idea which site it’s on?