Measuring User Engagement in Fairway Solitaire

Big Fish Games Computer Science, 2016-17

Liaison(s): Brad Bulkley, Chris Chatburn, Sam Prud’homme, Michael Tapley
Advisor(s): Colleen Lewis
Students(s): Justis Allen, Michael Diamond (PM), Adam Dunlap, Aaron Stringer-Usdan

Big Fish Games, Inc. develops the game Fairway Solitaire and cares deeply about the player experience. The goal of our project was to use machine learning on existing user data to better understand how player interaction with the game’s features affects player engagement. Better understanding what makes users engage with the game would allow Big Fish Games, Inc. to make more in-formed design decisions.