Dashscored Discord Analytics

Communities on the VRGE: A New View into Discord Discover how you can tap into Discord communities and measure their vibe, reach, growth, and engagement.

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Thank you #StreamHatchet team for the blog collab!

#Dashscored helps teams make sense of community data.

#Discord communities are one of the most authentic and insightful sources of data that can be used smartly and responsibly to better serve an audience.

Using Dashscored Analytics for Community Management - igda on Twitch igda went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

Thanks again to #IGDA for hosting our webinar on how to #GoBeyondDiscordBasics with advanced community analytics.

Check out the VOD on Twitch
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Discovered a new read.

What's a AA game?

They "go down the rabbit hole of finding a clear and objective method to classify games, and finally conclude that using the word 'INDIE' should be banned."
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#HushCrasher
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We've team up with the International Game Developers Association #IGDA for a webinar.

We'll be presenting how #Dashscored analytics help #Discord Community Managers make informed decisions and provide insight on their efforts.

Sign-up here: streamyard.com/watch/B8Ykf8...

MDEV Doggie

Make sure to join the #WisconsinGamesAlliance Discord to get in on the post-convention conversations in the #MDEV channel

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Apparently there is a Google Drive with photos & videos from the conference.

We'll post here when we find that link but for now check out this Good Boy

Game Discovery Behavior: How Discord Data & Community Strategy Fuel Engagement

We want to thank everyone who attended our talk about #GameDiscoveryBehavior and #IntentionalCommuntityBuilding in #Discord for indie game developers.

We were excited to dive deeper into the topics we're covering here on Bluesky. Here's a quick idea-map.

Link to presentation: bit.ly/mdevds25

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3613070/DinoMight/ Dino-Might is a couch co-op fighting game where you control a tiny-armed T-Rex in a prehistoric smackdown! Customize your look, pounce on your opponents, dodge pitfalls, and watch out for the incoming meteor shower in a wild battle for survival. Who will be the last dino standing?

Thanks again to everyone who came out to #MDEV to support Midwest Game Development.

On the ride to the airport this morning we compared notes about all the games on display.

Andrew's favorite was #Dino-Might, co-op fighting game with mini T-Rexs.
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Dashscored team is presenting at MDEV. Discover Discord Gaming Behavior and how to grow authentic fans of your game.

We're bringing #GameDiscoveryBehavior insights to MDEV!

www.mdevconf.com
The Midwest’s largest games industry focused event.
Nov 7th-8th

Andrew & Chris will be presenting on how to unlock authentic community insights and grow your most loyal fans in #Discord.

Dashscored is currently following over 7,000 Discord communities. Following is an upcoming feature that lets user create their own custom list of communities to track their growth, reach and engagement potential. Dashscored's has begun creating following-lists by topic; the first is a list of communities that identify as being associated with the ROBLOX platform.

One of the new features we're rolling out is the ability to "FOLLOW" other #Discord communities using an invite link.

Follow a community's growth and engagement.

We're following 7,000+ communities and will be creating follow-lists by specific topic.

First up is ROBLOX www.dashscored.com/rankings/

30% of players stream to friends weekly 72% of gamers on Discord play together with friends weekly If 1 out of 4 stream viewers become players AND friends who game together boost playtime 7X there is obvious potential boost in the weekly behaviors of Discord users. Get your game discovered and played by sponsoring or hosting weekly streaming and free-play events.

Let's consider #GameDiscoveryBehaviors we covered in earlier posts and make a plan to get discovered.

🎙️ Drive Game Adoption by Streaming to Players
⚡ Boost Playtime with Groups

Use the #WeeklyFriendEffect to get your game discovered by sponsoring or hosting #Discord streaming and gameplay events.

3rd post in our #GameDiscoveryBehavior series in #Discord that you can leverage to boost your game launch.

⚡ Boost Playtime with Groups

Discord reported a 7x increase in gameplay duration when playing with 1 other player.

Reminded me of feeding quarters to the arcade to make it to the boss level

image of four different gamers viewing a game stream. 1 hour later one of those gamers is shown enjoying their gameplay. Getting your game streamed turns viewers into players. At #GDC2025 #Discord shared that 28% of stream viewers (1-in-4) played the same game within an hour. Setup streams in Discord communities to maximize your efforts to grow your player base.

🎙️ Drive Adoption by Streaming to Players

Getting your game streamed turns viewers into players.

At #GDC2025 #Discord shared that 28% of stream viewers
(1-in-4) played the same game within an hour.

Setup streams in Discord communities to maximize your efforts to grow your player base.

Image from the film The Black Hole representing how gamer attention for new titles is difficult to capture because 90% of gamers play title 2+ years old...60% play games 6+ years old.

We posted about
🔦 #GameDiscoveryBehavior and the
importance of a #Discord community strategy
to escape the
🚀Black Hole of Gamer Attention

What does that mean in practical terms?

Next up we'll highlight specifics

🎙️ Drive Adoption by Streaming to Players

⚡ Boost Playtime with Groups

Spending time playing games beyond the top-ranked titles is considered by Discord to be a "Game Discovery Behavior". In their 2025 presentation at GDC "Insights for Devs" the Discord team presented a data point which we've transformed into an infographic. Discord compared total playtime on games beyond the Top 10 between all PC players and Discord users over a 4 year time period (2020-2024) Discord players spent nearly 60% of their time playing "unranked" games vs. 35% for all players. Total playtime for games beyond the Top 10 was nearly double among Discord users. Discord is where #GameDiscoveryBehavior happens. Make sure your game has a Discord community strategy.

Continuing to recap convention season #Discord findings.

Another from #GDC2025 Insights for Devs presentation.

Total playtime for games beyond the Top 10 was nearly double among Discord users.

Discord is where #GameDiscoveryBehavior happens. Make sure your game has a Discord community strategy.

Album cover from the Disney movie Black Hole soundtrack

Chart from #Discord's INSIGHT FOR DEVS presentation at #GDC2025 showing that majority of play time is spent on older titles leaving little room for new games to get noticed

Black Hole Games Capture the Majority of Player Time

90% of gamers spend their time playing games 2+ years old

Over half (61%) of total game hours are spent on games 6+ yrs. old

New games fight for smaller pieces of attention

Leverage #Discord communities to escape the Black Hole when you launch

Image of an iceberg that represents how only 20% of Discord Communities are discoverable. The majority (80%) are small "cozy friends servers". If only 1 out 5 Discord communities can be discovered publicly without an invite, game developers that figure out how to start a conversation with the other 4 servers can see positive results for their game release.

Slide from Discord's GDC2025 presentation on Insights for Devs. Note in the lower left corner where Discord breaks the world of servers into two type - Large Community Servers and Small Cozy Friends Servers

We're recapping our Spring and Summer convention season on our Bluesky.

Grabbed a few data-nuggets from the #Discord INSIGHT FOR DEVS presentation at #GDC2025 confirming the role of community in gaming and gave tips for how to leverage Discord for success.

#1: You See Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Andrew from Dashscored attending Gamescom 20205 in Germany

💜 It’s impossible to capture all the energy, passion and pure love for gaming that made #Gamescom such an incredible experience in one appreciation post.

🤯 My second year and I was again blown away by the creativity and innovation that represent the art as much as the business of gaming.

GDC 2025 hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco March 2025. The Dashscored Discord Analytics team will be announcing takeaways on bluesky

We had a blast at GDC ‘25 in SF! 🎮

In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing takeaways on how devs can grow communities and align gameplay with Discord culture.

Plenty of insights ahead—stay tuned! 🚀 #GDC2025 #DiscordDev

👋 Hey Bluesky! Dashscored is here 🎉

We’re the analytics tool that helps make sense of your Discord community — now joining this community too 🌀

Follow us for product updates, news, and announcements: www.dashscored.com 🚀💙 #Discord #Analytics