{"id":111277,"date":"2020-04-08T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/360918"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:08:00","slug":"video-lessons-learned-about-matchmaking-for-engagement-in-halo-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/video-lessons-learned-about-matchmaking-for-engagement-in-halo-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Lessons learned about matchmaking for engagement in Halo 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2020 GDC virtual talk, 343 Industries&#8217; Josh Menke shows how to effectively test matchmaking approaches&nbsp;using&nbsp;real examples and data from a popular first-person shooter.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great talk in which Menke offered an&nbsp;in-depth look at&nbsp;several commonly held best practices on how to matchmake for engagement across the industry, some of which contradict each other, with&nbsp;little to no data-driven evidence to support them.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed seeing it live last month, now&#8217;s your chance to watch it at your convenience&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs\">via&nbsp;the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2020 GDC virtual talk, 343 Industries&#8217; Josh Menke shows how to effectively test matchmaking approaches&nbsp;using&nbsp;real examples and data from a popular first-person shooter. It was a great talk in which Menke offered an&nbsp;in-depth look at&nbsp;several commonly held best practices on how to matchmake for engagement across the industry, some of which contradict each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}