The System of Estimating of the Hard Currency's Exchange Rate in the Game «Ghost Town Adventures»

Student: Egorov Nikolai

Educational Programme: System and Software Engineering (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

Company «Webgames» has already produced many mobile games, one of such games is «Ghost Town Adventures». Every day more than 30,000 people play the «Ghost Town Adventures», and more than 7 million people already played. «Web-games» receives more than 1 billion in-game messages per month, including spending and receiving hard currency and user payments. Also game «Ghost Town Adventures» has more than 150 units of game content, and continues to release new. In this paper, we describe a system for this game, which allows estimating the cost of in-game content. The text of this report divides by several parts. Firstly, we define a problem. Then we cover some theoretical parts which is used in this work. Then we consider the results of the study. And finally, discuss the main results and plans. Key Words: mobile games, hard currency, exchange rate, content monetization

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