Ludum Dare Comment Ratios

Last Day of rating time left, folks!  Get playing, get commenting!

And after you’ve played my game, you can ponder these stats:

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This shows what percentage of contestants have commented on others games.

I had suspected that a lot of players comment in quick succession on different games, suggesting that they hadn’t actually played them in any depth.  However, thankfully, the stats really don’t back that up.  There are some examples, but really surprisingly rare.  People really don’t sit down and speed-rate and comment a lot of games; lets hope for the best that they are playing them instead 😉

As my game relies on people commenting, I’m eager to get everyone commenting.  Here’s my game’s penetration:

We are tracking the location of 721 LD30 contestants.

524 contestants have successfully used the game, entering their user name and looking at the map; that’s 20% !!!

56% of these have been back more than once!  The median is 3 repeat visits!

450 contestants have updated their location in the game; the other 74 were satisfied with the game’s guess.

But, here’s the kicker, only 324 have rated my game :(

And only 202 people have have commented on my game.  A handful are not contestants, but the rest … I can’t see you light up on my map :(  Here’s how my map is lit up when I check it now:

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I would like you all to go comment on other people’s game, not just my own!

Last Day Now… you know what to do!

Now Go Play and Comment!

Comments

13. Sep 2014 · 11:39 UTC
Leaving a comment is optional so the people who are trying to game the system by speed-rating a lot of games just don’t leave any comment.
Sunflower
15. Sep 2014 · 08:39 UTC
“your game” links to some unrelated blog post. I guess you need to put “http://” at the beginning. ^^”
DvanderAart
15. Sep 2014 · 12:57 UTC
Do you have access to data i don’t see? How can you tell how many people have rated you?
15. Sep 2014 · 13:35 UTC
This is the part I wish i had more time for… doing lots of blog posts about the jam to raise my game’s visibility to get more votes. Not doing so makes it seem like my game will suffer in ratings due to my lack of total dedication to the cause. :( ah well