{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/hexagore\/","author_name":"hexagore","cat":"LD #34","categories":["LD #34"],"comments":[],"epoch":1451645280,"event":"LD34","likes":22,"metadata":{"p_key":"83308","p_author":"hexagore","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"294046","p_title":"Voting Progress!","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1451645280","p_likes":"22","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"source_url":"2016\/01\/01\/voting-progress-3\/","text":"<p>All through this Ludum Dare I\u2019ve been taking snapshots of the current voting status to get some idea why the competition runs for 3 weeks (and not 4, or 2, or 1). Mostly things have been going pretty much as predicted \u2013 The first week is super hectic, and then the final two weeks are mostly just a steady trickle.<\/p>\n<p>With 3 and a half days of voting remaining, we\u2019ve FINALLY\u00a0reached 70% of games with enough ratings\u00a0to get a final score.<\/p>\n<p>We actually had 60% after the first week. It\u2019s taken another 11 days to get another 10%. Which is interesting. I felt like I still didn\u2019t really understand what was actually going on though, so I came up with a new metric: How many individuals actually played and rated games per day (I did this by comparing their \u2018votes given\u2019 today to their \u2018votes given\u2019 the day before). It produced Interesting Facts<\/p>\n<h2>Interesting Facts!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On the first full day of voting 1714 people rated, on average, 14.7 games each. That\u2019s a lot of games.<\/li>\n<li>In the 2nd and 3rd weeks, people seem to play and rate about 4-5 games each a day, and that\u2019s been surprisingly consistent. The only\u00a0difference from day to day is how many people are actively rating games. Seems like it\u2019s mostly different people each day, too, but I haven\u2019t analysed that data properly yet.<\/li>\n<li>December the 23rd was our least productive day.\u00a0428 people rated on average 4.7 games each and the result was that just one game managed to cross the 17 vote threshold (LD33\u2019s threshold \u2013 LD34\u2019s might be different)<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday just 241 people played and rated 1182 games. 27 games managed to sneak over the 17 ratings threshold, and 17 people reached their 25 games milestone<\/li>\n<li>Right now 406 people still haven\u2019t rated a single game. It\u2019s a surprisingly big minority of people who make a game but then have no interest in getting a score or playing anyone else\u2019s games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From what I can tell, while it\u2019s not very many people, there are a surprising number of people quite happy to spread their voting out over the full three weeks. There you go!<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>","time":"January 1st, 2016 10:48 am","title":"Voting Progress!","title_was_empty":false}