Comments on: IFDB statistics, part 1: Publishing date

By: Sam Kabo Ashwell

Sam Kabo Ashwell — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:16:48 +0000

Er, I meant to say: 2001 had the most speedIF events, and speedIF events dropped off significantly in 2004.

By: Sam Kabo Ashwell

Sam Kabo Ashwell — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:15:02 +0000

Looking at the wiki, 2001 was indeed the year with the most speedIFs. (2000 and 2001 were also years with over 50 comp entries.) That's not enough to count for a spike on its own, but they're probably good indicators of the levels of productive energy around at the time.

By: Emily Short

Emily Short — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:18:08 +0000

I wonder whether the 2001-2003 surge has to do with an increase in Speed-IF popularity; at least, I unscientifically have the feeling that there were more speed and mini-comps in that period than subsequently, which might have bulked out the output with a lot more short games; so it might be interesting to look at what percentage of a given stat category are for games with a Speed-IF tag.

I could be totally wrong, though.

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:01:53 +0000

Fascinating! Even on the first graph, you can clearly see the dip caused by the early 1990es decline of the genre. And the monthly graph shows two more peaks: March (which can't be due to the Spring Thing, it's a tiny comp) and surprisingly enough September, just *before* the IFcomp. I don't know what to make of that, but it's interesting. Can't wait for the rest of it!