>to distinguish votes from the same voter?
Indeed I do, but I didn't pull out such info from the voting system. I will at some point if it would be helpful.

Cheers,

Something I noticed is that the voter details page mentioned that it only needed to be filled out once, when I took a gander at the results I noticed a lot of my voted didn't include the voter details because I only did them for a few times and then never again.

Remember that the suggested price will be biased slightly by there being a larger balance of shareware developers in the voting mix, so it would probably tend towards the non too surprising result of $10-$15.

Average Scores & Number of Votes (vs Time)


Graph: here

• The sections with big variations seem to be the result of the low number of votes at that time.
• More votes at the beginning and end of the voting period than in the middle.
• Average daily score for all categories seemed to go _down_, not much and not necessarily statistically significant, but surprising since many entries fixed bugs/added stuff during the voting period.
• The average daily score for Graphics was always higher than Gameplay's, and Gameplay's daily average was higher than Audio's (except on Nov. 21)
  

Edit: Direct linking to the graph didn't work, so I made a page with all the graphs - link updated.

Average Scores by Voter Type

Graph here (same as before)

People who considered themselves as "Gamers" (only) gave the highest scores, and those who considered themselves "Developers" gave the lowest (from those who answered the question). Those who didn't answer the question gave the lowest scores of all.

Interesting...

Average Scores & Number of Votes by "Gamer Type"


Graph here

Those who didn't answered the question about what kind of player they are gave the lowest scores, followed by those who classified themselves as "Semi-Hardcore"

Correlation Analysis

When grouped by "Gamer Type", all categories' scores have a strong inverse relationship to the number of voters. Also, Gameplay, Graphics & Audio have a strong direct relationship between them.

Correlation Analysis (based on each entry average scores)

• Overall scores have a strong relationship with Graphics & Audio, a relationship to "Estimated Price", and practically no relationship to Story & Originality (note: for a relationship to be considered relevant, it should have a correlation value of +0.8 or higher (or -0.8/lower).
• Gameplay scores have a relationship with Audio (and, to some extent, with "Estimated Price" and with Graphics).
• Graphics scores have a strong relationship with Audio scores, and a relationship with "Estimated Price".
• Audio scores seem to have a very weak relationship to "Estimated Price".
• Story and Originality have practically no meaningful relationship between them.
  

That's all the stats I have for now. Anything interesting?

shweet.

if you have anymore, keep posting them, I LOVE reading this stuff

I may seem stupid, but what is CSV-format? Also I can't unstuff that file. Can anyone send me a "readable" file by email? I'd also like to read those funny comments ...

have you tried opening it in text edit

Story and originality were peer categories, so that may help explain some of why the didn't correlate: they were very different samples. And you showed that "developers" tend to vote differently than "gamers", at least when averaged together :-)

Still looking forward to the judge's scores/comments in the polish category... (No hurry though.)

CSV=Comma Separated Variable
It is a regular text file, with the fields/variables divided by a comma. You can use Excel, or a Spreadsheet to open it in a nice to read display. Probably other ways to view CSV in a nice formatted way as well.

>Still looking forward to the judge's scores/comments in the polish category
OK, keep reminding me. Also, keep in mind that their comments were not for EVERY game. For the most part, some mentioned a game or two, or commented on the contest as a whole. Next year, I will add a comment field after each game, for the judges who have the time to comment on Polish.

Well, there is a lot of data in this thread. It would be VERY good for someone to summarize it in a report, as was done in uDG 2002. Anyone?

Some new tables/charts: http://www.reversecode.com/powermacx/udg04stats.html

Please note that some of the charts & decimal places in the table's values are slightly different from what I previously posted (not much, ie: my previous comments about them are still valid). Why? Well... there is this game called l1neum, which is called different in it's .csv file so that messed up some data when I sorted it, and in the end I forgot to add the votes of one game to my basic "all votes" spreadsheet. BTW, I think that the "number of votes" stat presented earlier (not by me) had incorrect values for the same reason (l1neum/OneNeum).

Note: For the 2D vs 3D charts, I assumed that BumperCars was 2D, but I never played it, so if it actually was 3D I'll have to update that chart. I think Carlos said that the game will be disqualified, but I made all my stats before I read that post, so the votes for BumperCars are included. I really don't want to calculate everything again but in any case, there are about 10 votes for this game so it wouldn't change the end results much.

New charts: Gamer Type vs. Age, Number of Votes by Age and 2D Games vs. 3D Games.

DaFalcon Wrote:Story and originality were peer categories, so that may help explain some of why the didn't correlate: they were very different samples. And you showed that "developers" tend to vote differently than "gamers", at least when averaged together :-)

Yes, that's why the charts only compare the public categories. Perhaps I should add an additional correlation table with only developer's votes taken into account?
The problem with this is that, for instance, many of my votes in the public categories (those I can recognize by my comments) didn't have any info! I entered it once the first time I voted, but in many of my votes it didn't show up.

Also, I would like to complete the correlation table with Polish scores, as soon as that info is available.
Edit: I just found out the official results Excel files, so I'll add Polish to the stats tomorrow.