Good day, everyone!

What is it about

After Ludum Dare 47 I wrote a blog post with some interesting insights into results, calculated genre/platforms distributions, categories correlation and etc. You can take a look at it here: Some insights into Ludum Dare 47 Results

Today, at the day of Ludum Dare 48 results announcement I decided to do the same thing again.

During this jam we had 2818 games which managed to get 20 ratings or more in at least one of categories, out of which we have genre data for 870 games (we use itch.io link if it is available for parsing genres).

Team Size Distribution

@TheGreenWorm made an interesting suggestion of calculating a stat which shows team size distribution across games. Since all compo games have team size of 1, this stat reflects only team size of jam games.

``` Team Size Distribution across all jam entries Team size 1: 799 (41.61%) Team size 2-4: 925 (48.18%) Team size 5-9: 185 (9.64%) Team size 10+: 11 (0.57%)

Team Size Distribution in TOP-50 in jam Team size 1: 12 (24.00%) Team size 2-4: 29 (58.00%) Team size 5-9: 8 (16.00%) Team size 10+: 1 (2.00%)

Team Size Distribution in TOP-100 in jam Team size 1: 30 (30.00%) Team size 2-4: 56 (56.00%) Team size 5-9: 13 (13.00%) Team size 10+: 1 (1.00%)

Team Size Distribution in TOP-500 in jam Team size 1: 169 (33.80%) Team size 2-4: 264 (52.80%) Team size 5-9: 66 (13.20%) Team size 10+: 1 (0.20%) ```

As expected, larger team sizes have a better chance of getting higher grades and most people participate in jam with team size of 2-4 people.

Other stats

All other stats are calculated the same way as in results for Ludum Dare 47 so I'll just post them as raw output. I won't write explanation for them, since it would just repeat the original post, which I recommend taking a look at.

Raw output from script which calculates stats can be seen on pastebin: Ludum Dare 48 Results.

Dataset

Collected dataset is available in csv format on Google Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16DQ13H_mUJcsjXExHRd4hkHRB9r6rUTgE4HVnqYEUsU/edit?usp=sharing

If you would like to have a source code of data collection and stats calculation script - just DM me on twitter

To sum up

Ludum Dare has come a great way from being a small community of game developers to a global, international event which has participants from all across a globe. This a huge success for the whole gamedev industry and I want to thank all of you for being a part of it.

P.S. Just as previously, if this post was interesting and you value time put into that little research please share link to this page with your friends - I’ll appreciate it. In case you feel like even more interesting stats can be derived please write about it in the comments and I’ll do my best to include it in the post.

P.P.S. I would really appreciate someone making a neat vizualization of these stats/graphs. Feel free to contact me or just write about it in comments.