I decided to do a little analysis of playtimes in my latest entry, Dice Settlers. I only look at sessions that completed at least 1 turn of the game, and my analysis is basically just done based on the timestamps of high scores being submitted. Yay for lazy analytics ^_^.

First the high level stats: * 39 people played an average of 25.9 minutes * 18 of these won the game in an average of 42.6 minutes * 21 of these quit after an average of 11.7 minutes * 22 people played more than 20 minutes * 17 hours of "fun" were had

If I restrict this to only players coming from Ludum Dare (ignoring my friends and players of my other games who might have played), I see these stats: * 24 people played an average of 25.1 minutes * 13 of these won the game in an average of 32.2 minutes * 11 of these quit after an average of 16.6 minutes * 16 people played more than 20 minutes * 10 hours of "fun" were had * With 21 ratings at the time of posting this, I guess 3 people didn't rate after playing * 3 people played less than a minute and played only a single turn (let's hope these are the same 3 people!)

Some takeaways: * This is a meaty game (I knew that upon submitting it ^_^), can easily spend more than 20 minutes, and 6 people even spent more than an hour! Almost everyone put in at least 15 minutes. * Rolling dice can be addicting, who knew? (Answer: the whole gambling industry) * My total hours of fun for this game is approaching the amount of time it took to develop it, that's a good sign for a jam game, right?

Want to waste a half hour rolling dice and exploring slightly obscure mechanics? Go play Dice Settlers.

Anyone else have a really meaty game I should sink my teeth into? Post in the comments!