{"author_link":"\/users\/jimbly","author_name":"Jimbly","author_uid":"jimbly","comments":[],"epoch":1674325853,"event":"LD52","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":322921,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"171776","p_author":"Jimbly","p_authorkey":"1000989","p_urlkey":"401078","p_title":"Interesting Statistics about Dice Settlers","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD52","p_time":"1674325853","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1000989","us_name":"Jimbly","us_username":"jimbly","event_start":"1672963200","event_key":"116","event_name":"Ludum Dare 52"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":313060,"_trust":15,"author":989,"body":"![Recording 2023-01-21 at 10.29.20.gif](\/\/\/raw\/dd3\/z\/56b41.gif)\n\nI decided to do a little analysis of playtimes in my latest entry, [Dice Settlers](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/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 ^_^.\n\nFirst the high level stats:\n* 39 people played an average of 25.9 minutes\n* 18 of these won the game in an average of 42.6 minutes\n* 21 of these quit after an average of 11.7 minutes\n* 22 people played more than 20 minutes\n* 17 hours of \"fun\" were had\n\nIf 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:\n* 24 people played an average of 25.1 minutes\n* 13 of these won the game in an average of 32.2 minutes\n* 11 of these quit after an average of 16.6 minutes\n* 16 people played more than 20 minutes\n* 10 hours of \"fun\" were had\n* With 21 ratings at the time of posting this, I guess 3 people didn't rate after playing\n* 3 people played less than a minute and played only a single turn (let's hope these are the same 3 people!)\n\nSome takeaways:\n* 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.\n* Rolling dice can be addicting, who knew? (Answer: the whole gambling industry)\n* 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?\n\nWant to waste a half hour rolling dice and exploring slightly obscure mechanics?  Go play [Dice Settlers](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/dice-settlers).\n\nAnyone else have a really meaty game I should sink my teeth into?  Post in the comments!","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2023-01-23T23:20:44Z","created":"2023-01-21T18:25:16Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":322921,"love":5,"love-timestamp":"2024-10-11T16:47:23Z","meta":[],"modified":"2024-10-11T16:47:23Z","name":"Interesting Statistics about Dice Settlers","node-timestamp":"2023-01-21T18:30:53Z","parent":317443,"parents":[1,5,9,313060,317443],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/dice-settlers\/interesting-statistics-about-dice-settlers","published":"2023-01-21T18:30:53Z","scope":"public","slug":"interesting-statistics-about-dice-settlers","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1008174},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"322921","n_urlkey":"401078","n_parent":"317443","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/dice-settlers\/interesting-statistics-about-dice-settlers","n_slug":"interesting-statistics-about-dic","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"989","n_created":"1674325516","n_modified":"1728665243","n_version":"1008174","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/dice-settlers\/interesting-statistics-about-dice-settlers","text":"![Recording 2023-01-21 at 10.29.20.gif](\/\/\/raw\/dd3\/z\/56b41.gif)\n\nI decided to do a little analysis of playtimes in my latest entry, [Dice Settlers](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/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 ^_^.\n\nFirst the high level stats:\n* 39 people played an average of 25.9 minutes\n* 18 of these won the game in an average of 42.6 minutes\n* 21 of these quit after an average of 11.7 minutes\n* 22 people played more than 20 minutes\n* 17 hours of \"fun\" were had\n\nIf 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:\n* 24 people played an average of 25.1 minutes\n* 13 of these won the game in an average of 32.2 minutes\n* 11 of these quit after an average of 16.6 minutes\n* 16 people played more than 20 minutes\n* 10 hours of \"fun\" were had\n* With 21 ratings at the time of posting this, I guess 3 people didn't rate after playing\n* 3 people played less than a minute and played only a single turn (let's hope these are the same 3 people!)\n\nSome takeaways:\n* 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.\n* Rolling dice can be addicting, who knew? (Answer: the whole gambling industry)\n* 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?\n\nWant to waste a half hour rolling dice and exploring slightly obscure mechanics?  Go play [Dice Settlers](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/dice-settlers).\n\nAnyone else have a really meaty game I should sink my teeth into?  Post in the comments!","title":"Interesting Statistics about Dice Settlers","wayback_source":[]}