Popularity

[Enerccio]

Well, i completed and released one game
http://bishojo.ic.cz/stats/webalizer/ - (cz language sorry)
but you can see
i got 1354 visitors fot two months
Over 8693 files was dowloaded (sadly i cannot tell how much from that was actually game) but the main point:
TOTAL DOWNLOAD DATA IS 2822774 KB! That is nearly 3GB for two months and 1759395 KB for January.

[denzil]

(sadly i cannot tell how much from that was actually game)

[sorry for Czech]
Když si klikneš na název něsíce tak ti to zobrazí podrobnější statistiky - hry nejspíš najdeš v sekci v části "Nej 15 z 123 URL celkem podle KBytu", ale zdá se že Webalizer to nezpracoval správně protože máš v názvu souboru mezery - příště radši použij podtržítka - budeš potom moct zjistit kolik které verze se stáhlo.
[/sorry for Czech]

[Enerccio]

(sadly i cannot tell how much from that was actually game)

[sorry for Czech]
Když si klikneš na název něsíce tak ti to zobrazí podrobnější statistiky - hry nejspíš najdeš v sekci v části "Nej 15 z 123 URL celkem podle KBytu", ale zdá se že Webalizer to nezpracoval správně protože máš v názvu souboru mezery - příště radši použij podtržítka - budeš potom moct zjistit kolik které verze se stáhlo.
[/sorry for Czech]

then:
Download of My teacher (all versions):
November: 11 - 46374KB
December: 388 - 1003137KB
January: 705 - 1730421KB
That is total:
1 104 download of my game and total 2 779 932 KB that is 2.65 GB!
I AM TOTALY SHOCKED AND SURPIRSED

[EwanG]

Only have counts for direct dl's of Senior Year from the bklovr website. I suppose I could bother the VisualNews folks for their counts. The counts from the Megaupload site are not that large because they weren't used for long, and so I don't include them here. Anyway, here's what my webalizer shows:

December 2006
PC Version - 301
Linux Version - 8
Mac Version - 5

January 2007
Mac Version - 998
PC Version - 446
Linux Version - 31

Have to say I'm surprised to see so many more Mac DL's versus the PC DL's. Certainly makes the case that you want to be sure to release all three versions.

FWIW,
Ewan

[DaFool]

Maybe that's the time when a Mac Gamer's website advertised the game? Or maybe one of the banner things start to get shown at a Mac-centric place?

[Kurb]

Very interesting.

[Recca Phoenix]

Those mac numbers are surprising, and they make me (a devoted mac owner) quite happy ^_^

[PyTom]

Rise from your grave, O popularity thread!

Anyway, MW 2.0 has been out for a week now. As far as I know, it's been downloaded 708 times since the initial release:

From bishoujo.us:

318 Windows Installer
229 Mac Zip
85 Windows Zip
24 Linux Tarball

From download.com:

50 Windows Installer
2 Mac Zip

I promoted it in a number of places. The top few referring sites (by hits to the MW web page) are:

501 visual-novels.net
128 lemmasoft.renai.us
124 versiontracker.com
76 forums.novelnews.net
54 otakuism.com
27 forums.megatokyo.com
27 renpy.org

I also plugged it at 4chan /jp/, but since they don't allow direct links, it's hard to tell how much actually came from them. I can bound it at ~80 visits, and it could be much less.

Note that many of the downloads are direct links from various download sites to the files on my server, and hence don't show up in this report. I'm going to try to figure out how many downloads I've gotten from each site.

Methodology: Downloads are bytes transfered divided by file size. Pageviews are by google analytics.

[blakjak]

that's much better than MW did. Congrats.