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MMZ not logged in · Tue May 31, 2005 10:31 pm

maybe people are talking about it and the games are getting some limelight elsewhere?

mikey · #47 Post by **mikey** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:03 am

That's interesting. But you know what they say here, May is the month of love,... Alright, now it's June I know.

It may be true that the games could be discussed elsewhere, and there could be a link to Anipike's DS links. I'll try to google around to find some new places discussing games...

Hmmm, anipike, this reminds me I have to update my links in there (one day ^_^), since the whole manga.sk server has moved and all. I'm hoping to be able to have some stats as well when the migration and setups are completed.

rioka · #48 Post by **rioka** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:37 am

Anipike has a forum and there are a lot of members. They also have a gaming section. It could be from there. I'll check it out later.

...And why am I talking in short sentences? <.<

But yes, that's some interesting news. There was a spike in downloads one time in April for the GSK game and I believe that came from mikey's article (coincided with his article release). This new increase must be from some other source and one we don't know about. Either that or word of mouth is really moving along.

Megaman Z · #49 Post by **Megaman Z** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:10 pm

oh, dear! American Bishoujo just got added! AND IT'S TOP RATED! WATCH OUT PYTOM! (Renai Archives is also top rated as well)

Stats as of post time: "Added: 05-31-2005, Hits: 5, Rating: 10.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0"

#50 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:24 pm

Well, it's sent a whopping 5 hits my way, so I think I the server can somehow survive that onslaught. Six hits, if you count the guy who checked out the link before adding it to the anipike.

I added AB to the anipike last night. I threw in a plug for the archives, and added them prominently to the AB home-page, because fairly soon the archives will fall off the anipike page, while AB (because of it's alphabetical placement) will probably stay there for a while.

Now back to trying to find an apartment in the DC area.

mikey · #51 Post by **mikey** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:54 pm

eclipse wrote:There was a spike in downloads one time in April for the GSK game and I believe that came from mikey's article (coincided with his article release).

Hmmm, to date there were 690 people who read the article (it's above average considering the time). The Czech manga.cz also lists manga.sk articles, so that might have helped as well.

mikey · #52 Post by **mikey** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:11 am

Right, so it's end of the month and I have some stats, because my new webmaster implemented them in mid-June. So they are for HALF THE MONTH, but still, it's interesting to see them!

In medias res, top downloads:
Transfer Teacher - 94
Marry Me Misato - 68
River Trap - 58
Milk Swim - 51
Black Pencil - 44
Kaori - 34

(this of course does not mean the d/l was completed, or that the person played it)

One interesting statistic - the leading visiting country for atp's site is... Vietnam!

Well, anyway, now I'm finally numbers and all. So until next month I guess.

papillon · #53 Post by **papillon** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:21 am

According to my filehost stats, for the month of June (and it only came out halfway through the month) the Summer Schoolgirls demo has somewhere around 1000 downloads. But the stats are hard to make sense of, so that could be completely wrong.

(It says 2373 views, 1183 entries, 1101 exits)

#54 Post by **PyTom** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:25 pm

One thing to be careful of, when counting downloads of files, is that many times one'll get people using (thrice-damned) download accellerators, that may open a large number of connections for each file. So to get an accurate count, you can't just look at the number of hits on a particular file, but instead you need to do something more sophisticated.

Two techniques I use are to count the number of unique hosts downloading a file, and to divide the total number of bytes downloaded of a particular file by the size of the file.

For example, Ren'Py 4.8.10 reports 184 hits. However, only 254,912k bytes of data have been sent out over the wire. Dividing by a file size of 3200k, I get 79 downloads. Which is alot less than the 184 hits on the file, although still substantial for a tool like Ren'Py.

That reminds me... I haven't posted MW's stats for the month. I'll do that when I get home. Back to the day job, dealing with conditional constraint rewriting systems.

rioka · #55 Post by **rioka** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:15 pm

Using PyTom's byte method, my monthly download for the past three months came to...

June
GSK: 162
AP: 80

May
GSK: 186
AP: 61

April
GSK: 181
AP: 81

#56 Post by **PyTom** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:42 pm

Okay, update for June, while there's still a little June left. All of these stats are as of the 25th, as I did generate them, but put off writing them up until now.

MW has been downloaded a total of 1393 times. That's 234 times since the last time I posted. This is with the unique-ips method.

Here's the graph, newer is to the left. The weird spike probably has something to do with the changeover to apache2.

(Week 4 goes up to 111 hits, including 2 downloads of the zip from the archive.)

As time goes by, games seem to be getting a larger proportion of their hits from the archives. Including the archives, AP is getting a similar number of downloads to MW per month.

The archives sent out 31 gigs this month, as compared to 19 gigs last month and 16 the month before that.

Bully!

Megaman Z · #57 Post by **Megaman Z** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:53 am

we seem to be getting more and more publicity, don't we... I wonder if PCGAMER would actually do an article on renai games... I have yet to see one in there.

rioka · #58 Post by **rioka** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:49 pm

It would be nice if they did an article about it on PCGAMER but what about in the anime specialty mags like Animerica, Anime Insider, and so forth? Ren'ai game coverage should've been in there by now.

Btw, from what I understand, Animerica accepts articles from freelancers. If someone here :cough:mikey:cough: would be willing to write and submit something, that would be awesome! Anyways, maybe I'll make a request to Anime Insider... <.<

Megaman Z · #59 Post by **Megaman Z** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:33 pm

well, there's a small chance. I sent an email regarding a reply to a published letter in the July '05 issue of PCGAMER (the letter was about the "Mod Crackdown" article). well, I kinda... mentioned where one of our threads was. we may be getting some publicity in that magazine. it's only a small chance, though.

mikey · #60 Post by **mikey** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:57 pm

eclipse wrote:Btw, from what I understand, Animerica accepts articles from freelancers. If someone here :cough:mikey:cough: would be willing to write and submit something, that would be awesome!

What a subtle way of saying... "hey, write your articles for someone else!"
^_^ jk. I don't know about this - currently I'm happy that there is a website where the articles make sense instead of just being there to enlighten people.

Actually, there were a few articles about b-games in czech and slovak printed (general) gaming magazines. In the best selling ones of each country there was Horny bunnies 2 and Gibo, the latter done a bit worse. But you can guess the presentation - labeled Japanese perverted games. Still, there IS some awareness.

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