Statistics

Analysis of author trends

• Scraping IFDB. Emily Short tests various assumptions about IF trends. January 3, 2011.
• More IFDB data. Emily Short, January 3, 2011.
• Take that, Mazes. Emily Short charts maze percentages by year. January 5, 2011.

Analysis of player trends

(Sorted by article author.)

• Starborn: play statistics and Starborn statistics follow-up. Analysis of playing Starborn (Juhana Leinonen).
• Breaking Boundaries in Gaming Demographics. Statistics that show that the average customer of 1893: A World's Fair Mystery (Peter Nepstad) is approximately 50 years old, plus some conclusions about marketing.
• Customer Satisfaction Survey Results, Part Two. An analysis of what people liked and disliked about 1893: A World's Fair Mystery.
• Whom The Playing Changed: An Analysis of 72 Player Transcripts. Analysis of playing Whom the Telling Changed (Aaron A. Reed).
• Whom the Telling of the Playing Changed: Another Analysis. Analysis of playing Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed).

Analysis of competition trends

• Statistics from IF Comp.
• Statistics from XYZZY Awards.

RPG statistics

This is a different sense of "statistics" than above; this section discusses usage of stats like "strength", "wisdom", "dexterity", "hit points", etc. in RPG themed works of IF.

• Statistics in interactive fiction by Jason Dyer. Discusses the use of RPG-like statistics in IF.