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Crawl Survey Results Crawl survey results Survey questions 1. What is your age? 2. What is your country? 3. Do you play locally, on a server, or both? 4. Do you play Tiles, ASCII, or both? 5. OS(es) at home? 6. Roguelikes played before? 7. Where did you learn about Crawl? 8. And when? 9. How many Crawl wins? (If none, you may specify your best game.) 10.If you take part in the tournament, where did you hear about it? 11.Ever recommend Crawl? 12.Which computer game have you played most in the last month? (July) Presentation structure ● Who are our players? ● How do they play? ● How did they arrive at Crawl? ● What is their overall win rate? ● What else are they playing? Who are our players? age distribution 90 83 80 70 64 60 50 49 40 32 30 25 20 10 8 3 4 4 0 14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50+ Minimum: 14 Maximum: 57 Median: 26 Average: 27.3 most common: 25 (23 times!) Who are our players? Gender 26% 94% N/A 4% 6% 70% Male Female Who are our players? USA 147 Canada UK Germany Finland Russia Poland France Italy Sweden Norway 19 Australia 2 New Zealand 21 22 4 Japan 12 17 2 Thailand 5 3 3 12 9 8 6 Brazil others* * other countries: Argentina, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech republic, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Ukraine, United arab emirates Who are our players? Continents players/populaton 61% 1,6 1,51 1,4 1,2 1 1% North America Europe 0,8 Australia 0,57 0,6 0,5 Asia 0,45 South America 0,4 4% 0,23 0,2 0,12 0,06 6% 0 Canada USA Germany 28% Finland Australia UK Russia Players with English as a primary language: 74.5% How do they play? operating systems 52% Windows Linux 1% Mac OS X Windows, Linux Windows, Mac Linux, Mac 2% 3% Windows, Linux, Mac 14% 4% other 6% 18% How do they play? Operating systems Windows 208 Linux 101 Mac OS X 41 DOS 2 FreeBSD 10 Unix variant 3 iPhone 2 console 1 0 50 100 150 200 250 Windows 2000 1 debian 14 Linux Windows XP 131 fedora 4 gentoo 4 Windows Vista 53 slackware 3 Windows 7 22 ubuntu 43 no specification 34 no specification 34 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Crawl download rates 35000 source dos 30000 mac tiles 25000 mac os x 20000 windows tiles windows 15000 10000 5000 version release date 0 0.1.7 0.2.7 0.3.4 0.4.5 0.5.0 0.5.1 0.5.2 0.1.7 31/12/06 0.2.7 11/06/07 0.3.4 29/01/08 0.4.5 0.4.5 15/01/09 0.5.0 12/06/09 19% 43% 5%4% 15% 14% 0.5.1 09/07/30 0.5.2 11/10/09 How do they play? local vs. server play 54% locally mostly locally both mostly server server 5% 19% 12% 10% How do they play? ASCII vs. Tiles 53% 5%1% 33% 5% ASCII mostly ASCII 1% both 8% 55% mostly tiles 4% 34% tiles outer circle: all data inner circle: local games only ASCII vs. Tiles 60 year of discovering Crawl 50 40 30 20 10 0 1997/98 1999-2002 2003-2005 2006-2008 2009 50 player age 80 roguelikes played before 45 40 70 35 60 30 50 25 40 ASCII 20 30 Tiles 15 10 20 5 10 0 0 14-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40+ 0 1-2 3-9 10+ How do they play? Tournament participation 39% 50% 23% yes 3% 77% no 50% maybe 58% outer circle: all data middle circle; ASCII players inner circle: Tiles players players taking part in the tournament: 718 survey participants taking part: 102 Tournaments NetHack/Crawl games played devnull games 45000 NAO games 40000 CAO games 35000 30000 players taking part, games won 25000 1400 20000 15000 1200 10000 devnull players 5000 1000 devnull wins 0 NAO wins 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 800 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 CAO players CAO wins 600 devnull Nethack tournament 400 NAO nethack.alt.org CAO crawl.akrasiac.org 200 0 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 Tournament participation heard about tournament where? ##crawl 39 crawl.akrasiac.org 39 Something Awful forums 24 Crawl website 17 Usenet (unspecified) 9 rec.games.roguelike.misc 8 Temple of the roguelikes 7 Crawl wiki 6 Sourceforge 5 Bay12 forums 4 Friend 3 online somewhere 3 other forum 2 other 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 (123 non-answers) Tournament participation reasons for not taking part didn't know about it 14 would rather play tiles 10 no time 9 not good enough 9 technical issues 6 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 (121 non-answers) When did they find Crawl? 1997/98, Linley's Dungeon Crawl 18 1999-2002, original Crawl 19 2003-2005, Crawl 4.0.0 beta 26 54 before Stonesoup 2006 18 Dungeon Crawl Stonesoup 2007 34 2008 56 2009 63 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2009 2008 2007 2006 7% 7% 21% 7% 13% 21% 24% 2003-2005, Crawl 4.0.0 beta 26 1999-2002, original Crawl 1997/98, Linley's Dungeon Crawl How did they find Crawl? 6 websearch for roguelikes or free games 35 #nethack or similar channel 5 Something Awful forums 29 Home of the Underdogs Penny Arcade forum 4 Friends/family 27 rec.games.roguelike.nethack 4 rec.games.roguelike.misc/dev 22 game informer magazine 3 Usenet (unspecified) 13 article about roguelikes 3 Temple of the roguelikes 11 rec.games.roguelike.adom 3 Roguebasin 10 Arstechnica forums 2 browsing package manager for games 8 some games website 9 wikipedia page about roguelikes 8 other forum 10 8 Bay12games forums online somewhere 9 7 4chan traditional games board other 3 @play column 7 n/a 2 0 10 20 30 40 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 How did they find Crawl? 30 w ebsearch for roguelikes or free games Something Aw ful forums 25 friends/family w ebsite about roguelikes or free games usenet gaming forum/channel 20 article about roguelikes brow sing package manager for games 15 10 5 0 1997/98 1999-2002 2003-2005 2006-2008 2009 Roguelikes played before NetHack 199 50 ADOM 110 Number of roguelikes Angband 76 45 Rogue 50 40 DoomRL 43 35 Dwarf Fortress 39 POWDER 32 30 Angband variants 31 25 Mines of Moria 38 20 SLASH'EM 25 T.o.M.E. 24 15 IVAN 23 10 ZAngband 23 5 Incursion 14 GearHead 13 0 Hack 13 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ Shiren the Wanderer 12 Diablo 11 4 Frozen Depths, Triangle Wizard, UnReal World Larn 11 3 Azure Dreams, Privateer: Ascii Sector, Spelunky Castle of the Winds 8 2 Alphaman, Berserk!, CastlevaniaRL, ChessRogue, DND, Dragon Crystal, Elona 8 Dungeon Hack, Fatal Labyrinth, Izuna, Kharne, Lost Labyrinth, Fushigi No Dungon 7 Mage Guild, Martin's Dungeon Bash, Warp Rogue, NetHack variants 7 “japanese console games” Rogue variants 6 1 3059, AliensRL, Avanor, Baroque, DDRogue, Dungeon Doom, SporkHack 5 Dungeon of the Necromancer's Domain, Dungeonminder, Dweller, "all the major ones" 22 Jacob's Matrix, Legerdemain, MazeCrawl, MetroidRL, "various 7drl" 14 Moraff's Revenge series, Mordor, Pyro, Pyromancer, Ragnarok, "other" 50 Reaping the Dungeon, Rogue's Quest, S.C.O.U.R.G.E., Sewer Jacks, "none" 25 Sword of Fargoal, The Guild, Transcendence, Weird World, ZapM 0 50 100 150 200 250 Win rates number of wins 180 160 140 120 100 38% 80 60 40 never w on 20 w on at least once 0 0 1 2 3 4-9 10+ 62% non-winners n/a beginner medium good expert Zot, orb, 3+ runes good 1-2 runes, dangerous branches, xlvl 20+ expert medium mid-dungeon, xlvl 12+ beginner low levels, self-assessment 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Win rates mode of playing 80 140 year of discovering Crawl 70 120 60 100 50 80 40 60 30 40 20 20 10 0 Tiles server play non-tourn. 0 ASCII local play tournament 1999-2002 2006-2008 1997/98 2003-2005 2009 60 player age 100 roguelikes played before 50 90 80 40 70 60 30 50 20 40 30 10 20 10 0 0 14-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40+ 0 1-2 3-9 10+ other games played Crawl 74 roguelikes 28 Crawl (tournament) 70 Civilization IV 11 turnbased strategy game 37 "console games" 9 real-time strategy game 21 Fallout 2 + 3 8 Team Fortess 8 MMORPG 16 Warcraft III 8 NetHack 7 first-person shooter 17 World of Warcraft 7 multiplayer mode 91 Dominions 3 5 Dwarf Fortress 5 console games 25 Street Fighter 3 + 4 5 ADOM 4 0 50 100 EVE online 4 Left 4 Dead 4 Spelunky 4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 .
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