Pouet.net visualized
Marq
demoscene productions. The end results can be found on my blog here:
http://www.kameli.net/marq/?p=595. There will be more as I proceed,
but these initial figures done in a day are already pretty revealing.
robotski
I wanted to do something like this too, but didn’t know how. I made
some small visualizations for my book and kind of extracted the tables
manually (thankfully only for 8-bit/Console Demos which usually do not
exceed 100 productions per year). Since I am not into scripting, I
would appreciate some more details of how you accessed the pouet
database.
And I definitely would be up to a bigger demoscene visualization
project, if I can help.
-Daniel
Anders Carlsson
About the peak around 1990, how can that be explained? I wonder if it
was alsa peak of the amount of sceners. I guess there were lots of
small demos/intros released on many platforms. Most releases were not
for parties, and they were not so "professionalized".
The peak is mostly caused by C64, I guess. There are some separate
C64-stat-visualizations here: http://www.xentax.com/?page_id=235
Anyone knows of more projects like this?
-a
Michael Kargas
It was indeed the C64 releases.
Also, do you remember when blkpanther ( http://pouet.net/user.php?who=2229 ) wrote a script to add automatically every CSDb release to Pouet. It could be that while most C64 stuff are there, many PC/Amiga releases are still missing from Pouet. But maybe you are right, sceners might be releasing a lot of lower quality stuff in the early years. Quantity over quality.
Optimus
robotski
bitworld (http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/) but still did not make it to
pouet.
-Daniel
Anders Carlsson
quality, but rather less standardized and less polished. And also as
Daniel says, there should be plenty of Amiga demos from 1990 and if
they're also missing, then again it makes me wonder - were there more
sceners active in 1990 than at any other moment? Please, answer. ;)
-a
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Marq
> > The peak is mostly caused by C64, I guess. There are some
> > separate
> > C64-stat-visualizations here:http://www.xentax.com/?page_id=235
>
> It was indeed the C64 releases.
> in the early years. Quantity over quality.
2000s, people started adding new productions there routinely. So it's
likely that new stuff is well represented, too. The real amount of
productions per year might be impossible to find out, but at least
these visualizations give some sort of clues and definitely they
represent the lower limit at least. The high spike seen around 1990 is
not just demos - at that time they used to publish a lot of diskmags,
too (and crack intros). Mags were small with maybe 10 articles and
they were released even biweekly.
robotski
have been very popular around 1990.
doreen
Bye Doreen
Trixter
you a dump of the database, or did you scrape the website?
Marq
> Marq, how did you access the Pouet data? Did gargaj or someone give
> you a dump of the database, or did you scrape the website?
something similar available here:
http://www.pouet.net/faq.php#12
I'm not completely sure if that feed would have met my needs, but I
guess it would work for many purposes.
Trixter
allow, simply email them. Maybe next time, try that :-)
However, the "http://www.pouet.net/export/prod.xnfo.php?which=9450"
form is interesting; I wonder if one could simply start at production
1 and go until you hit the last added prod. Did your scripts gather
any information not present in the xnfo output?