Interactive fiction popularity metrics

If you’re looking for data on recent trends, I don’t think that poll is what you want; it’s asking for people’s all-time faves, and if you look at the release dates listed in the post, a lot of the games are 20+ years old.

The only collected data I’m aware of is Autumn Chen’s IFComp predictions spreadsheet—not collected for the same purpose, of course, but it has some of the data you want. It goes back to 2018, but it only lists specific authoring systems for 2021 and '22; for 2018–2020, it just indicates whether they’re parser or choice.

Any data on other comps I think you’re going to have to collect manually from IFDB, although, as Victor says, everything you’re looking for should be there.

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