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Yes, I've started my own discussion thread.

My primary question here is based on the fact that I've categorized Artifakes as a "humor" game, and that I'm not sure that's the proper categorization. The game does involve some strategy, and is built around a pretty humorous premise. But does categorizing it as a "humor" game deter Stonehenge gamers from trying a game out at all, or should it have been a strategy game that just happens to be funny?

I've just published my first Stonehenge Anthology Game (called Artifakes), and I'm now curious as to whether there's a way to see how many times the rules have been viewed or downloaded. I'm mostly just curious as to whether anyone's interested in my game from a pure numbers perspective.

Granted, after posting and downloading a PDF of my rules, I noticed that many of the punctuation marks I had typeset dropped out of the PDF... so I wound up going through eight or nine rounds of edits, revisions and re-saves of the file, so I'm certain that if a "download count" were available, my numbers would be hideously skewed.

Is it possible that the counts would be rendered meaningless if people were to "spam" their own rules sets to spike their counts? Sure, but what's the point? I'm really only interested in how often my game - eventually games plural - is being checked out, and as such, spamming my own count would be pretty counterproductve.