Is there a way to track Stonehenge Rule Set Views and Downloads?


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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.

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Spardo wrote:
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.

Nope. There's currently no way for you to see that data, and no convenient way for us to see it either.

We hope that people will make use of the "review this product" feature to help everyone else sort the wheat from the chaff.


Spardo wrote:

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.

Ahh, want to track your way to fame and glory I see :-). Spamming could count. But also, if you manage to work on formatting your rules to they space correctly, or make an update, that would end up throwing the count off. I know I have managed to make a few tweaks to rules I had, and then downloaded to see if they formatted correctly.

Best way is to maybe go on Boardgame Geek and ask for feedback, and also see how people rate your games. Feel free to get on the Yahoo forum and also discuss games there to.

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