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What is a video game?

by Rosden Shadow

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Velocity

This game has no Velocity yet. The scoring pass only ranks games that clear an audience floor and have enough history to measure acceleration over — everything below that line is collected but not scored, which is most of the catalogue.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

Not enough of the ladder to compare.

Only ratings could be plotted, so there is no second counter to compare the timing against.

Lead and lag for What is a video game?, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-12, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 24 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 13Oct 12Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 30 days, so counters that differ by orders of magnitude can be compared by shape. The vertical gap is what matters: a line higher on the left took its change earlier. The real counts are in the legend, and the day-by-day numbers are below.

Series — over Sep 13 to Oct 12

  • Ratings — people finished and cared24240
  • Topic views are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
  • Comments are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
The numbers behind the chart

The counter as we recorded it that day, and beside it the share of the window’s change it had reached — the value the chart plots.

DayRatings
Sep 1324
Sep 1424
Sep 1524
Sep 1624
Sep 1724
Sep 1824
Sep 1924
Sep 2024
Sep 2124
Sep 2224
Sep 2324
Sep 2424
Sep 2524
Sep 2624
Sep 2724
Sep 2824
Sep 2924
Sep 3024
Oct 124
Oct 224
Oct 324
Oct 424
Oct 524
Oct 624
Oct 724
Oct 824
Oct 924
Oct 1024
Oct 1124
Oct 1224
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-12
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion2400

A blank change is not a zero: the scoring pass refuses a window whose nearest observation is too stale to compare, rather than differencing two points that are not seven days apart.

Not our number

On itch.io's own charts

Categories

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · Other824-2-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · Other chart across 45 readings: slipping, #815 to #824 (best #815, worst #824).
Top sellers · Other1,007
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #game-design1800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #game-design chart across 34 readings: holding, #18 to #18 (best #18, worst #18).
Top rated · #altgame4700Position on itch.io's Top rated · #altgame chart across 53 readings: climbing, #51 to #47 (best #47, worst #51).
Top rated · #gamemaker1870-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gamemaker chart across 34 readings: slipping, #183 to #187 (best #183, worst #187).
Top rated · #artgame313-1-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #artgame chart across 52 readings: climbing, #337 to #313 (best #308, worst #337).
Top rated · #weird362-1-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #weird chart across 34 readings: slipping, #357 to #362 (best #357, worst #362).
Top rated · #experimental454-1-10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #experimental chart across 35 readings: slipping, #440 to #454 (best #440, worst #454).
Top rated · #text-based478+1-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #text-based chart across 34 readings: slipping, #475 to #478 (best #474, worst #480).
Top rated · #short2,831
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.67 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-20. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

Go to the source

We hold counters and metadata only. Nothing on the game’s own page — its description, its screenshots, its build — is republished here, and everything worth reading about it is behind those links.