Analysis Dimensions
Every game is analyzed across the same standardized set of questions, grouped by origin, design, business model, market response, and overall assessment.
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dimensions
26
games
- Principal inception figure(s) principalInceptionFigures
- Immediate origin story / spark immediateOriginStorySpark
- Earliest playable form earliestPlayableForm
- Precursor projects / experiments precursorProjectsExperiments
- Prior commercial / professional experience priorCommercialProfessionalExperience
- Geographic base and local scene geographicBaseAndLocalScene
- Socioeconomic context at inception socioeconomicContextAtInception
- Social capital / network advantages socialCapitalNetworkAdvantages
- Nepotism assessment nepotismAssessment
- Original design thesis originalDesignThesis
- Was the design aimed at TAM capture? wasTheDesignAimedAtTamCapture
- Target payer / customer targetPayerCustomer
- Distribution channel distributionChannel
- Publisher / manufacturing / business partner structure publisherManufacturingBusinessPartnerStructure
- Unit economics visible publicly unitEconomicsVisiblePublicly
- Sales / ownership proxy salesOwnershipProxy
- Revenue streams revenueStreams
- Who likely split revenue? whoLikelySplitRevenue
- Recoupment logic recoupmentLogic
- Evidence of demand / community pull evidenceOfDemandCommunityPull
- Critical reception / ratings signal criticalReceptionRatingsSignal
- Network effects and liquidity networkEffectsAndLiquidity
- Hardware / physicality choice hardwarePhysicalityChoice
- Marketing / story hook marketingStoryHook
- Luck / happy accident component luckHappyAccidentComponent
- Meticulous decisions that mattered meticulousDecisionsThatMattered
- Biggest commercial weakness biggestCommercialWeakness
- Biggest commercial strength biggestCommercialStrength
- Longevity / present condition longevityPresentCondition
- Digital derivative / sequel analysis digitalDerivativeSequelAnalysis
- Revenue magnitude: conservative public read revenueMagnitudeConservativePublicRead
- Stakeholder recuperation likelihood stakeholderRecuperationLikelihood
- Artistic vs commercial classification artisticVsCommercialClassification
- One-sentence neutral verdict oneSentenceNeutralVerdict
- Confidence / missing data caveats confidenceMissingDataCaveats
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