Statistics on Quake Singleplayer Maps

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## Statistics on Quake Singleplayer Maps

A statistic like “Who made how many maps” is not available (yet) for two reasons: First there is no consistency on spelling and some mappers changed their handles, second there are too many team releases. It would be a lot of manual work.

Excluding the speedmaps there are 850 files. The number of speedmapping packs (currently in the archive) is 134, some are missing, others are just demos though.

There is a total of 1335 .bsp files plus 105 .pak files (including speedmaps) inside all those zips. That should range well above 1500 .bsp files in total.

Year: Releases (Excellent&Nice / Average / Poor&Crap)

    1996:  95  (   5/  37/ 53)
    1997: 371  ( 111/ 145/113)
    1998:  69  (  28/  24/ 16)
    1999:  40  (  29/   6/  5)
    2000:  35  (  31/   2/  1)
    2001:  53  (  43/   6/  2)
    2002:  29  (  20/   3/  6)
    2003:  35  (  25/   7/  3)
    2004:  32  (  26/   4/  2)
    2005:  24  (  18/   6/  0)
    2006:  15  (   6/   8/  0)
    2007:  22  (  17/   4/  0)

And with the ’97 spike cut away:

Totals in ratings:
Crap: 42
Poor: 167
Average: 262
Nice: 224
Excellent: 147
As a graph this gives a nice almost gauss-normal curve with a shift to goodness (1 = Crap, 5 = Excellent):

Please keep in mind that the ratings might be quite subjective. Also older maps are sometimes rated with regards to their age. The ratings are meant as a guidance.

15.05.2008 in quaddicted.com, Quake Map Descriptions | 2 Comments »

### 2 Responses to “Statistics on Quake Singleplayer Maps”

1. spd Says:
   15.05.2008 18:54

   cool stats

2. Zwiffle Says:
   15.05.2008 19:15

   It seems clear the ratio of quality maps has gone up over the years, which is pretty good imo. I’d rather have 20 really good releases each year rather than 100 bad ones.

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