Short results of the survey.

Total number of unique voters: 29


Questions:

1. When do you think was (or is, or will be) a golden age of the IF?

Results:
1978: || (2)
1979: || (2)
1980: || (2)
1981: ||||||||| (9)
1982: ||||||||| (9)
1983: ||||||||| (9)
1984: |||||||||||| (12)
1985: |||||||||||||||| (16)
1986: |||||||||||||||| (16)
1987: ||||||||||||||| (15)
1988: |||||||||||||| (14)
1989: ||||||||||||| (13)
1990: ||||| (5)
1991: ||||| (5)
1992: |||||| (6)
1993: ||||| (5)
1994: ||||| (5)
1995: ||||| (5)
1996: ||||| (5)
1997: ||||| (5)
1998: ||||| (5)
1999: |||| (4)
2000: |||| (4)
2001: ||||||||| (9)
2002: || (2)
2003: ||| (3)
2004: || (2)
Later then 2004: || (2)
Pass: 6


2. When did you play your first IF game?

Results:
During a 1978-1979 period: | (1)
During a 1980-1981 period: ||| (3)
During a 1982-1983 period: ||||||| (7)
During a 1984-1985 period: |||||| (6)
During a 1986-1987 period: || (2)
During a 1988-1989 period: ||| (3)
During a 1990-1991 period: | (1)
During a 1992-1993 period: (0)
During a 1994-1995 period: ||| (3)
During a 1996-1997 period: (0)
During a 1998-1999 period: || (2)
During a 2000-2001 period: (0)
Pass: 1


3. What's your educational background?

Results:
Authors currently at a high school: 2
Authors currently at a college or author didn't graduated: 7
Authors currently at a university: 2
Bachelors (BA) and Masters of Arts (MA): 13
Doctors (Ph.D.): 3


4. How long ago did you write your first game?

Results:
During a 1980-1981 period: | (1)
During a 1982-1983 period: ||| (3)
During a 1984-1985 period: || (2)
During a 1986-1987 period: | (1)
During a 1988-1989 period: | (1)
During a 1990-1991 period: (0)
During a 1992-1993 period: (0)
During a 1994-1995 period: | (1)
During a 1996-1997 period: ||| (3)
During a 1998-1999 period: ||| (3)
During a 2000-2001 period: |||| (4)
The IF Competition 2001 is a first game of the author: ||||||||| (9)
Long ago: 1


5. What's your age?

Results:
16-18 years: ||| (3)
19-21 years: ||| (3)
21-24 years: |||| (4)
25-28 years: ||| (3)
29-33 years: |||||||||| (10)
34-40 years: ||||| (5)
Older then 40 years: | (1)
Average age: 27.03 years


6. If, suddenly, on your game you'll start to receive only short two line e-mail notes from the players; how much of the notes will you receive before you'll start ignore them?

[I decide to dismiss the results of this question, because the question was badly molded. Anyway, most of the Authors were of type "I won't ignore any of the notes." --Stas]


7. Have you ever written a fairly detailed review of an IF game?

Results:
Yes: 14
No: 15


8. Do you think that IF games should be somehow different from the current state?

Results:
Yes: 9
No: 17
Pass: 3


9. Have you found a people in the IF community whom you can call friends?

Results:
Yes: 19
No: 10


10. Do you think that one time you'll write (or have written) an excellent game?

Results:
Yes: 26
No: 2
Pass: 1


11. If you've already wrote a game (before IF Competition 2001), do you think that you got enough feedback from the players on the game?

Results:
Yes: 13
No: 5
Pass: 1
"The IF Competition 2001 is my first game.": 9


12. Are you happy with your IF Competition game?

Results:
Yes: 21
No: 8


13. Have you ever written a scathing review of an IF game?

Results:
Yes: 8
No: 21


14. Is your IF Competition game the first one for you?

Results:
Yes: 10
No: 17
Pass: 2


15. Do you have an "idol" among the IF writers, from whom you want to learn?

Results:
Yes: 12
No: 17


16. Are you happy with your position in the IF community?

Results:
Yes: 19
No: 4
"I don't have a position.": 6


17. Do you think that there are IF legends, who are still actively participating in the IF community?

Results:
Yes: 16
No: 5
Pass: 3
"I have not enough knowledge.": 5


18. Do you try to play every game that is coming out?

Results:
Yes: 3
No: 26


19. Are you happy with an IF community in general?

Results:
Yes: 22
No: 4
Pass: 2
"I have no enough knowledge.": 1


20. Are you sending your scores of the games, which you had finished, to the SPAG Scoreboard?

Results:
Yes: 4
No: 23
Pass: 2


21. Did you regularly (every week) work on your IF Competition game?

Results:
Yes: 22
No: 7


22. Do you prefer long detailed games over short (but with good ideas) games?

Results:
Yes: 4
No: 22
"Depends.": 3


23. Have you ever sent scores of games to SPAG's Scoreboard?

Results:
Yes: 8
No: 19
Pass: 2


24. When writing a game, do you try for perfection?

Results:
Yes: 22
No: 4
Pass: 3


25. If you don't like an IF game, do you usually write a comment to the author of the game saying so?

Results:
Yes: 1
No: 28


26. Do you usually decide that it is worth it to play a game only after reading SPAG/XYZZYnews / Brass Lantern or any other review?

Results:
Yes: 7
No: 21
"Depends.": 1


27. If you liked an IF game, do you usually write a comment to the author of the game saying so?

Results:
Yes: 14
No: 15


28. Do you think that you'll write another IF game?

Results:
Yes: 29
No: 0


29. Do you think (hope) that your IF Competition 2001 game will end up at least as high as 26th?

Results:
Yes: 23
No: 4
Pass: 2


30. Do you think that IF games have a commercial future?

Results:
Yes: 6
No: 22
Pass: 1


31. Do you try to play every game that receives good recommendations?

Results:
Yes: 12
No: 17


32. Are you reading every SPAG issue (more or less from start to end)?

Results:
Yes: 13
No: 15


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