Thread by @globalgamejam

1/ #GGJ2018 Fun Facts from our Survey

Participant Age:
Mean: 25
Median: 24
Mode: 22
Oldest Participant: 59 (Which is still pretty young!)

2/ Gender breakdown

Women: 17.21%
Men: 78.72%
Non-binary: 2.02%
Prefer not to say: 2.05%

We've got things in the works to help balance these numbers.

3/ Education!

High school or Equivalent: 27.73%
Some college: 17.99%
Associates: 4.42%
Bachelors: 34.19%
Masters (MS, MA): 10.45%
Professional Degree (MD, JD, MBA, etc.): 3.4%
Doctorate (PhD, EdD): 1.23%
None: 0.6%

4/ Back to age!

For #GGJ17:
Mean: 25
Median: 24
Mode: 23

For #GGJ18, 22 year olds were 8.8% of our participants, and 7.5% were 23 years old. Curious to see who cinches the mode for #GGJ19.

5/ Professional Identity

Hobbyist: 27.95%
Student: 34.93%
1-person Indie: 14.33%
Small Company (<10): 13.89%
Medium Company (<50): 3.23%
Big Company (>50): 3.23%
Other: 2.42%

6/ I think as time goes on, the indie and the company options are going to go up as more and more people participate in GGJ as students, and then go off into the game industry and recognize how beneficial GGJ is to their careers too.

7/ If anyone has any questions about stats, now is the time to ask!

8/ PARTICIPANT JAMMING EXPERIENCE!!!!

First time jamming(!): 43.62%
Second time: 19.22%
3-5: 24.4%
6-10: 8.53%
More than 10: 4.23%

This means for 18,674 people, it was their first GGJ, and their first jam entirely! I hope we made a good impression. :3

9/ FOOD.

84.36% of you attended a site that had catered food.

We have no data on this, but I'm 100% guessing the food fell into one of two categories:
Pizza
Coffee

10/ The Superest of Volunteers!

3.43% of our site organizers have put on a site for EVERY Global Game Jam.

11/ Lifelong Friends

25.78% of you had never met your teammates before participating in #GGJ18.

That's all for now. Remember, all friends were at one point strangers!

Fin.

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