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itch.ioRank 15102026-10-16

Different Strokes

by ScotttS

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.001

Different Strokes Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.00 to -0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.00).

Confidence 50%

Confidence is the share of Velocity’s four components that could be measured for this game, scaled down again when there is less than a fortnight to measure over. Here, comments and ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-16. Topic views did not. We also have itch.io chart positions for it, which is the fourth component. It was observed on 14 of the last 14 days. How this is computed.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments moved by 2, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 1, under its floor of 20. Timing two counters against each other needs both of them to have risen, by more than the floor this page sets for that counter so a handful of events cannot read as an ordering, and to have stayed between their own start and end values — a counter that went past one of those and came back has no share of its change to time. The shapes are drawn; which of them moved first is not claimed.

Lead and lag for Different Strokes, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 594 to 596, up 2, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 779 to 780, up 1, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%-100%Sep 18Oct 17CommentsRatings

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. The axis runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating. The scale is widened rather than the curve clipped, so the round trip stays visible.

Series — over Sep 18 to Oct 17

  • Comments — people are talking594596+2
  • Ratings — people finished and cared779780+1
  • Topic views 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.

DayCommentsRatings
Sep 18594779
Sep 19594779
Sep 20594780
Sep 21594780
Sep 22594778
Sep 23593778
Sep 24593778
Sep 25593778
Sep 26594778
Sep 27594778
Sep 28594779
Sep 29594779
Sep 30594779
Oct 1594779
Oct 2594779
Oct 3595779
Oct 4595779
Oct 5595779
Oct 6595779
Oct 7595780
Oct 8595780
Oct 9595780
Oct 10595780
Oct 11595780
Oct 12595780
Oct 13595780
Oct 14596780
Oct 15596780
Oct 16596780
Oct 17596780
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent596+1+2
Ratings conversion7800+3

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 · Other1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · Other chart across 50 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top sellers · Other166-75-14Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Other chart across 50 readings: slipping, #157 to #166 (best #16, worst #178).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated236-2-2Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #234 to #236 (best #230, worst #236).
Top sellers3,164-1,098-2,628Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #2813 to #3164 (best #254, worst #3164).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #drawing100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #drawing chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #ludum-dare-50100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #ludum-dare-50 chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #painting100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #painting chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #sandbox300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #sandbox chart across 39 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #multiplayer400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiplayer chart across 39 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #experimental50+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #experimental chart across 40 readings: climbing, #6 to #5 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #relaxing1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #relaxing chart across 39 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top rated · #casual140-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #casual chart across 41 readings: slipping, #13 to #14 (best #13, worst #14).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.79 / 5

Last devlog 2026-04-01 — 199 days ago. That was already the most recent devlog when we started watching on 2026-08-20, so there is no cadence to read from it yet. The platform publishes only the most recent devlog date, so this is a floor rather than the project’s history.

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.