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itch.ioRank 20332026-10-16

Big Bad Dogs

by spar0w

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Velocity

-0.005

Big Bad Dogs Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.00 to -0.01 (low -0.01, 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

Ratings are running ahead of comments.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 44% of their change and ratings 53%. That is the reverse of the order the signal is built on — the audience arrived before the attention did, which reads as a game being found rather than one breaking out.

Lead and lag for Big Bad Dogs, 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. Ratings are running ahead of comments. Furthest apart on 2026-09-24, 24 points between ratings and comments. Comments: 1,677 to 1,753, up 76, the change came at a steady pace. Ratings: 2,127 to 2,285, up 158, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 1724 pts apartCommentsRatings

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.

Series — over Sep 18 to Oct 17

  • Comments — people are talking1,6771,753+76
  • Ratings — people finished and cared2,1272,285+158
  • 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 181,6772,127
Sep 191,6772,129
Sep 201,6792,141
Sep 211,6832,147
Sep 221,6862,153
Sep 231,6772,163
Sep 241,6792,169
Sep 251,6822,173
Sep 261,6862,179
Sep 271,6892,184
Sep 281,6952,189
Sep 291,6992,195
Sep 301,7022,199
Oct 11,7082,200
Oct 21,7082,206
Oct 31,7092,211
Oct 41,7132,215
Oct 51,7192,222
Oct 61,7222,230
Oct 71,7232,233
Oct 81,7282,239
Oct 91,7322,249
Oct 101,7342,255
Oct 111,7382,261
Oct 121,7422,268
Oct 131,7442,270
Oct 141,7432,273
Oct 151,7482,276
Oct 161,7482,280
Oct 171,7532,285
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1,753+16+76
Ratings conversion2,285+30+163

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

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All of itch.io

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Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.92 / 5

Last devlog 2026-10-16 — yesterday. 2 more have landed since we started watching on 2026-08-20, about one every 45 days. 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.