The trend surface
Trends
A trend is a group of games read as one number. Velocity is an acceleration, so a trend ranked highly here is one whose games are speeding up together — not one that is large. Three groupings, and they are not the same kind of thing: two belong to the platforms, one is mined out of the titles themselves.
Tags
No tag has a reading yet. A trend's Velocity is an acceleration, so it needs the same fortnight of daily history a game's does. Every tag in the itch.io catalogue still has a page of its own in the meantime, listing the games that carry it.
Genres
No genre has a reading yet. A trend's Velocity is an acceleration and needs a fortnight of daily history behind it; until then there is nothing here to rank, and we would rather show that than a ranking of one day's noise.
Naming waves
No phrase has a reading yet. Naming waves are mined from titles on every run, but a wave needs the same fortnight of history any other trend does before it can be ranked.
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