Key & Compass presents:Titles report

Report author: David Welbourn
Report date: 6-Feb-2014

Table of Contents

One-word titles

Which IF games have one-word titles? (That is, which IF game titles don't include any spaces?)

Question titles

Which IF games have questions for titles? (That is, which IF game titles have question marks?)

Exclamatory titles

Which IF games have exclamatory titles? (That is, which IF game titles include exclamation marks?)

Hyphen happy titles

Which IF game titles have two or more hyphens?

Ellipsis titles

Top 100 words in IF titles

For the purposes of this report, I'm only considering one version of the title per game. That usually means the original name of the game.

When determining the "words" of a title, I'm throwing away periods, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, colons, semi-colons, quote marks, and brackets. Words containing digits, like "3-D", are also discarded from consideration, as are words that contain no letters. Words used twice in a title are counted twice.

Also, a caveat: different words will be counted together if they're spelt the same way, e.g.: consider the "I" in "I Must Play" versus the "I" in "Cell Part I", or consider the "Die" in "Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die" versus the "Die" in "Die Bewerbung".

  1. the: 1458
  2. of: 573
  3. a: 284
  4. and: 172
  5. in: 149
  6. to: 130
  7. adventure: 91
  8. for: 85
  9. escape: 81
  10. quest: 68
  11. la: 67
  12. from: 64
  13. house: 63
  14. i: 60
  15. de: 56
  16. day: 51
  17. you: 50
  18. at: 48
  19. night: 47
  20. game: 46
  21. on: 46
  22. part: 44
  23. is: 42
  24. time: 41
  25. el: 40
  26. my: 39
  27. life: 35
  28. adventures: 34
  29. space: 34
  30. your: 34
  31. death: 33
  32. die: 32
  33. one: 31
  34. with: 31
  35. an: 29
  36. all: 27
  37. lost: 27
  38. world: 27
  39. magic: 26
  40. man: 26
  41. mystery: 26
  42. out: 26
  43. are: 24
  44. new: 24
  45. room: 24
  46. that: 24
  47. dark: 23
  48. fingertips: 23
  49. or: 23
  50. demo: 22
  51. der: 22
  52. ii: 22
  53. last: 22
  54. del: 21
  55. first: 21
  56. it: 21
  57. love: 21
  58. story: 21
  59. up: 21
  60. dead: 20
  61. end: 20
  62. dragon: 19
  63. home: 19
  64. great: 18
  65. island: 18
  66. no: 18
  67. school: 18
  68. be: 17
  69. by: 17
  70. not: 17
  71. star: 17
  72. sword: 17
  73. blue: 16
  74. castle: 16
  75. city: 16
  76. masters: 16
  77. what: 16
  78. big: 15
  79. captain: 15
  80. chicken: 15
  81. darkness: 15
  82. dream: 15
  83. episode: 15
  84. me: 15
  85. project: 15
  86. revenge: 15
  87. when: 15
  88. zork: 15
  89. back: 14
  90. choice: 14
  91. do: 14
  92. evil: 14
  93. if: 14
  94. journey: 14
  95. little: 14
  96. murder: 14
  97. return: 14
  98. search: 14
  99. dr: 13
  100. go: 13
  101. how: 13
  102. hunt: 13
  103. tale: 13
  104. text: 13
  105. this: 13
  106. who: 13