Srsly, wut?
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Date (UTC) / Downloads / Bytes Served
Apr 2009 * / 1,395 / 38.4 GB
Mar 2009 / 583 / 16.0 GB
Feb 2009 / 543 / 13.0 GB
Jan 2009 / 141 / 3.3 GB

* Partial data: End of month not yet reached

Downloads have just jumped up (1013 in the last week!) And it's only 2/3rds through April...

Cause of the LinuxGameTomeArticle i think.

More than likely what Spell said. That's where I found it .

I actually saw it first on FreeGamer('s blog): http://freegamer.blogspot.com/search?q=Ardentryst

It's great to see Ardentryst reach so many people — it's a great game (and even greater potential!)

Ardentryst on Sourceforge broke (went over) 3,000 downloads in a month (April 2009)

Yay!

Congratulations!

I found Ardentryst by looking through the "list of open source games" on Wikipedia.

Score!

I put it there. Hooray for shameless self-exposure.
It's also on Libregamewiki, but I didn't put it there.

Also the sourceforge download statistics have been down (ha ha) for a while now, and all downloads are ignored (I hope they are temporarily remembered though so there's not a big chunk of 0 downloads per day's in there) until they upgrade the system...

So there's no more statistics until then :(

EDIT: But I estimate from current data that overall (not just from sourceforge) the game has been downloaded 25,000+ times

(* up to 8000 from http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f3816.html
* about 4500 from http://www.baixaki.com.br/download/ardentryst.htm
* 1000 from http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/RPG/Ardentryst-41284.shtml
* and 14,000 from sourceforge.)

This includes older versions of Ardentryst too, however I doubt they were downloaded that much anyway.