Mr. J97 — editor and curator

Mr. J97 — game developer, and the person responsible for what is published on PokiGame Arcade.

Background

Mr. J97 builds and publishes browser games, which is the short version of why this site exists at all. Working on the production side of HTML5 games means knowing exactly where they go wrong in the wild: a title that runs fine on a desktop and drops to single-digit frame rates on a three-year-old phone, a control scheme that assumes a keyboard, a loader that never finishes on a slow connection. Those are the things checked here before a game is published, because they are the things a developer notices first.

What that covers on this site

• Deciding which games from the catalogue are published and which are left as drafts.
• Playing each published title and writing its description, controls and starting tips.
• Category and tag structure — what gets merged, what gets retired.
• Handling corrections, broken-game reports and rights-holder requests.

Conflicts of interest

Games on this site are licensed through GameMonetize and the site earns from advertising and the revenue share built into the games. That is a commercial relationship with the network, not with any individual studio: no developer pays for a place in a list here, and no game has ever been promoted in exchange for money. If a game published by Mr. J97 ever appears on this site, it will say so on the game’s own page.

Contact

Editorial questions, corrections and complaints: [email protected]. The standards these decisions are made against are written out on the editorial standards page.