Editorial standards: how games get onto this site
A game portal is only worth as much as the judgement behind it. Anyone can point a script at a feed and publish ten thousand pages overnight; the result is a catalogue nobody can navigate and descriptions nobody wrote. This page sets out how a game gets onto PokiGame Arcade, what is checked before it goes live, and what happens when something breaks.
1. Nothing is published unplayed
A title arrives from the feed as a draft and stays a draft until a person has opened it, waited through the loader, and played far enough to reach the real first level — not the title screen, the first level. That pass is where most rejections happen: games that never finish loading, games that open into a blank frame, games that push a download or an app-store link before you can play, and games whose controls simply do not work on a touchscreen. None of those reach the public site.
2. Descriptions are written here, after playing
Feed listings arrive with a short marketing blurb supplied by the developer, and the same blurb is sitting on every other portal that carries the game. We do not publish it. Every description, control list and starting tip on this site is written for this site by someone who has played the game, which is also why a game reads differently here than it does elsewhere. If a description tells you the first level is the tutorial, it is because somebody sat through it.
3. Categories describe the game, not the search volume
A game is filed where a player would look for it, even when a busier category is one click away. A driving game with a stick figure in it is a driving game; it is not also filed under three other tags to catch traffic. Tags that stop being useful get merged or removed rather than kept for the extra pages.
4. What this site will not do
- No invented ratings. You will not find star scores or “9.2/10” badges here, because we have no panel of reviewers to produce them honestly. A fabricated score dressed up as data is worse than no score.
- No fake popularity. The play counts shown on this site are counted on this site and nowhere else. They are not seeded, rounded up, or imported from anywhere.
- No guessed credits. When the distributor supplies no studio name, the developer field stays empty. Attaching a plausible-sounding studio to someone else’s work is not a small error.
- No paid placement. Nobody can buy a position in a list on this site. If that ever changes, it will be labelled on the page itself.
5. Keeping pages current
Games are re-checked when a player reports a problem and in periodic sweeps of the catalogue. A game that has stopped loading is unpublished rather than left as a dead page, and if a studio withdraws a title, its page goes with it. Descriptions are updated when an update changes how a game actually plays; the date shown on a game page is the date that page was last reviewed, not the date it was imported.
6. Corrections
If something on this site is wrong — a control that does not match the game, a miscategorised title, a credit in the wrong place — tell us on the contact page and it gets fixed. Corrections are made quietly on the page itself; we do not pretend the earlier version never existed if someone asks about it.
7. Who is responsible
Editorial decisions on this site are made by Mr.Dev, who is also the person to complain to when one of them is wrong. Rights holders should use the copyright and takedown page, which is the fastest route.