The iOS category is now progressing slowly.
I realized the most important thing in submitting bulk entries like these to a nearly empty category is that sheer quantity is more important than filling out every single detail. If someone new comes to the site and sees these tiny mobile categories they will probably be turned off. As a result, I have chosen to stop researching the developer and release date info and instead will leave them blank for now. Reasons for this being that the app store pages always avoid listing the developers like the plague and the release dates are always inconsistent: firstly, the Apple App Store doesn't list release dates anywhere, instead it's nestled away in the source code for each game (Ctrl+F and search for "datePublished"). Secondly, I've noticed this date can be the date of the prerelease. If a game is put up for preorder or a soft launch, many times the release date on the store pages will reflect that date instead of the actual launch. Or, if a game was republished for any reason, the date will reflect the second launch. It has become so time-consuming trying to verify these dates and developers across like 5-10 different websites and news articles on my extremely poor rural internet so I have chosen to just forgo adding them entirely.
When I can get access to better internet, I'll definitely go back and research the correct dates and developers for this category. If anyone knows of a good source to find this info, I'd love to hear it (not MobyGames, not GameFAQs, not Wikipedia)
Also, I've definitely noticed that my earlier entries from May/early June had a lot of mistakes, so I apologize for that greatly.
I tend to do my site additions based off a resource site. I don't think I have one on my to-do list that is specifically about mobile games, but there are some resources. GameFAQs and Mobygames have sections for Android and IOS.
Thanks for this tip, I've been browsing the MobyGames list for inspiration and found a lot of cool titles I had no idea existed, like the mobile Elder Scrolls and Oddworld games.
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