Editorial Standards
The catalog checks and editorial review process behind Glaze Games.
Glaze Games combines licensed catalog feeds with editorial discovery. Automated checks cover the wider catalog; featured games, guides, best-of lists, and school-facing collections receive additional human review. This page explains which standard applies where.
Standards for promoted and school-facing games
Quality, safety, performance, and ad experience guide promotion and school-facing placement. The wider provider catalog is automatically filtered and reviewed when reported.
- Quality barFeatured games are checked for reliable loading, clear controls, and a playable first session. Direct submissions that fail the first-five-minutes test are not promoted.
- Safety barFeatured and school-facing collections exclude mature content, gambling mechanics aimed at minors, and deceptive UI. Players can report catalog titles that do not meet those standards.
- Performance barFeatured games are checked for a usable first load and working controls. We monitor Core Web Vitals and treat regressions as engineering issues, without claiming every visit will meet a fixed threshold.
- Ad barWe review reports about ads shown by our site and partner publishers. Third-party inventory can vary, so players can report misleading, disruptive, or inappropriate ads for investigation.
How a game gets onto the site
Five stages guide our catalog and editorial review. Featured titles are not published until they clear the whole pipeline.
Inventory intake
New titles come in nightly from a curated set of licensed HTML5 catalogs. Each title arrives with metadata for category, controls, orientation, rating, and play count.
Automated filters
A first pass strips anything tagged adult, gambling, or known-broken-on-mobile. Titles failing the provider quality score are quarantined until a human reviews them.
Editorial review
Every game promoted into the focused search collection is hand-reviewed for playability, accurate copy, controls, tips, and common questions. A "no" from any reviewer is final.
Ranking
Live game pages are ranked by a combined-play-count plus rating score. We expose the formula publicly because the only way to keep a list honest is to make the math visible.
Re-audit
Catalog feeds are refreshed automatically and promoted titles receive recurring embed checks. Reports can trigger an earlier review, removal, or correction.
How a game enters the focused collection
Play counts and ratings can help us decide what to review, but they do not make a page publishable. A reviewer must verify the embed, write game-specific copy, document the controls, add useful tips, and answer common questions before a game is allowed into search-facing pages.
Automated checks enforce the approved slug list across metadata, internal links, and XML sitemaps before a production build can ship.
Why list and guide pages are paused
Programmatic rankings and partially syndicated guide drafts are not published during recovery. They will return only after every pick is re-tested and the surrounding analysis is rewritten by an editor.
Corrections, complaints, and takedowns
Wrong information on a page? Email [email protected]with the URL and we’ll fix or remove it within one business day. Copyright or trademark concern? Use the DMCA process — verified rightsholder requests are honored inside of 48 hours. Safety report (a game that slipped through containing inappropriate content)? Same email, with "Safety" in the subject, and we treat it as a sev-1.
Trust signals at a glance
Plain-language policies, a real human on email, a documented IP process, and a parents guide that actually tells you what’s in the ad rotation.
- Plain-language policiesPrivacy, cookies, terms — all written in everyday English without dark patterns or hidden defaults.
- Real human on email[email protected] is the published contact for corrections, safety reports, and catalog issues.
- DMCA + IP protectionA documented takedown process. Verified rightsholder requests are honored within 48 hours.
- Parental controlsA dedicated parents guide, a /safe filter, and a /school filter for managed networks.