October 12 evening: ranking changes and release watch

The same Android Popular Top 100 was compared at 08:10 and 19:02 on October 12. Positions are shown separately from player counts or acceleration.

These labels concern the scanned prefix only, not first release or a platform-wide disappearance. The full per-ID comparison is retained in the data package.

The calendar contains 1,318 observed events. Release, pre-registration, update and test labels are retained as displayed, and calendar appearance does not reset a game’s age. The combined high-interest pool contains 1,181 IDs; current detail metrics were not obtained, so heat tiers and the strict >150×age check remain unconfirmed rather than failed.

Full event records, IDs and dates are in calendar-events.json in the private data package.

Target: September 28–October 11 released titles, October 13–19 planned releases, with October 12 separate. The recent branch displayed 1,000 records (999 app IDs and one other product), reaching September 30–October 12. The future branch displayed 500 records (496 unique app IDs), spanning October 12–20. Both stopped at the budget. Future sorting was Relevance, so the observed prefix cannot establish full date coverage. Store timezone boundaries remain unconfirmed.

itch.io was not requested because its existing source guard remains active; no current games are claimed. Four upstream sources yielded 50 records each. No same-cohort prior hotspot calculation was made in this edition, so the themes are current observations, not demonstrated growth or decline.