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Stickers & Blocks are Now Available on Kongregate.com!

Blocks are a new form of digital reward that players can earn by playing games, completing badges, and finishing quests in some of their favorite games on Kongregate.com. Blocks can be redeemed to get sticker packs from a special marketplace. Those stickers can then be used in chat rooms on Kongregate.com to help our community express themselves in fun & interactive ways! But Blocks aren’t just for players! Upon launch, we'll be giving out Good Games Grants to game developers for their personal wallets. These grants are

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Kongregate News
Kongregate Takes Your Data Privacy Seriously!

You may have received a flurry of emails from various companies relaying that they had updated their privacy policies. These changes stem from the California Consumer Privacy Act, which went into effect January 1, 2020. But for us at Kongregate, our "privacy for all" mindset did not start in 2020 because of CCPA; we overhauled our privacy policy back in 2018, when CCPA’s “father,” GDPR, went into effect. Instead of just throwing all these abbreviations at you, let us further explain what all this means. What is

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Kongregate News
Kongregate Announces Partnership with Forte

We at Kongregate are excited to announce a new partnership with Forte! Who is Forte? Forte is building a platform to jump-start a new generation of games in which the player-developer relationship is both healthier and more sustainable. Focusing on accelerating the adoption of blockchain, Forte is equipping developers with easy-to-use blockchain technology and tools that lay a new foundation for player-driven game economies, better aligning incentives between players and publishers. What does this partnership mean? We will be using the Forte platform to add new features to the Kongregate

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Kongregate News Jun 18, 2020
Stickers & Blocks are Now Available on Kongregate.com!

Blocks are a new form of digital reward that players can earn by playing games, completing badges, and finishing quests in some of their favorite games on Kongregate.com. Blocks can be redeemed to get sticker packs from a special marketplace. Those stickers can then be used in chat rooms on Kongregate.com to help our community express themselves in fun & interactive ways! But Blocks aren’t just for players! Upon launch, we'll be giving out Good Games Grants to game developers for their personal wallets. These grants are based on a combination of ratings score (a minimum of 3.0), accumulated ratings, and total gameplays. As a developer, you can also use Blocks to create badge bounties or schedule promoted listings in order to attract players to your game and reward them for playing. In a badge bounty, Blocks are given out to your players as they complete your game’s badges. A bounty will only be open for as long as there are Blocks available within the bounty and, once all Blocks have been earned, the bounty

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Community May 15, 2020
Kongregate Is Raising Funds for COVID-19 Relief

Hello everyone, It’s been a while, and we wanted to provide an update on what Kongregate has been up to these last few weeks. First off, we hope everyone is staying safe and in good spirits. For our part, we’re happy to announce that all of our employees have transitioned to working from home and are currently safe & healthy. We are observing social distancing guidelines, adapting to the challenges of the new normal, and continuing to meet online via video chat to stay connected with each other. Our teams continue to work hard to innovate and deliver the kind of games we like to make and that you love to play. One of the cornerstones of Kongregate’s mission has always been to build and support our communities, online or otherwise. With this in mind, we are very proud to announce our participation in a fundraising partnership with Direct Relief, raising money to help support those risking their lives to combat the COVID-19 global health crisis. Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50

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Kongregate News Jan 14, 2020
Kongregate Takes Your Data Privacy Seriously!

You may have received a flurry of emails from various companies relaying that they had updated their privacy policies. These changes stem from the California Consumer Privacy Act, which went into effect January 1, 2020. But for us at Kongregate, our "privacy for all" mindset did not start in 2020 because of CCPA; we overhauled our privacy policy back in 2018, when CCPA’s “father,” GDPR, went into effect. Instead of just throwing all these abbreviations at you, let us further explain what all this means. What is the GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation -- or “GDPR” -- is a set of European regulations introduced by the European Union to protect online information and privacy by granting citizens and residents of the EU more control over their personal data. These regulations went into effect May 25th, 2018. Okay...what exactly does that mean? In the most normal human speak I can manage, the GDPR was created with the end goal that companies be more responsible with user data. In this particular context, the word “responsible” includes (but

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Kongregate News Dec 19, 2019
Kongregate Announces Partnership with Forte

We at Kongregate are excited to announce a new partnership with Forte! Who is Forte? Forte is building a platform to jump-start a new generation of games in which the player-developer relationship is both healthier and more sustainable. Focusing on accelerating the adoption of blockchain, Forte is equipping developers with easy-to-use blockchain technology and tools that lay a new foundation for player-driven game economies, better aligning incentives between players and publishers. What does this partnership mean? We will be using the Forte platform to add new features to the Kongregate community, giving players the opportunity to earn brand new rewards by completing unique challenges and playing games. These blockchain-based rewards will be fully controlled by the players with the goal to strengthen our developer and player communities. We’re thrilled to be working with Forte and can’t wait to share what we’re working on with you! Look for more details in the new year. Until then, check out our forum post and Forte's announcement for more information.

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Kongregate News Dec 05, 2019
Kongregate Acquires Popular Battle Royale Game 'Surviv.io'

Kongregate today announced the acquisition of Surviv.io, the top-down battle royale game for both web and mobile (Android and iOS). The deal follows the successful acquisition and integration of the Bit Heroes game by Kongregate earlier this year. “Surviv.io marks our second acquisition in which we have acquired the game, the IP, and taken over operations,” said Patrick Moran, General Manager of the new live operations studio at Kongregate. “In 2020, we will continue this strategy of acquiring titles with strong organic communities and lasting power. This allows developers to focus their time and attention on their next hit title, and ensures their community is supported for years into the future.” Surviv.io was developed by Justin Kim and Nick Clark. Their design philosophy was to develop a game that allowed the player to enter a game as fast as possible by minimizing the time in between matches. The game is regularly updated with new items and maps, and occasionally hosts limited-time events with special gameplay modes featuring exclusive weapons and cosmetics. Surviv.io’s Co-Founder Justin Kim

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Kongregate News Oct 10, 2019
Open-World Adventure ‘Pine’ Out Now on PC

Kongregate, in collaboration with Twirlbound, has launched Pine on PC. Pine is the award-winning open-world adventure game set in the world of Albamare. Players explore, trade and fight their way through a world filled with creatures much smarter than humans. Pine is available for download on Kartridge, Steam and GOG.

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Engineering Oct 01, 2019
CORS, Cookies, Unity and WebGL Builds

In a previous blog post I discussed how to get basic cross-origin requests working for your Unity WebGL project. This post is meant as a quick follow-up to cover another tricky problem that may come up when attempting to host your Unity WebGL game on Kongregate: cookie-based session authentication. The Problem Let's say you have a backend API that uses cookies for session management. Your game works great when testing on your own domain, but breaks horribly once you host the files on Kongregate due to the fact that your API requests are now cross-domain and subject to strict CORS rules. This means that the browser will refuse to send cookies along with requests unless things are set up properly on both the client and the server. Keep in mind that this behavior is a good thing, as it means that it allows you to control what domains your session cookies will be sent to, which helps prevent this highly sensitive data from falling into the hands of malicious actors. Configuring the Server In order for the browser to allow

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Kongregate News Sep 27, 2019
'Bit Heroes' Celebrates 3rd Anniversary

On September 27th 2019, Kongregate’s popular pixel dungeon-crawler RPG turns 3 years old! With the recent acquisition of the title from our friends at Juppiomenz earlier this year, the Bit Heroes team is working hard to bring loads of new dungeons to explore, bosses to beat and loot to plunder. It’s been an incredible run so far, with even more adventure on the way, and we cannot wait to show you what we’ve got in store. To help celebrate this special occasion, we’ve got some new anniversary features to showcase this weekend we think folks will enjoy: A new quest is available in town, featuring unique anniversary gifts and items Daily buffs are boosted for a limited time Special anniversary bundles Legendary sales A new expedition! We’re also running a limited time fan art contest to engage with our fantastic and passionate community, so be sure to check that out! Thanks for making the last 3 years so so so great. Here’s to more to come! Happy looting, Heroes!

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Kongregate News Sep 26, 2019
Much Anticipated Garbage Town Builder, 'Flotsam,' Available Now on PC

Kongregate, in collaboration with Pajama Llama Games, has launched Flotsam on PC in Early Access. Flotsam is the award-winning, post-apocalyptic city builder at sea. You’ll need fresh water, seafood and scrap to make sure your drifters can make the best of this wet situation. Flotsam is available for download on Kartridge, Steam, Humble, and GOG.

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