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Earlier this month, Kongregate's Mel Montano gave a talk at Casual Connect in Seattle about publisher and developer relations in the modern age. Check it out below! Casual Connect Seattle 2017: Did That Publisher Just Ghost Me? [//www.slideshare.net/Kongregate/casual-connect-seattle-2017-did-that-publisher-just-ghost-me] from Kongregate [https://www.slideshare.net/Kongregate]
This article was written by Nathan Lovato and originally posted on GameAnalytics.com [http://www.gameanalytics.com/blog/how-to-grow-a-gaming-community.html]. When you get started with social networks, it’s tough. Nobody follows you. Nobody reads you. Nobody knows you! How do other game developers get those thousands of followers? 2 years ago, no one knew me either. I was terrible at communication, and I didn’t like it. Back then, I had failed a company, largely due to a lack of online presenc
If you have been working in game development for a while I have no doubt that you’ve used A/B testing at least once. It’s a powerful tool, allowing you to check various hypotheses with data before introducing any changes to the entire game’s user base. There is no space for gut-feeling here; we should rely only on pure numbers. Sounds pretty straightforward -- could anything go wrong? Apparently, it could. In the world of A/B testing there are a lot of pitfalls. Here is a list of the most commo
Journey across land and sea in an epic adventure in The Trail: Frontier Challenge, now available on Steam! From legendary game developer Peter Molyneux and 22Cans, The Trail: Frontier Challenge takes players to a new world where they’ll collect, craft, and trade in an unexplored land as they journey to Eden Falls, a bustling frontier town. As you amass fortune and notoriety, you'll work together with other players to build a thriving community in Eden Falls and ultimately become the Mayor of t
Retention is the most important metric for a free-to-play mobile game’s long-term business outlook. If you want to understand the link between a player’s lifetime value (how much money they ever spend in the game) and how long they continue to play your game, Emily Greer gave a GDC talk in 2013 [https://blog.kongregate.com/building-games-for-the-long-term/] absolutely packed with web data. This post will expand on that talk by highlighting some game systems in Kongregate’s mobile publishing port
San Francisco, CA (August 9, 2017) -- Kongregate, a leading game publisher, today announced a new $10 million initiative to help fund promising PC and console titles from independent developers to continue Kongregate’s expansion into cross-platform publishing. This fund is inclusive of both paid and free-to-play titles. This fund complements Kongregate’s push onto PC and console, and provides independent developers customized marketing, financial assistance, and production support. As both a pr
Let me tell you a tale about an initiative to reduce Flash dependencies on what used to be a "Flash gaming" site. This is the story about a large-scale project with the best possible outcome being that users don't notice any changes, and the worst possible outcome of everything breaking horribly. This, my friends, is the story of Kongregate's Death to Flashy initiative. In the Beginning When we first started building Kongregate, we didn't have to worry much about whether or not users had Flas
Jeff Gurian, Kongregate's VP of Marketing and Ad Monetization, recently did a podcast with Appmasters, a mobile marketing agency specializing in growth hacking for independent developers. Jeff talks with Appmasters founder Steve Young about a wide range of topics including how to effectively market a mobile game, ad monetization tips, the rigorous marketability testing Kongregate performs, and what Kongregate looks for in both games and developers they publish titles with. The full Appmasters
We at Kongregate are incredibly excited to be launching GRIDD: Retroenhanced on Xbox One [https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/store/p/gridd-retroenhanced/bx2dkfvvg3kz] today! GRIDD is a unique mix of anti-gravity racing fused with an old-school arcade shooter, currently with a 93% positive rating on Steam! GRIDD is Antab Studio's love letter to games, hacking movies, and cyberpunk culture that emerged from the 1980s, imagining what a hardcore coin-op game would be like if we had today's technolo