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Kongregate News May 18, 2017
Hack Your Way into 'GRIDD: Retroenhanced'

We’re excited to announce that our first original Steam title is now available: GRIDD: Retroenhanced [http://t.gamesight.io/aff_c?offer_id=638&aff_id=1014]! GRIDD is a tough-as-nails shoot ‘em up with the nostalgia of an old-school arcade game but the souped-up graphics and dynamic gameplay of a modern racing game. Hack your way into an AI-protected super-advanced mainframe. Race through cyberspace, avoiding the viruses sent by the AI, and eventually go head-to-head with the corrupted artif

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Marketing May 14, 2017
To Booth or Not to Booth: The Key Rules of Trade Show Marketing

Should trade shows be included in your marketing mix? Is it worth the cost? There is not an easy answer, as there are a lot of considerations to weigh. In this post we will examine some of the core “rules” we’ve identified when considering attending a trade show. We will focus primarily on business to consumer (B2C) shows such as PAX. Kongregate has taken part in PAX East in 2014 & 2016 and the GameStop Expo for 6 years, which is their version of PAX (GameStop is Kongregate’s parent company).

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Kongregate News May 11, 2017
Dungeon Crawling Goodness Comes to Mobile in 'Bit Heroes'

Descend into a nostalgic 8-bit adventure in Bit Heroes, now available free on iPhone, iPad, & Android [https://app.adjust.com/1dvhjs?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/pages/bit-heroes-mobile&campaign=2017_05_11-BitHeroes-Free-All-S&adgroup=Blog] ! A Kongregate.com [http://www.kongregate.com/games/Juppiomenz/bit-heroes] standout, Bit Heroes has been charming players with its strategic turn-based gameplay, robust multiplayer features, hundreds of pieces of loot, and unique pets like floating pi

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Kongregate News May 05, 2017
'Animation Throwdown' Is Now on Steam, Freakin’ Sweet!

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!” You read that right, everyone’s favorite collectible card game is now available free on Steam [http://store.steampowered.com/app/591960/Animation_Throwdown_The_Quest_for_Cards/] . Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards brings popular characters from Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, and King of the Hill together for a no-holds-barred card battling game. Animation Throwdown was co-developed by two of our favorite developers, Chinzilla

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Engineering Apr 27, 2017
Unity WebGL Memory Optimization: Part Deux

Now that the Unity WebPlayer is mostly a thing of the past, making sure your Unity WebGL content runs smoothly is more important than ever. The main pain point that we hear from developers relates to the dreaded “out of memory” errors that end users encounter when trying to play WebGL games. This is a particularly frustrating issue for players using 32-bit versions of browsers, since they are much less likely to have a large contiguous block of free memory for the Unity heap. This article will

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Game Development Apr 25, 2017
Juicy Beast: All the Tools We Use to Make Games

This week, we're hosting a guest blog post from Juicy Beast [http://juicybeast.com/blog/]! We receive a lot of emails about the tools we use to make our games, so we thought it’d be easier to just list them all here for you curious folks out there. Photoshop We mostly use Photoshop [http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html] for UI work and everything “branding” and “marketing”. It’s obviously a standard, so no news here. One trick we use a lot is “Generate > Image Assets [https://helpx.a

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Kongregate News Apr 20, 2017
Banish Your Case of the Mondays with 'Office Space: Idle Profits'!

We re-teamed with Ultrabit, the creators of Kong favorites Raid Brigade and Pocket Politics [http://www.kongregate.com/pages/pocket-politics-mobile], and FOXNext Games to bring Mike Judge’s 1999 cult film to the small screen in Office Space: Idle Profits, available for free today on iOS and Android [https://app.adjust.com/vynrze?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/pages/office-space-mobile&campaign=2017_04_20-OfficeSpace-Free-All-S&adgroup=Blog] . Now office workers around the world can tap tap

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Art & Design Apr 06, 2017
Color in Video Games: How to Choose a Palette

Color is one of the most powerful tools you have when you’re designing a game. Colors can be engaging, helping to direct your players to whatever you think is most important. It can also be used to give subtle clues about the characters and their world. When used properly, color sets the tone of a game, tells you where you are, and where you need to go. But knowing where to start when creating a color palette can be difficult, so let’s break it down and go through this step by step. A brief ov

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Mobile Publishing Mar 30, 2017
PC and Mobile: Going Cross-Platform Post-Launch

These are slides from Mel Montano’s talks about PC and mobile cross-platform game launches at Casual Connect Berlin and White Night Prague 2017. She uses her experience in publishing and cross-platform games via Humble Bundle to provide real-world actionable items to help in pursuing a secondary (or tertiary or more) launch on a very different platform. Going cross-platform increases your potential audience, pleases your current userbase, and can grow your lifetime revenue. The leap from mobile

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