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Kongregate News Mar 23, 2017
Kongregate & Fox Interactive Announce 'Office Space: Idle Profits'

Kongregate has teamed with Fox Interactive to bring Mike Judge’s ‘90s cult film to mobile devices in Office Space: Idle Profits. For anyone who’s ever suffered through “a case of the Mondays” or argued with a malfunctioning copy machine, Office Space: Idle Profits will let you tap tap tap your way to early retirement. The game is coming soon and will be available free for iOS & Android devices. “We’re excited to return audiences to the cubicles of Initech,” said Rick Phillips, EVP of Fox Int

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Community Mar 14, 2017
1 out of 5, Worst Blog Post Ever! Ratings Fraud on Kongregate

One of the many cultural shifts to come out of becoming a connected, always-online world is that consumers have a loud voice that has a substantial impact on sales. For example, when you buy an Anker product on Amazon, you’ll get a little friendly card asking you to leave a review: You similarly see requests in mobile games to give them a 5-star rating (and if not, they cleverly direct you to their support page instead of the app store rating page): User ratings matter and we, as customers

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Art & Design Mar 09, 2017
'Animation Throwdown' Live Drawing: Why Not Zoidberg?

Unfortunately, we had some issues with the live stream, so the video is choppy, but it gets much better around the 10:15 mark. Please bear with us! This week we're posting a video from a live drawing session we had with one of our artists from our game Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards [http://www.kongregate.com/games/Throwdown/animation-throwdown]. Frank Harmon, one of our senior artists on the team, talks about his artistic background and process while drawing Zoidberg from the show Fu

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Monetization Mar 02, 2017
'Little Alchemist' Adopts Offerwall & Converts In-App Goods into Gold

ironSource recently published an article [http://www.ironsrc.com/success-stories/little-alchemist/] explaining how Chinzilla boosted Little Alchemist's in-app economy with the ironSource Offerwall. The goals were to provide an alternative payment method for paying users and obtain incremental revenue from non-paying users. Through a fully opt-in ad experience, offerwalls present users with engaging offers in exchange for free virtual currency. Here are some highlights of the results: * Non-

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Marketing Feb 23, 2017
Marketing Viability: When Should I Consider Paid User Acquisition?

Have you been working tirelessly on your game towards a global launch, but haven’t thought about how you’re going to market it? If not, then now is the time to start thinking about that imperative marketing plan. In the past few years, the mobile games market has become increasingly saturated -- making the barrier to entry and chances for failure higher, as people are inundated with new games every day. What this means is, marketing your mobile game will be even more crucial than ever to its gro

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Developer Spotlight Feb 16, 2017
'Burrito Bison' Q&A with Juicy Beast

Burrito Bison is one of the most popular series on Kongregate, and we're proud to be publishing the third game in the series, Launcha Libre, available now on web [http://www.kongregate.com/games/JuicyBeast/burrito-bison-launcha-libre], Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.burritobison3.google&hl=en] , and iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/burrito-bison-launcha-libre/id1135126803?mt=8]. We could say that this Q&A is in celebration of this week's mas

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Kongregate News Feb 09, 2017
Get Active with Our Favorite Fitness RPG, 'Pocket Plants'

Green thumbs rejoice! We’re happy to announce the launch of Pocket Plants, an addictive collection game where you can grow, evolve, and mutate adorable plants while getting in shape with the innovative step-tracking energy system. We partnered with the talented team at Shikudo [http://www.shikudo.com/] to bring their latest fitness-minded game to iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-plants/id1170134874?ls=1&mt=8] and Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.m

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Kongregate News Jan 26, 2017
Good vs. Evil: How Will You Rule?

We’re excited to announce that Realm Grinder, a player favorite on Kongregate.com [http://www.kongregate.com], is now available on iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/realm-grinder/id1110149506?ls=1&mt=8] and Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.realmgrinder.google] ! We teamed up with Divine Games [http://www.divinegames.it/] to bring the deep idle RPG to more players around the globe and are ready to know... Will you choose good or evil? You’ll sta

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Engineering Jan 19, 2017
Unity WebGL Memory and Performance Optimization

Many Unity developers have taken the plunge and started exporting WebGL versions of their games. Unfortunately, many of them also run into issues that can lead to performance degradation and instability. This is a particularly tricky problem on older machines that have less resources available. This article will outline several techniques for resolving some common WebGL performance issues we’ve seen with games published on Kongregate, and hopefully get you off to a good start when it comes to d

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