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Monetization Jun 30, 2016
Kongregate's Rewarded Video API

We're excited to officially announce Kongregate's Rewarded Video Advertising API, now available to all game developers on Kongregate.com! This type of advertising, also sometimes called "incentivized ads" or "opt-in ads," has gotten particularly popular on mobile recently. It allows developers to give rewards to players who choose to watch an ad. It's a great system that's a true win-win-win: * Players appreciate the control over their experience and the rewards they can choose to earn. In

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Kongregate News Jun 27, 2016
Kongregate & Fox Digital Entertainment Announce ‘Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards’ Mobile Game

For the first time, the characters and worlds of American Dad!, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, Futurama, and King of the Hill will be featured together in a mobile game. San Francisco, Calif., June 27, 2016 — Fox Digital Entertainment and Kongregate, a leading publisher of mobile and web games and wholly-owned subsidiary of GameStop Corporation, today announced Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards, a new collectible-card mobile game incorporating five Twentieth Century Fox Television animated

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Art & Design Jun 23, 2016
Choosing Fonts for Your Game

One of the easiest ways to help inject some personality into your games is with the typefaces you choose. It’s also one of the easiest ways to either improve or damage the usability of your game. But with a little knowledge you’ll be able to choose the right typeface for you and your game. Stay tuned and see how! The basics you should know Typefaces are deceptively complex things, so let’s run through a few of the basics. First, here’s a look at the aspects of a font: Now, some of these are

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Community Jun 16, 2016
Transparency and Communication Within Your Community

Online game communities are tough. The anonymous nature of the internet can encourage people to be overly harsh with their criticism. It can be very frustrating to see that people don’t like something that you’ve poured your heart and soul into, and a toxic or negative community tends to keep new players from your game. But never fear! You can avoid a lot of these issues by following the principles outlined below. First and foremost, tell your players the truth. Your most passionate players are

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Kongregate News Jun 14, 2016
Winners of Kongregate Game Jam: Attraction

First of all, we would love to congratulate each and every developer who made a game for the Jam! For anyone not familiar with the concept of a game jam, game jams are events for developers to create concepts, often based on a theme or idea, in a short span of time (typically a few days to a few weeks). What they build is completely up to them; all they have to consider is the theme or constraint of the game jam. Our first Kongregate Game Jam was a one-week game jam based around the theme Attr

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Analytics Jun 02, 2016
Better than Average: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Arithmetic Mean

The average, or arithmetic mean, enjoys a prominent position in most analysis toolkits, and for good reason. It’s a simple and elegant way to compress a large data set into a single, descriptive number. It’s ever-present in the alphabet soup of “key performance indicators” that highlight most gaming dashboards: ARPU (average revenue per user), ARPPU (average revenue per paying user), and average session length, to name a few. But the average is not without its limitations. If your data set is no

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Engineering May 26, 2016
Unity, HTML5, CORS, and You

Due to the fact that Unity is removing support [http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roadmap/] for the Web Player in their 5.4 release, many developers are ramping up on publishing their content using the HTML5 target to ensure forward compatibility. If you do not have any experience with creating Unity HTML5 content, you can view our blog [https://blog.kongregate.com/unity-webgl/] post about the subject to get a brief overview and some tips on uploading your game to Kongregate.

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Art & Design May 19, 2016
Design Tips for In-Game Character Proportions

Are you building a next hit and need some help getting your characters feeling right? Many developers often face issues designing proportions of individual characters, and the relationship between these characters and the surrounding environment. Below is an approach you can take. Obviously, if your game doesn't have characters, this post may not be for you (but feel free to stick around, since this may help your next project). The same framework is not limited to humanoid characters and can be

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Game Development May 12, 2016
7 Tips to 7-Day Game Jams

Making games in a week isn’t easy. As someone who has built around 30 different games in less than a week, I've encountered a lot of counter-intuitive hurdles to working in this timebox. The good news is that a week is perhaps the best amount of time to gauge a design. It offers enough time to execute the primary details of the game, while giving some space to pivot and polish as necessary. While every team is different (or solo developer for that matter), a couple of days just isn’t enough at

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