Kongregate is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Unity to give away three tickets to Unity’s Unite11 [http://unity3d.com/unite/] conference in San Francisco, Sept 28–30. These tickets are valued at $400 each, so it’s a pretty sweet deal. :) To pick who gets the tickets, we’re going to run a game blitz development contest. You can read about the rules and entry information in the contest thread [http://www.kongregate.com/forums/4-game-programming/topics/200783-kongregates-unite11-ga

We’re pleased to present you with our new dedicated developer website today. Our goal is to provide a more focused and helpful resource for putting your games on Kongregate. You’ll find instructions and useful links separated out by game type, API documentation, case studies of successful games, examples of promotions, and more. All this at an easy-to-remember URL: developers.kongregate.com [https://developers.kongregate.com/].

A new version of Kongregate was released tonight. Some changes include our new developer site and getting notifications when developers reply to your comments. Other fixes are highlighted in in our forums [http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/198694-new-kongregate-version-cr-2011-08-24] .

We are excited about a new project that was just launched called Stencyl [http://www.kongregate.com/pages/stencyl]. It's a free Flash game creation tool that allows you to get into game development even if your talents are more for game design and/or art and not programming. But fear not - you can dig into the code too if you wish. Read about it on our feature page [http://www.kongregate.com/pages/stencyl], check out the new dedicated Stencyl forum [http://www.kongregate.com/forums/80-stencyl]