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Developer Spotlight Sep 05, 2017

'Castaway Cove' Q&A: How Synapse's New Tidal Idle Came to Be

We sat down with the co-founder of Synapse Games, Alex Reeve, to explore their newest launch Castaway Cove [https://app.adjust.com/ek72lt?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/pages/castaway-cove-mobile&campaign=2017_09_05-CastawayCove-Free-All-S&adgroup=Blog] , an idle game set on a far-off deserted island. Synapse is responsible for hit titles like Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards [https://app.adjust.com/83cgg4?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/games/Throwdown/animation-throwdown&campa

Mobile Publishing Aug 31, 2017

Go on a Tropical Adventure in 'Castaway Cove'

We at Kongregate are excited to announce today's launch of Castaway Cove, a tropical island-themed idle mobile game from Synapse Games! Marooned on a deserted island, players in Castaway Cove are tasked with collecting survivors to help find food and resources, explore the mysteries of their new island home, and build a tropical paradise. The fifth mobile game collaboration between Kongregate & Synapse Games, Castaway Cove is the first game to delve into the idle genre, mixing traditional idl

Talks Aug 28, 2017

Casual Connect Seattle 2017: Did That Publisher Just Ghost Me?

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]

Guest Post Aug 24, 2017

Guest Post: Growing a Gaming Community (Before You Have Players)

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

Analytics Aug 17, 2017

Don’t Rush Your A/B Test!

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

Kongregate News Aug 16, 2017

'The Trail: Frontier Challenge' Is Now on Steam

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

Game Development Aug 10, 2017

Exploring Motivation: Why People Play Games for Years

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

Kongregate News Aug 09, 2017

Kongregate Announces $10 Million PC & Console Fund to Expand Cross-Platform Publishing Initiative

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

Engineering Aug 03, 2017

Death to Flashy

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