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Game Development Jun 05, 2017

China Is Kind of a Big Deal for Indie Games

This article was written by Lars Doucet [http://www.fortressofdoors.com/] and originally posted on Gamasutra [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20170307/293025/China_is_kind_of_a_big_deal_for_Indie_Games.php] back in March. We found it so useful that we're hosting it here, with Lars' permission. For the past five years I've been maintaining Defender's Quest [http://www.defendersquest.com/1/], I've kept telling myself: there's got to be some magical untapped audience I've yet to reach.

Monetization May 25, 2017

GDC Talk: Lifetime Value and the Long Tail of Mid-Core Games

Our own Tamara Levy spoke at this year's GDC about maximizing lifetime player value in mid-core games. Using genre-specific predictive models developed from the Kongregate portfolio, we demonstrate how and why post-D30 retention can be key to increase your revenue. Through case studies, you'll learn strategies to boost both early and late revenue, as well as game core loop modifications to drive better player investment in the long run. GDC Talk: Lifetime Value: The long tail of Mid-Core games

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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