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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

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

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

Game Development Jan 12, 2017

The Math of Idle Games, Part III

This three-part series is intended to break apart my MIGS 2016 slides [http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyPecorella/the-rise-and-rise-of-idle-games-68916528] into what are hopefully detailed but accessible angles on the math and mechanics behind idle and incremental games. The sections draw heavily from a collection of spreadsheet models [http://kon.gg/idle-math-spreadsheets] I built and have opened up for you to play around with. In Part I [https://blog.kongregate.com/the-math-of-idle-games-par

Developer Spotlight Jan 05, 2017

'BattleHand' Q&A with Another Place Productions

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the charming fantasy RPG BattleHand, we sat down with the extremely talented development team behind the game, Another Place Productions, to discuss inspiration, process, and, of course, BattleHand! The London-based indie development studio started surprisingly enough at Lionhead Studios when the 3 founders, who were working on the Fable franchise, decided to create their own games. After forming in 2012, they quickly realized that developing mobile games

Engineering Dec 20, 2016

Managing Game-Loading Memory in WebGL with Unity

Galvanic Games [https://www.facebook.com/galvanicgames] is a small company with few resources. As our primary programmer on the team, it’s my job to figure out how we can deliver content as quickly as possible. We had a goal to release our game, Questmore [http://www.kongregate.com/games/galvanicgames/questmore], after just a few months of development. This makes picking our tools one of the most valuable steps in the process, and Unity is a phenomenal tool for rapid development. However, it isn

Engineering Dec 05, 2016

Building Better AI with Kongregate Games

Web games like Kongregate's may be one of the key ingredients for developing powerful artificial intelligence. Read on to find out why this is, where they fit in, and how you can help! Hi! I'm Jack Clark, strategy and communications director at OpenAI [https://openai.com/blog/] — a non-profit artificial intelligence research lab. I want to tell you about a new AI project from us called "Universe [http://universe.openai.com]" that relies in part on games from Kongregate. At OpenAI, we've spent

Marketing Dec 01, 2016

Can PewDiePie Play My Game?

It’s a new world, folks. Traditional gaming press is dead and teenagers making videos in their basements have taken over. Well, not EXACTLY. But it is true that Social Influencers can reach hundreds of thousands of viewers in one video while an article from a big press outlet will be read by a few thousand potential new players. And game developers have noticed. I’ve been working with Influencers to get gaming coverage for the past few years, and game developers always ask me the same question:

Talks Nov 14, 2016

The Rise and Rise of Idle Games

These are the slides for Anthony Pecorella's talk on idle games at MIGS 16 so that attendees can view them directly. The Rise and Rise of Idle Games [//www.slideshare.net/AnthonyPecorella/the-rise-and-rise-of-idle-games-68916528] from Anthony Pecorella [//www.slideshare.net/AnthonyPecorella]