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Community Jan 13, 2023

Happy 2023 — Kongregate.com is Back!

We took a huge step in 2022 by implementing the Flash emulator Ruffle onto Kongregate.com. With this amazing tech, we were able to bring thousands of Flash games back to the site. As a thank you to Ruffle, we became a Diamond-level sponsor, donating $5000 to support their cause, with a recurring $500 monthly contribution as well. We are proud to partner with this great group of developers to help bring Flash games back to life! But that’s not all! We’re relaunching Kongregate.com in 2023, brin

Animation Throwdown Dec 16, 2022

Designing for Flavor

One of the more under-appreciated aspects of designing content is matching the mechanics to the flavor of the associated character or object. Flavor in game design refers to the elements of a character or object that have no impact on the gameplay itself. This can involve a character's history, motivations, emotions, visual style — anything to give a player more context and make the character feel like a real person and not just a game piece. We’ll be taking a look at two examples from Collectib

Crypto Dec 09, 2022

Digital Marketing for NFTs — Part 2: Six Months Out

If you haven’t read part one, click here to learn more about initial considerations and crafting your goals & message. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the best practices for launching your NFT project and considerations that impact the marketability of your community and message. Identify your Key Dates Knowing when you’re expecting to launch your Discord, Twitter, Landing Page, and Whitepaper is key. Ideally, launching the landing page, Discord and Twitter in close succession,

Community Dec 01, 2022

Our Logo Reveal: A Livestream Experience

Our new logo is more than just a new logo. It represents the journey we’re on — revamping our website, exploring new technologies, and learning new ways to engage with our players. That’s why we’re revealing the new logo with a livestream — a fun way to engage with one another and our community. Our team put together a few activities for our community to enjoy: a Blood Vessels playthrough, playing games on Kongregate.com, and streaming Bit Heroes Quest! We’ll have fun together, talk about wh

Blockchain Nov 17, 2022

Expanding Our Story

From Kongregate's Michelle Shaw, Chief Blockchain Operations Officer By rebranding, we’re telling the story of staying true to what has always made us unique and maintaining our commitment to the community while expanding to be more inclusive. We’ve been in the games business for 16 years. We’re both a game developer and a game publisher for third-party developers. That breadth of experience gives us a unique perspective and leg up compared to our competitors in the market. If you don’t kno

Bitverse Nov 17, 2022

KONGREGATE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF TWO NEW BITVERSE WEB3 GAMES WITH CROSS-NFT GAMEPLAY FUNCTIONALITY

Bit Heroes Arena (Open Beta) and Bit Heroes Runner now available for NFT crossplay or as standalone games. San Diego (November 16, 2022) — It’s time to journey into the Bitverse! Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced two new games for its Bitverse Games Collection. Bit Heroes Arena and Bit Heroes Runner are available to play now on the web, with mobile versions expected in 2023. In addition,

Getting Started Nov 10, 2022

Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall - The Ideation Process

Ideation and Process from Drew Hambke, Director of Marketing, Kongregate. I’ve been thinking a lot about what brought me to Kongregate back in the day and the content that kept me around. I was an avid user of Kongregate when Gamestop owned it, and becoming an employee reminded me of those things. Our audience has a lot of nostalgia for the good old days when we could spend a lot of time enjoying new games and having community interactions you couldn’t find anywhere else. Sites like Kongregate

Nov 04, 2022

Design Duel: Creating a Contest for Your Community

While we are preparing to relaunch Kongregate.com and create a new look and feel with our branding, we want to engage our player community and encourage a little friendly competition by bringing them in on the journey. On November 1st, our Player Experience team announced a contest to mark the beginning of our rebranding festivities. While our new logo will be released later this year, our team wanted to see what fun art our community would create in anticipation of our reveal. To set up the co

Blockchain Nov 03, 2022

Developing the Gaming Space with Our Community

An inteview with John Jones, Director of Business Development at Kongregate. Being an industry leader means ensuring proven best practices in our work while pushing boundaries. It means constantly testing, iterating, and changing while staying true to ourselves by fostering our community of developers and players. The business development team has been attending events like GamesCom or NFTLondon (where we are right now!) and engaging with the game developer community to understand their pain p