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Community Oct 27, 2022

Returning to Our Roots

A Player Experience & Community Perspective from Janet Ebsen, Director of Player Experience, Kongregate. To some extent, the rebranding effort we’re in right now started months ago on the Player Experience team. It started with our newest round of hiring and, if it weren’t for the plans to relaunch Kongregate.com at the end of the year, we may not have hired the new staff to help with planning events for the rebranding. Those new hires brought in a lot of fresh thinking and helped inform a lot

Blood Vessels Oct 26, 2022

Mint Day is HERE!

Hello everyone! Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to: It’s MINT DAY! Vampires will be available at 12 pm PST at https://bloodvessels.io/ , so make sure you’re ready to go. I wanted to touch on a few updates as the vampires get ready to roll out: How do I get that cool Vampire role? If you purchased a Vampire from our website https://bloodvessels.io/ make sure to connect your wallet to your Discord account. If you DON’T have the Vampire Role because you missed it in the purchase OR

Brand Oct 20, 2022

Rebranding: Look to Your Core — A Product Design Perspective

Many people consider branding (or in our case, rebranding) to be all about the “new look”. But the most significant changes for us as a company are happening on an internal level. We’re solidifying our core values as a company, foraying into the blockchain space, and looking for talent willing to push boundaries. None of that is visual. The most significant change for us is about stepping out of the shadows, learning from our past, and embracing our history. As always, we are looking at susta

Blockchain Oct 17, 2022

What is Web3 Gaming?

If you keep up with gaming trends in some capacity, you’ve undoubtedly come across the concept of “NFT-supported” games or the term “Web3 gaming” itself in recent news. If you aren’t already familiar with these terms, you might feel a little lost or behind the times. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! “Web3” is an overarching term that refers to a large list of features when it comes to Internet technology, but one of the most defining components is decentralization. Content creators and devel

Blockchain Oct 17, 2022

Building a Bot for Your Discord Community — /skillcheck Overview

Building a community around a game is no small challenge. One thing that is sure to help, however, is building a bot for your Discord server. A bot enables you to offer unique features to your community, allowing them to interact with each other and your game. One feature we built for Blood Vessels was the ability for users to perform skill checks against their “vampires” (i.e. a collection of stats), like you’d see in many TTRPG’s. We’ll take a quick look at how we implement skill checks, which

Culture Oct 12, 2022

Supporting the Flash Community with Ruffle

Kongregate is now a Diamond-Level Sponsor of Ruffle Kongregate revealed today that it is joining the esteemed group of financial contributors supporting the open-source project Ruffle with a one-time donation of $5,000, plus a recurring contribution of $500 monthly. Ruffle is an open-source Flash Player emulator developed on GitHub with the additional safety and performance features offered by the modern browser sandbox and Rust. The project is ongoing and entirely maintained by volunteers. It

Blockchain Oct 12, 2022

Can NFTs be Gas Free and Carbon Neutral?

Ever since NFTs hit the online marketplace, they’ve raised all sorts of questions. Are they a crypto currency? Are they art? Are they games? What’s the point? While many of these more general questions are still floating around, you might have some more specific concerns you’ve heard about that could use some clearing up. Namely, the environmental impact of NFT transactions and if there is a way to combat any potential negatives. Thankfully, there is! Gas free, carbon neutral NFTs, or “green”

Blockchain Oct 12, 2022

What are NFTs in Games?

By now you’ve certainly come across many a Bored Ape, various gif or jpeg collections, and Jack Dorsey’s first tweet in your search for NFTs. These first iterations definitely raised an eyebrow when they hit the scene during the most recent NFT craze, and some people are still confused at just what they are. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique pieces of digital art or otherwise that people are free to buy, sell, and trade through blockchain technology. What makes them so appealing to colle

Blockchain Oct 12, 2022

What are Blockchain Games?

Blockchain technology has been around since 2008, as a way to record bitcoin transactions through a sort of digital ledger. This technology has been used time and time again as new crypto currencies were minted, but recently, they’ve been the foundation for a new type of gaming. Blockchain games — sometimes called Web3 games or NFT games — are video games that utilize blockchain technology in a similar way to crypto currencies. This close tie-in with the tech has allowed players to earn crypto