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Game Development Apr 27, 2023
Behind the Scenes: An Inside Look at the Kongregate Squad

Kongregate has recently announced the release of their newest game, This Is How We Roll, the second installment in the Kongpanion game series. It features the lovable Kongpanions, who are on the run from Chef Nogusto through the streets of Paris. Watch us play This Is How We Roll during our livestream this Friday at 10 am PST, alongside our guest and co-creator of the game, Gonzalo Bravo. With this recent game and a third game coming soon, we wanted to highlight the team behind the games - The

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Game Development Apr 18, 2023
Bring Kongpanions To Your Game

Adding badges to your game on Kongregate.com can greatly enhance your players' experience by providing a fun and rewarding metagame that allows players to earn Kongpanions. It also increases engagement, retention, and daily active users, ultimately leading to greater visibility and revenue potential for your game. Check out our most recent game featuring Kongpanions: Save the Kongpanions from Chef NoGusto and beat the timer in this delicious sorting game made by Kongregate, Please Don't Eat Me

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Art & Design Feb 15, 2023
Growing and Changing While Retaining Your Identity

In this article, Henrik Andersson talks about rebranding strategy for Kongregate.com and the importance of maintaining your identity. Maintaining and updating your brand is crucial in today’s competitive business environment. Your brand is the face of your company and is often the first thing people see and interact with. It’s important to remember that throwing out your old branding and starting from scratch can be costly and time-consuming. It can also confuse your existing community and mak

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Community Feb 13, 2023
Kongretine’s Day: Lifelong Friendships Between Players & Developers

This February, we’re focusing on the feeling of togetherness — and love — within our community. Players are hanging out with one another on Kongregate.com and our Discord developing and playing games together while making lifelong friendships — so we’re celebrating that with Kongretines Day. The Kongretine’s Day coloring event is a Valentine’s Day event where players can send a love letter to their ‘Kongretine’ of choice. It’s a unique opportunity not just for players, but for our developers to

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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

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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

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Art & Design Oct 05, 2022
Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Lying, Part 2.

Notes on Narrative Design by Dan Tabayoyon, Lead Narrative Designer, Blood Vessels, Kongregate. You can find Part 1 here! I’d argue with most narrative design, the task of creating a narrative seems simple enough on the surface: You have an idea. You work to build a world or setting creating characters to live in that world, and create reasons the player experience matches the mechanics you’re introducing to the player. You build lore and story that makes sense for the framework of the game. A

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Art & Design Sep 16, 2022
Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Lying, Part One.

Notes on Narrative Design by Dan Tabayoyon, Lead Narrative Designer of BLood Vessels, Kongregate. “All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.” ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but when I go to the movies and the setting is someplace I’ve been to or know intimately, I’m immediately looking for landmarks, familiar places, streets I’ve stood on, pla

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Art & Design Sep 01, 2022
What it Takes to be a Product Manager Outside of the Typical Job Description

A Product Manager (PM) is a position that exists in countless industries and companies. PMs, regardless of their industry of employment, all have the same responsibility: guide a product’s development to their organization’s maximum potential. Across the board, the best Product Managers are excellent strategists, analysts, leaders, and decision-makers. The only real difference between them stems from their unique industry knowledge and passion for it. So, what is the first prerequisite to being

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