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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Brand Sep 21, 2022
Unlocking Kongregate’s Flash Games

Ruffle unlocks Kongregate Flash games for legacy players without needing a browser add-on like SuperNova after the discontinuation of Adobe’s Flash Player. Thousands of games are now available to play again. This allows players to dive into Kongregate nostalgia & for us to curate fun themes for gamers to discover… and rediscover. When Adobe started blocking access to its Flash player, content all over the web became obsolete. Kongregate got to work transferring its most popular games from Flash

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Brand Aug 10, 2022
Preparing for Remote Work

The spring of 2022 marked my transition from full-time college student to full-time remote worker. While COVID forced many people into remote work, companies like Kongregate are choosing to remain remote-first. With remote work comes unique benefits, challenges, and workplace norms. The pandemic changed the way people work. Unlike in-person jobs, relocation and commuting are not required. It was a huge draw for me to live farther away from cities with high living costs and to save time and mone

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Brand Aug 01, 2022
Kongregate… A History

What better way to revive our Medium account on our Sweet Sixteenth anniversary, than to take a little walk down memory lane. In the coming weeks we will be sharing new guides, how to’s, and best practices here and we hope our revived account can become a resource for anyone and everyone in the gaming industry. But today, let’s start with a brief history… Kongregate started wayyyyy back in 2006 as “The YouTube of Games!” Or so I’ve heard over the years. Our mission back then was to give indie d

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