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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 Jan 25, 2023
What Do We Want to Spark Within the Web3 Community?

An message from Kongregate's Chief Technology Officer, Max Murphy. As we talk with developers and continue our journey into blockchain technology, a lot of us have been asking, “What do we want to spark within the web3 community?” Experimentation. Creativity. Thinking outside the box and pushing boundaries. We would like to get gamers and game developers to think along the lines of exciting, weird, fun games that have a piece of asset ownership in them so players can own their journey. If y

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Community Jan 20, 2023
Bringing Kongregate’s Meta-Game Experience to Discord

Let’s say you’re new to Kongregate and our Discord community. You saw on our Twitter that there is an event going live — Discord Faction Events. The Faction Events are a series of competitions players can participate in on our discord servers. On the Kongregate platform server, our most popular competition is the Faction Fight. The community manager (CM) chooses a game on Kongregate.com, and each player battles to get the highest in-game score for their team. Clicking the link in our bio, you

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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

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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 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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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

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