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Bitverse Aug 02, 2023
The Immersive World of Bit Heroes Quest by Lead Artist Pez Moreno

We take pride in creating immersive and captivating mobile and browser games that transport players to extraordinary worlds. Today, we shine the spotlight on one of our talented lead artists whose creative genius brings the pixel art realm of Bit Heroes Quest to life. Meet Pez Moreno. "When I started at Kongregate, I wasn't officially a Lead Artist, but in March of last year, I began training and officially made the transition in September. My role is to make the artistic goals of Bit Heroes Q

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Culture Jun 28, 2023
Meet Pez: Embracing Authenticity During Pride Month

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Pride month holds a special place in my heart. It's an opportunity to reflect on my journey, embrace my identity, and contribute to creating a more inclusive world. I remember attending my first Pride event in my small town in Chile back in 2012. Although it wasn't as grand as the ones I saw on TV, it was a significant step for me. Originally I had some apprehension about going - I might get recognized among the smaller crowd, and people may not understand w

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Culture Jun 21, 2023
Kongregate's June Book Program Explores Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Stories

We are thrilled to announce the return of our highly anticipated June Book Program, running throughout the entire month of June. Building on the success of last year's program, we are excited to offer our employees another opportunity for greater growth and understanding. The June Book Program is designed to foster continued learning within our company and provide our employees with valuable insights into Juneteenth and the LGBTQ+ community through educational books. During the program, each em

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Community May 31, 2023
Rebel with a Cause: Dan's Punk Rock Mission to Revolutionize Gaming

We sat down with Dan - the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Kongregate - to talk about the importance of AAPI month and how his experience as a member of this community has informed his career in video games. — I grew up in a mixed family. My dad is Hawaiian Filipino and my mom is Irish, English, and Dutch. Growing up, I knew that this made me different from a lot of my peers, but I didn’t really know why. When my parents would volunteer for school events, I would get a lot of weird looks w

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Community May 24, 2023
Building Community: Elle's Journey to Becoming a Senior Community Manager

"In every interaction, I strive to create a sense of family and belonging. It doesn't matter who you are; there is always room for you in our community. I've experienced the joy of being embraced as family by friends and at gatherings filled with love, laughter, and delicious food. The warm and welcoming values within the Filipino culture fill me with pride. It inspires me to foster that same spirit of inclusivity and care in everything I do." - Elle, Senior Community Manager at Kongregate

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Culture May 10, 2023
Kongregate Visits Kellogg Middle School

Last week, I was joined by our Director of Marketing Drew Hambke to visit Kellogg Middle School in Portland, Oregon to talk about the many possible careers within the video game industry. In order to inspire students to start thinking about their career journeys, the teachers at Kellogg kindly invited us to share openly about our own personal experiences with games and the gaming industry, as well as shed some light on the many aspects of video games from a career perspective. As with any pres

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Bitverse May 03, 2023
Gotta Run Fast!

We will be playing our very own Bit Heroes Runner for this week’s live stream! Be sure to tune in this Friday at 10 am PST and watch us RUN FOR OUR LIVES! Tune In Here: Since starting the show in January, live streaming has given us a bold new opportunity to highlight some of our favorite games on Kongregate.com – whether they are games made by our talented developer partners or games we’ve made ourselves. It’s a great way for us to showcase the games and gives us a chance to really connect w

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Community Apr 06, 2023
Who's That Kongpanion?

Kongpanions started out as the brain-child of two employees who wanted to come up with a way to make badge-earning even more compelling for players. The two of them walked into a conference room with a vague mission and walked out with the pitch to give out adorable collectible buddies as a prize for completing achievements in-game. Since then, Kongpanions have been a community-building event and unofficial pictographic history for Kongregate, by naming them after employees, inside jokes, and

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Culture Mar 30, 2023
Continuing to Empower Women in the Gaming Industry

It’s the beginning of Spring and the end of Q1 - a time of excitement as we all transition toward new projects and celebrate the goals we met during the first quarter. As we near the tail end of March, we wanted to wrap up Women’s History Month and spotlight some of the female leadership we have here at Kongregate. During International Women’s Day, we got to see Head of Studio Fernanda Contreras speak at the UN! You can read more about Fernanda’s story on what it was like to kickstart the gamin

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