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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 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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CRM Aug 15, 2022
Turn your Slack into a Centralized Information Center

Have you ever been in a situation where answering one question involves a quick check across three or more applications? In Player Experience, we have adopted a few practices to make communication easier across our team. I would like to highlight some of the processes that have withstood the test of time. What these processes have in common is bringing otherwise external but important information into our main communication hub. At Kongregate we use Slack, however, this can be relevant for any

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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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