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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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Bitverse Nov 17, 2022
KONGREGATE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF TWO NEW BITVERSE WEB3 GAMES WITH CROSS-NFT GAMEPLAY FUNCTIONALITY

Bit Heroes Arena (Open Beta) and Bit Heroes Runner now available for NFT crossplay or as standalone games. San Diego (November 16, 2022) — It’s time to journey into the Bitverse! Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced two new games for its Bitverse Games Collection. Bit Heroes Arena and Bit Heroes Runner are available to play now on the web, with mobile versions expected in 2023. In addition,

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Blood Vessels Oct 26, 2022
Mint Day is HERE!

Hello everyone! Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to: It’s MINT DAY! Vampires will be available at 12 pm PST at https://bloodvessels.io/ , so make sure you’re ready to go. I wanted to touch on a few updates as the vampires get ready to roll out: How do I get that cool Vampire role? If you purchased a Vampire from our website https://bloodvessels.io/ make sure to connect your wallet to your Discord account. If you DON’T have the Vampire Role because you missed it in the purchase OR

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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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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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Kongregate News Sep 22, 2022
FX’S ARCHER JOINS KONGREGATE’S ANIMATION THROWDOWN FOR HIT GAME’S 6TH ANNIVERSARY

Collectible card game now features characters and locations from Archer series. San Diego, CA (September 22, 2022) — Kongregate, creators of the beloved web gaming platform Kongregate.com is celebrating the sixth anniversary of Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.throwdown.google&hl=en_US&gl=US] , a free-to-play card collecting game with over 10 million downloads. Initially launched in 2016, the game includes characters

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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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Bitverse Aug 19, 2022
Kongregate Announces Partnership with T2 LATAM

T2 LATAM aims to educate and empower players about the web3, building networks and stable communities within the blockchain gaming space. Kongregate is partnering with T2 LATAM to help bring their latest project — the BitVerse — to global audiences everywhere. As the BitVerse continues to grow, they hope the partnership will help Spanish-speaking players to engage in the development and growth of the project. The BitVerse is an extension of the massively popular 8-bit retro dungeon crawler, Bi

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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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