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Developer Spotlight Nov 09, 2017
'AdVenture Communist' Dev Q&A: Digging into a Dynasty

KONG: Hyper Hippo is a Canadian-based independent game developer best known for the hit idle game AdVenture Capitalist. How did you all meet and start making games together? CODY: Hyper Hippo sprang out of the imagination of Lance Priebe, the creator of Club Penguin. He assembled what he felt was a "dream team" for game development, then opened the floodgates and said, "GO!" TRISTAN: We all met while working on the virtual world "Disney’s Club Penguin." We wanted to try our hand at some new

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Developer Spotlight Sep 05, 2017
'Castaway Cove' Q&A: How Synapse's New Tidal Idle Came to Be

We sat down with the co-founder of Synapse Games, Alex Reeve, to explore their newest launch Castaway Cove [https://app.adjust.com/ek72lt?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/pages/castaway-cove-mobile&campaign=2017_09_05-CastawayCove-Free-All-S&adgroup=Blog] , an idle game set on a far-off deserted island. Synapse is responsible for hit titles like Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards [https://app.adjust.com/83cgg4?fallback=http://www.kongregate.com/games/Throwdown/animation-throwdown&campa

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Developer Spotlight Feb 16, 2017
'Burrito Bison' Q&A with Juicy Beast

Burrito Bison is one of the most popular series on Kongregate, and we're proud to be publishing the third game in the series, Launcha Libre, available now on web [http://www.kongregate.com/games/JuicyBeast/burrito-bison-launcha-libre], Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.burritobison3.google&hl=en] , and iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/burrito-bison-launcha-libre/id1135126803?mt=8]. We could say that this Q&A is in celebration of this week's mas

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Developer Spotlight Jan 05, 2017
'BattleHand' Q&A with Another Place Productions

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the charming fantasy RPG BattleHand, we sat down with the extremely talented development team behind the game, Another Place Productions, to discuss inspiration, process, and, of course, BattleHand! The London-based indie development studio started surprisingly enough at Lionhead Studios when the 3 founders, who were working on the Fable franchise, decided to create their own games. After forming in 2012, they quickly realized that developing mobile games

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Developer Spotlight Sep 02, 2011
Q&A with Jon, creator of Stencyl

Jon, creator of the new Stencyl [http://www.kongregate.com/pages/Stencyl] free Flash game development suite, was kind enough to answer some questions and talk a bit more about his project. As a quick terminology note, "Stencyl" is a general term for the product, while StencylWorks is the creation tool that works along side other tools like StencylForge. Kongregate: So, what exactly is StencylWorks? Jon: StencylWorks is the tool that brings game creation to everybody. We take out everything tha

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