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Kongregate News Oct 26, 2023
New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new homepage on Kongregate.com, representing a big leap toward making your online experience easier and better than ever. Your online activities should be smooth, intuitive, and most importantly, fun. With that in mind, we've put a lot of thought and effort into creating a homepage that changes how you navigate and browse our platform. Responsive Design Today, we can confidently say that our homepage smoothly adjusts for the first time to fit all screen size

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Art & Design Jul 05, 2023
Exploring the Fusion of Artistry and Functionality in UI

In the fast-paced world of game development, where visual appeal and seamless user experience are paramount, UI artists play a crucial role. They are the masterminds behind the captivating interfaces that guide players through immersive digital worlds. One such talented artist is Michelle Pope, a User Interface Artist at Kongregate. Michelle, who joined Kongregate two years ago, initially made her mark on SpongeBob’s Idle Adventures, released in 2020. Her journey with Kongregate, however, began

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Game Development Apr 27, 2023
Behind the Scenes: An Inside Look at the Kongregate Squad

Kongregate has recently announced the release of their newest game, This Is How We Roll, the second installment in the Kongpanion game series. It features the lovable Kongpanions, who are on the run from Chef Nogusto through the streets of Paris. Watch us play This Is How We Roll during our livestream this Friday at 10 am PST, alongside our guest and co-creator of the game, Gonzalo Bravo. With this recent game and a third game coming soon, we wanted to highlight the team behind the games - The

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Game Development Apr 18, 2023
Bring Kongpanions To Your Game

Adding badges to your game on Kongregate.com can greatly enhance your players' experience by providing a fun and rewarding metagame that allows players to earn Kongpanions. It also increases engagement, retention, and daily active users, ultimately leading to greater visibility and revenue potential for your game. Check out our most recent game featuring Kongpanions: Save the Kongpanions from Chef NoGusto and beat the timer in this delicious sorting game made by Kongregate, Please Don't Eat Me

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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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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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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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Engineering Oct 01, 2019
CORS, Cookies, Unity and WebGL Builds

In a previous blog post [https://blog.kongregate.com/unity-html5-cors-and-you/] I discussed how to get basic cross-origin requests working for your Unity WebGL project. This post is meant as a quick follow-up to cover another tricky problem that may come up when attempting to host your Unity WebGL game on Kongregate: cookie-based session authentication. The Problem Let's say you have a backend API that uses cookies for session management. Your game works great when testing on your own domain, b

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