Engineering - Kongregate Developers Blog

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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Engineering Mar 20, 2018
Serverless: Up and Running

What is serverless hosting? In 2018, the requirement for a dedicated server running 24/7 seems a bit antiquated. With the invention of AWS Lambda, it is now possible to own and maintain an API application that only exists on-demand, and only costs resources based on what it uses while running. It’s never been cheaper to run an API thanks to Lambda. To do that, however, there are a handful of hoops that need to be jumped through to get a working application. For the sake of this blog, the tool

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Engineering Dec 05, 2017
Welcome to SS-Hell

The Long Ago Kongregate has been around for a relatively long time. We were around when Flash was cool, and also when it became uncool. We were also around when SSL was considered an optional luxury that added significant overhead and latency to network requests. Thus, we built our site with the assumption that HTTP was a fine protocol to use most everywhere, and SSL should just be used "as needed" -- for authentication, purchasing, and other sensitive data. That assumption held up for over a

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