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Culture Aug 18, 2016
Engineering Personas

A few weeks ago, Kongregate CRO Josh Larson related the diversity of our company [https://blog.kongregate.com/the-sorting-hat-at-kongregate] as identified by an activity of having people take a Hogwart’s sorting hat quiz. We found out that, without any conscious effort, we had a relatively evenly distributed team. While this exercise was mostly done for fun, it does highlight a key concept to building a successful team: How do you balance the strengths and weaknesses of individuals to propel the

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Kongregate News Aug 10, 2016
A New Home for Our Documentation

Our documentation now at docs.kongregate.com [https://docs.kongregate.com]. Some of you will notice today that we moved our documentation to a new platform (on readme.io). Besides a cleaner interface, it allows us to provide some pretty useful tools within the docs, such as: * An interactive API Explorer where you can make test calls to our APIs * A community driven support hub [http://docs.kongregate.com/discuss] where you can ask questions and request features *

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Engineering May 26, 2016
Unity, HTML5, CORS, and You

Due to the fact that Unity is removing support [http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roadmap/] for the Web Player in their 5.4 release, many developers are ramping up on publishing their content using the HTML5 target to ensure forward compatibility. If you do not have any experience with creating Unity HTML5 content, you can view our blog [https://blog.kongregate.com/unity-webgl/] post about the subject to get a brief overview and some tips on uploading your game to Kongregate.

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Engineering Apr 14, 2016
Load Testing with Locust.io

Overview With more and more developers utilizing cloud services for hosting, it is critical to understand the performance metrics and limits of your application. First and foremost, this knowledge helps you keep your infrastructure up and running. Just as important, however, is the fact that this will ensure you are not allocating too many resources and wasting money in the process. This post will describe how Kongregate utilizes Locust.io [http://locust.io/] for internal load testing of our i

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Engineering Mar 24, 2016
Publishing Unity WebGL Games on Kongregate

The quick and painful [https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033?hl=en] death of the Unity Web Player has left many browser game developers scrambling to update and publish their content using Unity’s new HTML5 WebGL target. Now that Unity 5.3 is quite stable, we are recommending developers publish both Web Player and WebGL builds when hosting their games on Kongregate. Even though Unity 5.4 will remove support for the Web Player [http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roa

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Engineering Mar 17, 2016
Timeline of Modern Browser NPAPI Support

While browser games remain a popular format for game development, the technology behind browser games has been changing quickly over the past few years. Back in 2013 [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html], Chrome announced that it would be dropping support for the Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) due to concerns about the browser's security, speed, and stability. Skipping ahead a bit, Chrome version 45 launched on September 1st of last year, removing support f

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Engineering Feb 26, 2016
AWS Lambda for CloudFormation Stack Dependencies

Kongregate’s infrastructure is represented entirely in code via AWS CloudFormation. CloudFormation is a templating system built by AWS for managing their infrastructure as code; you can read more about CloudFormation here [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/]. Since Kongregate’s infrastructure is entirely in code, it has been necessary to solve a number of limitations in the CloudFormation structure. One such limitation in CloudFormation is cross stack dependencies. When defining entire infr

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