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Game Development May 17, 2023
Inside Chef’s Last Stand: A Developers Insight

We sat down with a lead game designer of the Kongregate Squad to discuss the creation of Chef’s Last Stand - Kongregate’s newest game for their web platform. Here, she gives us some insight into the thought process and research done to bring this exciting venture. — Since we’re a small team, it was up to me to research by playing some games within the “run and gun” genre and Chef’s Last Stand ended up being my own interpretation of emulating the feeling you get when playing games like that. I

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Culture May 10, 2023
Kongregate Visits Kellogg Middle School

Last week, I was joined by our Director of Marketing Drew Hambke to visit Kellogg Middle School in Portland, Oregon to talk about the many possible careers within the video game industry. In order to inspire students to start thinking about their career journeys, the teachers at Kellogg kindly invited us to share openly about our own personal experiences with games and the gaming industry, as well as shed some light on the many aspects of video games from a career perspective. As with any pres

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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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Kongregate News Mar 15, 2023
The Significance of GDC for the Gaming Industry

There has been an extra buzz at Kongregate over the past few weeks. We’re preparing to meet game developers and partners in person, checking and double-checking flights, and talking about our matching shirts. Why? We’re going to GDC! Here are a few of the quotes we’ve collected around multiple departments on why GDC holds such significance for us: Michelle Shaw, CBOO GDC has always been a big event for Kongregate! It's an exciting opportunity to meet with up-and-coming developers and showca

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Community Mar 14, 2023
March Update Roundup

More New Games! We were thrilled to announce that STUG was the first of many new games coming to the site. Since then 2 more games have been added to Kongregate! In Mergest Kingdom, you can merge together hundreds of objects in a land full of challenging quests and harvestable resources. Find the best ways to match and merge various pieces to erect the biggest buildings and cultivate the most fruitful plants! Incremental Epic Hero 2 is a mixture of incremental/idle and roleplaying gameplay,

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Game Development Mar 10, 2023
We're Going to GDC!

Reach out if you’d like to schedule a time to speak with us at GDC 2023. We’d love to meet you! We're Accepting New Games! We are now accepting new games on Kongregate.com! Please be aware that our submission and upload process has changed. To ensure all new games are a great user experience for our players, the platform will not be accepting open submissions directly to the site. Instead, contact BD@kongregate.com and our team will review your games to decide if your game meets our guid

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Community Jan 25, 2023
What Do We Want to Spark Within the Web3 Community?

An message from Kongregate's Chief Technology Officer, Max Murphy. As we talk with developers and continue our journey into blockchain technology, a lot of us have been asking, “What do we want to spark within the web3 community?” Experimentation. Creativity. Thinking outside the box and pushing boundaries. We would like to get gamers and game developers to think along the lines of exciting, weird, fun games that have a piece of asset ownership in them so players can own their journey. If y

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Animation Throwdown Dec 16, 2022
Designing for Flavor

One of the more under-appreciated aspects of designing content is matching the mechanics to the flavor of the associated character or object. Flavor in game design refers to the elements of a character or object that have no impact on the gameplay itself. This can involve a character's history, motivations, emotions, visual style — anything to give a player more context and make the character feel like a real person and not just a game piece. We’ll be taking a look at two examples from Collectib

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