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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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Crypto Dec 09, 2022
Digital Marketing for NFTs — Part 2: Six Months Out

If you haven’t read part one, click here to learn more about initial considerations and crafting your goals & message. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the best practices for launching your NFT project and considerations that impact the marketability of your community and message. Identify your Key Dates Knowing when you’re expecting to launch your Discord, Twitter, Landing Page, and Whitepaper is key. Ideally, launching the landing page, Discord and Twitter in close succession,

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Bitverse Nov 17, 2022
KONGREGATE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF TWO NEW BITVERSE WEB3 GAMES WITH CROSS-NFT GAMEPLAY FUNCTIONALITY

Bit Heroes Arena (Open Beta) and Bit Heroes Runner now available for NFT crossplay or as standalone games. San Diego (November 16, 2022) — It’s time to journey into the Bitverse! Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced two new games for its Bitverse Games Collection. Bit Heroes Arena and Bit Heroes Runner are available to play now on the web, with mobile versions expected in 2023. In addition,

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Getting Started Nov 10, 2022
Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall - The Ideation Process

Ideation and Process from Drew Hambke, Director of Marketing, Kongregate. I’ve been thinking a lot about what brought me to Kongregate back in the day and the content that kept me around. I was an avid user of Kongregate when Gamestop owned it, and becoming an employee reminded me of those things. Our audience has a lot of nostalgia for the good old days when we could spend a lot of time enjoying new games and having community interactions you couldn’t find anywhere else. Sites like Kongregate

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Blockchain Nov 03, 2022
Developing the Gaming Space with Our Community

An inteview with John Jones, Director of Business Development at Kongregate. Being an industry leader means ensuring proven best practices in our work while pushing boundaries. It means constantly testing, iterating, and changing while staying true to ourselves by fostering our community of developers and players. The business development team has been attending events like GamesCom or NFTLondon (where we are right now!) and engaging with the game developer community to understand their pain p

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