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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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Blood Vessels Oct 26, 2022
Mint Day is HERE!

Hello everyone! Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to: It’s MINT DAY! Vampires will be available at 12 pm PST at https://bloodvessels.io/ , so make sure you’re ready to go. I wanted to touch on a few updates as the vampires get ready to roll out: How do I get that cool Vampire role? If you purchased a Vampire from our website https://bloodvessels.io/ make sure to connect your wallet to your Discord account. If you DON’T have the Vampire Role because you missed it in the purchase OR

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Kongregate News Sep 22, 2022
FX’S ARCHER JOINS KONGREGATE’S ANIMATION THROWDOWN FOR HIT GAME’S 6TH ANNIVERSARY

Collectible card game now features characters and locations from Archer series. San Diego, CA (September 22, 2022) — Kongregate, creators of the beloved web gaming platform Kongregate.com is celebrating the sixth anniversary of Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.throwdown.google&hl=en_US&gl=US] , a free-to-play card collecting game with over 10 million downloads. Initially launched in 2016, the game includes characters

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Art & Design Sep 16, 2022
Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Lying, Part One.

Notes on Narrative Design by Dan Tabayoyon, Lead Narrative Designer of BLood Vessels, Kongregate. “All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.” ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but when I go to the movies and the setting is someplace I’ve been to or know intimately, I’m immediately looking for landmarks, familiar places, streets I’ve stood on, pla

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Crypto Sep 09, 2022
Digital Marketing for NFTs Part 1: Initial Considerations

Kongregate has stepped out into the world of NFTs and blockchain games in 2022, exploring the potential of several projects. Whether we’re talking about Blood Vessels, a community-driven roleplaying game experience set in a dark version of 1890s Chicago, or showing off new art for the Bitverse, our focus in 2022 is on what comes next for our games and the industry as a whole. A key component to innovation is crafting a message and reaching a wide audience. While we have a proven strategy for ma

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Kongregate News Apr 28, 2022
Kongregate Announces The Bitverse, A Collection of Interconnected Web3 Games Set In An 8-Bit Metaverse

Players will explore a nostalgic universe of games built on the blockchain San Diego (APRIL 28, 2022) - Kongregate [http://www.kongregate.com/], creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com [http://kongregate.com] and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today revealed the Bitverse, a soon-to-launch collection of web3 games set in a nostalgic 8-bit universe. Each game in the Bitverse will have different game mechanics and gameplay styles but will live within the same

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