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Developer Spotlight Sep 07, 2023
The Making of Diebrary - An Interview With The Other Ocean Game Developers

A massive update was just brought to Diebrary, so we took the opportunity to speak to Angus Fletcher & Daniel Eichler, two Other Ocean team members behind the game. “We wanted to make a game in the arena roguelike genre. We're big fans of it. A bunch of our team has played games like Vampire Survivor and 20 Minutes Till Dawn. So we wanted to make a game like this, release it on web, and Kongregate was an amazing partner to do that,” Eichler gushed about how Diebrary came about. Angus chimed in

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Kongregate News Apr 13, 2022
Kongregate Reveals Blood Vessels, A Unique, NFT-Powered, Community Gaming Experience

Vampires meet web3 in a carbon-neutral role playing game driven by the players San Diego (April 13th, 2022) - Kongregate [http://www.kongregate.com/], a leading first-party mobile game developer and architect of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com, today revealed Blood Vessels: a vampire-themed community storytelling experience. Partnering with ImmutableX - Ethereum’s leading Layer 2 (L2) fully carbon neutral scaling solution - Blood Vessels will feature unique playable va

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Guest Post Jun 28, 2018
7 Things You Should Be Aware of Before You Make Your First Game

This week's guest post is from plarium.com, the home of top online MMO games. Making a game is challenging, but thanks to modern technology and software development, anyone with the passion and dedication to learning the trade can make something playable and (more importantly) enjoyable. However, it takes a long time, and a lot of experience before the average person can start creating something people will want to invest a fair amount of money and time in. We all dream of creating the next E

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Guest Post Aug 24, 2017
Guest Post: Growing a Gaming Community (Before You Have Players)

This article was written by Nathan Lovato and originally posted on GameAnalytics.com [http://www.gameanalytics.com/blog/how-to-grow-a-gaming-community.html]. When you get started with social networks, it’s tough. Nobody follows you. Nobody reads you. Nobody knows you! How do other game developers get those thousands of followers? 2 years ago, no one knew me either. I was terrible at communication, and I didn’t like it. Back then, I had failed a company, largely due to a lack of online presenc

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Monetization Oct 20, 2016
From a Dev: Optimizing Ad Revenue Through Gameplay Experiences

The following article is meant to highlight Ultrabit’s experience with ads and how we integrated them into our core gameplay to drive meaningful revenue. I will be speaking primarily about our latest title, Pocket Politics (iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-politics/id1106002394?mt=8] and Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.pocketpolitics.google&hl=en] , July 2016). Although Pocket Politics sits in the idle/incremental genre, we believe ads can

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Monetization Sep 08, 2016
eCPM Decay in Rewarded Video Ads

Some of you have heard the term "eCPM decay." Let's first understand what it means. If you are a publisher, CPM is the revenue you are getting for 1,000 impressions. If an advertiser is paying you a CPM of $5 and you show your users 1,000 impressions of that ad, you will receive $5. The advertising world is slightly more complex, however; most of the advertisers are actually paying CPI -- in other words, they are paying for installs. This means that unless the user clicks on an ad and installs t

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Game Development Aug 11, 2016
More Terrible Games, Please

I’m an intern here at Kongregate, which means that my responsibilities are varied and almost completely uninteresting to read about (but I’m not about to let a little thing like that stop me). For the past week or two, I’ve been spending most of my time combing through hundreds of old games, weeding out anything that seems broken or miscategorized. It’s very time-consuming, and although it can be tedious to wade through a tidal wave of unplayable games, it can feel like I’m uncovering bizarre ar

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Monetization Aug 04, 2016
5 Tips to Improve Game-as-a-Service Monetization

Written by Moonlit Wang, Partner Development Manager at Google Play Games, & Tammy Levy, Director of Product for Mobile at Kongregate Free-to-play games are essentially games-as-a-service. The lifetime value of these players is much more complex to calculate than it was when a game’s player LTV was simply the purchase price of a game. We understand that the LTV is directly related to how much time players spend in the game, since long-term players spend more money, but how do we design a game t

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