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Web Jan 17, 2024
Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

We're thrilled to unveil exciting updates to our Achievements page, designed to elevate your experience in discovering and celebrating your gaming milestones. These enhancements are already live—dive right in and explore our latest features! Weekly Kongpanion Banner Redesigned The Weekly Kongpanion Banner got a facelift, sporting a new look and introducing mini badges. These new elements add a charming touch to each edition and shiny state. Animations now celebrate your achievements with exci

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Developer Spotlight Dec 06, 2023
Discover Brave New Worlds with AI Adventure Creator

Today marks a milestone in Kongregate’s history as we proudly unveil AI Adventure Creator - a text-based, AI-generated fantasy adventure game, set in the popular Spellstone universe. Unlike most games where you play through a pre-generated storyline created by game designers, AI Adventure Creator uses advanced ChatGPT tools to help build new worlds, scenes, and characters for your story. Built by The Kongregate Squad - Kongregate’s group of in-house designers - the game puts control of the

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Kongregate News Oct 26, 2023
New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new homepage on Kongregate.com, representing a big leap toward making your online experience easier and better than ever. Your online activities should be smooth, intuitive, and most importantly, fun. With that in mind, we've put a lot of thought and effort into creating a homepage that changes how you navigate and browse our platform. Responsive Design Today, we can confidently say that our homepage smoothly adjusts for the first time to fit all screen size

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Kongregate News Oct 25, 2023
Treat Yourself to New Games and Kongpanions!

🍁 It's October - What's New? 🍁 As we creep through the shadows of October, join us in watching our latest What's New on Kongregate video presenting our newest & recently updated games and featured Kongpanions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_BEc7L_5g Kongregate Livestream | Fridays at 10 am PDT Friday, October 28th at 10 am PDT - Join Francisco, Sophia, and Heather for a freaky livestream! We're having an extra long stream this Friday to share some Halloween-themed games, answer questio

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Community Oct 04, 2023
Update Round-Up: September 2023

🎉 New Games on Kongregate.com! The following games have been added to Kongregate.com since the previous update round-up: * Eliatopia * Tales from the Arcade: Starship Murder * Bessbem * Fear the Spotlight * Viscous Ventures * Scraplegs * Gun Range Idle * Snowbound * Among the Zombies * Dark Sword * The Reboot Our team is looking for more opportunities to bring great games into the spotlight and continue supporting independent game developers everywhere. If you are interested in g

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Bitverse Jul 17, 2023
KONGREGATE BRINGS THE BITVERSE TO MOBILE FANS WITH THE LAUNCH OF BIT HEROES RUNNER ON ANDROID

Kongregate Continues Mission to Grow Bitverse Community with Expansion of Games to New Platforms San Diego, CA (July 17, 2023) - Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced the launch of its action-packed side-scroller Bit Heroes Runner, now available for free download on Android. First introduced as part of the company’s Bitverse Web3 game collection, mobile game fans can now partake in the adventu

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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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Community Apr 06, 2023
Who's That Kongpanion?

Kongpanions started out as the brain-child of two employees who wanted to come up with a way to make badge-earning even more compelling for players. The two of them walked into a conference room with a vague mission and walked out with the pitch to give out adorable collectible buddies as a prize for completing achievements in-game. Since then, Kongpanions have been a community-building event and unofficial pictographic history for Kongregate, by naming them after employees, inside jokes, and

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