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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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Kongregate News Mar 22, 2023
We're at GDC!

We’re only halfway through the week and it already feels like so much has happened! Monday was a day of traveling for many of the Kongregate folks - even flying internationally to arrive at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for GDC - the annual Game Developer Conference. Here is where we get a chance to meet up with other members of the gaming industry and meet our fans directly. It’s a great opportunity for Kongregate to say hi and shake hands, all among some of our favorite people. This ye

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Kongregate News Mar 16, 2023
KONGREGATE TO BRING EXCLUSIVE BITVERSE GAMING EXPERIENCE TO THE SANDBOX

The Bitverse experience in The Sandbox to launch later this year San Diego, CA (March 16, 2023) - Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced that it is expanding its fan-favorite Bitverse universe with a new, exclusive gaming experience coming soon to The Sandbox, a leading decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Players will be able to access Kongregate’s own hub wit

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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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Kongregate News Mar 08, 2023
Kongregate is Celebrating International Women's Day!

Happy International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month! This week we’re excited to celebrate by welcoming Michelle Shaw as our guest on the “Game With Us!” weekly Kongregate livestream, sharing our World of Women NFT with you, and chronicling Fernanda Contreras’ story on how she got started in the video game industry. Livestream We will be playing Incremental Epic Hero 2 and Raid Heroes: Total War this Friday at 10 am PST with Michelle Shaw. Join us here: World of Women NFT Last year, Kongr

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