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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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Community Feb 28, 2023
Achievement Unlocked - New Badges on Kongregate

Hello everyone! I’m Arbiter Rex, a Kongregate dev and long-time video game creator and enjoyer. You might have seen me lurking in the #just-chatting room of the Kongregate Discord or leading our Blood Vessels project last year. This year, I’m taking on the exciting challenge of renewing Kongregate.com - working on everything from our upcoming Kred- sales to new badges, new achievements, and a whole lot more! You may have noticed a recent influx of badges on the site along with new games, and

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Kongregate News Feb 22, 2023
Kongregate is Changing!

We’re making several improvements to Kongregate.com, starting with updating the site with a more modern look and feel. These changes are designed to showcase what makes Kongregate.com the premier hosting site for independent games. We want to put your games front-and-center, and spotlight the amazing contributors and community that make up the very core of Kongregate. This redesign is expected to roll out very soon so get ready! Now Accepting New Games Kongregate is accepting new games! Our

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Community Feb 13, 2023
Kongretine’s Day: Lifelong Friendships Between Players & Developers

This February, we’re focusing on the feeling of togetherness — and love — within our community. Players are hanging out with one another on Kongregate.com and our Discord developing and playing games together while making lifelong friendships — so we’re celebrating that with Kongretines Day. The Kongretine’s Day coloring event is a Valentine’s Day event where players can send a love letter to their ‘Kongretine’ of choice. It’s a unique opportunity not just for players, but for our developers to

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Community Jan 13, 2023
Happy 2023 — Kongregate.com is Back!

We took a huge step in 2022 by implementing the Flash emulator Ruffle onto Kongregate.com. With this amazing tech, we were able to bring thousands of Flash games back to the site. As a thank you to Ruffle, we became a Diamond-level sponsor, donating $5000 to support their cause, with a recurring $500 monthly contribution as well. We are proud to partner with this great group of developers to help bring Flash games back to life! But that’s not all! We’re relaunching Kongregate.com in 2023, brin

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Community Dec 01, 2022
Our Logo Reveal: A Livestream Experience

Our new logo is more than just a new logo. It represents the journey we’re on — revamping our website, exploring new technologies, and learning new ways to engage with our players. That’s why we’re revealing the new logo with a livestream — a fun way to engage with one another and our community. Our team put together a few activities for our community to enjoy: a Blood Vessels playthrough, playing games on Kongregate.com, and streaming Bit Heroes Quest! We’ll have fun together, talk about wh

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