Hey developers! Kartridge, the new PC gaming platform from Kongregate, is proud to offer a special limited-time opportunity to join the IGDA at a discounted rate! Join now for 20% off with the promo code 2018-KONG-PROMO. The IGDA is the world's largest professional association for game developers. They help game developers of all disciplines and experience levels create great games and build sustainable, fulfilling careers. They host a ton of local networking events, presentations, job fairs, and reach to their other IGDA members. Both Kongregate and the IGDA share a strong commitment to helping game developers thrive, both new and veteran, and feel that an IGDA membership provides unmatched value to every developer. We’re thrilled that the IGDA has provided us this exclusive 20% discount for Kongregate developers and hope you take advantage of it! One amazing part of the IGDA is that they offer a ton of savings on things you’re already likely subscribing or signing up for, including: Save 25% on Unity Plus and 10% on Unity Pro Save 10-30% on passes to major industry events

Note from Emily It’s here. After nearly a year of hype Kartridge is finally available for everyone to check out and play with. We have poured what we’ve learned from our players, development community, partners, employees, and years of metrics and analytics into what we are revealing today. I, along with the entire Kartridge team and Kongregate family, want to thank the following individuals and companies for their continued efforts, feedback, and involvement with Kartridge: The founding developers and our developer advisory council, who have been involved early on in Kartridge’s development, providing feedback, testing out our SDKs, and helping us prioritize features that really matter to developers Early Beta testers and Kongregate.com players who tested Kartridge’s features and chat system MTG Creative (Kartridge logo animation and Kartridge trailer production), Eduardo Ortiz (Kartridge startup sound design), omniboi (Kartridge trailer music) Our family and friends, who encourage our endeavours And all of the employees at Kongregate across our Development, Product, Design, Community, Support, Marketing, Games, Business Development, Network, QA and Office teams who have worked so

UPDATE: Our Extra Life event has concluded, and it was by far our most successful yet, with more than $18k raised! Thank you to everyone who tuned in and donated -- you can watch the full stream (or just highlight clips!) on our Twitch channel. Kongregate has been building a gaming community of developers and players for twelve years, and people are important to us. We're participating in Extra Life to help children in need by gathering as many donations as we can for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! We'll be livestreaming our gaming marathon on our Kongregate Twitch channel! We're also celebrating the launch of Kartridge this year! Kartridge is Kongregate's new curated premium downloadable games platform, featuring developer-friendly terms and tools, plus custom badges and a metagame that allows you to earn coupons and free games while you level up, among other features. Even though we're still in closed beta, Kartridge already has an excellent selection of games ready to be purchased and played. It launches to open beta on November 1, so come check us out! Extra Life

Kongregate has revealed that Kartridge, the upcoming downloadable gaming platform currently in closed beta, will become available to the public on November 1st, 2018. The Kartridge Open Beta will launch with several distinct features; most notably, it will reward playtime by providing tangible perks to those who level up their accounts. Players accrue experience by completing game-specific achievements and collecting unique badges, co-designed by Kartridge and selected development teams. As players earn experience, their Kartridge account will increase in level; as a reward for their progress, they’ll receive substantial benefits at specific levels that allow them to purchase any game at a discount or receive a game of their choice for free. “For over a decade we’ve cultivated an environment where players not only care about their in-game accounts, but about their entire platform persona; we’ve found that players respond well to empowerment and choice,” said Alison Huffman, Director of Product at Kongregate. “We hope that players will find the substantive benefits of gaming on Kartridge to be a personally rewarding experience.” With over 200 games from

Kongregate has partnered with Pajama Llama Games to announce Flotsam, the feel-good post-apocalyptic garbage-town builder! Flotsam will enter Steam Early Access early 2019 and will be available for both PC and Mac platforms, and will be playable at Gamescom 2018 in the Indie Arena Booth in Hall 10.1. The survival-based town builder is set in a waterlogged world and features moving towns, procedural world generation, and an eclectic group of survivors. Players will manage a floating village community as it sails across an endless ocean. In their fight to survive they’ll depend on recycled garbage and scrap, used to construct structures that catch fish and create drinkable water. On their journey, they’ll encounter other stranded strangers, dangerous sea animals, and mysterious ruins and wreckages. “Flotsam is a really fun project; the game’s vibrant atmosphere brings a lot of character and personality to the often-grim survival genre,” said Kongregate’s Director of Production Kevin DuPuy. “From building food trucks in your floating garbage town to everyone’s favorite character ‘Steven’ the seagull, Pajama Llama has somehow made

Part of our philosophy when building Kartridge was to be a platform that served the needs of both players and developers. In addition to focusing our efforts on making a player-friendly platform, we’ve also been making sure to treat developers fairly, which involves regularly talking with developers to find out what tools and features they need. In this way we can try our best to tailor the platform to the service of developers rather than forcing them to conform to us. This is why we invited a small group of indies to join an early advisory council and why we have been showing off early builds at conferences while taking lots of notes. As part of this endeavor, we recently sent out an email to everyone who signed up for our Kartridge developers update emails (which you can do at https://kartridge.com/developers/). To our delight we had a fantastic response rate, even for the somewhat long survey. So first off, a big thank you to everyone who took the time to fill one out! The survey turned

Kongregate has teamed up with the indie developers at Antab Studio to launch GRIDD: Retroenhanced on the Nintendo Switch. This marks the second Switch release for Kongregate and the first for the Italian indie developer, Antab Studio. GRIDD: Retroenhanced is an intense arcade-style shoot 'em up heavily influenced by '80s hacker culture and cyberpunk. Players will fly their ships through a computer system filled with an evolving set of glowing gates, obstacles, and enemies as they attempt to take down an unrelenting security mainframe in a nod to previous rogue computers of the cinema world. With its pulsing synthwave soundtrack by Melbourne-based musician Dream Fiend, and its early home computing style, GRIDD: Retroenhanced takes a classic era and evolves it into a modern arcade experience. GRIDD: Retroenhanced twists the tough-as-nails difficulty of classic arcade games by constantly adapting the difficulty to the player’s in-game performance. As players succeed and gain mastery of each element of the game, those elements become more difficult in future encounters. Likewise, obstacles too difficult to beat will relax until they reach just the right

Kartridge, the upcoming PC gaming platform from Kongregate, is partnering with an all-star selection of developers including Double Fine, Versus Evil, and Ninja Kiwi to bring over 100 games to the highly anticipated open beta, coming later this summer. The growing beta Kartridge catalog includes a robust combination of new and legacy titles from legendary and indie game developers, and will also include Kongregate-published titles and fan favorites. Nearly 50 developers have committed to bringing their titles to the Kartridge platform, with more coming daily. Double Fine’s collection of cult classics, including Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, and Brutal Legend, will be available alongside Banner Saga 1 & 2, Antihero, and Guild of Dungeoneering from successful indie development team Versus Evil. Asymmetric is bringing the award-winning West of Loathing, and Ninja Kiwi will continue their close, long-time partnership with Kongregate with the additions of Bloons TD 5 and Bloons TD Battles to the new Kartridge platform. The beta library is packed with new and beloved titles from many acclaimed independent development studios, including Ironhide Game Studio, Thunder Lotus