NFT - Kongregate Developers Blog

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

read more »
Community Jan 25, 2023
What Do We Want to Spark Within the Web3 Community?

An message from Kongregate's Chief Technology Officer, Max Murphy. As we talk with developers and continue our journey into blockchain technology, a lot of us have been asking, “What do we want to spark within the web3 community?” Experimentation. Creativity. Thinking outside the box and pushing boundaries. We would like to get gamers and game developers to think along the lines of exciting, weird, fun games that have a piece of asset ownership in them so players can own their journey. If y

read more »
Crypto Dec 09, 2022
Digital Marketing for NFTs — Part 2: Six Months Out

If you haven’t read part one, click here to learn more about initial considerations and crafting your goals & message. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the best practices for launching your NFT project and considerations that impact the marketability of your community and message. Identify your Key Dates Knowing when you’re expecting to launch your Discord, Twitter, Landing Page, and Whitepaper is key. Ideally, launching the landing page, Discord and Twitter in close succession,

read more »
Blockchain Nov 17, 2022
Expanding Our Story

From Kongregate's Michelle Shaw, Chief Blockchain Operations Officer By rebranding, we’re telling the story of staying true to what has always made us unique and maintaining our commitment to the community while expanding to be more inclusive. We’ve been in the games business for 16 years. We’re both a game developer and a game publisher for third-party developers. That breadth of experience gives us a unique perspective and leg up compared to our competitors in the market. If you don’t kno

read more »
Bitverse Nov 17, 2022
KONGREGATE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF TWO NEW BITVERSE WEB3 GAMES WITH CROSS-NFT GAMEPLAY FUNCTIONALITY

Bit Heroes Arena (Open Beta) and Bit Heroes Runner now available for NFT crossplay or as standalone games. San Diego (November 16, 2022) — It’s time to journey into the Bitverse! Kongregate, creators of the massively popular web gaming platform Kongregate.com and a pioneering blockchain game developer, today announced two new games for its Bitverse Games Collection. Bit Heroes Arena and Bit Heroes Runner are available to play now on the web, with mobile versions expected in 2023. In addition,

read more »
Blockchain Nov 03, 2022
Developing the Gaming Space with Our Community

An inteview with John Jones, Director of Business Development at Kongregate. Being an industry leader means ensuring proven best practices in our work while pushing boundaries. It means constantly testing, iterating, and changing while staying true to ourselves by fostering our community of developers and players. The business development team has been attending events like GamesCom or NFTLondon (where we are right now!) and engaging with the game developer community to understand their pain p

read more »
Blood Vessels Oct 26, 2022
Mint Day is HERE!

Hello everyone! Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to: It’s MINT DAY! Vampires will be available at 12 pm PST at https://bloodvessels.io/ , so make sure you’re ready to go. I wanted to touch on a few updates as the vampires get ready to roll out: How do I get that cool Vampire role? If you purchased a Vampire from our website https://bloodvessels.io/ make sure to connect your wallet to your Discord account. If you DON’T have the Vampire Role because you missed it in the purchase OR

read more »
Blockchain Oct 17, 2022
What is Web3 Gaming?

If you keep up with gaming trends in some capacity, you’ve undoubtedly come across the concept of “NFT-supported” games or the term “Web3 gaming” itself in recent news. If you aren’t already familiar with these terms, you might feel a little lost or behind the times. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! “Web3” is an overarching term that refers to a large list of features when it comes to Internet technology, but one of the most defining components is decentralization. Content creators and devel

read more »
Blockchain Oct 17, 2022
Building a Bot for Your Discord Community — /skillcheck Overview

Building a community around a game is no small challenge. One thing that is sure to help, however, is building a bot for your Discord server. A bot enables you to offer unique features to your community, allowing them to interact with each other and your game. One feature we built for Blood Vessels was the ability for users to perform skill checks against their “vampires” (i.e. a collection of stats), like you’d see in many TTRPG’s. We’ll take a quick look at how we implement skill checks, which

read more »