Talks - Kongregate Developers Blog

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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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 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 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

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CRM Aug 15, 2022
Turn your Slack into a Centralized Information Center

Have you ever been in a situation where answering one question involves a quick check across three or more applications? In Player Experience, we have adopted a few practices to make communication easier across our team. I would like to highlight some of the processes that have withstood the test of time. What these processes have in common is bringing otherwise external but important information into our main communication hub. At Kongregate we use Slack, however, this can be relevant for any

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Brand Aug 10, 2022
Preparing for Remote Work

The spring of 2022 marked my transition from full-time college student to full-time remote worker. While COVID forced many people into remote work, companies like Kongregate are choosing to remain remote-first. With remote work comes unique benefits, challenges, and workplace norms. The pandemic changed the way people work. Unlike in-person jobs, relocation and commuting are not required. It was a huge draw for me to live farther away from cities with high living costs and to save time and mone

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Talks Jul 10, 2018
Ad Mediation: Maximizing Your Mobile Ad Revenues - Jeff Gurian (Mobile Growth Summit '18)

What is Ad Mediation and how is it impacting your business? Jeff Gurian discusses maximizing your mobile ad revenue at this year's MGS New York 2018 hosted at the Paley Center for Media.

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Talks Apr 03, 2018
Data-Driven or Data-Blinded? Uses and Abuses of Analytics in Games (GDC 2018)

This year at GDC, Kongregate CEO and Co-Founder Emily Greer gave a talk titled "Data-Driven or Data-Blinded? Uses and Abuses of Analytics in Games." Check out the talk summary and slides below! Talk Summary In the last decade of data analysis, A/B testing and predictive modeling have transitioned from an afterthought to a given in the game industry. Data can be invaluable in understanding the player and making decisions, but it can just as easily lead the industry astray, or worse, narrow the

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Talks Mar 27, 2018
All the Families: The Making of 'Animation Throwdown' (GDC 2018)

This year at GDC, Kongregate Senior Producer Peter Eykemans and Producer Katrina Wolfe gave a talk titled "All the Families: The Making of 'Animation Throwdown.'" Check out the description and slides below! Talk Summary Ever wonder what it would be like to create a AAA game with a skeleton crew, split between two developers, one publisher, one IP owner, and five individual IPs? Join two producers from Kongregate to hear how "Animation Throwdown" was created in an unusual way, and how they tur

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