Comments on: Kongregate Gets $1M, Launches User Generated Games

By: Mike @ Flash Games Master

Mike @ Flash Games Master — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:17:19 +0000

Congrats to the Kongregate team. I Must admit it is a fantastic site.

By: online game business

online game business — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:26:16 +0000

online game business…

these games require sill…

By: John Lucas

John Lucas — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:38:54 +0000

Hi,

I love Kongregate’s web site design. Do you know who designed it?

Thx

By: Naveena Swamy

Naveena Swamy — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:06:36 +0000

Congratulations Jim!

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By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:51:15 +0000

Wish there was one that offered revenue sharing with the players.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:53:04 +0000

It was private alpha, not private beta

Kewtr: The revenue shares are not stingy. Most flash portals only offer 20%-30% on average, sometimes 40% max if its an exclusive. Getting up to a 50% rev share is great, especially for a site as easy to use as Kongregate.

By: Nag

Nag — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:06:11 +0000

One more Flash based which is pretty good…

http://www.ferr...m.com/orisinal/

By: Jim Greer

Jim Greer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:50:41 +0000

Rack –
Nick –

Thanks for the kind words!

Rack – Maybe you missed this sentence:

“Developers who upload their own games get more than points. Kongregate will also share 25%-50% of advertising revenue generated from the games with developers.”

JohnnyRocks – If Flash really spread viruses everyone would have them, because Flash ads are everywhere. A Flash game can’t do anything that a banner ad can’t.

By: Micah Davis

Micah Davis — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:14:34 +0000

It’s a good idea and I think that one of these sites will become popular/successful.

Congrats to Kongregate!

Micah
http://www.thos...stupidgames.com

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:08:00 +0000

Flash games will be just as huge as flash videos if they can truly create incentives to produce. Check this video out as an example:

http://www.yout...h?v=LnRw0-d3lJw

By: rack pallet

rack pallet — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:46:30 +0000

1mm is probably not too much; for a company like this. As for getting points for giving them your flash game; that sounds kinda lame. I want cash

– Maybe even producer rewards like metacafe – depending on number of plays of the game …

-Rbowles

By: JohnnyRocks

JohnnyRocks — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:45:03 +0000

I hope people using flash games sites have some really good anti-virus on their computers, free flash games are notorious for trojans and malicious javascript code. Player beware…

And good luck policing this if you are the site that hosts them.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:08:03 +0000

Thanks Ivan.

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By: Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:33:21 +0000

Nick, you say Bunchball offer games as widgets, but they are scrapping this functionality. If you look at any embedded Bunchball widget it is carrying a warning about discontinuation – see TechCrunch original coverage at http://www.tech...s-in-your-blog/ for an example!

By: Rajat Paharia

Rajat Paharia — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:50:02 +0000

Congratulations to the Kongregate team!

I love Fancy Pants.

By: Kewtr

Kewtr — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:29:02 +0000

Great idea and best of luck, the confluence of retro and Falsh games should work out well for them. The revenue share seems a little stingy but I don’t know what the competition is like.