If anyone remembers me feel free to pm me or drop a shout on my profile I'm usually more active on Newgrounds but if you're curious as to what I'm up to feel free to drop a line!
Back in the day when developers were uploading games it wasn't easy for games to get badged. When I was trying to implement the Kongregate API to get a badge for my own game I asked an admin ( Keep in mind a paid employee on the site at the time) for help, they claimed they didn't know how to implement the API to set up scores and badges and that I should have contacted support.
(I did and they couldn't help either )
Turns out the person who recommended me to contact support was also working support that day, and dealt with my support ticket I had sent.
(I even tried asking a couple of other devs for help (one of them even being VasantJ but they couldn't help since they had a agreement with whoever helped them set up the API for them.)
Tried looking for tutorials online, nothing straightforward , couldn't even find videos on Youtube about setting up an API on an HTML5 game.
What I'm trying to get at is, Kongregate didn't make it easy for game devs to set up badges on their own games.
@solar90 I still think it's an awful decision that the BOTD selecter is only choosing non flash games. When there's other sites getting around with implementing flash again (using ruffle) in their games and on their badges.
Also Kongregate didn't quite make it easy to understand on how to set up badges and the API's for scores so more devs could have had badges on their games 1/2
Kongregate pulling the plug on new submissions giving a chance for game devs to continue their stories was a terrible decision. They could have tried to adapt due to the changing circumstances, but they didn't and it's in turn it has stopped games from ever having sequels. (You guys definitely have seen other game devs being discouraged by it too, I'm sure)
The fact Kongregate once was known to host over 100k games on the site, and had thousands of them badged, it's sad to see the same games just constantly being featured in the badges of the day.