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a multiplayer version of a game like wpnfire would be cool
or any of the stickman sam games

A question : Does I have to make a online multiplayer game to be a Kongregate Premium Game?

Because I suck at making multiplayer games. And shoot-em-up game doesn’t need multiplayer function at all.

Yeah, we’re really looking for multiplayer or some other strong community-based ideas.

Hi cpasley, I sent yesterday an email to submissions, I got some kind of failure and I have retried. please confirm me that you have received my email. thanks

Cerebral,

Yes, I got it and will look it over. Thanks!

Its hard to mak a kongregate based games when Kongregate doesn`t have any original characters.

The idea isn’t to make Kongregate-branded games. It’s just to make good games. You should come up with your own characters.

Hi cpasley, I’ve recently send my game idea, I hope you received, I’ve had some problems with my hosting provider and I’m also afraid that it can be mistakes by spam mail. Thanks.

how much does it take to make mmo game on average?

What if a team is working on a game and submits it to you guys and it gets done, how will you split the money ?or will you not just take games from teams?

PS:sorry if that made no sense

Urkel – I’m a little behind on my submission email checking, but I’ll keep an eye out for yours.

b_t321 – if you’re wanting to make one, you should tell me. If you don’t know, then I can’t really trust you to make one. We’re offering to fund between $20,000 to $100,000. So it would have to be in there somewhere.

TehLegend – sure, we take submissions from teams. There’s two ways to do it. Either way the internal distribution of funds is between you guys, not us. You pick someone to be your point man, your main contact person, and everything goes through him. The better way, in my opinion, is to form an LLC and have us pay the company. It’s not difficult to set one up and not expensive as I understand it.

Yes but still having Kongregate only characters will make the game more connected to kongregate.Also you mentioned that the developers will be working close to you, what is your role?Keeping track of the progress,sharing APIs,Programming or something else?

Thanks for the reply. I’ve resend you the my game idea proposal. You will find a direct link to a protected URL (user+password). Try to test the game without reading the document, I think that the game is really easy to play, but my perspective could be distorted.

Nqkoi1 – my role is basically Creative Director of Games for Kongregate. I evaluate every step of the way how the game’s going and basically help mold it to be as good as it can be. So if there’s an aspect to a game I think can be better, I tell developers that. If I come up with what I think is a better way to do something, I’ll tell them that too. I also do all the other production stuff you mentioned.

I understand what Nq is saying, but if the characters are your own original ones, they’re not connected to anything anymore than they are to the sites that the game is published on.

I’ve read through the guide lines several times, I plan to re read it some more, I really like the whole idea of Premium Games, I’m just wondering how it’ll all work in the end xP.

cpasley can you give us any info on how the multiplayer API willwork?

Well, we’re planning on using Smartfox server for the backend. Other than that the API is still in production – basically we’re building it as we go.

Ok, i was just wondering, will it be simple to use like all your other APIs or will we need to connect to it like we would normal connect to SmartFox?

Hopefully it will be pretty simple, but doing multiplayer isn’t an easy thing to make simple. We’ll get it as easy as we can. We’re not sure yet.

I am very psyched about future multiplayer premium games… Are they going to work the same way as the CCG?

In what way Malachi? They’re not metagames the way Kongai is, if that’s what you mean.

Well, disregard my statement then. I really have no idea what I’m talking about xD

…Is Kongai the official name for it now? Or are you all just referring to the card game as “Kongai” temporarily?

Yes, Kongai is the official name.

Ok, this is off-topic, but what do you mean by metagames? And will premium games get their own section of the site when they come out?

We think of a metagame as something that you play by playing the other games on the site. You have to play the other games to get cards in order to play Kongai. A metagame.

I’m not sure whether Premium Games will get their own section. They may just be in Multiplayer.