Recent posts by jimgreer on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Speeding Up Page Loads

I’m sorry that the scripts broke, but our tests show that for users with an empty cache, we reduced game page load times significantly. I’m afraid the script authors will need to fix.

Topic: Kongregate / New Kongregate Version: Speeding Up Page Loads

Originally posted by wpatter6:

Hi, did you change something with the holodeck? We are getting some very strange behavior from a userscript after this update

Yes, we changed the ordering of our javascript loading to speed things up.

Topic: Kongregate / New backend update - please post issues here!

Viewing high scores has been temporarily disabled due to a performance problem – they are still being recorded and saved, so don’t worry. They’ll be back.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

Originally posted by Moshdef:

I’m using Chrome, and it just opens up a new blank tab called “untitled”. (when I click the link above, the page is also blank).

This should be fixed now, thanks for letting us know.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

Originally posted by UnknownGuardian:

It doesn’t appear to be mentioned anywhere, so is Kongregate looking for ideas to fund or existing games/prototypes/studios/etc to fund? (The Mochi fund is the pitch an idea, so I just wanted to clarify this.)

Currently we’re only looking at games with a playable prototype (or more)…

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

Originally posted by Moshdef:

I’m using Chrome, and it just opens up a new blank tab called “untitled”.

Ok, I’ll whisper you for more info…

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

Originally posted by Moshdef:

I am very interested! Right now, the “Contact Us” button isn’t working on the Mobile Developers page, but I will try to get in touch with you guys as soon as possible.

Hmm, that’s funny. What browser are you using? It’s just a mail link that sends to mobile@kongregate.com, so you can use email instead…

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

Hey guys – the guy we hired from Zynga is the founder of Urbansquall – who made Battalion Nemesis, Bloody Fun Day, etc. He’s much more of a Kongregate kind of guy. His studio got bought by Zynga but he really wanted to come here.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate launches $10 million mobile publishing fund for indies

More Kong games for mobile are coming:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/185958/Kongregate_launches_10M_game_fund_alongside_its_own_mobile_division.php#.UQ_Nmlpxc8s

http://developers.kongregate.com/mobile

Topic: Kongregate / Introducing Cinematic Mode

Originally posted by 123aaa789:

A slight bug I’ve been having with a few games, link to image because it’s big. Basically, when I close the cinematic mode thing, it offsets the game and chat in a weird way (you can see it best in the bottom right) and causes some strange clipping (you can see it in the top right), and it only gets fixed with a refresh (pay no attention to it being white where the game normally is, that’s just the image capture tool’s fault). This game was Overtorque Stunt Racing that caused it to look like this.

Thanks for the bug report! What browser are you using? Also, what resolution is your screen? Does it happen no matter what size your browser window is, or just in certain sizes?

Topic: Technical Support / If you are having Kongregate problems, try this.

Last night our DNS provider failed. We have fixed the root problem, and will be switching to a more reliable provider.

Because DNS is cached, you may still experience problems connecting to Kongregate, depending on what your DNS server is.

Google operates a free public DNS server, and it has correct entries for Kongregate. If you want to switch to using it, here’s how to do it:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Topic: Kongregate / If you are having Kongregate problems, try this.

Last night our DNS provider failed. We have fixed the root problem, and will be switching to a more reliable provider.

Because DNS is cached, you may still experience problems connecting to Kongregate, depending on what your DNS server is.

Google operates a free public DNS server, and it has correct entries for Kongregate. If you want to switch to using it, here’s how to do it:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Topic: Kongregate / The Official Kompliment Kongregate Thread

D’aww, thanks guys. It’s the players and the devs that make it great though.

Topic: Kongregate / Why does Kong recommend games I've already rated?

Originally posted by Fusha:

The thing is
www.kongregate.com/recommended-games shows ONLY the games you haven’t rated
But the “recommended games” list to the right of the comments is borked and could show random games

Ah, now I get it. The recommendations on the game page are actually ‘people who liked this game also liked these games’. But we couldn’t think of a short way to say that. And it does include games you’ve already rated.

Topic: Kongregate / Deleting old users.

Right now our policy is that we rename accounts to delXXX after two years if they weren’t used at all after being created. Even if the user came back the next day after creating it, and then never returned again, we don’t do it. We could maybe be a little more aggressive than that…

Topic: Kongregate / Recently played games list is rigged?

Does it say “Game Spotlight” next to it in the list?

Topic: Kongregate / Hi,question about taxes

Yes, you this page has more info: http://www.kongregate.com/pages/international-tax-faq.

You can also email accounting@kongregate.com for help.

Topic: Kongregate / how the heck do i get rid of this badge from my recommendations?

This is kind of a bug – I looked at your recommendations. It can’t make quite enough personal recommendations to fill the homepage module so that last two are just ‘popular badges’. For those it doesn’t check if you hate the game… Toss the Turtle is popular, so that’s why it’s in there.

Topic: Kongregate / New Profile rolling out to everybody

Should be done – are you getting it now uzz?

Topic: BigHeadBash / Bug Reports

If you try to purchase something in full screen, it fails silently. Would be nice if it auto-switched to window mode…

Topic: BigHeadBash / Bug Reports

Originally posted by karma0:

I use Google Chrome and the game didn’t load, just keep making the flash player plugin fail. Anyone else with the same problem?

Are you on PC or Mac? Mac Chrome doesn’t work well with Unity, nothing the dev can do. If you’re on Windows make sure you’ve got the latest Chrome and the latest Unity player. (It’s not a Flash game).

Topic: BigHeadBash / [Bug] Floor Spawn

Which map?

Topic: Kongregate / ***Kongregate Beta Game List (none right now)***

Fricknmaniac – every played Smash Bros? It’s kind of like that. I mostly don’t play shooters but I love this one. As you get kills your head gets bigger and bigger, which is awesome.

Topic: Kongregate / chat problem?

It might be a bad advertisement, or one of our chat ads… if you see it please try to remember which ads were showing.

Topic: BigHeadBash / Would anyone like to arrange some regular times to play?

Sounds like a perfect match according to my favorite time zone converter.