Recent posts by Henrik on Kongregate

Topic: Off-topic / Easy cash for developers

what would stop a Professional Deleoper studio just to put one of there old games and win.

Unlike our monthly and weekly competition which are only about the number of gameplays, the Nonoba Multiplayer Kick-off competition is gonna be judged by us. Number of gameplays and popularity of a game is important but not deciding.

Topic: Off-topic / Easy cash for developers

A good game costs well more than $15k to develop…

We disagree. There are many excellent single-player Flash games out there that are simple, yet have some unique twist that makes them really good. Most of those were made for the fun of it, by hobby developers, or by professionals in their spare time. A good Flash game really doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to make.

But when it comes to multiplayer, it does cost a lot of money, since you need hosting and servers and some sort of server software, and that is a huge barrier that simply cannot be overcome by the vast majority of Flash game developers. We want to change that with the Nonoba Multiplayer API. It really shouldn’t cost a lot of money to do Flash multiplayer games. We want to let the same developers who makes the majority of the simple and great single-player Flash games here and elsewhere on the net get a shot at doing multiplayer games, and we think the results will be fantastic.

We will of course be thrilled by any professional developer studios that decided to enter the competition, but the target developers are the small ones, the hobby ones, and for those, $15000 is a lot of money. :-)

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate Kopy

@Kshar: Of course you can see all achievements, either here: http://nonoba.com/games/recent/all/alltime/withachievements/ or here: http://nonoba.com/games/achievements

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate Kopy

@matoking: We allow our games to be embedded on other sites, in fact we encourage it, and that means the chat and other features of the Nonoba website won’t always be present. That leaves only the game itself, which means that it has to be up to each developer to notify the player that an achievement was awarded (or not). Some games do it very well like Magic Marbles 2 and Monolith’s Mario World 2

@lartar: Don’t fight it, come join the developer’s section on Nonoba. You know you want to. :-)

@MrKoolAid: Yes, we were a bit too optimistic that developers would restrain themselves, so we now have a moderation feature for achievements. It’s still the developers that add them, but they have to be approved before they’re visible to everyone else on the site. We think it turned out neat.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate Kopy

@Lysis: Thank you for the in-depth analysis. :-)

@milskidasith: I don’t know who told you what about the Nonoba API, but you’re clearly misinformed. Let me clear some things up.

If you want to put your game on Nonoba and submit highscores or achievements, you have to embed a piece of ActionScript code into your game which gives you access to a few functions (The API) that allows you to do just that. This piece of code that you embed is developed by Nonoba, copyrighted by Nonoba, and it can only do submitting of data to the Nonoba servers. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Kongregate API, which is another piece of ActionScript code, developed by Kongregate, copyrighted by Kongregate, and that can submit data to the Kongregate servers. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both APIs that you can embed in your flash game.

You can’t use the Nonoba API to submit data to the Kongregate servers, and you can’t use the Kongregate API to submit data to the Nonoba servers, and you can’t use either to submit data to http://www.ugengames.com/ or http://www.mochibot.com/

Topic: Off-topic / Nonoba.

Hi everyone, I’m Henrik and one of the people behind Nonoba.

First of all, I’d like to apologize for the behaviour of some of our users that thought it was a splendid idea to come here and spam your forums in some sort of fanboy war. It was a really stupid idea, and we’ve spent our Monday morning cleaning it up and banning a bunch of users on our side. We will definitely discourage our users from ever doing something like this again. Thank you ArcaneCoder and AlisonClaire for dealing with this on your end of it.

We’ve put up a news post on Nonoba that hopefully clarifies our position to our users, and anyone else that is interested in the underlying allegations:

http://www.nonoba.com/news/on-forum-spamming

Feel free to contact me on Nonoba or here if you have any further questions or comments. And remember, we’re all about playing games and having fun. :-)