Recent posts by m0nt0y4 on Kongregate

Topic: Game Programming / Kongregate Badges

Hello all, I’m looking for help from other Kongregate developers who have had badges implemented on their game (or at least tried to).

I uploaded a game a couple weeks ago that has both a high score value & three “max” values on the Kongregate API, meaning there is a leaderboard for high scores and a completion for easy, medium and hard challenges. You can see it here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/m0nt0y4/survive-dx

So, apparently it has everything it needs to get badges added by the Kongregate team, but to this day, still no badges. So I’m wondering…

- How long does it usually take for the average game to get badges?
- Do some games that use the API never get badges?
- Is my game good enough to earn a badge?

Knowing the answers to these questions will change how I factor Kongregate into my future Flash game plans!

Topic: Game Programming / Please help me figure out what I am doing wrong

Hello devs,

I have been trying for days to upload a game to Kongregate without having mysterious bugs and I am about ready to pound my head into a wall.

The first game I uploaded to Kongregate is Survive! which you can find here:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/m0nt0y4/survive

Immediately there was a problem where the content would be halfway cut off when an overlay ad appeared on Google Chrome. I talked to K. support and they said there was something wrong with their overlay ads and they did some work to push a fix. So I figured at this point that thing were OK on my end and that was that.

Then I decided to upload a revamped version of my game which you can find here:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/m0nt0y4/survive-dx

Now I’m seeing a similar problem in both Google Chrome and IE 7. I am also seeing that sometimes the game doesn’t load at all, there is just a black screen and when I right-click, it says “Movie not loaded.” That’s not all:

- When I die, the score gets submitted to the Kong. API but I don’t see the leaderboard update automatically, I have to refresh the page.
- I tried uploading my game to MochiMedia’s versioning and ad system, and then I downloaded their wrapped version for uploading to Kong. That version would go to a black screen after death, instead of to the final score screen. The code was the same as what I had exported from FlashDevelop. I have no idea why that version would not work.

I am wondering if maybe what I need to do is add a Kong. preloader, because my game loads in less than a second on my computer and I think it loads before the SWF even has a chance to adjust itself. But I honestly have no idea why I am seeing all these problems. Has anyone else seen things like this? I am pulling my hair out over here.