Recent posts by damijin on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / What you do/are outside of Kongregate...

Two of a kind Eggy!

Topic: Kongregate / I made Ecrans Level 64!!

Locking the thread and forwarding the information to the staff. Making alts to farm points is against the rules, and results in punishment.

Topic: Kongregate / Ammendment Proposal to the Kongregate Konstitution

Not only do I disagree with you Nez, but my profile asks for tips, and I intend on constructing a list of supporters for my games who will receive updates, betas, and special thanks for supporting me in my goal to seek full time employment from game development.

Life isn’t free, and as far as I’m concerned, if anyone appreciates my games enough to want to support me, they should be rewarded for it. My hope is that through fanbase and donations, game developers can construct a business model similar to musicians like Jonathan Coulton, who makes enough money to do music full time strictly through selling his songs at reasonable prices, and accepting donations from fans.

Topic: Kongregate / Kreds Discussion

@MandolinBee

A lot of the reason why that particular issue is not receiving much attention is because even within the company, very little is known about specific game designs of the games that will use Kreds. Chris Pasley (cpasley on these forums) is Kongregate’s director of games and manages all of those specifics. He has said that items will largely be cosmetic, and in cases where advantages can be purchased, those items will be able to be earned without kreds as well, and will typically only exist in games with cooperative gameplay rather than competitive gameplay.

With that said, there will be many more of these sorts of games in the future, and saying for sure what the case will be is fairly difficult. These games are developed by independent developers, and they may want to do one thing or another with their games in the future.

What can be said is that these games that use Kreds will always be a significant minority of the games on Kongregate. The Kongregate you know any enjoy today with badges, single player games, and Kongai will remain unchanged, with the exception of the ability for folks to buy cards in Kongai. There will also be these new multiplayer games, many of which will launch from day 1 with kred-purchasable items in them. If that sort of thing doesn’t appeal to you, by all means, continue to enjoy the other 9,500 games.

Kongregate is run by significantly un-evil people who understand that you cant demand people pay in order to win. They want their company to be profitable and succeed for many years to come, but in order to do that, they will continue to provide a service in a reasonable way that doesn’t screw over any of their fans. I feel safe that Kong will never endorse games where the highest paying players are the only ones who can win.

Topic: Kongregate / What you do/are outside of Kongregate...

I’m a 21 year old male named Michael Gribbin. I’m entirely unafraid of stalkers. I live in New Jersey, where I have lived for my entire life. I never went to college because at age 18, I felt that the traditional American education system was frustratingly bad at actually encouraging intellectual growth and wisdom, and focused far too much on short term memorization and statistics. Inaccurate measures of actual intelligence. Oh, I also had no money, and am deathly afraid of debt. Very un-American, I know.

Then theres a gap of time, and at some point I wound up working for Kongregate. Flying to the west coast several times, resigning from Kongregate, and now I make flash games. I suspect I am much like Eggy. Except I dont watch anime anymore. I am an addict for golden age American animation though. 1930s Popeyes, and 1940s/50s Warner Brothers shorts.

Topic: Kongregate / Staff Works: Complete List.

so.. how much did Ben bribe you to make that an official title?

Most Kongregate employees have awesome business cards. I still have like 1,000 that say “mike gribbin – email czar”

Topic: Kongregate / I am kind of pissed off about kreds

Ok… but what you guys put beneath the adds are a bit wrong too…

Huh?

Topic: Kongregate / Staff Works: Complete List.

QA stands for Quality Assurance. It involves bug testing and interacting with the engineering team to resolve issues on the site.

Jim7, known in the real world as Jim Meenan, holds VP of Product as his official title I believe. He interacts with the engineers and QA and directs all of the development projects of the site on a top level. Determines what we have time to do, and helps organize our various engineers efforts in getting things done. He also does many other things, but no one at Kong really does only one thing.

I can’t count Emily’s various roles on my fingers and toes, so she should just be considered the glue which binds and holds the entire company together. You all owe her much thanks :)

JVoorhis is an engineer, and whenderson was an intern in the summer of 2007 who worked a lot on our original facebook app, but was never an employee.

Topic: Kongregate / Vote for Kongregate on Open Web Awards!

Kong needs more awards, we broke the ones we already got.

(Emily used the webby springs as moon shoes, since we had two of them — but I don’t think there were designed to be stood on, so one is a little lopsided now.)

Topic: Kongregate / Kreds Discussion

3. Most of the devs don’t deserve to be tipped. shrug It’s true.

I realize there’s no way for us to take away the 9,300 free games on Kong just for you, but you need to either check your perspective on what you deserve in life, or a good smack in the mouth from your parents.

I sincerely hope you find yourself in a service industry job — perhaps a waiter in an American chain restaurant near an international airport. You’ll spend each night serving Europeans who stop in and drink themselves to a stupor and then fail to tip you because that’s just not how it works where they come from, and your service was mediocre at best, so why should they leave anything extra for you?

(P.S. You have to tip the bar for their drinks, and the bar doesn’t care if your patrons failed to tip you. So it’s coming out of your pocket, bub. Welcome to the real world.)

Topic: Kongregate / Kreds Discussion

Nothing in Kongai will ever be pay-only, as far as I can tell. And as Chris has said, the same goes for premium games. You can earn items, or you can buy them. You can spend time on the site playing the game, or you can spend time at work (as many adults must) and buy the items in the game that you don’t have the free time to earn otherwise.

Im curious about why you think the system blows, Juice. As a developer, and long time Kongregator I see two major merits of this system:

1) This opens up new possibilities of revenue for developers. We all know that flash development is very independent, and if developers are not able to support themselves, this may not always be the case. If people can’t afford to develop, then larger companies will begin making the games, and shut the little guys out, and that would suck.

2) This is a major attraction to Kongregate for developers. If devs can make revenue here that they cant make on other sites like AG or NG, then they will post their games here first, and we’ll get all the best games before everyone else. We may even get more exclusive games! And more games is good for everyone. Kongregate as a company and the players as well!

Topic: Kongregate / Stop goofing around!

It might be an issue specifically because its in Alpha. It seems like a nondescript error that Kong programmers use internally, that normally shouldnt be shown to users. Because RoS is technically in ‘preview’ mode for the alpha, it might be the cause of the problem. I’m not 100% sure though. Hopefully an engineer can weigh in tomorrow with some info.

Topic: Kongregate / New Feature! Developer Tip Jar

At the same time Ron Paul’s dream of competing U.S. currencies has finally come to fruition today with the launch of kreds, the official monetary system of Kongregate.

:)

Topic: Kongregate / Left 4 Dead (Last Stand 2)

Kongregate will never award a badge, card, or ticket for completing something before the challenge existed. You must complete it again. The feedback form is specifically for bug issues, and using it to try and get free badges/cards/tickets will result in account punishment.

Topic: Kongregate / Fix the lack of mods.

The biggest issue is that moderators how power, and people with power need to be able to use it responsibly. Staff could just go mod 1,000 accounts if they wanted to, but then the chat would be filled with dictators deciding what everyone can and cannot do. Threatening bans and misusing their power. Obviously neither an extreme lack of mods nor an abundance of terrible mods is good for the site, so staff does the best it can to moderate as many responsible users as quickly as possible while investigating and dealing with issues of corruption and power misuse.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Treasurer cabinet member

Buffet wants Paulson to remain on, but Paulson is fed up with the position. Hrm :-\

Topic: Serious Discussion / Im Canadian and lots of people here watched / newsd about the American election

The US recession will impact the rest of the world because the US is a superpower. US will remain a superpower and exit the recession ahead of everyone else as well. This empire has a while to go before it collapses.

Topic: Off-topic / Texas VS. Texas Tech!

The last play was a college football play of the century. Holy crap. Why did they go for the touchdown!? It didnt even make sense — the field goal was so much more logical, but I guess they just wanted Texas to burn in hell and rub it in their faces.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Buses Presenting Atheist Ads

It seems to me that this brand of vocal atheism is nothing more than a dick-measuring contest to try and show a lack of fear of a higher power. What point is there to blatantly state such things, other than to say “Hey look, I can say this and God won’t strike me down because he doesn’t exist. I am so much more manly than people of faith, because they’re cowards!”

I suppose if Napoleon conquered Europe because he was short, it makes total sense for people to blaspheme because they are small in the trunks.

Topic: Kongregate / KONGREGATE NEEDS TO BE PRODUCTIVE!

I have bionic eyes, I lost the real ones in the robot wars.

I’m sorry.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Shootorials #3, #4, #5 and #6 with Free Tools - mtasc and swfmill

Stickied, thanks again for your fantastic contributions to the Labs project explodingferret :)

Topic: Kongregate / KONGREGATE NEEDS TO BE PRODUCTIVE!

I don’t think “Kong” made it. (literally)

The shootorials are produced by Richard Foster, one of Kong’s oldest employees. He also did all the action script and animations for Kongai.

Topic: Kongregate / KONGREGATE NEEDS TO BE PRODUCTIVE!

But we’re already beating the slaves as hard as we can D:

Topic: Serious Discussion / Don't Tread On Me: A Libertarian Thread

ee and lord_azaral will probably get a kick out of this:

I had CNBC on last night, and they were signing off, and the guest host on the program said “Well, I think it’s apparent that we do need more government intervention in the economy. We tried doing things without intervention, and that got us here.”

Erin Burnette just said “Eh… lets just.. leave it.” Not willing to correct him in the last 30 seconds of air time.

Some people…

Topic: Serious Discussion / Alien Conspiracy-Disclosure soon?

The biggest argument against government/alien contact conspiracies are that governments are largely stupid, and ALWAYS have leaks. Most major world governments are accused of being involved in an alien conspiracy of some sort by someone, and it just seems like a credible, factually supported leak would have emerged somewhere.