Kongregate Around A New Indie Flash Game Portal?
Just recently popped on our radar is a new indie Flash game site called Kongregate, currently in Private Alpha, and handily explained on Techcrunch as "...an alpha stage online gaming site that will let users upload games they have built, charge users for premium play or features with a one click payment system and share revenues with the site from premium payment and advertisements."
Co-creator Jim Greer, who "...has ten years of experience in the gaming industry, most recently as Technical Director for EA’s successful web gaming site Pogo.com", has a website called 'Jim On Web Games' where he's updating with info about the progress of the site - which seems like a cool idea, though I haven't checked out the games yet, due to my spam filter eating my Alpha invite, heh.
Oh, and we just noticed there's a competition, too: "Just upload a Flash game between now and December 15 and that game is automatically entered, assuming that your game follows our guidelines. (No porn and no stolen material – and definitely no stolen porn.)" Caveat emptor with rules and conditions, but seems neat - Flash game creators should go poke around, and we'll update again when the site goes public.









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Another site that has just recently been released is Bagunk.com.
Bagunk allows people to submit a link to ANY game on the web, and share it. Then it has the usual web 2.0 features: friends, play history, rated games, post to blog, etc...
Some things that set it apart are it's blog that ties into the site, abd its tour feature which allows you to give guided tours through Bagunk.
Also, we're about to release a high score API which will allow game developers to send score data to tie into the site. Check it out.
Posted by: Jared | November 6, 2006 7:55 AM