We have all had times in which we were too busy to play games that took longer than 2 hours. Being in such period right now, I’ve found the perfect alternative: flash games. Of course, we all know of it’s existence and we have all played one before. But playing a lot of them AND have great fun, maybe as much fun as you would have in a 40-hour game, is something you would only be able to do at Kongregate.

http://www.kongregate.com/, at first meant as a portal to a flash-based card game called Kongre, has grown to be one of the biggest Flash portals in the world. How come? Why Kongregate and not any other flash portal?

First of all, Kongregate has wisely decided to make uploading attractive to flash developers. By giving players the opportunity to donate ‘kreds’, the developers could get easy money off people who loved playing their game. Although this option is not used so much on Kongregate, it’s the first thing developers would notice and find attractive. Another great thing Kongregate offers flash developers is ad revenue. By default, all developers receive 25% of the ad revenue, which can add up to 50%,  generated from their games. The last thing Kongregate does for flash developers is award prizes to the top rated games every month, which can receive up to $1500.

With a perfect environment for flash developers and many games in the database, Kongregate has also managed to keep people playing all those games. The brilliant thing about Kongregate is that it made a game of playing games!

Every player on Kongregate starts at level 1. By playing and rating games and inviting friends to Kongregate you get points. The more points you have, the higher your level is. Almost every game with the Kongregate API integrated has at least 2 different achievements of different difficulty: an easy badge for 5 points, a medium for 15, a hard for 30 and an impossible badge (which in my experience is really impossible) for 60 points.

But it doesn’t stop with the points system. Kongregate chooses weekly and monthly featured games with special achievements which players can achieve to get a card for the game Kongre or win prizes such as an Xbox or a DVD player. Although most people don’t play the weekly featured games for the cards, the achievements are a good way to play divers and high quality games. For the monthly achievements, players will have to work hard to get a chance to win the prize, but still after you have won the achievement, the winner is picked at random for everyone who have won it.

Having not even spoken of all the innovative and potentional games, the ad revenue and kreds for the developers, the point system, the achievements, the features and the prizes, make Kongregate a very stable community that can not do anything else but grow. It is only a matter of time before they are the biggest flash community on the web.

You can find me on Kongregate here!

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