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Immad I'm curious how you plan to compete with Kongregate, et al. What's the value add? One of the things I notice about Kongregate, as a level 16 user (sad, huh?) is that "badges" play a large role for me.

I don't have an infinite amount of time, and I've found that achieving badges has become essential for me to feel like I've "done something". A lot of the Flash games have a variety of levels of engagingness. Spending 20 minutes completing a badge gives me a warm glow even if the game was mediocre and keeps me going back to Kongregate again and again.



Hi sh1mmer,

Kongregate does a great job with concentrating on game developer tools and providing a deeper experience for its users. We don't plan to directly complete with that. We want to let other websites embed games to provide more content for there users.

So imagine if Youtube was massive as a destination website but didn't allow people to embed videos. The analogy is not perfect but fits well to describe the different.

Either way the world of casual gaming is a lot bigger than just what Kongregate does, I am sure we will find a space and hopefully when you want to install games on your websites you know where to come ;-),




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