While doing research for my post the other night, I came across this awesome, Web 2.0-ish repository for online flash games called Kongregate. According to their FAQ, the site is still in heavy development, but some of the features for developers who host their games on Kongregate seem pretty exciting.
For example, the site offers weekly and monthly contests for developers with the highest-rated games and monthly referral contests for users who generate traffic for them. Plus, Kongregate offers ad revenue sharing for ads served on developers’ game pages. It seems like an innovative business model that I haven’t seen applied to online gaming until now.
Business aside, the games I’ve played so far have been top notch. This evening I played Bowmaster Prelude, a strategy game that involves a whole bunch of arrows, and Red, an update of the classic Missile Command. Both were incredibly well done and very fun to play. And so far, there are a few hundred other games on the site to explore.
If you enjoy killing time playing Flash games in your browser, I highly recommend you check out Kongregate.com.
