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Kongregate Developers
Company blog · developers.kongregate.com/bloggamesdata
Kongregate Developers is the company blog at developers.kongregate.com, writing about games and data. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A Natural A/B Test of Harassment”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on free-to-play game monetization, including the player lifecycle from hooking players to big spenders, and an A/B test on sexual harassment in gaming. Only bare links and one comment on a 2012 talk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Natural A/B Test of Harassment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-23
What Hacker News says?
I'm watching "Newbie to Big Spender: Understanding the Player Lifecycle", by Kongregate's CEO.[1] That's from 2012. This was made before they felt a need to apologize for the business model. It's openly about to hook players and turn them into big spenders. There's a 4-stage process to hook them. Few players start out as big spenders in a game. Heavy spending comes later. Game levels are designed accordingly. The us…
Comment linking /blog/newbie-to-big-spender-understanding-the-player-lifecycle
on “Kongregate: the science behind the massive profits of F2P games”Submitted A Natural A/B Test of Harassment as a story · 123 points
HN discussionOriginal blog post: http://developers.kongregate.com/blog/a-natural-a-b-test-of-...
Comment linking /blog/a-natural-a-b-test-of-harassment
on “A sibling A/B test of sexual harassment in gaming”Submitted Building Games for the Long Term as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Core Games, Real Numbers: Going Cross-Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maximizing Monetization (lots of data from Kongregate) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion