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Yeah, they sorta missed the boat I think. They should have created a distributed system like Heyzap in addition to their portal site. They should really acqui

• jim-greer 17y ago
  We looked at doing this at Kongregate - to us achievements are only meaningful in the context of a community, something you don't get with a distributed system. While the integration with Twitter and Facebook addresses this to some extent, I don't really think it gets at what achievements are all about. They're meaningful to a community of other people who play the game, not to everyone you know on the internet. Another problem with this is that the other portals that the game would be distributed on are our competitors. They're not really going to take kindly to having our achievements on their site. And frankly, they're not going to want HeyZap's, either.
  • jfarmer 17y ago
    How does it hurt, though? Either people don't care about achievements outside of destination sites, or they do. If they don't, nobody will use it. If they do, you have a smash hit. Seems like a worthwhile experiment.
    • teej 17y ago
      Why not let HeyZap do the experiment and follow up if it works?
  • immad 17y ago
    We are going to be opening up APIs for publishers get achievement data. We also already push users through our viral channels back to the publishers website (would do this automatically but flash doesn't allow it). Most publishers we talk to love it. We want to open up this data and allow creative applications of achievements, both in the given community and in the wider social graph.