Kongregate: Online Community Gaming

One thing I truly love in games is puzzles. It stimulates my brain and there is a unique pleasure in the mental tiredness after playing a tough puzzle game.

Now a days a variety of puzzle games are available online. I have searched game sites from a HTML5 and SWF rich contents to a plain old text and link based game sites. But there is one game site that really caught my attention. Yes! Kongregate .com

It has an array of games you might have never played. I have layed around 27 games of various categories; Action, Puzzles, Strategy, Shooting, Racing etc. The games I have played are all fresh types. The idea and the game play are superb. Out of Five games you play at least four would be new ones. This site allows you to become a member. On becoming a member you are awarded 15 points and your gaming journey starts from there. Every game has a target you have to achieve to get points. Every games has three difficulty levels; Easy medium and hard. Completing a said levels in each game gives you certain points on each difficulty levels.

This is one gaming site which hosts a large community of independent games developers. There is a programming forum for people to ask and answer questions. It also includes information on how people can get started in flash game developing. Along with the programming forum, there is an official Kongregate Developer Center that is available in English and Chinese. There are regular contests for developers to participate in. The prizes for the weekly, monthly and mobile; the weekly prizes are $250 for 1st, $150 for 2nd and 3rd. For the monthly $1500 for 1st, $1000 for 2nd, $700 for 3rd, $500 for 4th, $250 for 5th up to 9th. The prizes for the mobile are $1000 for 1st, $500 for 2nd, $250 for 3rd. The prizes are drawn from the number of votes each developer gets for his or her game.

 This is worth spending time. It is worth the entertainment!

I forgot I used to blog!

Q: How do you know you have not written a blog for a long time?
A: You are not even aware that the link/URL to your blog has changed!!

This has happened with me. No one else!!

I did not even know that my Blog URL has changed from omkarkalbag. blogspot. com to omkarkalbag. blogspot. in

When did it happen, I know not...

The only relief is that I have not forgotten the blogger Id and password! But I have forgotten the purpose why I write blogs. That I do not have time to write then is a different story!

My last post on this blog was on Aug 7, 2011. Since then writing a post never struck me! Too many things were happening all of a sudden. After shifting out from Mumbai to another city, settling here was quite unsettling at first. I was surrounded by new language, new areas to explore, new ways to get the work done and so much more!

Now, most of the work is completed. A time came when I had to think of spending the time fruitfully. That was when I was reminded of my long lost blogging hobby. I spent an hour reading what all posts I wrote since the inception of the blog and was amazed how I managed to scribble out all this. I have written 152 posts excluding this post and one unpublished post on this blog! Although my blog does not have much readership, I wrote all of them for my self.

I do love writing or at least expressing my self. This blog is one way to do it! So I need Ideas to revive blogging. I have now opened the comments page to invite new ideas. What do I write about? Till then I'll work out some ideas myself! If I do not get any ideas, it is better to close this blog. with one "Bye-Bye" post. Why waste electricity and time over things I wont do?

In the next post: Whether I'll continue blogging or end it?