To Kongregate or not to Kongregate [Flash Games]

Published: November 14, 2007, 3:00 pm

Kongregate.com is one of the several companies taking a swing at the "YouTube for Games" idea that makes Silicon Valley VC's grin as they stare into their iPhones. In a new interview with Kongregate games director Chris Pasley, who moved over to Kongregate from Turner's game group, says their goal is to "make Flash games a legitimate business, by letting developers make a living off of [them]." Sounds good, but I'm just not sure that what games -- or anything else -- needs is another upload-your-content-plus-community-features ghetto. Especially the community features.It makes sense for Kongregate of course -- community is an easy way to keep people somewhere. That's why Kongregate provides financial incentives for developers to build in their community features, like chat and achievements. But really, do we need to congregate at Kongregate? Their claim that Flash games are "easy in, easy out" would seem to suggest that people don't really want to go somewhere special to get

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