Kongregate rolls out achievements for Flash games
by John Bardinelli 
{ Jun 29th 2007 at 9:00PM }
Flash gaming community Kongregate recently rolled out a new feature: Xbox Live-style achievements. Many of the popular games feature tasks you can complete to earn badges, such as the Defender of the Universe Badge you get for defeating the final boss in Gamma Bros. without using the level 3 password. Around 20 games have Achievements implemented at the moment, and Kongregate plans to expand that in the near future. The system operates just like the challenges introduced in March, but instead of earning cards to use in a site-wide game, you get pretty badges.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jim Greer @ Jun 29th 2007 9:09PM
Thanks for the writeup! By the way some users might want to see the prettier badges page, rather than the boring FAQ:
http://www.kongregate.com/badges
Dragod @ Jun 29th 2007 9:39PM
Here's a pretty strange story about someone stealing a 13 year old's Xbox 360...
http://news.filefront.com/man-arrested-for-stealing-a-13-yr-olds-xbox-360/
DtotheG @ Jun 29th 2007 9:57PM
Son of a bitch! I was working with a fellow contributor from NewGrounds to implicate a similar system! It was going to be called NewGrounds Mission Points.
Thread on NG from February:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=661133
And all the way back from November of last year, where I did everything manually:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=598956
And a forum when progress and beta testing occured:
http://bleeblap.admhosting.net/ngmp/index.php
So, Kongregate put it motion first. What I'm saying is that it's not MY IDEA FIRST RIPPOFFLOL, I'm saying that when you see NewGrounds with a similar thing, don't call it a ripoff of anything but the Xbox live system
Mr Khan @ Jun 29th 2007 10:34PM
Where'd you get that pic? Commie Archives?
Its awesome!
faceless coward @ Jun 29th 2007 11:44PM
Yay, another Kongregate article!
t_m @ Jun 30th 2007 9:21AM
Can we save out progress in Fancy Pants adventure yet??
Kamizar @ Jun 30th 2007 3:48PM
I swear to god, MS is just biding time till almost everyone has an achievement system, so they can bust out the lawyers...
ssuk @ Jun 30th 2007 4:10PM
Right... Next thing we know Macromedia Shockwave will have Achivements...
Brian Sexton @ Jul 1st 2007 2:55AM
Achievements are sometimes fun to receive, but they have more often struck me as hollow in their receipt, unenjoyable in their contrived acquisitions, and apparently pointless beyond serving as a way to encourage people to keep playing games that are no longer fun—a way to reward players for enduring tedium or otherwise poor design. I hope the Kongregate system somehow encourages fun and discourages the extension of gameplay without a corresponding extension of fun.