Meaningless Points Hurrah!
Jon recently got me started on a site called Kongregate. It’s one of those collections of flash games and the like, but with a twist: Certain games have “Kongregate Versions” that grant you Badges and Achievements on the site itself. On top of that, rating games earns you points. Or, if you’re a game developer, you can earn points by submitting games and having your games rated. Developers even can potentially win cash money in the weekly and monthly contests. You don’t have to only play the Badge games, but really, you could go anywhere else for games if you didn’t want meaningless points.
That’s the thing; so far, the points are very meaningless. They have various ranking lists and so forth (I’m currently number 10 on the ‘most points gained this week’ leaderboard) but, other than that, they’re simply to have. Eventually Kongregate will have it’s own site-wide online TCG, which is still in development. Currently you can earn one card a week, sort of like promo cards for doing certain things. Like the badges, but the option to get them doesn’t last forever.
Oh, and you can earn points by referring members, and by having those referred members gain levels, up to their level ten. Which brings me to why I’m writing this. Partly to get Jon’s essay off the top, and partly to pimp my own link.
http://kongregate.com/?referrer=Nighthand
To be fair, since Jon did invite me, and this IS his blog, I’ll post his link too. So it’s up to you, anonymous blog audience, to choose who to sign up under!
http://kongregate.com/?referrer=JonathanRyan
