Whois & Analysis for kartridge.com

Kongregate is a leading mobile and PC publisher and web gaming portal owned by Gamestop Corporation.

Kongregate’s 30+ mobile games have over 100 million downloads and the web portal features over 100,000 free games played by tens of millions of players per month.

An independent video game (commonly referred to as an indie game) is a video game that is created without the financial support of a publisher.

Indie games often focus on innovation and rely on digital distribution.

Indie gaming saw a rise in the latter half of the 2000s, primarily due to new online distribution methods and development tools.

Some indie games have been very successful financially, such as Braid, World of Goo, Flow, and Minecraft.

PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.

Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralized controlling authority, a greater degree of user control over the video-gaming hardware and software used and a generally greater capacity in input, processing, and output.

An experience point (often abbreviated to Exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in many role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.

Experience points are generally awarded for the completion of quests, overcoming obstacles and opponents, and for successful role-playing.

A player character or playable character (PC) is a fictional character in a role-playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs).

The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games.

The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling it.