Actually, never mind -- I just tweaked the back end of the achievement a bit, and you should now be awarded the medium and hard badges as soon as you cross the necessary threshold. Thanks to the developer for implementing such a flexible system into the API reporting!
Everyone who's saying that you need to lose before the badge is awarded is correct. I've updated the achievement description to make this more clear. I also agree that perhaps the hard badge is a little too easy -- this is what happens when I rush to put badges in a sponsored game that's doing well on Digg!
All right, Creed, we'll look into the issue... pretend that the badges aren't out yet if that helps. :-P Also, the badge graphics are courtesy of SimianLogic's girlfriend.
Just to clarify, you should only need to refresh AFTER completing a game, and it SHOULD work the first time. If it's not, then there's a problem we're unaware of, and we'll have to look into it (though the card/badges work fine for me). Sorry guys!
Just to be clear, the "single session" requirement is a technical necessity with how our API works and how this game reports stats. This technical requirement is the only reason that the condition exists -- I'd allow everyone to do this across multiple sessions if I could. Sorry guys!
This game is certainly not stolen... Aside from the fact that I'm currently speaking with the developer over AIM, it's very difficult to steal a game and implement our API into it.
3.0?? This game is way underrated! GlaielGamer, the screen size on Kongregate is determined from reading the dimensions in the swf header itself. Perhaps the dummy swf you first uploaded was set to a smaller resolution?
But it just seems a little cheap to me to actually require people to click an in-game link in order to unlock a badge on our site. It was very clever of them to do this within the game, and I'm fine with promoting this game and perhaps indirectly helping them get a bit of traffic through this method, but I hope you guys understand why I don't feel it would be appropriate to make a "collect all 18 medals" achievement on Kongregate. If Armor Games wants to report the other 15 medals separately, though, I'd be happy to implement a hard badge for collecting them.
I'm not going to put a badge in this game for collecting all the medals. With the way the stats are currently set up (sending a "1" for all 18 medals collected), the only way to do this would be for me to require that people earn the "visit Armor Games" courtesy medal to unlock the achievement. Don't get me wrong; I love the guys over at Armor Games. I hope that by putting badges in this game, I can give them a bit of extra exposure and traffic. That's part of what Kongregate is all about -- giving attention to people who make great games.
Badges are coming for this game. But first the developer needs to implement our stats API and add a second game mode where skipping levels is disabled. It's being worked on!
So where were all you haters when this game climbed to a 4.17 rating and won first place in a monthly contest? LordAuron, does it matter at all to you that this game is rated higher than Hexiom?
Kongregate is going on a company retreat tomorrow, the challenge is up a day early again. We'll resume our normal schedule next week. And that's pretty awesome, Lapper.
Also, to those wondering why the challenge is up a day early, I'd like to remind everyone that working for Kongregate is a real job, and yes, we all have Thanksgiving off.
Many apologies to everyone who lost their save files, but please understand that this was NOT intentional, and it certainly was not the fault of the developer (so please don't rate the game down!). Kongregate recently started storing game files a bit differently, which means old games that are newly updated (to include our API, for instance) will unfortunately wipe save files. New games on the site will fortunately not have this problem, but older ones will. Sorry again!
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