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If you are interested in making video games and have no idea as for where to start from, keep reading. By the end of this article you will have a round view of how a certain game is made and or how you can begin making games on your own. This article is a part of my personal performance report since I am also in the learning phase of game development. I did my research on various methods of game development, made a few small demo games which were pretty lame and now I am moving forward to develop better games.  Let's discuss some prerequisites for game development.  1. Computer. 2. Game development Software and the Internet of course. 3. Idea for a game (pretty useless for now). 4. Ability to handle creativity drought and a reason to move forward. 5. Something to eat. Let's cover every thing point by point. 1. Computer.  This is really necessary and reason is pretty obvious. Now the power of the computer will greatly affect what you can do. But since w...

This shall be the last version of the CODA Basic Theme since I can't find any bugs or place for improvement(for now). Although of course if I find one I will update the theme. Theme screen shots are below. Download link:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Qb2-H0P8xILTNJdEd4b0UzeTg If you are looking for previous versions or instructions for the template go to shiftescape.com/p/codathemes.html Change log: Removed header navbar background.

As good as Adobe Photoshop is, not everyone can afford to own a licensed version. Most of the Photoshop version out there in use are just pirated copies. But is it really that necessary? Unless you are running a million dollar enterprise or a graphics developer team I really don't see any good reason for having a Photoshop, especially when there are lot's of work around to any problem. Here I will be discussing some alternative approaches and softwares that can help you out from any Photoshop need with using Photoshop. 1. GIMP If you go on a search for a free alternative to Photoshop, this one will always be there in any list. And why not! GIMP is perfect in its own and there is a better version coming out very soon viz GIMP 3.0 Only problem GIMP has so far is it's inability to deal with high resolution. It's rather difficult to explain in words but I can give you an example of the problem. Say when you Open and image as a layer in your canvas and resize ...

If you are using WordPress chances are you are already aware of its power. One such power of the WordPress is to auto-mate things up. It's actually not WordPress but one of it's plugin. WPeMatico  let's you grab any RSS feed and post it as a separate post in your WordPress blog. Here's the step by step instruction to setup your automated WordPress blog. Please note that WPeMatico is really powerful plugin and not every site appreciates their content being copied. So leave necessary credits to the owners of the content you tend to post on your Blog. Step. 1: Upload WPeMatico Plugin in WordPress and activate it. Download from wordpress.org/plugins/wpematico Step. 2: Find the feed url. Go to any site you want the content from and open there feed url.  For example: example.com/feed Some times the feed url could be different like example.com/RSS or example.com/atom Step. 3: Once you confirm the feed url add new campaign. Step. 4: Add the feed ur...

There are a number of ways to make a website or a blog. Be it Blogger, Tumblr, Wix but when it comes to professional web development one would always come back over and again to WordPress or any similar service like Joomla. But Joomla isn't all that popular now, it's the WordPress which own the Internet for now and why not! There are a number of advantages of WordPress, and I'm not talking about WordPress.com. There is a big difference in self-hosted and free WordPress sites. WordPress.com blogs are limited to a great extent, hence we stick to self hosted WordPress site. Oftentimes one give up the idea of building a self hosted WordPress site because hosting is not cheap and cheap ones are not reliable. Today we will be making a WordPress site with little to no efforts and on a reliable server as well. I will be using 000webhost for hosting my WordPress site. Step.1: Go to 000webhost from here . Sign up and leave your account there for a while. Step. 2: Register...

If you run a business or a website Facebook is the best possible medium to sxpose it to the right audience. In order to do that you can either adviertise your website or use a page for its promotion. Anyways you will need a Facebook page. Following this little guide you will be able to create a Facebook page and make it popular to reach the right audience. I'm pretty sure you know how to make a Facebook page because it is not that difficult. You can skip this part if you already have a Facebook page. Step 1: To make a Facebook page go to Create Page . There are lots of categories as for what you page is about. Take a little time to perfectly categorize your page but even if you set it up in the wrong category it does not matter since the guys at Facebook update your category upon review. Step.2:Follow page tips to settle everything else related to your page. Step. 3: Once your page is active it's time for some quality content. Write some posts, upload some phot...

Facebook has been the most popular social from a really long time now. Back in the days of MySpace and Orkut it had competition, but now when we talk about a "Social Network" the first thing that hits your head is Facebook, unless you are from China or Japan maybe. Since everyone out there must be using Facebook, or majority is, Facebook becomes the best possible way for reaching a targeted audience. Now there are multiple ways you can achieve your goals and the idea of this post is to clear up the fog for you and decide what's best for you. Let me tell you a little secret. Facebook Ads are really really "cheap". Not in quality but in price. So without giving it any other thought if you can invest a little in promoting your valuable content, prefer Facebook over Adsense or Bing Ads. What all options for marketing are available on Facebook? Facebook Ads carry a lot of variety. You can promote not only your websites and pages but also your individual p...