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After the Bharatiya Janata Party's landslide victory at the Centre and in Karnataka, the burning question is no longer whether the JD(S)-Congress alliance will fall ...

Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

For the past year-plus, I have been noticing a number of Microsoft bloggers posting that their blogs were either shutting down or moving to private/custom sites.

Kibbles 'n' Bits 2/6/19: I have seen the Snappening and it is an RSS feed - The Beat.

You can take your Wordpress SEO to the next level. Following are 10 ways to make sure your WordPress site and *content* are optimized to the fullest.

When Google Reader was retired in 2013, many people lost their favorite way to keep up with new posts from their favorite news websites and blogs.

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Welcome to our new home on the web! For those of you who are longtime readers of Starts With A Bang!, I welcome you to our new location! And to those of you ...

A recent study on blogging in 2018 shows that the least common blogging tactics are most likely to be successful.

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I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-modified date on the ...

Following the nation-wide police raids and arrests of several social activists – eerily reminiscent of an autocratic Indira Gandhi's Emergency – Rahul Gandhi ...

While most Charleston-area influencers haven't reached a million-dollar level of success just yet, many have tens of thousands of followers and are climbing the ...

Blogs are back! At least, they seem to be making a resurgence as we try to disentangle ourselves from the predatory social media platforms that took all the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tumblr made the decision to ban all adult *content* and its bloggers from its website yesterday. This decision ...

Today University of Wisconsin Law Professor Ann Althouse marks fourteen years in the blogosphere, and she's apparently never missed a day: I'm delighted to ...

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What is RSS? We explain why RSS is not dying and why it is still important. For small business owners and bloggers, we explain the benefits of RSS feeds.

RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media; we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay ...

Just two years after taking control of Tumblr as part of its acquisition of Yahoo, Verizon is looking to offload the blogging platform. According to the Wall Street ...

In PART 2 the variety of Game Event types are discussed, including what's unique, repeatible, and conditional. Supporting ideas like when they appear.

A new generation of union activists see their struggle as part of the fight for equitable resources for the communities in which they teach.

by Chuck Collins and Jessicah Pierre. One way that extreme inequality shows up in our lives is unequal opportunity in homeownership. And for millennials ...

Eighty-seven RSS swayamsewaks died fighting the Emergency. More than 80 thousand of them were jailed and suffered physical tortures. Many of them saw ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took potshots at BJP and RSS and called them "God-Se Lovers", in an apparent reference to remarks by Pragya ...

Congress leader former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said that it was not proper to remove security provided to the RSS office in ...

Communities like mine, in small-town Michigan, are told to blame immigrants when unchecked capitalism hurts us. We don't buy it.

State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.

The top 5 reasons indie game marketing falls on deaf ears - and how to steer things back on track for your game!

We show you how to become a science blogger and set up your science news site in 4 steps.

Most of us are active at a number of social media sites. And I bet, we all have a blog (or several blogs). You are very likely to be eager to share what.

In this recent study, bloggers were asked a range of questions, including the time, length and frequency of their blog posts. Here's all the blogging stats.

A student reflects on his experiences after dedicating six months to working full-time on his own startup for co-op credit and with funding from his u.

Shape Theory is a theory we all know apart about and we are aware of it subconsciously. Here I break down how it can be used for level design and how.

While 99% of the time we're using our skills to make games, sometimes we get to use them to create something truly special—in this case a mural for.

81monkeys blog post on transition from desktop to mobile game development using GameMaker.

Ever wonder how EverQuest has stuck around for the last 20 years? This article shares insight into EverQuest's ability to retain players decade after.

You see a lot of slides at GDC. These are the best ones from the sessions I attended.

It was a high-profile coming out party. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ideological parent of the Modi government, normally invisible in its secretive shakhas ...

Having moved from Prez to citizen, on Thursday Pranab Mukherjee turned philosopher-politician at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur. He reminded all present, ...

Ten years ago in 2009, the word influencer didn't bear much weight. Now, it's part of the core approach for the new Epic Games Store - but why?

This article is based on a talk I presented on the Tehran Game Convention. Slides are available here. Therefore, loss management instead of reward distribution ...

At its core, public relations is largely about creating consistency. Anyone who has been in a PR meeting has heard the word 'drumbeat' more than once- create a ...

The RSS and VHP have done well to withdraw from the Ram Mandir agitation till the Lok Sabha elections draw to a close. For one, the movement was finding ...

20 pages of thoughts on Artifact cards that begin with the letter 'A'

Official Postmortem for Das Geisterschiff, a survival horror adventure dungeon crawler and the first game by Graverobber Foundation.

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Explicit strategies in how to design accessibility into your game's core, and all the different ways you'll benefit from doing so.

Strong IP is a boost that can catapult games apps to the top of the charts. It's clearly a privilege to seal a licensing deal with a major name or franchise in media ...

At Niantic, we're in the process of developing an incredible planet-scale Augmented Reality (AR) platform. In this post, we explore where we believe.

Three general lessons for students interested in narrative and game design on communities, supporting people, and the role of practice in trying to im.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) last week held a three-day conference to outline its world view. A lecture by its chief Mohan Bhagwat appeared to signal ...

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Bandersnatch: Netflix's attempt at gamifying cinema is a commendable attempt but leaves more to be desired, ideas on how it can benefit from deep lear.

From “flashy” beginnings to the development swamp and finally launching a console game, this is the story of how Move or Die was made.

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Though Google Reader addicts are in mourning, they should have seen it coming. It's not the kind of product that makes sense for Google in the longer run.

An in depth look at what makes the character controller tick in HAL Laboratory's BOXBOY! This was done by Covering the game - a terrific game develop.

Observations from working on 50+ indie game marketing campaigns in 2018 - and some tips for how to give your game the best chance of success in 2019.

Hey game devs, I would like to share my story of a game launch. I would like to tell about traps, lie in wait for indie-developer while he works with publisher.

Branding and marketing games is one thing, but indie developers should also dedicated some thought to how they position their studios. In this pos.

Outlines two approaches to picking a target platform: one which begins with your game's design and works upwards and another that starts at the platfo.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is event that takes place on the third Thursday of every May, with the goal of raising awareness about digital accessibility.

The business of making indie games has always been difficult, but recently it's become a lot harder. On October 5th, Valve introduced changes to Steam.

Apple has announced its new game distribution *service*, Apple Arcade. This subscription-based *service* offers unlimited access to games present in its c.

New Chinese regulations put restrictions on how loot boxes can be monetized. Put simply, the more revenue you drive from selling loot boxes to your pl.

Let's talk about social media automation, RSS feeds & get a comprehensive how-to on dlvr.it. An RSS feeding tool to automate posts to your social media.

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An addendum to my Designing a Production Process series that describes how to further utilize your issue tracking database to support it.

The discussion about how much a VR game costs to develop, and how VR really isn't that profitable for developers is a discussion running for nearly the past ...

I just got back from a trip to Boston where I took part in several roundtable discussions with indies and Valve that were mostly about how to make games that ...

Humanity vs. Human Resources. Intro While this article focuses on what I understand the definitions to be of 'humanity' and 'human resources' in the context of ...

Well-orchestrated public statements with high decibel levels seem to be polluting the environment as we await the Ayodhya title suit to be listed before an ...

Procedural modeling can be a huge bonus to small teams that want to create diverse worlds. We needed to create piers. 3 of them.

Following a request on the Bureau Local Slack channel (join here) I created a tutorial on how to create a Slack bot which would post alerts whenever a new ...

Whichever multiplayer game you look for and no matter how good it is, you'll always find tons of complaints from users claiming the matchmaking for th.

I did a complete design dive into Sekiro Shadows Die Twice and upon finishing the game, I wanted to share my thoughts on the design.

I'm Scott Brodie, Founder & Creative Director at Heart Shaped Games. Our team recently returned from running its first PAX East booth, and since we benefited ...

Unity's audio import settings are not widely understood in their entirety, and at the time of writing, I have been unable to find any comprehensive guides to their ...

2 years ago I quit my job as an architect to pursue my dream of making video games. Now that the game is out, was it a good idea, financially speaking?

Every year the pace of chance accelerates. 2017 saw advances on a scale never before seen, and 2018 trumped that by considerable margin. I hope this post ...

Digi-Capital's Games Report Q1 2019 tracked games companies raising $5.7 billion in 2018, which was over twice the previous record investment from.

A detailed account of the work needed to take a completely unknown indie game (Nova Drift) and achieve a reasonably successful launch, mainly thought.

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Welcome to my yearly blog post on crowdfunding and games, looking at how well games have performed on Kickstarter (and Fig) for the past year. As usual, I ...

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What Mario Learned from Mickey Mouse is an analysis on the world building of Super Mario Odyssey through the design of Disney theme parks. Part 3 s.

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As an avid Overwatch gamer, I thought I'd discuss the level of toxicity the Overwatch community and the number of notable strides that Overwatch has.

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If a blogger falls in a forest, and there's no one around to see it…will Google still pick up the feed? Ha! I crack myself up. For those of us who spend time blogging ...

Digi-Capital's Games Report forecasts that games industry software/hardware combined could drive well over $200 billion revenue by 2023, despite short.

Is it still possible to break into the games industry as an unknown indie in 2019? James Patton shares the sales numbers for his indie success Spinnor.

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Colloc was called Fission when the idea(a low poly puzzle game) of the game first came out. Maybe inspired by some random elements in my life, I started ...