What it was like to build and maintain ChesedGamesOnline

ChesedGamesOnline — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:09:57 +0000

I am now logged in. Busy updating all the plugins. Let me see if the job openings plugin is available. Yes, it's there. Deactivate Buddypress. Let me see the site.

Add the newest post. I'm busy with it. Finally, I can add a category. Now I will publish the post.

Now I need to log into Trello, but it's acting a bit weird. I don't have Trello, so work via PowerPoint.

Creating a new page called "Game Development Hub".

Updated the homepage. Now I set up the "Game Development Hub". I only need to add it to the menu.

Now I need to search for Trust Wallet. It's downloading right now. Let me keep the seed phrase safe. I think I have stored it in my LastPass.

Now I need to configure the page. I am going to do it like the page from GABAK USA:

I am now logged in. I need to make a Donate page. Is working on making one. Edit it with Kubio of course. The page editor is loading.
Now I need to link the pages. It's already linked.

Now I need to build 3 pages. It must be finished by June 2nd.

I linked the first-page item.

I am going to experiment with the event plugin.

Download the event plugin. It's loading. It's going a bit slow.

Now I need to head to the Event page.

I'm logged in. I need to delete the Buddypress plugin. I'm busy deleting the plugins. Now I need to add the page "Credits".

I need to pay in the future for the humanizer tool, but it's working. I am going for SemiHumanAI. Because Humbot is very expensive.

The blog is busy publishing. It's published now.

Today I'm going to add Credits to the homepage. I already added it.

ChesedGamesOnline: Game Development in Suriname

ChesedGamesOnline — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 05:45:09 +0000

I’m Chesed Wolfjager, a 23-year-old tech entrepreneur based in Suriname. Since I was young, I was busy with IT. It all started when I Googled “Game Maker”, because I wanted to learn how to build games. I stumbled upon a tool called “Game Maker”, developed by Mark Overmars to build games easily. That’s how my career in game development started.

When I was 16, I enrolled in a course on web design by N.V. SITT. I did not grasp much of the concepts, but I passed my exams easily. The company taught me how you could install WordPress locally on your computer. WordPress is a tool that makes it easy to build websites. That’s the tool I’m using currently for my website. I wanted to apply this knowledge and dreamt about a website where I could show my games to the world. My teacher who taught me then said it was not so difficult. You just had to upload the games and place screenshots. I didn't know how to use WordPress with a hosting provider. Later I learned how to do that.

When I was 17, I started working for a department of a Christian organization. One of my tasks was maintaining and improving the website. This was not a problem for me because I had already worked in WordPress. I’m not working for the non-profit anymore, however it still exists.

When I was 19, I started working for a local IT company. The key tasks were building websites. I started as a project employee. They use WordPress too. When I turned 20, I quit because my contract expired.

When I was 22, I enrolled for a course digital marketing that was held online. My father has given me this advice to make money online. One of the subjects was web development. When I had to choose a subject for my website, I choose game development. I knew a lot about it and was passionate about it. Just like my former teacher said, I uploaded my games and attached screenshots. A lot of people liked my website and I graduated from the course with ease.

The website consists of several subjects. From the homepage, you can navigate to the blog, and game development hub, you can find resources to get started with game development, you could check out the shop, see who are my strategic partners, see the FAQs, subscribe to the newsletter, participate in the online communities and it is possible to chat with the employees.

To give ChesedGamesOnline more exposure, I’m active on social media. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube and LinkedIn. There isn’t much on these profiles, because I’m not good with social media. I plan to hire someone for the marketing. I paid a content creator to review my games and promote the site on her Facebook page. And in collaboration with one of my business partners, I plan to hold a presentation. I also want to upload my games to Steam and the Microsoft Store.

The plans with ChesedGamesOnline are huge. Firstly, I want game development integrated into the Surinamese education system. I want to boost the IT sector. Suriname could make money when the game developers are trained well. Game studios could outsource parts of their games to Suriname, just like what is happening with the call centers. I want hackathons and awareness sessions to be organized. And that ChesedGamesOnline is running like an NGO. To put Suriname on the map if we’re talking about game development.

https://www.chesedgames.online/

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What it was like to build and maintain ChesedGamesOnline

ChesedGamesOnline: Game Development in Suriname