The Bottom Feeder

Thoughts on indie game development. Humor. General crabbiness and bad feelings.

Saturday, November 6, 2021

The Bottom Feeder Has Moved On!

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 A happy little message for anyone still following this dusty old blog. I am still writing! Not a lot, but I am making quality free content....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Getting Sweet Patron Money On the Modern Internet

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Once, to survive in the arts, you needed someone like this : The profoundly rich product of centuries of inbreeding. This is a blog pos...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

Queen's Wish Is Out. Here's Why It's So Weird!

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All new. All different. Now that we've finally released our new game, Queen's Wish: The Conqueror , we're finally free to t...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

I Am the Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games

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A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for ye...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap

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We spent years working on this game. We're betting our family's future on it. So. Why does it look so bad? We've been writin...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Make Them Want. Delay. Fulfill. Repeat.

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Players can get a deep feeling of satisfaction from games that literally play themselves. How cool is that? Last week, I began my discou...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction

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Get those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers! I've been reading a lot about Anthem. It's that gigantic, mega-budget looter-sho...
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Jeff Vogel
Indie development's self-declared Crazy Old Uncle In the Attic. Founded Spiderweb Software in 1994. Since then, has written many games, including the Exile, Geneforge, Avadon, and Avernum series and Nethergate: Resurrection. Has also done much writing, including the Grumpy Gamer series for Computer Games Magazine, the View From the Bottom series for IGN, and the book The Poo Bomb: True Tales of Parental Terror.
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