The Bottom Feeder

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

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Spiderweb Software's Fifteenth Birthday Sale!

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(This is the official press release for our fifteenth birthday sale. I'm posting it here because it's funny. Also, shameless self-pr...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

The Ugly Truth About Classic Games. They Are Terrible.

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It's no secret that I love classic games. My games are all, in some way, tributes to classics. I have a huge personal collection of old...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Indie Games Should Be Too Cheap or Too Expensive.

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I wrote a while ago how amazingly, crazily cheap Indie games have become. Big Fish Games sells every title for $6.99, tops. The most you c...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Avadon Developer Diary #3 - Character Classes and Kicking Butt

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Time for another developer journal about the creation of the first game in an all-new series, Avadon: The Black Fortress . The first article...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Yes, Buying Used Games Doesn't Make You a Bad Person.

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The Big Gaming Argument of the Week is about whether is it's moral to buy used video games. It's legal. Nobody can deny that. But is...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Being Nice Is Good Business.

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One of the fundamental truths of writing single-player PC games now is that it's so easy to pirate anything that people will only buy yo...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Avadon Developer Diary #2 - What Sort Of Game Will This Be?

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Here is another long overdue developer diary for our next game, Avadon: The Black Fortress . These articles are about the ongoing process of...
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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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