The Bottom Feeder

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

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Announced ... Avernum: Escape From the Pit

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This blog has been sadly neglected lately, due to a combination of vacations and a frenzied effort to get our newest game to a point where ...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Our First Game Is Out For the iPad. Hooray!

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Last week, Avadon : The Black Fortress HD for the iPad went live in the iTunes App Store. The reaction to it so far has left us stunned. L...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Ultimate Fix Your Broken Game Checklist.

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(This is the third of three articles about providing tech support as a small business. The previous chapters are here and here .) I get ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Everything Breaks, All the Time.

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(This is the second of a three part series about the black art of doing tech support. The first part is here .) Anyone who ever has to do...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Seven Tips For Giving Good Tech Support.

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When you try to start a business selling indie games (or any software product, really), writing and releasing the game is only half the ba...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy

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(For some reason, Blogger deleted this post. I have recreated it. Sorry for any comments that were lost.) This article is my decisive sta...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

On Making Lots of People Angry

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The other day, after Avadon: The Black Fortress came out, a certain community of hardcore fantasy RPG fans jumped on it with universal loa...
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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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