The Bottom Feeder

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

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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Thursday, May 31, 2018

We Did Our First Kickstarter! And It Worked!

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Another journey begins. A long, long journey. For  the fifth time in 25 years of doing business, we at Spiderweb Software are making a w...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Divinity: Original Sin 2 and the Rewards of Doing One Hard Thing Right

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There will never not be a market for a solid RPG. I recently played indie RPG megahit Divinity: Original Sin 2 . I went through it front...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

I Gave a Big Talk On Indie Games and It's Pretty Good.

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Please enjoy this reasonably-priced hour of grumpy ranting. For a long time now, I've wanted to give a talk about the history of Spi...
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

We Released Avernum 3: Ruined World.

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Seasons come and go. Pages fall from the calendar. And Spiderweb Software releases another game. In 1997, I wrote a hit game. It was ...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Cuphead, Cruelty, and Selling Unfairness to You.

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Teacher, mother, secret lover . When charming indie megahit Cuphead came out, I watched a ton of it on Twitch. How could I not? It'...
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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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