The Bottom Feeder

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

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Three Reasons Creators Should Never Read Their Forums

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If I have learned anything from writing Indie games for a living for fifteen years (and there are plenty who would say that I haven't),...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

December Odds, Ends, and Rock Band 3.

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A few mixed things for the month ... Hear Me Talk About ME! There is a nice interview of me up in Inside Mac Games. I got to say a lot ...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

Red Dead: Redemption and My Failures As a Parent

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Before I take a weekend-long break from writing Avadon to spend a weekend with the family in my favorite place in the world , I wanted to t...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Review - Super Meat Boy

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I recently played Super Meat Boy on XBox Live. It is a really fun game, and it manages innovation in a genre that I would have thought had...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Review - Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty

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This is pretty late, but I've taken some time off from writing my games to produce a quick review of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty . I...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Avadon Developer Diary #4 - The Character Classes

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Avadon: The Black Fortress , our next game and the beginning of an all-new series, has been in beta-testing for a while. It's been a gr...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Should Games Sell For Donations? Or, Is Setting a Fixed Price For Losers?

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So here is a question for Indie developers. Suppose you didn't have to charge a fixed price for your game? Suppose instead you could jus...
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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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