The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It's been your standard-issue Internet rage swarm, which is always going to be at least as much fun as the game itself. If you want a summary of why people are mad, this video is a good summary. (At At this rate, YouTube videos whinging about Diablo 4 are going to earn more than the game does. It's brisk and varied.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our tiny company has been earning (well, "earning") a good living making indie computer games for 27 years now. We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Which, by video games standards, makes me awesome.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) Classic World of Warcraft.

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If the deal were allowed to progress, Microsoft would gain control of the Call of Duty video game property, one of the most lucrative entertainment franchises of all time. Now, in a 3-1 vote in favor, the FTC has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the deal from going through.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Free-to-play and live-service games have become well-established in the gaming industry. They provide players with a convenient way to start playing, and the longevity of such games hinges on the appeal of their existing content as well as the strategy for delivering and monetizing future updates.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

The current massive deceleration of the Web3 space is a good moment to re-evaluate and re-think the fundamentals of Web3 gaming. The goal for all parties involved was still to achieve a massive return on investment, often relegating the delivery of the actual game that served players to a secondary objective.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2023

askagamedev : In a similar vein as my previous series “A Gamer’s Primer to Financial Literacy using Warcraft 3″, given recent events I thought it would be prudent to write a primer for those new to the adulting world to help them through a really rough time for anyone - a job loss. Now, if you can. Immediate: Make a Doctor/Dental/etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with an answer to a question I get asked about sometimes for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s about a practical skill that can be learned from gaming. Yep, I’ve been asked if I’ve learned any practical skills from gaming. Practical Skill? : Well, which skill is it? : The answer is typing.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

DOS games were those developed under this operating system. While some of the best DOS games can bring you back to wonderful memories of your younger years, they also laid the foundation for what we see in the gaming world today. What Makes A Good DOS Game? Did the game perform well for what it was?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

Whenever Shadowheart’s not in the game, all the other characters should be asking, “ Where’s Shadowheart ?” Then I can sell my games to them eventually, much as a catfish eats the scum at the bottom of a lake. Then I can sell my games to them eventually, much as a catfish eats the scum at the bottom of a lake.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Progress Quest taught us all how simple our brains where and how easily games could use our mental reward systems against us. It came so close to making all the money in the world. At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Now it does." SIGN ME UP!

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn: 4 separate growth areas that promoters and shysters conflate, to the detriment of us all. The crypto/blockchain/NFT bubble continues apace. It seems to me that there are 4 different elements working together to create this perfect storm for shameless promoters. Cryptocurrencies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. War, inflation, rising interest rates, recession struggle of performance marketing all influenced the games business that these days isn’t quite as recession-proof as it was back in 2008.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

Really, how hard a game can it be? I used every possible advantage the game gave me. This game is a phenomenon, with the wild sales, huge engagement, and memes to prove it. But since I can't resist writing about the thing, I want to start with the key question: Why do people love these games so much, despite the sadism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Written by Enrico D'Angelo Enrico was VP of Product at Activision Publishing running the Free to Play game portfolio and is currently a VP of Product at Roblox. The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This week, we get into one of the hottest topics, whether the App Store’s NFT guidelines will hurt or help blockchain games. TWIG #209 What is going on with games in China??? ? Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming Lastly ? Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got ?

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