Top all-time · #5797
Jeff Vogel
Personal blog · bottomfeeder.substack.comgameswriting
Jeff Vogel writes The Bottom Feeder, a personal blog at bottomfeeder.substack.com about games and writing. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Is China Better at Cartoons Now?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Computer Gaming's Cranky Old Uncle In the Attic. Click to read The Bottom Feeder, by Jeff Vogel, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Is China Better at Cartoons Now?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
- So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Truths about video game stories as a story · 248 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are too many video games as a story · 127 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934) as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 2 (Talkin' 'Bout D&D) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning Out Our Computer Graveyard as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Writing Fantasy, Kill Your Darlings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Game Industry Got to Face What It Is as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bunch More Thoughts on Algebra-That-Thinks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Deck of Many Things: Peak Game Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Even Put Human Stories in Video Games Anyway? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sad Unusability of Video Game Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is China Better at Cartoons Now? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UFO50, the Only Game You'll Ever Need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie Postmortem 1: Geneforge 2 – Infestation. Funding and Building as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Learn from the Video Game Recession. and Do It Quickly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Tips to Make Your Murder and Loot Game Painfully Addicting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Released Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What did I do to mobile game developers to make them hate me so much? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video Game Thoughts Bonus Bag #1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Useless-Boomer Guide to the Stock Market as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queen's Wish: A Portmortem of Mixed Success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Internet Feedback Without Going Insane as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is China Better at Cartoons Now? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Scattered Thoughts About Hades as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video Game Thoughts Bonus Bag #4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video Game Genres Are Marketing Terms, and Your Advice Is Bad as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
