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Jeff Vogel
Personal blog · jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.ukgamesbusiness
Jeff Vogel writes The Bottom Feeder, a personal blog at jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk about games and business. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this indie game developer's blog posts on piracy, the indie game market and why people play computer RPGs, as support for their own points in HN discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on indie game development. Humor. General crabbiness and bad feelings.
What Hacker News says?
But on the other anecdatal hand, there are plenty of devs who accept that piracy exists and manage just fine, e.g. Jeff Vogel http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/sometimes-its-ok-to...
Comment linking /2010/07/sometimes-its-ok-to-steal-my-games.html
on “'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules”Submitted Marketing, Dumb Luck, and the Popping of the Indie Bubble. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJeff Vogel is great, and I've been playing his games for over half my life. But he's written similarly themed blog posts himself: http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is... Part of the reason he can still do it is that he's been doing it for so long, and has a loyal long term audience quite happy to buy a new Spiderweb game because it's a new spiderweb game.
Comment linking /2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html
on “The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer”My view is that it isn't the nature of the people on that site it's the nature of the frame of mind those people are in on that site. There's a link that was posted here a while ago which I think explains it. http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/whittling-part-of-b... "The human brain just seems to have a need for resting, for passing some time in a low-energy state. Computer role-playing games are perfect for t…
Comment linking /2011/03/whittling-part-of-brain.html
on “How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet”