The Bottom Feeder

 A happy little message for anyone still following this dusty old blog.
I am still writing! Not a lot, but I am making quality free content. I just do it on Substack, which is a properly maintained blogging site with nice features and a working captcha....

Once, to survive in the arts, you needed someone like this: The profoundly rich product of centuries of inbreeding.
This is a blog post about making a living writing art. Like, say, indie games. So expect a certain amount of despair.
In ye olden days, many talented people wanted to be artists. However, very few of them sold their art for enough money to make a decent living. So they would get a patron. A patron is a very rich person who is amused by you. They provide you with a tiny...

All new. All different.
Now that we've finally released our new game, Queen's Wish: The Conqueror, we're finally free to talk about it! Nerdy game-design talking!
We have been writing role-playing games for a very, very long time. It's what we do. One of the ways we stay sane while doing this is to change things. Every game or two, we like to change stuff: The graphics. The setting. The game system....

A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and I don't want to go mad.
A week ago, I put up a blog post called "Why All My Games Look Like Crap." It really blew up. A lot of people read it. Some were highly supportive. Others took precious time out of their days to let me know I am a gigantic, gigantic bozo....