I was just on the This Week In Retro Podcast, and I had a great time! I rant about Apple Inc's strangeness, reminisce about ancient days, and get weirdly pedantic about coin-op arcade games from a previous century.
Lots of fun, check it out!
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This bonus Sunday post is to help flog Spiderweb Software in the Steam Spring sale! Everything is cheap, and all our newest games are at their biggest discounts yet.
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New Blog Post! Nerd Deep Housecleaning Update, Part 1. We've run our indie games company since 1994, and we picked up a ton of clutter along the way. See a bit of history from the games biz from before Steam (or the world wide web).
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Spiderweb Software is in the Spring Sale. Everything is cheap(er) now! Our recent success, Avernum 4: Greed and Glory at a new biggest discount. Queen's Wish 2, now freshly expanded, also on sale for more than ever.
Check out the goods here!
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New Blog Post! We've concluded our Queen's Wish series of RPGs. These games contain some of our best design and worst decisions. I'm very proud of them and never want to think about them again. Here's a postmortem, with sales figures!
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The expansion is several hours long, and we think it brings the Queen's Wish story to a nice, satisfying conclusion. Many thanks to everyone who supported these unusual games. We wanted to make a RPG that felt genuinely different, and we're very proud of what we came up with.
BIG NEWS! We've released Queen’s Wish: The Judgment, the conclusion to our unique indie RPG series of empire management and high stakes family politics! This final chapter is a free expansion for Queen’s Wish 2: The Tormentor.
Queen's Wish 2 on Steam:
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New Blog Post! I talk about huge indie hit Mewgenics. The strangeness of indie games, the joy of perfect polish, the enormous design toolkit we designers can pull from now, and how I have become very, very old.
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New Blog Post! I'm still on about how video games affect the brain and how those effects are the product we sell. I compare how Elden Ring & Silksong are very similar games that take very different approaches. Kind of dry, but I think I'm over this now.
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Going back to Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor for #screenshotsaturday . Our last all new game is a unique mix of empire, politics, fantasy, and suspenseful, tactical combat missions. Free expansion to conclude the series comes in March!
Sale on Steam now:
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We have a free, series-concluding expansion to Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor coming soon. If you want to experience our final full new saga, Queen's Wish 2 is on deep discount this weekend at Steam!
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New Blog Post! - I sort through a bunch of recent fun science fiction stuff, plus the latest cool indie game about geese. Lots of gassing on about making a good story. Also, I hawk our new, upcoming game!
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They finally managed to make a 28 [whatever] Years later movie I really didn't like. It's just not interesting. And turns out it's only part 2 in a trilogy, and the part 3 they set up looks kind of rote and tedious. A pity.
On the bright side, Bugonia is available on streaming. liked that one a lot
Saw the new 28 Years Later movie. Turns out that (get ready for a shock) humans are the real monsters.
Lame. When I go see a monster movie, at some point, I want the monsters to be the real monsters.
We started Queen’s Wish in 2019. These truly unique indie RPGs were a mix of tricky tactical combat, empire management, tough politics, and coping with your family.
Played Queen's Wish 2 and lost saved games? We will provide a tool to let you play the epilogue right away.
BIG NEWS! In March, 2026, we release Queen’s Wish: The Judgment, the conclusion to the series! This final chapter will be released as free DLC for Queen’s Wish 2: The Tormentor.
Queen's Wish 2 is on sale on Steam this week ...
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Happy New Year! One last little push for the Steam Winter Sale. Avernum 4, Geneforge 2, and Queen's Wish 2 are cheaper than ever before. (Hope to announce Queen's Wish news before end of month.) Have a great year!
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This blog post is kindly sponsored by ... ME! Telling you that all our games are still cheap for the Steam Winter Sale. Avernum 4: Greed and Glory and Geneforge 2 - Infestation are at their cheapest yet!
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New Blog Post! So what, exactly, are video games FOR?
Video games are machines for affecting your brain, and people give lots of good money to have their brain affected. I list 5 key ways they do this, 5 products you can sell! Better do at least one ...
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Having a great Steam Winter Sale this year. Thank you! Our new game being liked makes happy feelings, which we're storing to sustain us during the long coding months ahead.
Anyway, Avernum 4 is good and cheap and might make a nice last-minute gift ...
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We have some big Queen's Wish news coming soon, so if you passed on Queen's Wish 2, it might be worth giving it another look. It's 70% off for the sale!
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Spiderweb Software is in the Steam Winter Sale, and all our indie RPGs are even cheaper! Avernum 4: Greed and Glory got great reviews from critics and players, and now is at a nice discount. Geneforge 2 and Queen's Wish 2 also quite cheap.
Drop by ...
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New Blog Post! Another grab bag of mixed topics, including Borderlands 4 ( 🫤 ), fun indie games ( 🤩 ), & the 2025 Game Awards ( 😶 ).
Time to grab a seat in some Twitch chat and get ready to heckle the Game Awards. Gonna get really catty on my alt! 😸
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GlitchSPANKR is a weird walking sim type game with a lot of love in it. Strange. Funny. Often gross. Smiling Friends vibes, which is a compliment.
I played about 80% of it, until the parts where it tries to be a Real Video Game got annoying. It really tickled me until then and is worth the money.
Our iPad games have a one time fee. No ads. No hitting you up for more $$$.
And if you want the Windows or Mac version, it's still doing great here ...
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Avernum 4: Greed and Glory is out for iPad! The cult classic Avernum series is back as a unique indie RPG in a vast underworld nation.
Fight a monster plague. Explore the depths. Be loyal or treacherous. Huge & full of fun.
Find here ...
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For Screenshot Saturday, yet another promo shot for iPad Avernum 4: Greed and Glory. Our cool new indie turn-based RPG in a vast subterranean world is out December 3rd. Until then, the very well-reviewed Steam version is at:
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New Blog Post! - Video games are machines for affecting the human brain. So let's find tricks to make it easier! Remember, players play with the brains they have, not the brains you want them to have. Avoid learning how their brains work at your peril.
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For Screenshot Saturday, another promo shots for iPad Avernum 4: Greed and Glory. Our new, well-reviewed, indie turn-based RPG should be out for your handheld by the end of the year. PC version is doing great and you can find it here ...
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Avernum 4: Greed and Glory is out for iPad Dec. 3, 2025! Our popular return to Avernum, a unique indie RPG series set in a vast underworld nation, will become portable!
Fight a monster plague. Explore the depths. Be loyal or treacherous. Get rich and famous! Huge & full of fun.