Ska Studios

Awesome Decal!

Much kudos to Malfunct, who used the Dishwasher wallpaper I made to skin his laptop using skinit.com.

Looks excellent!

View the full post on Malfunct’s page. He’s got the hi-res art there if you want to try it out on your own machine. Unfortunately, my laptop is a bit off-brand, so I don’t get to share in the fun, but at least I can live vicariously through others!

Random Background

Is your resolution 1440 x 900?

If so, you’re in luck!

I made a new background; I might make this into a T-shirt.

3 Comments March 29, 2008

Juicy Screens

Here are some nice new Dishwasher Screenies, for your viewing enjoyment (and as a little “I’m not dead” post):

I’ve been hard at work implementing netcode and just generally cleaning and polishing, and I’m becoming quite proud of how The Dishwasher is starting to look. I think I’m at a point where I can call netplay on System Link fairly solid (except for a few teeny little bugs–like two machines not quite agreed on whose score is what).

I’m also trying to name my co-op characters–I’m thinking Loïc for the blue guy and Hargreaves for the red guy. They’re obviously not The Dishwasher, but they’re still very fearsome cyborg hunters!

6 Comments January 31, 2008

Dishwashirts back on track!

I found a local place with comparable prices, so Dishwashirts will rise again. They didn’t know what an SVG was at first, but when I showed them that they could open them in Illustrator, we were on track. Two weeks!

I got my copy of Office Home, so I can do non-programming things (this is important).

For those who’ve played the beta of The Dishwasher, I’ve been doing some tweaking. The strong slash move (for the Katana, Kama and Cleavers) is more useful now, the magic works differently, and the blood’s been changed yet again.

7 Comments September 25, 2007

Dishwashirts Delayed…

Unfortunately, the first run of Dishwashirts hit some snags–I had been trying to work with an online T-shirt screen printing company for awhile and eventually got frustrated, gave up, and asked for cancellation and a refund.

I feel like I had become some sort of uber-nitpicky awful customer, but they had a pretty good-sized laundry list of screwups. Among them were:

Spelling vectorize “victories”
Scaling down a very high res bitmap (~ 4000 x 3000) to about 400×300 and sticking the pixelated mess in the art proof
Ignoring/overlooking roughly 5 of my requests to move the front logo from the right chest to the left chest
Sending me proofs days after I had sent them nice vector graphics that still had the nasty pixelated art

Granted, I kept looking at the picture and realizing it needed tweaking, then resending them new art, then getting frustrated; I feel like if I had exactly the right format files looking the way I wanted them to in the first place, I would have Dishwashirts by now. But honestly–with a track record like theirs, I’m just not comfortable with ordering $500 worth of shirts from this company. Maybe they’re really good at printing shirts and really awful at printing proofs and following directions (prior to the final printing of course), but I just didn’t feel like risking it.

To make matters worse, when I asked to cancel the order they told me the errors and miscommunication issues were my fault. They was partially my fault because I kept trying to change things, but blaming the customer is completely unprofessional, and yet another black mark on this print shop’s record.

On the plus side, I got more time to clean up the back image! The posture just was not settling right with the part of my brain that determines whether postures look right, so I moved some body parts around and am now more satisfied still! So thank you, T-Shirt company, for saving my design.
Behold the new back design!

Behold the new mockup as well!

So, if you know of any shirt printing companies, please recommend them. I’m a little fragile from the last ordeal.

3 Comments September 21, 2007