Good Morning Gato #23 – Pterodactyls, Zombies, and the American Dream

Changes are taking place here at Ska Studios. There are dev code changes being made. General life changes. The occasional change of previous changes which were made to change something un-changed. Yes sir, all sorts of changes are happening and are topics I’m willing to discuss with you, but only after the break.
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2 Comments July 16, 2010

Some Dishwasher History

I’ve been hard at work on The Dishwasher for over a year now, and I was just looking at my changelog, which I started in August, after it became apparent that The Dishwasher was not to remain some silly Prototype. To tell you the truth, after The Dishwasher was in the hands of the Dream Build Play judges and before it won the contract, I started working on a new game/reskinning of Dishwasher called Fruit: The Game. The idea of Fruit involved a bunch of fruit battling junk food, the joke was that no matter how gory the evisceration of cupcakes and chips, you couldn’t really complain about the violence, right?

Back to The Dishwasher–a lot of people ask if it’s just me working on it, how I make games, etc., and I figured posting the changelog would provide some insight into the mayhem that goes on here. I hop between sound, art, netcode, core code, level design, and more art sporadically, fixing things as regularly as I break things. There are a lot of features in the changelog that I’ve since gotten rid of, especially with magic use (and fyi, I took out the green skull collect button–all pickups now use the classic DMC/NG/GoW absorb style), and there are a lot of features that won’t make much sense.

Anyway, here’s several months of Dishwasher history. Make sure you start at the bottom for proper chronology!

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2 Comments April 21, 2008

Closure and Pluggage

Well, I finally made it back home Friday morning, after two nights in O’Hare.  The Friday morning flight was even delayed twice–which is what happened with the previous two flights before they were canceled.  Nice little scare to end the trip with!

In other news:

The kind folks at xbox360fanboy.com plugged The Dishwasher again.  From the post:

High in potassium and hella’ delicious. We say good job to you Mr. (XNA all-star) Silva, Dead Samurai looks amazing and the extreme amount of blood and blurring effects makes our eyes water with happiness. We say, bring on the dish washing!

Read it!

4 Comments February 9, 2008

Still trapped…

My flight got canceled a second time, so it looks like I’ll be spending another night in O’Hare in Chicago.

In the meantime, I have another guest column up up bit-tech; I wanted to name it “The One Where I Wax Philosophical” or something but those wacky British editors change the title.

Read: Halo 3 and the Art of Repetition

Update: Looks like I’m in the news again, for all the wrong reasons!

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/snowstorm.nearly.foot.2.646975.html

3 Comments February 7, 2008

Trapped in Chicago…

I’m trapped in O’Hare in Chicago. I was supposed to fly back to Syracuse last night but my flight was canceled. I slept in the airport for a few hours, and am getting a lot of work done today (though haggard as anything). My flight out of here is supposed to be at 6:55 PM tonight, but it’s snowing like crazy out there and about 1/3 of all the flights on the screens are canceled. Fingers crossed I may someday see my beloved upstate NY.

I made a friend here, who I’ve named Bess Fren Inna Whole Why Whirl. Here are pictures:

Yeah, I’m going nuts.

Update: my friend AJ wants me to mention that she’s helping me, through advanced technology such as AIM, along the road to insanity.  She’s no Bess Fren, but she tries.

Leave a Comment February 6, 2008

Guest column is up!

I wrote a guest column for bit-tech.net; check it out.  It’s all about the whole Dream Build Play episode of last summer, and is a great read for James Silva stalkers enthusiasts.

1 Comment December 7, 2007