Dishwashirts are finally available for purchase

Sorry, I got sidetracked by the Orange Box, Halo 3, and chicken wings. I’ll never do it again, I swear.

I’ve got Dishwashirts available at skastudios.vg. I took some totally awful digital cam pictures of them, which may or may not improve sales. I’m asking $10, which isn’t much more than cost, but you Norwegians out there may have to pay a bit for shipping (I’m looking at you, Cryovat).

7 Comments October 13, 2007

More on repetition and games

I just thought of another game that could’ve used more repetition: God of War 2.

Granted, it was an amazing game with some crazy cool parts, but like Halo 3, some of the protagonist’s badassery was dampened by the fact that you would be thrust from one completely unfamiliar situation to the next with no common frame of reference. It’s the classic picture of a vengeful hero who has been going in circles in the west wing of the antagonist’s base because he can’t find the right lever or whose quest of revenge comes to a very non-epic end when he doesn’t notice a particular climbable rock wall during an intensely cinematic moment and plunges with the platform he was riding on into the lava for the sixth consecutive time.

I thought Bioshock really nailed the whole repetition thing. Little variety in monsters, recognizable environment hazards (oil slicks, water, security systems), good level layout and a nice checkpoint arrow.

Also, The Dishwasher was in magazine (an Edge magazine, to be exact). Here’s a cell phone screenie:

The article is mostly on XNA, but it’s nice that they put some juicy screens in there.

1 Comment October 8, 2007

Seattle Ho!

I just reached Seattle!

They charge $10/day for Internet.

More info to come!

8 Comments August 12, 2007

The Incredible Blog Relaunch

Anyone keeping tabs on me will notice some things:

• The original blog somehow died
• The site has become extremely minimal (geocities-esque, even)

I think I know what happened, but I’m not sure. My guess is that somehow someone got some malicious whatnot on my simplePHP blog, which resulted in timeouts for any IP trying to connect to the site after the first attempt. Weeks of timeouts, even.

Well, we can all stop panicking now. I’ve decided to use a wordpress blog because it’s got a robust editor and is most likely more stable than my site.

Anyway…

The big news is that I’m going to GameFest. I’m currently in the Syracuse airport, headed West. The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is a finalist in the dream.build.play competition, and we’ll see how it does on Monday.

For anyone who hasn’t seen The Dishwasher in action, here’s a (slightly dated) video:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lscKqMsnpJY]

6 Comments August 12, 2007