Ska Studios’ PAX Presence
When?: Friday, September 3rd – 5th
Where?: Booth #3010, near all the cool developers.
What’s There?: Playable demos of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, some merchandise for sale and all kinds of freebies including Swedish Fish!

James’ “Going Indie” Panel-o-Win
When?: Friday, September 3rd at 6:30PM
Where?: Serpent Theatre
What’s There?: Join indie devs Brian Mitsoda, Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda, James Silva, Ron Alpert, Derek Paxton and Matt Kimball as they share their experiences of going indie, talk a few tales of development and give advice to those looking to develop their own indie titles.

E3 2010 is officially in the books and I’m pleased to report that team Ska Studios successfully escaped Los Angeles before rioters turned downtown into a war zone. We are now safe, at home, with Gato. She missed us dearly.

As promised, I wrangled up a few photos for a nifty E3 picture gallery (kindly embedded below) for you to click through and use to live out your E3 fantasies if you were unable to attend. A great time was had by all, memories were made and new friendships were forged on the show floor. And even though Vampire Smile was nowhere to be found at the convention, we have PAX Prime to look forward to when The Dishwasher and Yuki will again be the center of attention.

We will be taking a multi-multi hour airplane ride from Albany, NY to Los Angeles, CA which will be tiring, but nothing compared to the 38 days of travel it would take if we were to walk the same distance. (Thanks Google!) Obviously, aircraft transportation is the most logical method of travel across the country, but I can’t help but think that jet-packing would be way more enjoyable even if it would tack on a few days to our itinerary. Jet packs rock.

I’ll Buy That At 10% Off, Please
Breaking news that broke on Tuesday, which makes it not really all that breaking news: The entire Ska Studios store-o-merchandise has been discounted by 10%!

This offer was birthed after it was decided that we were all about celebrating E3 in some way. And, well … a month long discount on all merchandise in Ska Studios’ online store fulfilled our celebration criteria. To get 10% magically deducted from your order, use coupon code SKA_001 at checkout. June 30th is the cutoff for this offer, so get on getting and start filling your virtual cart.

Team Ska Out
As has been mentioned about 32 times since April, our entire crew will be in Los Angeles, starting this Sunday. Feel free to follow our E3 shenanigans by keeping an eye on @Jamezila and @SuperDunner on Twitter where random photos and tweets can be read all week. See you at the show!

Please, step inside, pull up a chair and grab a cup of complimentary punch from the back table. It’s 100% free, 90% water and 8% high fructose corn syrup.

Vampire Smile’s Gigs
You may have noticed this Tweet that was sent out into the interwebs by our very own James. You may have also been scratching your head, wondering exactly how an Xbox LIVE Arcade game such as Vampire Smile could take up 6.86GB of data and still make it to the XBLA, let alone attempt fit on a DVD. The simple explanation is that the game itself isn’t that large, silly. The 6.86 gigs of Vampire Smile data is a BUNCH of high res source imagery, uncompressed audio and other “stuff” (In fact, as far as game source goes, 6.86 gigs is light).

Come release, Vampire Smile will be thin, trim and compressed to the max. Now you know and the more you know the better. Usually.

E3 Plans: Confirmed
A few envelopes made their way into the Ska Studios mailbox (presumably delivered by the postman, but we cannot be certain) and inside each carefully sealed package were paper badges. Paper E3 badges that grant access to the event of the year! Scratch that, the video game event of the DECADE!

Can you tell that team Ska Studios is excited for the impending E3 Los Angeles trip? We are. Perhaps, too excited if that is at all possible.

Normalcy Activate!
Now that I’m back in New York, fresh from the week long Minnesota trip, things around the studio should be back to normal (or to whatever sense of “normal” we attempted to establish.) That means that James will be forced to work non-stop, but King of the Hill will remain looping on Netflix.

Until next week, good night to you and to our very own Gato.

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!

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.