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Crazy Modes

James posted on in The Dishwasher · 18 Comments »

It’s about as good a time as any to go over the game modes in The Dishwasher.  Everything’s still being tweaked a little bit, but for the most part it’s all pretty much locked in. Dish Challenge.  Fight off wave after wave to compete for the highest score.  This is… Read More

Status Update!

James posted on in Developing, The Dishwasher · 15 Comments »

To divert your attention from the late night rant below, here’s a Dishwasheriffic status update: The Dishwasher has a million, billion bugs.  I’m fixing them all very quickly. The GDC build of The Dishwasher was sort of slow.  The frame rate hovered around 30.  This has been fixed–it’s now a… Read More

Focus Groups are Driving us into Oblivion

James posted on in Games, Reviews · 1 Comment »

No, not that Oblivion. I have to wonder how “marketing” efforts from 100 years ago would have stood up to today’s. People made things they thought people would like, they marketed them in ways they thought would appeal, and everyone went on their merry way. Today, we have focus groups,… Read More

Editoriffic!

James posted on in Crazy Ideas, Projects, SCX, XNA · 26 Comments »

I’ve been working on creating an editor for my free time project, Survival Crisis X, that you use just with an Xbox360 controller, and so far the results are [hate to use this word] pleasing. Here’s a nice shot: One big difference between the previous shot: it’s 720p, baby!  Survival… Read More