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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

Some Dishwasher History

James posted on in Going Crazy, Life, The Dishwasher · 2 Comments »

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… Read More

GameSpot Bit

James posted on in Hot Topic, Press, The Dishwasher, XBLA, XNA · 5 Comments »

GameSpot let me do a little Q & A with them.  I felt the need to say something! From the article: Far from a typical retail boxed product, The Dishwasher is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up with a penchant for Kill Bill-style blood geysers, shambling zombies, and maniacal robots. Inspired by equal… Read More

On How I Managed to Wake Up Famous

James posted on in GDC, Press, The Dishwasher, XNA · 8 Comments »

I live in a freezing apartment in upstate NY.  Rent is $750 a month.  I buy groceries at Wal-Mart.  I buy clothes at Target.  I drive a 1994 Honda Accord that was a hand-me-down from my sister.  Yet, somehow, this happened: MTV.com: “The guy that made this game is nuts.”… Read More