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Ziggy's got a contest!

James posted on in Uncategorized · Comments Off

My friend Ziggy’s throwing another XNA-article-writing contest, giving you a chance to prove your XNA-article-writing skills!  If your kung fu is strong, you win an Xbox 360 Elite.  I’d try to compete but (a) I’m really not that good at programming and (b) I’m supposed to be hard at work… Read More

Status Update with the Ferocity of a Thousand Status Updates (recursively)

James posted on in Developing, Games, The Dishwasher · 5 Comments »

Well, not quite that exciting. But thing are moving along pretty well, albeit a little delayed (I think I’m 2 weeks off schedule currently, but who’s counting?) One interesting little bit of fun is localization.  The Dishwasher is coming out in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. … Read More

We get to review our own games!

James posted on in Uncategorized · 33 Comments »

Seems like Peter Molyneux is starting a sweet new trend where developers review their own games.  This sounded like a lot of fun, so I decided to take a short break from bug fixing to review The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. Behold, your review, after the break:

On those crazy XBLA price tags…

James posted on in Games, Jerks · 8 Comments »

So, here we are: Braid‘s on XBLA for 1200 points, and now Castle Crashers has hit XBLA for another 1200 points.  They’re two excellent games (I unsurprisingly gravitated toward the latter, going as far as to dub yesterday “Castle Crashers Day”) and they both embody much of what the indie… Read More