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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile dev diary channels the MTV spirit of old

by David Hinkle on Mar 31st 2011 12:30AM

The guys at Ska Studios must be big Kurt Loder fans (we're totally Team Serena Altschul!), because this dev diary for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is straight outta the '90s. The video takes us on a tour of founder James Silva's pad (just like MTV Cribs!), which is great for all of you stalker types out there -- and even greater for those of you curious to see how an indie studio is livin'.

The video also introduces the newest member of Ska Studios, "art unicorn" Michelle. Hey, aren't unicorns supposed to have horns on their heads? False advertising, lady!

Source: Ska Studios

Tags: dev-diary, microsoft, ska-studios, the-dishwasher-vampire-smile, xbla, xbox, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (20)

Yay, Dustin!

@cuteSAVAGE YAY!

@Papa Neorev Yay'tacular!

Man, that old show on MTV, Remote Control, used to terrify me as a wee lad. I though it was real. =/

I wish them great success. The game looks nifty.

MTV... used to play music? I couldn't tell!

@beanninja

There was a brief period, right after MTV went to complete shit, that MTV2 played music videos 24 hours a day. Those were good times.

Well, until they turned M2 into shit, too.

i would love to support those guys , day one for me

There's a part me that always goes "Awww" when I see a cat. I can't help it.

And of course Dustin would have a Gears of War 3 wallpaper, lol.

Cool guys (and REALLY cute gal), cool studio and probably cool game. They got my attention and my support. But where's the PSN love?

@EeK85

Silva hit it big winning Microsoft's Dream Build Play competition, which allowed him to have Dishwasher release as an XBLA game. Their games are built with XNA, they are only two/three people strong, and their sizable fanbase has formed from their great support of XBLIG and XBLA. As cool as it would be to see their games on PSN, it doesn't seem very practical at this point in the studio's history imho.

@cuteSAVAGE

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. :)

Here's hoping that someday they have enough money/teamwork to port all of their games to PSN.

Now I have seen where violence heaven is made I am on board!
Pre-ordering now! Wait, What?!
Oh well, I will have to wait until they open heavens gates.

I loved the first game, and enjoyed what I played of the second. Wish them the best, and nice to see what Dustin is up to.

Played it at PAX East and definitely going to pick it up to support these guys. Really had fun with it there. Never went back to check my raffle thing though :/

Great Team.

Alienware laptops? That must have been half of the budget right there. I never got around to picking up the first Dishwasher game, but I may be able to make time for Dishwasher 2 (pending good reception).

and what about the cat!?

I wish more studios (Indie or regular) would give tours like this! It gives that human touch to the game. :D BTW if SKA is reading this, I loved The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and can't wait for the second one to come out next week! =) I hope to get a small dev team myself sometime with a couple friends. :)

Rock N' Roll!

Really glad they made a video tour of their humble little studio. Really makes me feel for the lone indie developers out there competing against the million dollar companies. Here's to your success SKA!

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