James Silva
@Jamezila
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I made a lot of games! Salt and Sacrifice, Salt and Sanctuary, Charlie Murder, The Dishwasher, Z0MB1ES!!!1, who knows what else. @SkaStudios + @DevouredStudios
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All my DMs are exploding. Thanks for waiting, feels weird and awesome and amazing and weird to finally announce Salt and Sacrifice!
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It's been 13+ years since I released the first Dishwasher, is it time for an edgy reboot? Btw I'm like 40 now, it's getting weird over here
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Salt and Sanctuary is coming to Nintendo Switch August 2, 2018!
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Everyone: stop conflating "over $1 million" with "infinite money," they're fundamentally different concepts. One buys you 10 devs for 10+ months, the other is an abstract concept that would annihilate the global economy.
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Happy anniversary to Salt and Sacrifice! We're working on some new content for it, should have something cool to announce soon. We're also just two people and have had a lot of real life get in the way, so thanks for your patience!
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain" applies to games: you either put a game down with happy memories of it or play it for 500 hours and leave a nasty Steam review.
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Wow! As the creator of The Dishwasher, some thoughts:
- this is obviously fake
- why Dishwasher? It's 10+ years old and pretty obscure
- it's spelled "Ska Studios"
- it was already an exclusive... to Xbox360
The Playstation Showcase has leaked! 👀 🔥
All this and more in 60 minutes...
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Got asked how old I was when I made Charlie Murder, so it got me thinking:
Dishwasher Dead Samurai: 27
Dishwasher Vampire Smile: 29
Charlie Murder: 32
Salt and Sanctuary: 35
Salt and Sacrifice: 41
Time marches on marchy march marchy march
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I love the engineering mythos gamers create around perf. "Open world means max 30 FPS! DirectX 12 unlocks 1080p for every game!"
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I am doing the indie thing they call marketing your game
~Ahem~
Wishlist us or we will perish
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Frequent question: is Salt and Sanctuary coming to Switch?
Official response: we're looking in to it! We'll announce something if and when there is something to announce.
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Every ad right now: Hey, buy a PS5! Buy a GeForce 3080
Me: how
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The Dishwasher was the little guy who launched my career as a solo indie dev. Still miss him, hopefully he's off killing cyborgs somewhere...
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Now that Salt and Sacrifice has been announced, should I do some dev streams? It's been like 6 years, I definitely miss doing them!
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I tried making Salt and Sacrifice without a skill tree because a few people were like "Salt and Sanctuary's skill tree isn't a real skill tree" and I stupidly listened to them.
Everyone including
@iequalshane
is making me put it back in. Work work!
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Hey, now that we've announced Salt and Sacrifice, maybe I'll update my Twitter pic, get more chatty. Who knows!
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Been giving more thought to a Dishwasher Dead Samurai remaster. This 13 year old, one person studio was in so many ways built on that game, yet it's vanishing with Xbox360.
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Real talk: this artposting has been a therapy of sorts. For years I was told that my art was not good, and I listened when I should have been ignoring.
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#SaltAndSacrifice
is coming soon to Steam and Nintendo Switch! Steam store page is up now:
Launching 11/7/2023!
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Friends: congrats on launch!
Family: congrats on launch!
Peers: congrats on launch!
Fans: congrats on launch!
Washington state: you have jury duty
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We've been working on a sizable update to
#SaltAndSacrifice
. One thing I thought wasn't great was all the weapon amps being basically the same thing, so behold: Timetakers 2.0.
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This isn't a hint or a tease it's literally just me wondering what my style would look like in a Bloodborne setting
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The whole world map file of Salt and Sanctuary was 2.7 MB. The 8 individual map files of Salt and Sacrifice totaled 5 MB. The new game is one big file again, currently sitting at 3.7 MB.
It's all just binary data -- singles and int32s, mostly.
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TIL the indie studio that made indie RPG Dave the Diver has a market cap of $16 billion. It's not a case of a $16b company funding a small indie studio; the $16b company IS the indie studio. Is this the Budweiserification of indie?
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Aww
🎃 Indie Brawler of the Day 🎃
Charlie Murder
Architects:
@skastudios
Follow punk rock band Charlie Murder in their battle to save the world from Gore Quaffer & their legions of evil!
Steam:
Xbox:
#BeatEmUp
#Punk
#Indiegame
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Me trying to explain Z0MB1ES
"It's really stupid but had a cult status for a few years, and
@matthewmercer
likes it"
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So nice to be able to talk about Salt and Sanctuary coming to Switch at last! Folks kept asking and asking and asking and I really really really wanted to be like YES YES IT HAPPENS SOON but I guess we're not allowed to just do stuff like that.
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@skastudios
@Xbox
The comments on this are mostly hurtful. "Skip Xbox, Xbox skips you."
I released EIGHT Xbox360 exclusives with XNA on XBLA and XBLIG between 2007 and 2013.
Then Xbox shut down XNA, XBLA and XBLIG.
There were good times and bad times, and we move on.
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No one asked for this, so here are the constellations of Salt and Sacrifice's skill tree
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Behold: a home for chickens. Games are a thing of the past. The future is chickens
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First time organizing for PAX, had to test assemble this wall in my driveway to make sure I had all the right stuff in the right bags. 10 feet tall!
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I don't think I'll ever get used to people telling me a game I made is really bad. It makes me lose interest in making games in general.
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"One of 2016's Best Games" from
@GameSpot
really hit me in the feels. You folks are too kind... <3
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When did "dead game" go from meaning an Early Access game that was abandoned prior to 1.0 to meaning a game that launched 2 years ago and has since then received a couple of big content updates and a bunch of balance and QoL patches?
~All my games are dead~
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Ska Studios is the house I built upon piles upon piles of zombies
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Just a reminder that the fine games at
@SkaStudios
don't charge you a few bucks to respawn or whatever
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27 years ago, Jeff Vogel's 90's Exile series inspired a 12-year-old me to try making games for a living! So happy to see him still at it.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is now out for Windows & Mac! It's a unique, indie, open-ended fantasy RPG in a strange new world. Win the game with combat or trickery. Destroy the "bad guy," or join him. Make an army of custom-made mutant monsters!
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"Looks to maintain many traits from its predecessor" well that's cause the screenshot is from Salt and Sanctuary
You know you’ve made it when you are featured next to Pokémon in
@gameinformer
,
@skastudios
@iequalshane
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Found the original hero texture I made for Salt and Sanctuary. It's certainly a lot more Dishwasher-y in its original form!
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Starting this thing where if you want the source code to my older games, just ask. Looks like online multiplayer-enabled Z0MB1ES is headed to pretty soon!
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It's not every day that you get to have lunch with the guy whose game you pirated as a 16-year-old. We established that I'll be buying lunch next time.
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This was one of the armor sets I made concept art for before implementing in-game. I made most of Salt and Sanctuary's art -- around 10k sprites -- with barely any concept art.
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Funny how I'll surprise myself with fashion combos this far along
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I put "Lead Dishwasher" as my job title, and it only took 10 years for this to happen:
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I keep running into this dialogue among elitist indie devs about whether student/hobbyist devs are bad for the industry. Feeling threatened by an 18 year old in pajamas? Make better games or find a different industry. Or... use your experience to help them?
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Haven't made any doodles in a while! Changed the office around, which means I had to recalibrate my brain again. Palette inspired by the dystopian sky?
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I was once an author. Amazing to hear that I made an impact, despite never quite knowing what I was doing.
I will never get rid of this book. My introduction to XNA that eventually led to having the courage to release my first indie game without jumping into a fully custom engine right away
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Here's a mockup of my original Salt and Sanctuary art, cause my tools aren't set up to animate it right now:
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Absolutely killing it in marketing here. I think. Am I?
Anyway, wishlist
#SaltAndSacrifice
pleeeeease
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Ok! Finished the Vita patch playthrough, zero crashes. Feels really good, should be out pretty soon. Thanks for your patience!
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Always had a soft spot for paladins, especially ones who resist the cruel might of Askaria.
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Getting pre-launch jitters!
#SaltAndSacrifice
comes to Steam and Nintendo Switch 11/7/23 with the new free update: The Traitor's Tomb. Featuring a new region, new weapons and armor, new monsters and bosses, cross-platform multiplayer, and more!
Wishlist it on Steam today!
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Salt and Sanctuary is coming to Nintendo Switch August 2, 2018!
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Me doing dev streams in 2015: here's how to make games
Me doing dev streams in 2021: here's how to make games using outdated and obscure technology
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Better late than never: finally beat Sekiro!
Went from thinking it was gonna be the From Software game to break me to just loving every moment of it.
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Come on, at least make an effort.
...for my Metroidvania YouTube channel?
...for a charity giveaway Twitch Livestream?
...because my cartridge got eaten by my sister?
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Nothing but love for producers we've worked with in the past, present, and days to come. That said:
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Also been playing more Bloodborne with
@Shelldragon
, getting a real urge to try to implement online multiplayer in Salt. No promises, ofc!
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Got the great news late last night that
#SaltAndSacrifice
is 100% verified for Steam Deck! It looks and plays great, and now we've got the badge to prove it!
As always, we crave wishlisting --
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Hey, I remember encountering this in 1995! These games were what got me thinking maybe I could do this for a living someday.
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So uh this "friend" of mine is working on a game and accidentally made this crazy OP weapon that just turns every boss into red paste and the "friend" is having a blast with this weapon but is heartbroken because he thinks it must be nerfed for launch, what do I tell him
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1. Move to Seattle to be closer to more game devs
2. Plan to attend local indie meetups
3. Keep planning to attend meetups for like 5 years
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Ever since I ditched my office chair for a desk riser, Neko has insisted on being held at least once a day.
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All the stuff in Salt and Sacrifice is drawn at a higher scale than Salt and Sanctuary. I just wrote some stuff to import Sanctuary characters, here's the Sodden Knight for scale
He's smol
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Around 2012 MSFT asked me to sit for a taped interview about Xbox dev.
The Xbox One reveal months later had clips of devs talking Xbox dev. I wasn't on it.
Took me years to realize the thing I sat for was that, and my interview wasn't used because I wouldn't shut up about XNA.
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Game dev reflection: I learned 2D combat making Dishwasher, RPG elements making Charlie Murder. S&S wouldn't have happened without either.
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We're in a phase of development where we're just constantly co-oping the game start to finish. It's feeling really good. Or it has worn away at me until I must love it. Either way, I have become consumed by the need to hunt mages
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Latest Vita build went from mostly 24/sometimes 30 fps to a nearly rock solid 30 fps, and just like that, it feels fantastic.
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You know, I tried to update
@SkaStudios
' long-dead Instagram, gave up for now. You can only do it on a phone? You can't just... link something?
By the way, I just turned 40, this is what happens.
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Salt and Sanctuary had like 11k sprites. The secret new game is up to 1,100. So it's 10% done, right?
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