Summary
- Xbox Live Arcade was a treasure trove for indie games, but the closure means many titles are lost forever!
- The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, popular on XBLA, could be revived on PC by Ska Studios.
- Ska Studios founder plans to port Dead Samurai to PC, but faces challenges with changes and visuals.
The now-defunct (R.I.P) was a goldmine for fantastic indie games. Unfortunately, however, dozens of games were released as digital-only titles on the platform, and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recent Xbox 360 store closure me🍎ans that many of🎃 them are now lost to time, unable to be purchased anywhere else.
One of the titles affected by the closure was The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, a super-stylish, hyperviolent beat 'em up by Ska Studios, a studio that most notably released Salt and Sanctuary and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Salt and Sacrifice.
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The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai had built up a cult audience on X🦩BLA and was the first major stepping stone in the Sa💫lt and Sanctuary team's careers. But while the game is no longer available for purchase, the studio revealed exclusively to TheGamer that it does have tentative plans to revive it.
The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai Could Be Returning
In a wider interview we had with Ska Studios and other developers regarding the closure of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox 360's Marketplace, studio founder James Silvaܫ d𓄧iscussed his plans for the future of The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.
S😼ilva told me, "Dead Samurai is what launched my career, and now you can no longer buy it. That's✱ not okay. I've been planning on porting it to PC for years, but I keep getting sidetracked."
I've been planning on ♉porting it to PC for years, but I keep getting sidetracked.
He said that while making changes to the original, like adding keyboard support, feels tedious, and there are concerns around the game's resolution, he does still have the source code, "which is a giant relief," and, as Silva and I talked, he created a Steam AppID for the title, meaning he took "step one."
The biggest𒁏 hold-up for Ska Studios re-releasing Dead Samurai is the time it will take to make the port and what Silva called "a sort of choice paralysis." The developer said he'd like to "polish up the visuals a bit" but is worried about the impact it may have on the title. However, while it may take a while to complete, Silva did tell me that it's "time to resolve that" adding, "hopefully, I'm not saying the same thing next year."
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