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removed . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message ska studios llc type limited liability company industry video games founded 2007 headquarters seattle washington united states key people james silva michelle juett silva 1 number of employees 2 website ska studios.com ska studios is an independent game development studio founded by james silva in 2007 after winning a contract to publish the dishwasher dead samurai to xbox live arcade . ska studios has released four metacritic aggregated console games since then more than any similarly sized studio . 2 ska studios currently consists of james silva and michelle juett silva . 3 the studio is well known in indie gaming for its art style which is described as cartoonish grim and gory 4 and its games tight controls . 5 many of the studio s games are strongly inspired by modern action titles such as devil may cry ninja gaiden black and dark souls . 6 contents 1 games 2 history 3 development 4 references 5 external links games edit in charlie murder players play as members of a garage punk rock band that is fighting a demonic army during the apocalypse . year title platform developers metacritic score 2009 zp2k9 7 xblig james silva 2009 the dishwasher dead samurai 8 xbla james silva 75 2009 i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1nit 1 9 xblig james silva 2010 zp2kx 10 xblig james silva dustin burg 2011 the dishwasher vampire smile xbla james silva dustin burg 81 2012 z0mb1es on the ph0ne 11 wp7 james silva 2013 charlie murder xbla james silva michelle juett silva 78 2014 time viking andspaceraptor 12 xblig james silva michelle juett silva 2016 salt and sanctuary ps4 pc james silva michelle juett silva 85 history edit james silva began making games as a hobby in 2001 starting with zombie smashers x a river city ransom style beat em up game but the title was financially unsuccessful selling fewer than 100 units . james went on to develop more similarly unsuccessful titles including blood zero zombie smashers x2 and survival crisis z but didn t achieve viable commercial success until 8 years later with 2009 s the dishwasher dead samurai . 13 james met michelle then michelle juett at pax in 2009 and the couple soon entered a relationship . in 2011 james publicly proposed to michelle at pax using a custom scene james inserted into the playable demo of charlie murder . 14 the couple married in 2012 and has worked together on charlie murder time viking andspaceraptor and salt and sanctuary . in 2014 they participated in a pax panel of married developer couples entitled until game over do us part live and love as a game dev couple . 15 development edit all of ska studios currently released games are built using the xna framework or its open source cross platform counterpart monogame . when xbox one launched with no xna support ska studios made the switch to playstation 4 with salt and sanctuary being the studio s first title to launch on a non microsoft console . regarding the change james said the engineering side of it was an issue . all of our code is . net xna and even though xna support has ended . net games can use open source wrappers like monogame and fna to carry the torch . but xbox one has no . net support . ps4 does with titles like towerfall ascension and transistor using monogame in one form or another to deploy to ps4 . 16 james and michelle currently are responsible for nearly all of their games content . michelle and james collaborate on art and design work while james does all of the programming map design animation and music . michelle is also responsible for marketing community management and merchandise . 17 references edit ska studios about page ska studios . metacritic . retrieved 2016 04 26 . polygon charlie murder the love story precious few ... . polygon . retrieved 2016 04 26 . review salt and sanctuary by ska studios . indiehangover . 2016 04 19 . retrieved 2016 04 26 . salt and sanctuary a worthwhile 2d souls successor quad nine . quad nine . 2016 04 05 . retrieved 2016 04 26 . james silva . don t die . 2015 02 26 . retrieved 2016 04 26 . http marketplace.xbox.com en us product zp2k9 66acd000 77fe 1000 9115 d802585501ba downloadtype game livezone http marketplace.xbox.com en us product the dishwasher 66acd000 77fe 1000 9115 d80258410902 http marketplace.xbox.com en us product i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1 66acd000 77fe 1000 9115 d802585502a6 zp2kx zombies & pterodactyls . marketplace.xbox.com . retrieved 2016 04 26 . z0mb1es on teh ph0ne windows games on microsoft store . microsoft store . retrieved 2016 04 26 . ska studios releases time viking andspaceraptor . gamespot . retrieved 2016 04 26 . future icons meet ska studios indie gaming power couple . www.syfygames.com . retrieved 2016 04 26 . penny arcade news demographic mismatch part two . penny arcade . retrieved 2016 04 26 . ska studios pax prime 2014 info . retrieved 2016 04 26 . ska studios shifts to sony after 6 years on xbox . engadget . retrieved 2016 04 26 . james silva talks salt & sanctuary the wayfaring dreamer . the wayfaring dreamer . 2015 06 24 . retrieved 2016 04 26 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ska studios & oldid 717626786 categories companies established in 2001video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companieshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from may 2014all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from november 2014all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles needing additional references from november 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction 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