Between Two Sterns with Glenn Waechter and Saw Homebrew!
Matt and Don talk to pinball sound designer and podcast theme song composer Glenn Waechter. They discuss superpowers, fonts, and finding things in dumpsters. Oh and the amazing homebrew, Saw Pinball!...
Highlights
- Bash Pinball is ranked #1 in the 'chrome-plated ball bearings' podcast category on Apple Podcasts
- Saw homebrew game featured at a horror convention in Charlotte, NC where actors Shawnee Smith and Costas Mandylor played and loved the game
- Saw homebrew game had lines of people waiting throughout Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) and Southern Fried Gaming Atlanta
- Glenn sold his two pinball machines (Avengers: Infinity Quest (Pro) and World Poker Tour) to fund Logic Pro, MacBook Pro, and audio interface equipment
- Saw game has 11-12 tracks with each mode approximately 1 minute long matching timer duration
- Saw homebrew team consists of four people: Austin Kerrigan (lead), Glenn Waechter (audio/music), Eric (playfield work), Rika (artwork), and Joe Barnsworth (mechanical engineer)
- Saw game uses a repurposed Whirlwind layout that was completely modernized with RGB lighting, LCD screen, and rebuilt spinning disc mechanics
- Glenn has composed theme songs for multiple pinball podcasts including Pinball Nerds, Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, Ray Ray Show, Tribe Multiball Show, Loser Kid, Collected Gamers, and Dude, Where's My Code?
Notable quotes
“We're number one in the world...in the chrome-plated ball bearings category of podcasts”
“I sold both of my pinball machines...Avengers: Infinity Quest (Pro) and a World Poker Tour...if I'm going to really go for working in the industry, this has got to come with some sacrifice”
“They freaked out. They loved it. No way! They had no idea that somebody made this. They couldn't believe it. Why can't you buy this?”
“We don't have the license from Lionsgate. We can't make more of them and sell them. What we have to do is this is our one-off.”
“I've got synthesizers, I've got bass guitar, I've got guitars, acoustic guitar. How can I make this? And so I just kept exploring in GarageBand”
“Each mode has its own song. You've got Spare Trap, you've got Flammable Jelly, you've got whatever trap that Jigsaw puts these unfortunate people in”
“I can associate the perfect font for that person...Adorn. It's this beautiful, curvy, long letter, swift, beautiful penmanship”
Entities
- Lionsgate· company
- Southern Fried Gaming· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Avengers: Infinity Quest (Pro)· game
- Black Rose· game
- Saw· game
- Whirlwind· game
- World Poker Tour· game
- Bash Pinball Podcast· organization
- Pinball Nerds Podcast· organization
- Albert Agar· person
- Austin Kerrigan· person
- Costas Mandylor· person
- Don· person
- Eric· person
- Glenn Waechter· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joe Barnsworth· person
- Rika· person
- Shawnee Smith· person
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