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Don Garrison from Don’s Pinball Podcast - Episode 8

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Send us Fan Mail Jamie sat down virtually with Don Garrison from Don’s Pinball Podcast. They discuss their shared passion for this hobby and content creation, as well as talk about each of the new...

Highlights

  • Don has produced 89 episodes of Don's Pinball Podcast since January 2 (roughly 20-30 minute episodes, 2-3 per week)
  • Spooky's Looney Tunes features full cartoon playback during modes (not clip art/crude animations) and has already released six full cartoon modes in code
  • Looney Tunes gameplay cannot be publicly shown yet due to licensing agreement not being finalized
  • The Conjuring Movie and Looney Tunes play very differently despite sharing similar coding team and game mechanics framework
  • Galactic Tank Force production is significantly below target (300 machines/year claimed but with QC/shipping issues)
  • Elton John pinball has strong spectacle/lighting but unclear depth of code progression and mode structure
  • Stranger Things Premium code updates significantly improved the game from initial mixed reception

Notable quotes

there's nothing funner than some news drop in, you know, nap arcade comes out with something or, you know, I get, you know, consumed with, you know, some passionate release or something. And I'm like, well, I want to go down and talk about it. So it hasn't felt like work at all, really.
Don Garrison
In Looney Tunes, when you start a mode, the cartoon starts playing and plays the entirety while you're playing that mode. That's great. So it's not just clip arts that are drug around and crude animations.
Don Garrison
we had a party here this weekend. It was my Christmas party. We had about 50 people here and 40 of which are non-pinballers. They were playing Labyrinth all night long... I couldn't even get on Labyrinth because they were playing it all night long.
Jamie Birchall
This is an original title with a strange theme, and it took until Christopher Franchi went on a podcast to actually explain months later what the story is before I finally understood what the heck was even going on.
Don Garrison
A company like that size should be doing 300 games a quarter at least. I would assume so, but... But it makes sense because I've not seen... they still don't have them.
Don Garrison / Jamie Birchall
I want to keep playing it on location for sure... The one that's on location here has been a show game that Kingpin or Distributor has been touring around, so I don't think it's one of the production machines
Don Garrison
I had balls that would jump off the wire forms and just roll right down the plastics and then Empress Anoya comes on there and yells at me for losing my balls
Don Garrison

Entities

  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Big Lebowski· game
  • Elton John· game
  • Galactic Tank Force· game
  • Labyrinth (Barrels of Fun)· game
  • Looney Tunes· game
  • Star Wars Premium· game
  • Stranger Things Premium· game
  • The Conjuring Movie· game
  • Don's Pinball Podcast· media
  • District 1· organization
  • Wormhole Pinball· organization
  • Christopher Franchi· person
  • Don Garrison· person
  • Jamie Birchall· person
  • John (Wormholer)· person
  • Scott Denisi· person

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