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Ep 146: All About Avatar with Vic VP

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Scott's back and Vic joins us from their field trip at Jersey Jack Pinball. We're talking everything Avatar!

Highlights

  • Avatar is JJP's 10th game release
  • JJP has accelerated release schedule to approximately every 9 months
  • JJP can manufacture up to 80 games per day at full capacity
  • JJP performs playfield drop tests from 4 feet onto cement to test durability during shipping
  • Manufacturing time from start to finish is 18-22 man hours (3-4 days)
  • Mark Seiden is making his first JJP game with Avatar after creating the Metroid homebrew
  • Avatar has six flippers and multiple playfields (upper and underplay)
  • Leah Foscky has more creative freedom working on Avatar than in her previous video game roles
  • Avatar's match screen uses dandelion seeds instead of numbers to match Na'vi lore
  • JJP was paid sponsor/hosted the factory visit but placed no content restrictions on the hosts

Notable quotes

This is their 10th game. And they've really picked it up over the last couple of years where it used to be that they were taking years between games. So they were taking years to get another game out.
Dave VP
They suspend a playfield four feet off the ground. Fully populated. We're talking a full, everything's on it, all the mechs. Okay. And then they just release the power... it's a full drop from four feet onto a cement ground.
Dave VP
With Avatar you are I mean this is like a Skittles seizure Like you are being bombarded with colors, lights, sound, art, but it seems consistent with what Avatar is.
Josh Roop
It's that monkey on your back. I get you. I did. So I actually went back and I was pulling up in the background.
Josh Roop
The only reason why I brought it up to josh was because they made a big deal about being like immersive in the lore.
Scott Larson
I feel like it's not pinball artwork but it does... we're not doing this like old stereotypical stuff but we're going in a new direction.
Josh Roop
He comes from a background where his dad has a lot of money. And so he's used to being in like a big business situation.
Josh Roop
she actually had more freedom doing this than she typically does doing the video games
Dave VP
Six flippers. now it it didn't feel like you were adding flippers just to add flippers okay which is nice
Scott Larson
They seem to have accelerated that. A few years ago, we heard Jack talk about wanting to release things more on an accelerated basis.
Dave VP

Entities

  • Flip N Out Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Walt Disney World Pandora· event
  • Avatar Limited Edition· game
  • Cactus Canyon· game
  • Godfather· game
  • Haunted House· game
  • Lord of the Rings· game
  • Metroid· game
  • LoserKid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Brett Abus· person
  • Dave VP· person
  • Eric Minier· person
  • Jean-Paul DeWin· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Keith P. Johnson· person
  • Ken Cromwell· person
  • Leah Foscky· person
  • Mark Seiden· person
  • Nicole· person
  • Rachel Frerichs· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Tom Capera· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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