Episode 391: The Princess Bride pinball machine from Multimorphic

“Film-based games are perfectly suited for the P3, I would say, better than any other pinball machine out there.”

“You never, ever have to do that with The Princess Bride and really all of your games... you never have to look up because while playing pinball, you're looking at the flippers, you're looking at the balls... The player himself or herself is highly focused where they need to be looking, which is right on the play field.”

“The thing that Jerry commented about of the playfield versus the back box. In every game I've worked on, you spend so much time on the display stuff... and recognizing the whole time you're working on it that none of that is going to help the player.”

“So you then change, and we use the P3, so you use only the left side buttons to control both flippers when you're playing the left-handed stage of the duel. And then if you make it far enough... you get to then change over, and the ball is held, and you then change over, and now you're using the right side buttons.”

“Carrie always showed up at the factory one day, and, man, he is an amazing guy. Super nice, down-to-earth, respectful, was excited about the game. He talked to all the developers. He talked to all the assemblers.”

“For a few thousand dollars, I have one installed right now... And so it's really nice to be able to have multiple different machines in the form of modules that I can quickly, in just a matter of minutes, install a new one and be playing in a completely different machine.”

“Because of the feature set, because of the development kit, because of people's creativity and the ability to bring new ideas to life. We see games... that you wouldn't see on a traditional pinball machine... These are just interesting, fun concepts that translate into these really cool gaming experiences.”

“It's one of the things we strive for is to give you all the information you need to play the game well by putting it on the screen right where you're looking.”

“We literally did that two weeks ago. There was a bunch of people shooting the game... and the next day they said, you know, maybe we should do this, and boom, we made the change... If this had been a traditional play field, that change would not have been made.”

“We weren't limited to what the playfield could offer, the digital display could do. We worked as a team... and in some cases realizing, oh, you know what, that really didn't work as we intended. So you go back to the drawing board.”