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We Are Pinball #31 "Kong and Dune! Big reveal week!"

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday1 hr 4 min listenBy WAP
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Such a HUGE show today with gamplay review of TWO new games! Stern Pinball's King Kong and Barrels of Fun's new Dune games!-Wow friends also the debut of our new theme song!-Thank...

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Highlights

  • King Kong layout has been completed for approximately one year and has been extensively fine-tuned before release
  • King Kong uses the 1923 public domain source material to avoid licensing restrictions, which limits how scenes like Kong climbing buildings with a woman can be depicted
  • Keith Elwin has multiple game layouts in production pipeline simultaneously, with current layout finished while coding team finishes previous game
  • Some players are canceling King Kong pre-orders based on thematic/licensing choices rather than game quality
  • WAP Patreon support reached $555 while Don's A Pinball Podcast reached $587 in competitive fundraising

Notable quotes

“I mean, for a whole year... if this was one of the King Kong movies so if you compare theme by theme Jaws or Kong one of the King Kong movies which theme is the best for you?”
“If I was running Stern and I love George Gomez like crazy, he's just legendary for me, but if I was George Gomez, I would definitely find a team programming team number two for Keith Elwin. So he could jump between two games and release two Keith Elwin games every year.”
“He finishes the layout and then gets it over to the coding team, and he goes to his next layout to start working on. While the artists are still on that project Keith Elwin is still part of the project They're working on essentially two different games at that point.”
“I couldn't find no jank in this tank, buddy. Oh, my God. So this game doesn't feel like it's rushed out in any way.”
“They were just kind of like, okay. I didn't really see anything that super excited me... I'm a bit just underwhelmed. Only because I've seen great games from Elwynn before. It's like everything that I expected. There's nothing really missing that I would add.”

Entities

  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Stern· company
  • Dune· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Jaws· game
  • King Kong· game
  • Don's Pinball Podcast· organization
  • We Are Pinball (WAP)· organization
  • Brad· person
  • Cale Hernandez· person
  • Elizabeth· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jamie Burchell· person
  • Josh Cox· person
  • Kaneda· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Retro Ralph· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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