Punny Factory Teaser Video, New Code Updates, Interview with Zofia Ryan, Alien Lighting, Harry Potter Updates, New MM Art Blades, Andrew Bogut – TWIP 2/1/21

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Pinball Adventures has started a 10 part series on how The Punny Factory was made – episode one features the ideas, concepts, and rules. It is supposed to be leading up to the release of the machine. It is quite an interesting video…check it out!!

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Stern Pinball released a code update for Avengers that includes Battle Thanos and Thanos Attacks Wizard Modes – check it out!

Jersey Jack Pinball released a code update for Guns N’ Roses that includes enhanced lighting effects for the Collector’s Edition – check it out!

Last week the folks at The Super Awesome Pinball Show were joined by Zofia Ryan and David Fix of American Pinball!

Zofia talks about her history in pinball, that she had worked at American Pinball briefly previously (around the time of Houdini), she talks about Barry Oursler, talks about being a woman in pinball engineering, talks about the rarity of women in pinball, talks about her time at Williams, talks about her work on Who Dunnit and her love for that game, talks about her patents, talks about her work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the ball moving across the playfield via magnet, talks about her ideas on Dr. Who, talks about her work on Junk Yard, her work on Popeye, working with Python Angelo and how much she liked Python, talked about why she left pinball (she was transferred out of it), talks about how things have changed since she was in pinball before, talks about her plans at American Pinball, talks about new technology, talks about the projects she is planning on working on, how happy she is to be back in pinball, talks about Dirty Harry being one of her favorite pinball machines ever, and much more.

Check out the full episode here!!

Multimorphic recently announced new playfield art kits for several of their machines – check it out!!

Last week The Pinball Network’s new awards show took place. The show was very well produced and a huge congrats to all the winners!

We have received a lot of questions regarding the PIAs vs. the TWIPYs. As a reminder, the TWIPYs are a “People’s Choice” type awards, where the public votes for their favorites in the pinball world – anyone can vote. We then go through the metadata for each vote to review and validate votes and results.

The PIAs are described as a “critic’s choice” type of awards. The Pinball Industry Awards had 40 judges that picked which games won.

The excellence awards for podcast and streamer and such were determined by folks at The Pinball Network, not by the judges.

The challenge with a critic’s choice type of awards will always be the question of what qualifies a person to be a judge or an expert or a critic. The judges this year were required to be a podcaster, streamer, video content creator, or writer in pinball (with more than a specified amount of minimum content). They were not required to have played the games they were judging, but could abstain from voting. TWIP was not eligible to take part as a judge as we have some content behind a paywall.

Your scrutiny and criticism and feedback of the TWIPYs has helped the show get better every year, and I’m sure the PIA’s learned a lot this year as well. It takes a ton of time and effort to put together a quality awards show and there is no perfect way to do it.

Last week the Pinball Brothers showed some new Alien lighting features on Twitter – check it out:

Check out these new Medieval Madness Art Blades created by Brian Allen from Flyland Designs!

Per Brian Allen:

These officially-licensed Medieval Madness decals feature my hand-drawn artwork and are designed to be easily applied to the inner-sides of your Medieval Madness pinball machine.

My Side Art Blades are high-quality vinyl decals that are applied to the interior cabinet sides, just above the playfield.

All of the artwork was hand-drawn by me, artist Brian Allen. Ships directly from the artist.

These Art Blades are produced and designed and in the USA!

https://www.flyland-arcade.com

After the Roger Sharpe interview on The Super Awesome Pinball Podcast last week and their discussion of Joe Kaminkow possibly landing the Harry Potter license, there was additional speculation and rumors on Kaneda’s Pinball Podcast that Brian Eddy may be designing Harry Potter for Stern Pinball.

To clarify, Joe Kaminkow released a statement through the TSAPS Facebook page:

Last week, Zen Studio’s new show – Zen Studio’s The Pinball Show released some big announcements. You can check out the video here!

We’ll have a full breakdown of the announcements on TWIP tomorrow – our friends at the Blahcade Pinball Podcast will be releasing Last Week in Digital Pinball, so stay tuned!

WOAH – CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Yes, he needs to change out his batteries in the Indiana Jones but this dude is awesome!!

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