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NEW GAME OF THRONES CODE UPDATE WALK-THROUGH!

Dead Flip·video·1h 41m·analyzed·Jul 16, 2019
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TL;DR

Game of Thrones major code update adds house abilities, rebalances scoring, and improves Castle Multiball gameplay.

Summary

Dead Flip livestream featuring Stern Pinball designer Keith Elwin demonstrating a major code update for Game of Thrones pinball. The update introduces new house-specific button abilities, rebalanced house mechanics (Lannister gold buff, Baratheon wall advancement), new house selection options including Targaryen with auto-spot, revamped Iron Bank with exponential multiplier payouts, and significant changes to Castle Multiball with improved upper playfield integration and scoring. Ghostbusters update confirmed to be in development and larger in scope, arriving later.

Key Claims

  • The Game of Thrones code update is arriving in a couple of days, not today

    high confidence · Keith Elwin, ~2:06:00 mark: 'This update isn't coming today. It's coming in a couple of days.'

  • Lannister house ability now gives 143% more gold than before

    high confidence · Keith Elwin during update walkthrough: 'Lannister gives you a lot more gold, and I calculated it's going to give you 143% more gold.'

  • Ghostbusters update is larger in scope than Game of Thrones update and is being actively developed

    high confidence · Keith Elwin: 'Ghostbusters (LE) update is even larger, and that's why it's taking longer... top men are working on Ghostbusters, myself included.'

  • Game of Thrones was Keith Elwin first game after returning to pinball

    high confidence · Keith Elwin: 'Game of Thrones was my first game after I returned back to pinball.'

  • Work on the Game of Thrones update began in 2017 but stalled until after Munsters shipped

    high confidence · Keith Elwin: 'In 2017 we started to do an update. We didn't get very far. Life got in the way... the update didn't happen... then zoom forward to after Munsters.'

  • Iron Bank cash-out value is now exponential with multipliers and caps at 5X or 6X, reaching approximately 300 million points

    high confidence · Keith Elwin demonstrating Iron Bank: 'Now it's more and it's exponential with the multipliers... goes all the way up to about 300 million. So you do have a cap on it... the cap is 5X. Oh, 6X.'

  • Castle Multiball scoring was previously dependent on collecting castles for bonus, but now upper playfield completion directly advances game progression

    high confidence · Keith Elwin: 'It used to be you completed these three, and then you shoot the castle, and you collect this castle, and then you had a collection of castles... But that didn't help you get to Iron Throne... I really want the upper playfield to be more integral with getting through the game.'

  • The update is being beta tested by Eric Wurtenberger, Ron Goltz, and Tom Nortz, with Stern in-house testers Mike Vinikour, Nick Wehner, and Keith Elwin assisting

Notable Quotes

  • “The game was fun. Now it's incredible.”

    Jack Danger@ 1:37 — High-level endorsement of update quality by Stern's Head of Community

  • “Ghostbusters (LE) update is even larger, and that's why it's taking longer.”

    Keith Elwin@ 4:32 — Confirms Ghostbusters update exists and explains timeline rationale

  • “I really want the upper playfield to be more integral with getting through the game.”

    Keith Elwin@ 31:29 — Design philosophy statement: upper playfield integration with main progression

  • “Real players choose random.”

    Jack Danger@ 9:23 — Humorous commentary on new random house selection feature

  • “Every house gives you stuff. Lannister gives you lots more gold and so on.”

    Keith Elwin@ 8:57 — Explanation of balanced house ability design philosophy

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Signals

  • ?

    code_update: Game of Thrones receiving significant code update introducing new house abilities, button abilities tied to house selection, rebalanced scoring, and Castle Multiball redesign with upper playfield integration improvements

    high · Complete update walkthrough showing new mechanics: house button abilities (Stark dire wolf, Baratheon outlane lights, Lannister multiplier buying, Targaryen timer freeze), rebalanced Iron Bank with exponential multiplier payouts, Castle Multiball redesign with improved upper playfield, and gameplay path changes

  • ?

    community_signal: High-profile streaming event with 25,000+ concurrent viewers on DeadFlip platform featuring official manufacturer (Stern) and designer presenting major code update with interactive gameplay demonstration

    high · Jack Danger mentions '25,000 viewers right now' during livestream introduction; event held at Stern Factory with factory tour implications

  • ?

    product_launch: Game of Thrones update scheduled for release in a couple of days following livestream showcase; update released to community with feedback period before finalization

    high · Keith Elwin: 'This update isn't coming today. It's coming in a couple of days. But give your feedback on what you think because we definitely want to hear what's on your mind.'

  • ?

    design_innovation: New house selection system introduces multiple balance options: traditional houses each have unique house abilities and button abilities, new Targaryen house with auto-spot feature, and random selection option for varied gameplay

    high · Keith Elwin demonstrates new house selection menu including Lannister (gold buff + multiplier buying), Baratheon (wall advancement + outlane light button), Stark (mode destruction), Tyrell (multiplier focus + Iron Throne button), Targaryen (auto-spot + timer freeze), and random option

Transcript

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0:00
Ladies and gentlemen, can you, uh, tell me, does the microphone sound okay? Hello, I love you. Game of Thrones.
0:22
Type, Game of Thrones. Hey, no robo voice, GG Aw yeah We did it, mic check is good Oh baby So do they see this? Yeah, they see the little bouncy Deedle-y-doo Should we just cut to, okay, we'll just cut to the chase What's up internet? Welcome back to Deadflip We're here at the Stern Factory. Dwight twisted my arm to come here today, so we got some fun stuff to show off. Just kidding. I love this guy.
1:03
I'm going to hand the mic over to Dwight here shortly. I just want to say thank you for coming here. We might give it a minute for people to pile in, but we're up to 25,000 viewers right now.
1:20
Just so you guys know, Dwight did a lot with this game. The things that he added are incredible. Like, I... It's not choosing Martel and then just blowing up the spinner with multiball crap all day. You know? The game was fun. Now it's incredible. But don't take my word for it. You've got to talk to the man who programmed this thing. So I'm going to hand it over to Dwight. Dwight's got a very memorized speech. I don't. I do not. Oh, you're making fun of me. it's going to be good I have a speech and I've been nervous about it so I wrote it down who's that? Oh it's Keith Hello Pinball Land, how's it going? Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?

high confidence · Keith Elwin: 'My beta testers are Eric Wurtenberger, Ron Goltz, and Tom Nortz... In-house testers... Mike Vinikour, Nick Wehner, and Keith Elwin.'

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  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Upper playfield scoring increased significantly; Castle Multiball now provides faster path to progression; new corner shot ability allows mode completion with multiplier bonus; overall progression to Iron Throne and Head of King goals made more accessible

    high · Keith Elwin: 'So now getting to Castle Multiball is much easier than it used to be... we're going to see people getting Iron Thrones and stuff a lot easier... yeah, a lot easier'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Keith Elwin prioritizing upper playfield as integral part of main game progression rather than bonus-only feature; Castle corner completion now directly advances house modes and provides multiplier bonuses

    high · Keith Elwin: 'I really want the upper playfield to be more integral with getting through the game... Getting to the hand of the king. So right now with this blinking, if I shoot this it ends my mode. It spotted the mode for me.'

  • ?

    content_signal: Stern Pinball conducting official livestream via DeadFlip platform with designer Keith Elwin demonstrating update; content is official manufacturer documentation of major feature changes

    high · Jack Danger hosting from Stern Factory; Keith Elwin as official designer presenting memorized presentation about update features

  • ?

    machine_intel: Ghostbusters pinball update confirmed in active development at Stern; larger in scope than Game of Thrones update; development is ongoing with design work by Keith Elwin and others

    high · Keith Elwin: 'The Ghostbusters update is even larger, and that's why it's taking longer. It's also taking longer because I wanted Game of Thrones to be first... top men are working on Ghostbusters, myself included.'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Keith Elwin emphasizing community feedback on balance and potential issues; acknowledging some scoring may need adjustment post-release, particularly upper playfield multiplier interactions with new bottom playfield multiplier rule

    high · Keith Elwin: 'Give your feedback on what you think because we definitely want to hear what's on your mind, what you think might be imbalanced, what might be kind of weird... the upper play field scoring is a bit whacked because of the new bottom player rule.'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Castle Multiball redesigned: removed frenzy mode, simplified scoring model, added choreography/speech, integrated with main progression; other multiballs fixed exploitation where balls looped between poppers and drain

    high · Keith Elwin describing Castle Multiball changes and addressing multiball cheese: 'During multi-balls like Blackwater, the first ball will go to the Pops, and subsequent balls, if there's a ball in the Pops, subsequent balls coming out of the trough and shot up the shoot lane will go around the orbit.'

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Positive sentiment toward Game of Thrones update from both Jack Danger and Keith Elwin; designer expresses pride in original game and satisfaction with new features despite lengthy development cycle

    high · Jack Danger: 'The game was fun. Now it's incredible. But don't take my word for it.' Keith Elwin: 'I thought I was really proud of it, and I liked it quite a bit.'

    • 2:06
    Yay, yo JJ Alright, here we go So first I got an overview and some sundry items and then we'll get down to the nitty gritty of what this update's all about So the overview is this I'm just going to give a little background So Game of Thrones was my first game after I returned back to pinball. And then when I was all done, I thought I was really proud of it, and I liked it quite a bit. And myself and others thought up all kinds of new things we could do to it, and ever since then I wanted to do an update. In 2017 we started to do an update. We didn't get very far. Life got in the way. Life threw me a couple of curveballs, and the update suffered. The update didn't happen. alright so then so zoom forward to after Munsters now I'm going to take my glasses off there we go now I can see better so we zoom forward right to after Munsters and now after Munsters we have I have a little bit of time so I thought we could do some updates since Game of Thrones was my first game I've been wanting to do it forever I did a Game of Thrones update and you guys are going to see it all tonight. I hope you really, really like it. But before I really get into that, I want to take care of a couple of sundry items. First of all, let's kill the elephant in the room. Alright, so the elephant in the room, right, is Ghostbusters. Who wants to see a Ghostbusters update? Oh, looks like nobody does. Nobody cares. Alright, cool. So the Ghostbusters update is coming. The Ghostbusters update has been in the works. top men are working on Ghostbusters, myself included. So a little while ago, we got a Ghostbusters, and we took off a glass, and we went through the game, and we made a long list of stuff we're working on. And even today, I'm very, very excited about that update, and it's going to come at some point in the future. Excellent. Does that sound cool? I'm excited. Yeah, yeah. I heard some stuff. You heard some stuff? It was amazing. Like, I heard things. Right. Yeah. Do you know anything about the Ghostbusters update? No, you won't let me see it. Right, right, all right. All right, so one last thing about Ghostbusters, or two last things.
    4:25
    So the Ghostbusters update, so the Game of Thrones update is large. You're going to see it tonight. You're going to agree with me that it's a large update. The Ghostbusters update is even larger, and that's why it's taking longer. It's also taking longer because I wanted Game of Thrones to be first. Game of Thrones. Ghostbusters is a passed over because some people were thinking, well, how come everyone's asking for a Ghostbusters update and they're doing Game of Thrones? What the fuck? Am I allowed to swear? Please. I would encourage you to swear more, actually. It shows your dedication, man. I like to swear. Yeah. Game of Thrones is something I've been wanting to do forever and I'm really happy with it. I hope you guys are too. Is that it? Now we move on to the sundry item number two. I want to give some thanks because Once we get started today at playing and talking and stuff, the things will never happen. So there's just a handful of people I want to thank for this. First of all, Corey Stoop worked on a lot of stuff. He's my wingman. He's part of my team, my software team. He worked on a lot of stuff back in 2017, and all of that now is in the game, in addition to lots of new stuff that we wrote in 2019. He didn't write anything in 2019, but I did. And then I have lots of beta testers and in-house testers. My beta testers are Eric Wurtenberger, Ron Goltz, and Tom Nortz. They're all awesome dudes.
    5:42
    So for the last few weeks, I've been sending them three or four code updates a week, and they download it, and they put it in their game, and they play it, and they tell me how much it sucks, and they give me ideas, and we've been going back and forth for the last few weeks. And then the in-house testers have been doing the same thing. Mike Finnicore, Nick Wehner, and Keith Elwood. and help me. Like, we twist his arm. He's sitting back there. I don't think he's not an official tester, but he's often, you know, like, forced to test. And then he comes up with great ideas, so that's awesome. All right, and here we go. Are you ready? I'm ready when you are. All right. How are we doing? I'm going to hit the button to flip over so they can see your hands and stuff. So they can see my hands and stuff? Yeah. All right. I can hold your clipboard. No, we'll just flip over. Yeah.
    6:30
    All right. So now you can see my hands? Yeah. Awesome. All right, here we go. All right, so first thing I want to show you guys is there's new house abilities.
    6:39
    And I'm just going to talk about them. Yeah. So one of the things I wanted to do was I wanted to make the houses all balanced. So two houses that needed a little bit of balancing was Lannister and Baratheon. So what I did for Lannister was Lannister gives you a lot more gold, and I calculated it's going to give you 143% more gold. I did calculate it, but it's probably not always accurate, depending on how good a player you are.
    7:08
    So then Baratheon, the other buff that I gave Baratheon was, if you choose Baratheon as your house, every time you complete this three bank, you'll advance toward the wall. Toward wall. Toward wall multi-ball. Yeah. Right. Cool. Right. This is working well with you as sort of a sounding board. I'm just here. You're awesome. All right. Let's go. All right. So that's the two new house abilities. There's all the other abilities are there. Tonight I'm not going to really talk about what the – I'm not going to talk about things that are old, things that were already in the game. I'm kind of assuming – Another king.
    7:42
    I'm kind of assuming that everyone is somewhat familiar with the old ones. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, all right. Here we go. All right, so then the next thing that's kind of cool that we did was this. Choose a card. So we added a couple more choices at the very beginning. I'm still here. So House Targaryen is a new choice. That's very cool. You couldn't choose that for you. Correct. Right. So you choose House Targaryen, and if I push the launch button right now – by the way, that hand, that was my hand. Did you see that? You modeled after Dwight's hand. No, it was. It was my hand. Oh, I see. Right. So right now, if I launch the ball, I would choose Targaryen. And the house ability that you get – so every single house has a house ability. And the house ability that Targaryen gives you is it spots itself. So if I – here, let's just do it. You want to do it? Yeah, do it. All right.
    8:31
    Oh, I don't do that. I want it to launch. So it spotted. It spotted Targaryens. Oh, so it's done. Right, done. Yeah, done. Targaryen's done. And that's the thing that you get when you're Targaryen. Oh, great. All right. Because Targaryen naturally was a pain in the butt to complete. Right. Like a massive pain in the butt. Right. So like all of the houses give you an ability, like Baratheon, to make wall more valuable. And now they also let you get there faster.
    8:57
    Every house gives you stuff. Glancer gives you lots more gold and so on. The Targaryens spot themselves. Great. All right. So player two. So the other thing that you can do, the other new thing that you can do is random.
    9:10
    Oh, so you can let the game choose for you. Right. That's awesome. Right. So if I hit this, this will just, there, it takes start for me.
    9:20
    Yeah, absolutely. What did you say? Hard mode. Real players choose random. Yeah, yeah, random. Random's where it's at, man. I get a jack. Right, right. You can play any house you want. So that's kind of cool.
    9:31
    All right. So Iron Bank. One of the things that wasn't very good about, well, good isn't a good word. One of the things that needed some love. Some massaging. Was Iron Bank. And let's start a new game. We're on play for all two.
    9:47
    All right. We're going to pick Tyrell. All right. So Iron Bank, right? Iron Bank's this thing that you get for when you have multipliers.
    10:02
    Like Tyrell can do easily. So now what I did was I just – Iron Bank has a lot more points than you do. No.
    10:08
    Right? So that used to be only like one million. Okay. Right? But the thing that is kind of cool about Iron Bank, and it's only once for all,
    10:18
    is now it's more and it's exponential with the multipliers. With multipliers. Right, so let's... So you can cash out at 234, 235X. Yeah.
    10:32
    All right, so we'll do some of that. We got our 2X. He's building it up. Now we're at our 3X. Right, and now everything's at 9, right? And now we'll cash out... No! 72. So, and then it goes all the way up to about 300 million. So you do have a cap on it. Well, the cap is 5X. Oh, 6X. Makes sense. Right.
    11:00
    All right. Wow. Okay. But one of the other new things that's on this game is Adjustment 13. There we are. So the action button has an adjustment. Now each house can have its own button ability. So it was before. Before it was everyone gets Iron Bank, and Martel's ability was add a ball during multi-ball. Right? But now, if you have it set to this, which is not by default, and then – or you can – no, no.
    11:40
    13. Yeah. Or you can just do Iron Bank. So this is like the old rules. Oh, you can set it back kind of. You can set it back to the old rules, and then it's sort of like it was. Okay. Martel will have Adaball and everybody else has Ironbank at the new level. Right? But if you use this ability, now each house has their own ability, their own button ability. And they're all pretty cool. Yeah. So let's go through them.
    12:04
    All right. We'll start again. Choose your house. All right. So Stark's house ability is it can blow off all your house modes. Or winter is coming. So it still does the winter is coming. but it helps you sort of smart bomb a mode that you're in. Okay, a house that you're fighting or in cooperation with. The button now will allow you to just get a dire wolf, right? So the dire wolf comes in and ends the mode. So you could essentially just blow through all the houses pretty quick here. All right.
    12:40
    Okay, so let's get a couple things going. There, so we have Tyrell lit and Stark lit. So you can only blow off one if you have stack modes. You can only blow off one mode. Spot one mode, blow off probably isn't a good word. Destroy one house, if you will.
    12:59
    So now, like before, you could do House Stark or House Tyrell or Stark and Tyrell. But also in the list now is Tyrell and Stark. Whichever one is on top is the one that you're going to destroy. That your dire wolf will take out. Correct. So let's say if I choose this, right, it'll show me Tyrell first. And then start. Right? And now Tyrell's on the left. Okay. So the one on the left is the one that you can destroy if you want. Got it. And the button is now white. Oh, okay. Can they see the button? I will move it so they can see the button. Okay. All right, so you see the button is white right there? Yeah. So the button's solid on. So when it's solid on and your house is color, or no, in whatever button ability you have, that means it's ready for you to use. Right, like right now. So you just took out Tyrell with that... Right, I made Tyrell white. Wow, okay, so he completed that house.
    13:52
    Stark's still going. And that's Stark, that's the Stark ability. Wow, so yeah, you can use that to... So you get three of them, so essentially that's three houses that you don't really have to mess with. Right, right. It doesn't give you very many points. It gives you just a little bit of bonus points. so it lets you blow through the game but you're not going to get all the points you would have got. Gotcha. Yeah, because you're not spending time in the house actually racking up those points. You're just sort of moving along. Right. But you can quickly get to extra ball and head of the king and iron throne. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right. All right. Let's try another one.
    14:28
    Choose your house. So Baratheon. It's house ability, it's house button ability is lights the outlanes for a few seconds once per ball. Oh, it's like a free temporary lord of light. Correct. Okay. Correct. So let's try it.
    14:49
    So it's lit now. Can people see the button, right? No, I can put it back. Can we leave it there? What do we lose if we leave it on the top of the play field? Let's leave it there for now. Okay. All while we're describing the button. There you go. All right. So like right now, I can push the button, and it gives me the light. It gives me the outlanes for a few seconds. So they're blinking. Right. And then a few seconds from now, they're going to go out, and then you've lost your chance. Okay. Do they start to... Okay, so they do exponentially flash faster and faster to let you know they're running out. I got that. So that's Baratheon. Baratheon is now basically three extra balls. Oh, yeah. You know, like, right?
    15:24
    Free outlane save. That's awesome. Lannister's probably one of my favorites. Lannister might be my favorite as well. Right. Lannister, of course, gives you more gold everywhere. Yeah. But Lannister's button ability is buying the playfield multipliers. So here, we'll just show it. This is easier.
    15:46
    Buying playfield multipliers. Right. So it's not lit, but now I have... They're now at 1,000 gold. It's lit. Yeah. So 1,000... It's basically 500 per multiplier. Okay. So it's 1,000 for the 2x. It's 1,500 for 3x, and so on. Right? And if you have enough gold, you can do it multiple times to go all the way to 5x. Right. And so this button ability will keep lighting up during play as you're getting gold. Right. All the time. Right. So like right now, I push it. There's my 2x.
    16:17
    Right. And then I build it up again. There's 1,500. It's lit again. Yep. Oh, my God. Right. Yeah. So that's pretty fun. I like it quite a bit. So let's move on. All right. So we're buying multipliers over here. Oh, wait. Let's do one more game.
    16:39
    Oh, we'll come back to it. Okay. We'll come back to it. All right. We'll... New game. Can you go out? So Greyjoy, we don't need to... Well, we'll go try it. Okay.
    16:50
    Greyjoy has no button ability. What? Because it doesn't have a house ability. It steals everybody else's. Right. But you can only have one button ability at a time. So it's always your last button ability. So the last house that you took over is your current button ability. Correct. Hold on. Before you plunge it, I think you're about to plunge Stark. There you go.
    17:11
    All right. So now we're Greyjoy. We don't have a button ability. It's never going to light. It's not lit. Right. So who do we want to steal? Steal Stark. Yes, steal Stark. Okay. Go up here three times.
    17:23
    Ah, no. And we light Stark. So now Stark's lit. And we go play Stark. We play Stark with the Greyjoy.
    17:45
    That was awesome. Come on. And then we end it. Come on. All right, that's Stark. Right. So now we have Stark. Now we can start another one.
    18:07
    New speech. We start Tyrell. So now we have the white button. Oh, for Stark. Got it. So we could kill Tyrell right now. There, it's killed. Done. Wow. And now extra balls left because you've defeated two houses. Three houses. Three. Yeah. That's awesome. Right. So that's Greyjoy. And we'll come back to strategy later. Now, in Greyjoy, will the button light up again on that same ball if I defeat another house? It will light up. No. Okay. Stark's ability is only once per ball. Right. But if you went on to... Okay. Yeah, I get it. So once per ball, if you have Stark, you can blow off, you can spot a mode. Sure, complete a mode. Perfect. Okay, complete is probably the best word.
    19:07
    Like if I, you use Stark, and now I go into Lannister, do I now get Lannister's button, or is that the button's done? No, the button's not done. Oh, it will come back. It will give you Lannister, and Lannister is a thousand. I'm the only one that can have a thousand. Per ball. So, oh, so Greyjoy, you get to play with everyone's on one ball. Right, but you can only do the last one you have. Right. You're going to displace the other one. That's great. It's strategic. All right. So now we're going to start again. Choose your house. All right. So Tyrell's button ability is Iron Throne because they're all about the multipliers. Okay. And we saw Iron Throne earlier. Tyrell. Okay. Tyrell is all about the multipliers. You can lane change the hand and you can build up your multipliers and then you can cash them out whenever you want at the new high Iron Throne value. Right? So we saw that. Martel is at a ball. Everyone's seen Martel. Okay. So we're still at a ball. Right. Good. Okay. Nothing changed. Good.
    20:01
    Targaryen is freeze timers for 15 seconds. And when you push the button once for all, you can push the button and freeze all the timers in the game for 15 seconds. Okay. So like you're in Blackwater and you've got Super Jackpot going and you've got your 5X going. You can freeze the timers and get an extra 15 seconds at collecting Super Jackpots at 5X. Or whatever.
    20:23
    Whatever you want to freeze. Do we want to see it? Yeah, let's go. Freeze it. Does that include ball save timers? It does not. Okay. It does not. So it's lit, right? Because you can freeze timers anytime. Anytime you want.
    20:39
    All right. So then this is going. Let's let this time out. Of course, Targaryen spotted itself. Good. So its house ability is spotting itself. Its button ability is freezing timers.
    20:52
    We're going to let this get close to timing out. People can see this? Yep. All right. All right, it's going a little faster. It's going a little faster. Oh, look at the color change in it. And then now we've got 15 seconds where it won't time out. And it's going to lock it there for, okay, that's great. Excellent. And the GI kind of flicker a little bit. See how the GI are changing to let you know your frozen timers. Now, all the timers are freezing. So even if I shoot a shot, even if I start a new timer, now these won't time out either. for another... Oh, there they go. Oh, so everything that even shows up during the timer will freeze. Right. Awesome.
    21:32
    Also, Internet, you will see as things are starting to time out, Dwight has started a new, like, sort of color rule with his thing. Right. Some of the new timers will time out in the last couple of seconds. They'll turn red. Oh, great. So you know just, like, at a glance that that thing's about to run out. Taking advantage of everything being RGB. I like it. Yeah, it's kind of cool. All right, that's all the House of Button abilities. Oh, awesome. Is that true? Oh, mystery. Mystery. One more thing. All right. So I added three things to mystery. Let's start it again.
    22:04
    Let's do banister. Banister gives us lots of gold. All right. We like mystery. And we want like 3,800 gold.
    22:24
    Yeah, by the way, Internet, they got rid of the spinner thing that we were doing. Spoiler alert. Oh, I mean, never mind. Shut up.
    22:34
    All right. So I added three new things you can buy from Mystery, three of the button abilities. So three of the button abilities are Baratheon. I brought Baratheon, Martell, and Tyrell.
    22:49
    No. I like the flick. Make your choice. Look at that. Martell button ability. So I'm Lannister, but now I have the Martell button. Yo, what? That's awesome. Okay. So now I can start a multiball. I can start a multiball, and I'd have the add-a-ball during multiball. Right?
    23:13
    What? You bought yourself an add-a-ball. Right. I bought myself an add-a-ball once per ball in a multiball. Wait, you get it for the rest of the game? It's my button ability now. Now, I don't have the... Oh, it replaces... It replaces, it displays. You can only ever have one button ability.
    23:28
    I don't want that. Okay. Internet Lannister gets to buy multipliers. Just think about that. So we'll take both of these and a black water.
    23:54
    I don't know why. Well, we don't have the one-up pliers. Yeah. I mean, but it's still kind of fun. So now I have this orange, right? Okay. Even though my house is red, right? I'm Lannister. Oh, right. But we have Martel's orange button. Oh.
    24:13
    That's awesome. Yeah. We'll let it go. So you could start like Targaryen. Build up enough gold, buy a button ability. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Man, all right. Lannister's still going to give you more gold than everybody else. Exactly. It's a longer haul to get to the 3,800 gold if you're not Lannister. And is everyone's button ability purchasable, or is it just... Just three. Baratheon, Tyrell, and Lannister. No, Baratheon, Tyrell, and Martell. Okay, cool. So you can't buy Lannister's, like, sexy buy multiplier stuff. Correct. Got it. Dang.
    24:57
    All right, that's it. Dang. We're through this. Yeah, this is great. I only have one page left to go. Uh-oh. All right. Castle Multiball.
    25:07
    So the whole War for Playfield is now really fun, I think. so the first thing we going to show off is the path across the multi and so one of the things I added was at the beginning of every ball here we go At the beginning of every ball when it comes through here it lights the corner and if you shoot the corner four times out, it's going to give you, it's going to spot your path. So once per ball you can get a free, a cheap one of these. The other thing that's kind of cool is in the corner is the multiplier rule. The multiplier rule is different than it used to be. This used to just sort of map to what was going on down here. Sure. But now it's its own thing. It's like the shot multiplier for the upper blade field. Oh, so 2x blinking up there means all the shots up top are 2x. Right. So everything that you would do, and see, look, it's turning red when it's timing out.
    26:01
    Everything you do is now double. Oh, the 2x is gone. So there it's back. And then I can make it go to 3x.
    26:08
    Right. And then I can click charge. That was 60 because it was 3x. And then this also multiplies with this multiplier down here. If I had 2x down here, now everything up here is 6x because it's like a stop multiplier of 3, right? And the playful multiplier of 2. So it's multiplicative. It's not additive. So instead of this being 3 plus 2, it's actually 3 times 2. Right. It's like, it's like. No, no. So you could have 15x shots up on the upper playfield. Correct.
    26:49
    All right, so see how, like, this is 2x and 4x because, you know, the shot multiplier on these guys is 2 and the playfield multiplier is 4. It's the exact same thing. These are, like, the shot multipliers. Oh, sure.
    27:00
    Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Okay, so castle multi-ball is worth more points. Or the faster castle multi-ball is worth more points. At the beginning of every ball, you can get there faster by shooting the corner. Like right now, shoot castle corner to advance. There we go. Right? And then we added choreography and speech and lapsed everything. And then castle multi-ball in general is better. Tommy mode with the paper it's worth more I took away the frenzy so Castle Multiball used to have every sort of scores the games the Multiball is more simple now the lower play field collects these sort of simple jackpots that are worth you know still worth some points right like that and then the upper play field gives you those jackpots but then when you complete the three bank, it gives you a super jackpot here. And the first super jackpot gives you an edible.
    28:03
    Right. Oh, it was still Martel, right? And we still have the edible. We still have another edible from the button. Because we bought Martel's powers. Man, oh man.
    28:19
    So I think Castle Multiball is worth quite a bit more now. And combined with all the things the corner can do, which we haven't even completely covered yet it makes it compelling I like it gives more importance to the upper playfield there castle points weren't too good previously yeah let me see if I covered everything in my notes new choreography and scoring path, so on our way up it's prettier new castle corner rule, we covered that no more frenzy, the left loop is millions plus so during castle multivolve the left loop is also millions plus Oh, whoa. Which I may have to rethink that now that I – because, like, yesterday, I added the whole multiplier rule. Okay. So, oh, that's something that I didn't cover in the very beginning. So I'm sorry, Pinball Land. This update isn't coming today. It's coming in a couple of days. But give your feedback on what you think because we definitely want to hear what's on your mind, what you think might be imbalanced, what might be kind of weird. Right. Today, so we had to do the stream today, and I really kind of wanted exactly what you just said. I wanted a little bit of feedback. All right. What else are we doing? You get a say in it, so let us know. So, but right now, like right this second, the upper play field scoring is a bit whacked because of the new bottom player rule, which is really, really cool. Sure. But it doesn't, you know. So that million plus up there could potentially be 15 million a shot if you had your 5x and your 3x up there? Oh, my gosh. And it goes all the way, it maxes out at like 50 million now, which probably might be wrong now that it's, yeah, we'll see.
    29:58
    All scores are higher, all balls from the shooter lane in the right orbit. Oh, that's the other thing. Well, we won't do it again, but all the balls from the shooter lane go straight to the upper play field during castle multi-ball. Oh, great. Right. Excellent. Right, so now you can. So you don't have to try to put it back up there just on the plunge and put them up. So all the ball save is running. Yeah. you can just let them go on the bottom and focus on the top and then try to get your super jackpot. Great. Excellent. All right. Let's do more Castle Corners.
    30:31
    Let's do random. Real men pick random. Ah, Greyjoy. Great. I didn't want Greyjoy. All right, we'll do Tyrell.
    30:46
    How about this? New speech ball. Does random add any benefits at all? No. Okay. So you're not rewarded with, like, taking a risk? Randomly picks for you.
    31:02
    All right. So one thing that's new is when you complete, like, so before, getting your castle in the corner? Yeah. It used to be you completed these three. During any mode, you completed these three, and then you shoot the castle, and you collect this castle, and then you had a collection of castles that gave you extra bonus during bonus during interval bonus. But that didn't help you get to Iron Throne. It didn't help you in the main game that's going on. I really want the upper plate hill to be more integral with getting through the game. Oh, that's great. Getting to the hand of the king. So right now with this blinking, if I shoot this it ends my mode. It spotted the mode for me. So now I'm done with Tyrell. I got it right here, right? And it gave me the 3X. It's sort of like the Dire Wolf button. So it's like it's just like the Dire Wolf button, except it gives me 3X the bonus that Dire Wolf gives. Oh, whoa, okay. Because it takes work. You have to hit the targets three times and then shoot the corner. So that, wow, okay, that's awesome. So the only thing that's cool about that is I completed Tyrell, and I'm out of modes. I'm between modes now, and I can continue progressing toward Castle Multiball with the ball still in play up here. Oh, okay. Right? Yeah. So that's part of... So now getting to Castle Multiball is much easier than it used to be. It's much more fun, and I can get these multipliers going. It's worth a lot more points. It's got a lot more light effects and sound effects and speech calls. That's great, and it's integrated a lot better. With the regular progression through the game. Yeah, that's awesome. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, we're going to see people getting Iron Thrones and stuff a lot easier. Yeah, a lot easier. Right. All right, what else we got? All right, other stuff. Other cool shit.
    32:53
    What's up, Ragnation? Oh, so, of course, lots of... So, during most multiballs, there was a problem where balls would get... You know, you could just keep letting balls go to the pops, and it would give you tons of picked-up pops, and you'd just let it drain, go to the pops, go to the drain, go to the pops. So now during multi-balls, except for Castle multi-ball, during multi-balls like Blackwater, the first ball will go to the Pops, and subsequent balls, if there's a ball in the Pops, subsequent balls coming out of the trough and shot up the shoot lane will go around the orbit. Oh, they just come all the way around. Oh, so no more cheese in the free awards there. All right, so here's another cool thing. Pop number seven.
    33:35
    Yeah, what if you saw Fudge? Keith with the real questions Well no, that's fine, you're still not getting lots of pick-up boxes I think the What if he's not playing? The problem was way too many pick-up boxes Alright, alright Number seven is a new thing So in the beginning of the game If you have it on factory You're going to choose what house you want to be And you can even be random if you want to But this adjustment lets you change it so that everybody plays the same house. Oh, so you can pick a specific... Oh, okay. And random. Random is hilarious. So we can pick random. You can force random on people. You can force random on all four players. So like in a tournament, I think it would be fun anywhere, but in a tournament, if you have multiple games of thrones, you can make everybody play Lannister. Or everyone play Martell. Or whatever, right? and then you can't play, or nobody can play Martell, right? Right. Because everyone's playing Lannister. Okay. Right.
    34:37
    So that's kind of fun. Random for everybody. Or whatever. Yeah. No, I like that. Lannister. Targaryen. Yep. No, that's awesome. Okay. What else we got? New spinner rules. So there was, so tell us about the spinner.
    34:53
    Yo, so if you would use every multiball you had in the game to just beat the crap out of these drop targets, you were building up your spinner value to some unimaginable number that you could then multiply with your play field, and you were getting like quarter billion, half a billion per orbit shot. It was disgusting. Right. So we fixed that or improved it. I like the word improved. We improved. We didn't – yeah, okay. So now the really high scoring is still there. I nerfed it a little bit. It's not quite as high as it used to be. Okay. But the thing that really made it better is now you can only increase your levels up to the number of houses you've completed. So your levels are now tied to completions instead of just arbitrarily. Right, like plus one. So I think you can go to level two. Let's go see.
    35:42
    Perfect for tournaments. Yeah. All right. So right now, what are we at? We're at level one, right? 2K, level one. And now we completed the three bank. So now we should be at level two. Probably. How many? Oh, we've completed two houses. So we're going to be... So now we're at level two. Yep. Right? So now we complete the house, complete it again. And it might need swords. So this will... Okay. Yeah, so now... So it really needs swords to kick that in. So now we can go to three.
    36:16
    Yeah, there's three. Nice. Right? And now we can't go to four because we need swords again. Right? See, we're still at three. But now we collect swords again.
    36:26
    Long claw. and so we did we didn't abandon the high scoring spinner thing it's just you have to actually work for it now right but now even like even level 3 is pretty nice right that's pretty good 129k is not nothing to see there yeah 3 million for level 3 so to progress it you need swords to allow it to progress but it can't go any higher than the number of houses that you've completed which is the same as swords is you like swords every time you complete a house got it yeah yeah Yeah, that's right, that's right. So it's exactly like going through the multipliers. You can't get 3x before you... Right, that's right. You can't get higher than 3x until you've done swords. Same with Lannister. So, like, Lannister can't buy 4x until you've done swords at least once. Oh, great. Okay, yeah. Lannister can't buy 5x until you've done swords twice. Completely spaced out swords was associated with the houses. Awesome. Well, right, right. Every completion gives light swords, and it sort of governs, you know, So it governs how far the multipliers can go and now how far your spinner will be going. Yeah, that's awesome. Does the spinner still drop? Oh, okay. I'm reading troll comments in chat.
    37:34
    We don't read those. No, moving on. All right. Change house selector timer. Oh, that's right. Do we want to look at that? I think we looked at that once, but I don't think I brought it up.
    37:47
    All right. So I changed this to be like Star Wars It starts off at 3 seconds So if you do nothing, you don't know what the hell you're doing It's just going to time out on you But as soon as you hit the button, it's going to give you Like 8 seconds per button hit Up to a maximum of 20 seconds So as long as you're hitting the button, you can keep it alive And then it'll count down from there So if you don't know what you're doing 3 seconds and you're out, you'll just get the default But if you know what you're doing, you can sit here and choose all day long I like it What else we got going?
    38:20
    Oh, there's dozens of bugs fixed and polishes added. We saw some speech calls. There's going to be a couple more things happening before we're done. But we're going to be done probably within a week or so. Oh, great. Yeah. All right. Yeah, and if you have any sort of comments, questions, concerns about what's going on here, Dwight definitely wants to hear it. I absolutely do. Yeah, so we can make some tweaks.
    38:44
    Who likes this? Yeah, what are your thoughts so far on this code, the enhancements, advancements, the tweaks and massages? Not much has been done to Iron Throne.
    38:58
    Oh, there's nice work. All right, cool. So I think we're going to play the game now. Let's put the glass on. All right, cool. Dwight's going to do commentary.
    39:07
    Dwight's going to be answering your questions and telling you all how terrible we're playing. Well, or at least what you could be doing. Yeah. Oh, there you go. Yes. you like the houses time out a lot yeah gold on the screen what does it still have your yeah jobber it does oh no they're asking Jack plays better with glass all right cool so we're just gonna hand this mic over to Dwight the internet's just picking on me Cool. Thanks, guys. Love you. Yep, they're my friends.
    39:50
    Targ free timer on screen. Alright, I'm not going to play because I suck. And I can't keep up. How's it going, Internet? I can answer your questions and I'm going to color commentate.
    40:03
    Can you hear me? Can you hear the game? I have Stark for my fourth mode anyways. Looks awesome, Dwight. I'd like to hear that. I probably shouldn't read everything. I probably shouldn't read out loud everything I see.
    40:43
    Thank you. Yep, you're good. Hey, I don't know how to work mics. All right. Keith owes me $5 now for... All right, go.
    41:30
    Go, Nick. Nick, this is Nick. Nick Wehner. Yeah. He's going to Pembroke this year for the first time ever. Yeah.
    41:40
    Right, right. He's going to take on Keith Ellen and Jack Danger all at Pembroke this year. Can you guys hear me now? Audio is off. What?
    41:52
    The button is not. Should the button be off? The button should be off. Internet. Just say sandwich if you can hear me. Just don't touch the button. The button will be fine. We're just going to. People, here. If someone's telling you that the audio is messed up now. Right. Don't believe them. But don't touch the button. All right, so give me money.
    42:15
    My Swiss account number is... All right, so I'm going to call a commentator. What did we pick? Who did you pick? You picked Lannister?
    42:25
    Right, and out it goes. All right, Keith. I've made Keith pick Lannister, I mean Greyjoy, because I think he can make Greyjoy sing. But we're going to see. No pressure.
    42:41
    Dwight, what's your favorite new feature you've added? I love the Lannister by the multipliers. It just gives me hope.
    42:51
    Yeah, Lannisters can take you all the way to 5x. It costs you about $7,000 to buy all four of them. So you have to plan your gold carefully. Okay, do you want to do that?
    43:11
    Okay Alright, so I'm going to talk about some strategies that Keith Mayer may not use I like Greyjoy because then you could pick well, you could pick Stark and then you could pick Lannister you can beat Stark and then you can play Lannister and then smart bomb your Lannister with their Stark direwolf ability and then and now you're collecting gold forever and you then take Martel into a multiball and beat Martel in the multiball and collect out a ball with your multipliers way up high because of the lander's durability, if that made any sense.
    43:49
    But it's not easy to do. Iron Throne ever be based on how you did in your modes. No. Iron Throne's not going to change much at all. Oh, cool. It made sense. I'm now learning to read before I talk out loud. Is it four or three purchases to get to the 5X? It's one purchase per multiplier, so it would be four. Right. You always get so your first one gives you two X, your next one gives you three, and the next one gives you four, and so on. So, but you could get some on your own by bashing the you know, you could bash the battering ram and get some on your own, and then you don't have to buy as many.
    44:46
    The game doesn't have a disappointing ending. You know, so I think the Game of Thrones TV series is one of the best TV series ever, but I was disappointed in it. But the best way to see gold amount during your ball is through instant info. But also, every time you hit one of the little mini targets, if nothing else is going on, it'll show you how much gold you have.
    45:17
    Oh, you have a moderator. Well, they're doing something. Does Danny go crazy? So I added more speech I added Danny So I thought Two episodes before the end When Danny destroyed the town I was kind of sad because I didn't think that was like Danny That he The whole series She was kind of freeing the innocent And protecting the innocent But the speech calls that I have From season 4 Are her saying Her raging and saying that when my dragons are fully grown, I will destroy your whole family. Right? So she kind of, you know, that was just foreshadowing, right?
    46:00
    She eventually did it. Thank you. You say the code will be released in some days within a week. Yep. I'm planning for soon, but nothing ever happens like you plan it.
    46:15
    I want to, so I added this new multiplier rule to the upper play field, and I want to test that for a few hours and add a little bit more speech.
    46:26
    Do your purchase modifiers time out? Yeah, they time out like usual. Yep, yeah, Nick's pretty good. Well, Nick is one of my testers. He plays the game every single day. And I give him new code like every day, and he plays the new code every day. So he's been watching it progress this whole time.
    46:49
    Can you come more than once? No, I don't think so. Yeah, Nick gets paid to play the rumble. So there's CastleMultiball. And he can let these go because he's on the lower play field. And they'll just keep feeding to the top.
    47:18
    There he goes. Now he has the holding ball on the upper playfield for a second or two. But you really have to watch your ball save because when it goes out, you don't want to let him go on the bottom.
    47:32
    But that first two for jackpot, now if you can get a two for jackpot, which is not close, you can get a two for jackpot. Oh, he got his multiplier up to three by buying it with Lannister. So that's a nice use of the Lannister bill.
    47:46
    And he has the upper playfield at 2x. So his combined multiplier is 6x. Now it's 9x. Holy crap. There he goes. For 540 million 9x. See, I need to tweak those scores.
    48:01
    He got half a billion from his 9x super jackpot. And he got an add-a-ball. He has 1,400 gold. He has 2,300 gold.
    48:14
    Castle Moneyball Award. That's pretty cool. So when I'm all done, so we got 1.6 billion from Castle Multiball, which is pretty cool. Which isn't too bad, right? When I'm all done, I want to make it balanced with Blackwater. So like a really good Blackwater and a really good Castle Multiball should give you about the same amount of points. That's my goal.
    48:41
    Can you buy extra skill warnings? No. Yep, tweaking is needed But 1.6 billion isn't I mean, it isn't huge Right? I mean, it needs to be tweaked Agreed But what's a really good Blackwater, guys? What's a really good Blackwater?
    49:01
    Oh, really? Oh, so then that's 8x too high Alright, so I've got a little tweaking to do When I'm done Castle Multiball and Blackwater will be about the same You guys have money on this, right?
    49:29
    Multiplier, 2x, got 2,300 gold left. 3x, 820 gold left. So now he can finish. He's playing Martel. could go to the upper play field and complete those three targets.
    49:44
    What happened? Oh, I see. Alright. Try about combat. But that was normal. No, but that's the old rule. There's nothing new there.
    50:00
    The game scores a lot, guys. Gary, the White House is pretty cool. Yeah, I love Star Wars and Game of Thrones as well.
    50:28
    Thank you. The new purchaseable items is only the three button abilities It Martel Baratheon and Tyrone Upper playfield is no, it can't ever be 9x. Upper playfield is 3x. But it combines with the 3x lower playfield if you had that. Do you have 3X at the time of that?
    50:59
    Okay. And look at that. He has his button again. He goes to 2X again, leaving him 600 gold. This isn't enough. You need 1,500 to get 3X.
    51:17
    All right. So, oh, there. Greyjoy is timed out on him. Oh, but we just, one of the things we did was we increased the timer a great deal, right? Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, so. 15 or 12. It might be, I don't know, I'll have to look. Yeah. So, like, what we covered today was just, it's just the highlights of the update. Yeah. We did tons and tons of little things, like tweaking how many seconds you can play great.
    51:47
    Yeah, Keith is pretty good at that. I think just watching Nick, he's figured it all out. Do you still need a store to buy for it? Yes.
    52:03
    Yes. The stores govern your plate load multipliers, which include buying them, and they govern your spinner level.
    52:20
    The pro updates is... We did all the updates. So, I mean, the pro will get everything that I talked about except the upper playfield stuff. So the pro gets... You can choose Targaryen. You can choose random. You have those extra adjustments. You can... You know, and all the button abilities are there for the pro. So everything is on the pro except for Castle of the Wall and the upper playfield modifiers.
    52:47
    Yeah. So Castle of Only Balls should be about $100 to $200 million. Play a sweet. $2.9 billion. He's played it before.
    53:10
    Dwight, no changes to Blackwater. Blackwater got some... So there's lots of little polish going on all over the game with little lamp effects and sound calls, but in general, Blackwater is just a safe space.
    53:25
    Is the code... It's lit. No, I'm sorry. Hello. Do the existing upper playfield rules still apply or are they gone? What? I don't know what that means. Does this mean Ghostbusters is next? Ghostbusters is... I don't know what next means. Ghostbusters is being worked on and will come out as soon as we can.
    54:31
    But Ghostbusters update is looking really, really nice. And I can't wait to do the exact same thing with that.
    54:41
    You... No. You had me at, can I go play Ghostbusters, but then when you said, can I talk, Ben, the answer's no.
    54:56
    Existing as the world's first version. TNG code update in the future? No. You're welcome. I'm excited for this too. Game of Thrones might be my favorite game of all the games I did. They're all my kids, so it's hard to say that, but I really like Game of Thrones.
    55:24
    And now the upper play field. So the upper play field didn't used to be that fun. I think it's a lot of fun now.
    55:33
    So are Game of Thrones premiums going back on the line? That's not a question I can answer. I don't know the answer to that.
    55:43
    If we have a Ghostbusters in the arcade after it comes out, yeah, we'll have the update. All right, we're going to see what Blackwater Multiball can do.
    56:30
    All right, so Blackwater Multiball, the upper play field hasn't changed really, except you can get 2X and 3X multipliers up there independently of the lower play field. but the three targets up there will give him jackpots just like the lower shots will alright let's see what has he done so far so he's in Lannister but he hasn't beaten Lannister yet he still has his Stark ability and it looks like he's playing Lannister now he could Direwolf Lannister if he wanted to alright Oh, batting round Look at that, he's trapping the ball on the upper side And going after the batting round That's one of the coolest super jackpot effects ever, right?
    57:26
    If he was Targaryen right now, he could freeze that core for 15 seconds There's an extra ball. Extra ball! Add a ball and the props did not change.
    57:51
    Best Cooper Jackpot ever. I agree. Gimbal genius. Thank you. So you pro models online, or you can't say it as well? I can't say.
    58:16
    Battering ram twice hit without super jack. This battering ram doesn't work as well as it should. We've been beating the hell out of it.
    58:28
    New animations and callouts. There are, there's no real new animations. There are new display effects. There are a few new display effects. So Randy of ColorDMD contacted us, and I gave him preliminary code. I gave him preliminary code a couple days ago so that he could start changing the ColorDMD code.
    58:48
    But there aren't any real new animations. There's just a few new, you know, like text display effects. And there's lots of new speech calls, and there's going to be more. Randy, what's his last name? It's Harlan or something.
    59:06
    The colored DMD guy. Imagine a battery round that can't function properly after a battery. Ha! Color.
    59:19
    There he goes. He's got Lannister, and he just bought the Velody. Look at that. Oh. Yes, I'm thinking that the Castle Multiball scores too high.
    59:40
    That's what I'm thinking. See, we were, so it was scoring, it scored way too little. And then over the last week and a half, I've been making it score more and more and more. And then last night, I added the multiplier rule, and now it scores way too much.
    59:56
    So I'll fix it. Does using Dire Wolf complete all three? No, it does not. That's a great question. I should have put that in my thing. So Dire Wolf only gives you one level of Targaryen. The same with the upper left corner. So if you're playing the mode on the upper play field and you shoot the castle corner when it's lit, it's only going to give you the one level.
    60:26
    Do you lose your earned abilities upon completing Iron Throne? Yes. I thought about that a long time. So, going through Iron Throne puts you back at the beginning of the game, including having nothing as Greyjoy.
    60:50
    Oh, Hand of the King. Awesome. What did he bring into it? Greyjoy, Stark. Lannister Tyrell. And his button ability is... Oh, it's Tyrell. So it's Iron Throne.
    61:14
    He's got 12 X's. His Iron Throne is pretty good. He needs a 3X playfield or a 4X playfield to really make it awesome. Look at that, 102 million iron thrown Awesome See, that feels about right I really like that Yeah And it's only once per ball, so we can't do it again. Yeah, I like that a lot.
    62:08
    You've got to love Keith. So, as I think about it, I'm going to make Castle Monkey Ball worth slightly more than Blackwater because it's harder to get than Blackwater. Blackwater is pretty easy.
    62:30
    So maybe twice as much as Blackwater. So maybe $300 million for a good game. Do you guys even care? Yes. So, I'm planning on making a PDF that I will give to our marketing people, and they will probably put it on Facebook, explaining some of the new rules.
    63:06
    Oh, he gave up his bonus. But he has an extra ball. Oh, and you have it lit. There. A corner. Oh, a corner would have given him casting multiball. And he gets off the top. And he's got his drop target. The drop target is up, so he's... Oh, and he gets robbed with mystery. But, of course, it didn't keep the flippers off and the lights dead because it knew the ball wasn't there. That's kind of cool. I have a special question.
    63:40
    All right. Let's see. We're going to have to see this strategy. Uh-oh. 3x video modes. Light lock. Oh, that was genius.
    63:53
    Well, because he's Greyjoy, he beat Lannister. And for the rest of the game, he still has Lannister's house ability. So Greyjoy gives you the house abilities for the whole game, except for after you get to Iron Throne. So he's collecting lots of gold everywhere.
    64:17
    He has everyone's house beaten. So he has starts, winters, coming is higher. And he has Baratheons gets you closer to the wall, multi-ball.
    64:36
    Oh, no. One of the worst video modes ever. 20 million points. Yay.
    64:59
    So that video mode has a long story to it that I'm not going to tell now, but it was a huge, huge fight with me and Steve. And it's probably, I mean, over the 30 years I've been working with Steve, it's probably the biggest fight we've ever had is that video mode. And that's, you know, I'm going to leave it at that for now.
    65:27
    Steve is the foe, always. Steve is the Black Knight. Well, actually, this time, if you like the video mode, Steve won. And if you don't like the video mode, I won.
    65:45
    Winter Has Come didn't change. No, just ping on the flippers to win the video mode. I missed the stickman video mode, too. That's what the fight was about. I was trying to go very stickman, 8-bit, you know, like the opposite of high-def. And Steve absolutely insisted that it not be stick figures. And I went to the mattresses, and he did too. And he won.
    66:20
    But, you know, I'll have my day someday. Right, Steve won at Mortal Kombat, exactly. But you can't do Mortal Kombat with fucking, you know, 32 dot high pixels.
    66:33
    Am I allowed to swear? No, it was a big fight. Winter of the Masters is from Godfather, right? It means, you know, like, you're all in.
    66:56
    You can't hear it there, but when you use the dire wolf ability, it growls. It does? Yeah, I'm going to turn it up a little bit.
    67:08
    You know, because you're... Huh? Dave Marcella. All right, so we have 128 million here, a little bit behind.
    67:21
    He's got House Stark. He's finished Greyjoy. He's trying to beat Lannister. and he drains. Hello? Lola H.
    67:35
    Targaryen spotting itself seems like too big a shortcut. But it doesn't give you anything else. So Targaryen spotting itself is a huge boon, but it doesn't give you anything else. Like, Lannisters give you extra gold And, you know, Stark makes everything bigger, and Baratheons do lots of stuff, so under the hood, you know, all the other houses give you shit all game long, but Targaryen isn't going to give you anything except spotting itself.
    68:10
    Correct. Well, that's true. Right, right. And Targaryen in Hand of the King is worth quite a bit. I now think that all the houses are pretty equal. and oh so that's another thing I want to talk about um when I originally made this game the object is not to make all the houses equally balanced the object was to make something for everybody so that everybody had a path that they wanted to pick and it would be different than the next guy because of the way they play or the skill level Ryan C how did you know hey Ryan um how did you know I'm coming to Australia That's a secret, man. But I'm very much looking forward to coming to Australia.
    69:05
    What would you say is the biggest change in the code? So everyone having their own button ability is the biggest change. It actually wasn't too hard to implement. But so before, everybody had a house ability, and I tried to make them balanced, but most of them are sort of under the hood, like Stark makes Winter is Coming worth more, but you don't really see that. You don't notice it. You're not paying attention.
    69:30
    But Martel gives you, you know, like the player gets to interact, right? So interacting with the game when you want to for something high in tension is way cooler than not.
    69:44
    Thanks. Thanks, JediTurtle77. If I buy Martell Button ability, is my Hand of the King still gimp? No.
    70:17
    No. Your hand of the king only cares about the four houses you brought to it. Can I repeat the button abilities again? What happened?
    70:30
    What did he do? I missed it. He's the grand champion. Put in your own initials. Put in Nick. Yeah, there you go.
    70:43
    We love Keith. Nick beats Keith Elwin, six or seven time world champion. Right? Nick Wayno, ladies and gentlemen.
    70:57
    Holy crap. All right, so I'll repeat. I think we're done for the night, right? I mean, pretty close.
    71:05
    I can't read it then. I'm going to stand over here. Nobody needs to see my face. All right. No, you know what? I'll stand over here because we're going to point at the houses. Oh, you want to turn the camera back on the game then? Yes. Nobody wants to see me. All right. We're going to talk about the button abilities one more time just for review. All right, so Stark gives you the dire wolf ability. Somebody gave me that idea. Like lots of these ideas came from other people. So basically, just like Robb Stark, right, you know, like all of a sudden the dire wolf would come from nowhere and just win the day. And that's sort of what Stark does. Like you can push the button and the dire wolf just ends the mode and you're done. You're out. And you win. and you move on. So Stark lets you spot a mode or complete a mode. Complete, I think, is the right word. All right.
    71:53
    Baratheon, the button ability, gives you Lord of the Light outlanes for a few seconds once per ball. The Stark ability was once per ball. There's Keith. Keith's back.
    72:07
    So the Baratheon ability is sort of like, well, I don't know what it's like, But it gives you, for a few seconds, once per ball, you can save a ball that's going out the out lane.
    72:17
    I think we're done for the night playing, unless you want to play again. You want a rematch? I think we're going to. All right, let me finish this. All right, Lannister. Lannister button ability lets you. An all-random game. All right, I'm going to finish this, and then these guys are going to play an all-random game. The Lannister ability lets you buy the playful multipliers for 500 gold per multiplier. So it's 1,000 for 2x, 1,500 for 3x, and so on. But, of course, you can't buy a multiplier if you haven't progressed that far in the game. So if you normally couldn't get it, then you can't buy it either. You need to complete houses and collect swords before you can get past 3x with either buying it or hitting the battering ram. Greyjoy doesn't start with any house ability, but it takes the last one of the last house you completed.
    73:14
    But you can only have one house ability at a time, no matter how you acquire it. So if you beat Lannister, you have the Lannister ability. And then you go buy Martell from Mystery. Now you have Martell. You don't have Lannister anymore.
    73:28
    Tyrell is just Iron Throne. It's the old one because Tyrell is all about playful multipliers. I mean, shot modifiers, so it has Iron Bank. And Martell has Atomol like it used to have, like it never changed. And that's really all Martell does. Martell doesn't have any house ability because it was already kind of too horrible.
    73:50
    Targaryen is freezing timers. So if you pick Targaryen, you spot your house. That's its sort of house ability. And then its button ability is freezing timers. Iron Bank, yeah, that's awesome. But now you've got to be careful because you still want to, like, even when you have a horrible ball, you want to hit the button at the end. And if you hit the button in your Lannister, you're going to spend your gold in that old stuff because the ball is going out. So that's a review of the buttons. We're going to let these people play random and see how it goes. All right, go. Go.
    74:23
    No, just everyone play random. All right, just, I mean, you're on his. Yeah. Keith, you set it up however you want.
    74:34
    You can just pick random if you want. And then on 13. Right. So I guess there's the one adjustment where random will give everybody the same house. That's what the adjustment's for. Everyone's stuck playing the same house, but it's random. But this one is like everyone will get a different house, potentially, but it's random.
    75:04
    Alright, here we go. We're going to play again, guys. It's only six. Oh, you got Martel. Look out. It already gets arrows for ten million.
    75:27
    I don't want to play. I want to color commentate. So Martel, of course, is at a ball during multiball. Once per ball. So to take the best use out of it, he should play at least one multiball at a ball.
    75:52
    But knowing Nick he go for Castle Multiball No. Well, it's... I'm not sure what the question was. I think it scrolled off. But the multipliers started at 1,000. So it goes 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 2,500. And about 7,000 for all four.
    76:22
    is Lannister button ability once revolved? No, Lannister button ability is however much gold you have, and it spins your gold.
    76:43
    No, the Hand of the King didn't change at all. Pretty much at all. Sorry? The Super Jackpot mug is fit. Keith proved that the other day.
    77:00
    Like if you, in mystery, if you buy Super Jackpot and then you go into Blackwater, it won't stay lit forever. You can collect your one and then it'll go out.
    77:10
    How do you light mystery edible during Blackwater from the pops? What? Lannister. Oh, he got Lannister. What do you want? Oh, you're welcome.
    77:29
    And you're welcome. I love it too. How do you light mystery out of all during Blackwater from the pops?
    77:39
    Pixel Pops will just randomly give you stuff and sometimes it'll be out of all. Iron Bank changes? Yeah. So there's an adjustment for the old way, which is Iron Bank, or the new way where everybody gets their own button ability. If you have it set on the new way, Iron Bank is only Tyrell, and either way, no matter how you have it set, Iron Bank is worth quite a bit more. It's exponential with your playful multiplier. So Iron Bank takes all the multipliers you have and adds them together and then multiplies it by the Playful multiplier a couple of times and then multiplies it by a score and does some other stuff and then gives you that. So it's worth like $3 to $10 million if you have 1x, like $20 to $80 million if you have 2x, and so on. It gets worth more and more depending on the Playful multiplier. you are on the machine with rerun. I don't know much about the rerun. I can't really talk about that.
    78:59
    Does Lannister spending gold on multipliers affect the bonus you earn from gold? No. Your bonus... That's another reason to pick Lannister is you're earning lots more gold and the end of all bonus doesn't care about how much you spent, only what you've collected. And that's true before the update. Thank you.
    79:30
    Iron Bank is Tyrell's new action power. Got it. Yep, yep, yep. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, Nick went and only got $92 million?
    79:44
    What? Nick? Well, he got like 600 million or something last time. Yeah. But I think, I smell, but we all know now that Castle Multiball scores too high, so everyone knows that equally, right? And it's my fault. It's on me.
    80:07
    What does he got? Lannister and Greyjoy combined. We do not sow. I'm talking to him because I'm not playing how do you know what that's a great question how do you know what code you're running like if you just come to a game in the wild well so I didn't tell you this yeah that person told you right there I didn't say that yeah I'm not, I am married are you asking me?
    80:50
    I don't know somebody's hitting on somebody and I wasn't sure it was me yes there's a handful of new speech calls and I'm going to add a handful more before I'm done The iron bank, the button available so the old rules the button would blink the color of the house you are in the old way and in the new way it blinks Tyrell it doesn't blink, it's solid green if you're Tyrell and you can do Iron Bank. And you can do Iron Bank once per ball if your multipliers are greater than one.
    81:51
    Weird question. Are there any women? Yeah, we have. Under George, back in product development, we have a handful of women. Yes.
    82:01
    We have women artists and support teams and cable people and film material people and a handful of women, yes.
    82:13
    Will new codes save your total games played? Yes. So that's another thing that I didn't cover yet. I brought the new code. I'm bringing this game up to the latest system, and the latest system brings with it lots of really nice things. All of it will be in the readme when it's released. And one of the things that it will give you is, like scores and stuff, won't reset with future updates. God forbid that I don't want to think about a future update. I just want to get this one out.
    82:47
    Wizarding Whale Munchkin What's Munchkin? The music is coming. Will Ghostbusters be brought up to the new system also? Yes, it will. The ghost You're welcome.
    83:17
    These people, Jack, man, these people aren't trolls at all. You told me that. Grace, can you... Jack.
    83:26
    These people are pretty nice. What house is he in? Um, he's currently playing Stark and maybe Greyjoy? Yeah, Greyjoy.
    83:40
    She called you a bully, man. I heard her. She called you a bully. Yeah. Oh, he's doing random. Oh, you've got Tyrell.
    83:55
    You cast a corner to advance and he fails. Oh, I didn't even know. Why try to be nice to you, Dwight? Yeah, that's controlling. Oh, okay. Cool. Thanks, guys.
    84:12
    So super skill shot is kind of that corner thing that I added. Where on this game, there's no... So the pro doesn't have that.
    84:22
    So the ball should go to the top. Here it comes. And it goes to the returning. And this is kind of the super skill shot. It's not really, but it's as close as we're going to get.
    84:32
    Can you time random with the picture of the house to get the one? No. It just sort of is flipping through them, and it's completely, it has nothing to do with the one you're going to get. It's still completely random when you hit the button.
    84:51
    I like Ghostbusters 2 mostly. I've said this on podcasts. I think Ghostbusters needs a little cleaning up, and maybe we'll get a chance to do that.
    85:07
    Yeah, I don't think there's going to be a super skill shot coming for the pro or the premium. Ghostbusters, I mean Game of Thrones.
    85:26
    Plan three, cue, uh-oh. How can you detect a death save? What are you doing? What is happening right now? Keith, how would you detect a death save? Like the ball doesn't get to the trough? Yeah.
    85:59
    Or doesn't see the trough. Yeah. Ha! We've got to read the rules. Well, so we should have turned on virtual locks. And then that would solve that.
    86:22
    I'm on the mic right now. Dwight Sullivan. He's got a few right feet. See? That's like... You're welcome Hi Alright, so we finished the mode Using the cast a corner, ladies and gentlemen That was cool And the ball stayed in So what's cool about using the cast a corner like that The ball then, it's on the upper play field And you can continue progressing towards Cast a multi-ball, but Jack chose not to do that Jack chose to You know, shoot the ball and lose it Any new flipper codes or maybe one that hasn't been discovered?
    87:43
    On Game of Thrones there's none. Munster still has a code that I think Not many people have discovered.
    88:02
    When is Castle Loop available to finish a house? So it's available when you start a new mode, and you go to the upper play field, all three targets blink, and then you hit any of them, and then two targets blink, and then you hit, and then only one target link hits the center one. And when you hit the center one, the corner will light. And if you shoot the corner then, it will give you a capsule and complete your mode.
    88:29
    Does that make sense? Right, Munster's Secret Mania has not been found by very many people. Oh, that's a good question. so 6809 a stumbler was quite a bit of fun but writing C++ is pretty fun I just like writing code so and they're all very similar Larry wrote Apple back on Williams system 12 and then Lyman copied you know like in spirit made everything very similar the way Apple was so they're very And then spike one and spike two are just evolutions of that. So it's all pretty much the same as Apple was.
    89:24
    Keep speeding again. Yeah, there's not going to be any more text on the beginning while you're choosing your house I wish we had more space on the display What I did do was I added an info page to what your button ability is Which button you have and what it does is an instance.
    90:14
    Correct. In addition to getting a castle, you also finish the current house mode, or both of them. So you could finish, if you have two roads running, you could finish them both in the corner. and you'll get a 2x or 3x upper playfield multiplier.
    90:32
    Oh, that's a great idea. The track mode could have... The track mode could say what the button abilities do.
    90:41
    Wow, why didn't you tell me that like three or four days ago? Yeah, Castle Multiball has super jackpots.
    90:51
    So the whole upper playfield rule is You shoot the three targets, and then that lights the two outlanes. And then you shoot either two outlanes for super jackpot during castle multiball, which is worth a lot of points. And I'm going to reduce it because we saw that it was too high. But your first super jackpot is also going to give you add-a-ball during castle multiball.
    91:17
    There's no new show clips or voiceovers, not from the last few seasons. There's new voice clips, but not from the last few seasons.
    91:31
    Hodor didn't get any new love, but Hodor is in the game, if you know where to look. Oh, Hand of the King.
    91:46
    Are you Lannister? So you... money's easy. Like, pick a... I don't know who Mr. Snail Man is. Chuck, you... I just... Chuck is such a spoiler. Eric.
    92:33
    Man. Ghostbusters is not ready for the outside world that we've seen yet. Oh, Lord. Thank you. Not. You may send your son. You don't have to. You ready?
    93:23
    Is there any rule on what the drop target on the right hand does? Or would be something since the other playbook is more valuable? No, the upper drop target, the right drop target didn't change at all. It gets raised every time you complete one of the paths towards the castle multiball. Like arrows, charge, and breach.
    93:53
    Martel didn't change. The scoring of Martel didn't change. Oh, Jesus. Nice shot. Wow. That's cool. That was pretty awesome.
    95:23
    Is that going to give you one for the coming? So there's a come? I'll get two more to go. Or three. Or four.
    95:53
    Thanks, Callie. Thank you. I love monsters as well. No. To each house? No. White, thanks for taking... Oh, you're welcome.
    96:40
    What the hell did you do? Did you tell him? Winter has come. He's Martell, so of course he can do that ball during winter has come.
    97:08
    Somehow he hasn't used it yet this ball. I would have used it an hour ago. Oh, you have Lannister. Oh, you don't have more. Yeah, you have less. All right.
    97:30
    All right. So he just bought 4X, it looks like. That was harsh. Oh, no. All right. Clap, clap, clap.
    97:45
    Yay. I thought it was pretty impressive. 3.2 billion. Go, Keith. Nick wants you to buy him for $20.
    98:09
    Are you off of $20? Yeah. Oh, the outline? Yeah, that's cool. That was, um, so all of my testers, beta, in-house and otherwise, have given me lots of cool ideas, and that came from Ron Gultz. All right, good game, guys.
    99:01
    He took the grand champion. He came back and took it. All right, so I think we're done for the night, guys. I scored $8 billion in a Star Wars LE today. Such an awesome game. That's hard to do. Well done. All right, thanks, Keith. I'm going to die. Thanks, Keith. I'm going to turn this back over to Jack. Jack's much better at this than I am. No, Dwight, you do great. Good stuff. Dwight, thanks for the stream. Oh, you're welcome. Here you go, Jack. Internet, check this out. Goodbye, Pimbaland. Thursday.
    99:30
    Oh, no. Thursday. Here's what's... I obviously can't say anything, but Thursday, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be a very interesting day.
    99:42
    Thank you all for coming out. Big thanks to Dwight. for putting this together. This code is awesome. You're welcome. It changed so many things for the better, and I love it. It's incredible. I think it's going to be great. Yeah. How many people asked you about Ghostbusters tonight?
    99:59
    Five. Oh, guys, step it up. What's going on? But I killed the elephant, so I was, you know. You're right, you're right. We answered all their questions. It's coming. Okay, it's coming. It's being top men are working on it. Yeah, top men. Is that a hint for something? You'll never know. All right, folks. Thank you so much. Tomorrow I'm flying out to San Diego Comic-Con, so if you get a stream from me, it's probably going to be IRL because we need to set all this crap up. I've got a lot of gear to bring with me. But Thursday, Stern Game Reveal. Internet. A new game. Wait. Thursday? Thursday. At Comic-Con? Yeah. It's going to be a most excellent game. I'm just saying. We'll see what happens. It is an excellent game. It is. It's going to be very excellent. All right. Have a wonderful night. I love you. I will hopefully see you tomorrow, folks. Thank you for being here. You're beautiful. This will be uploaded to YouTube immediately. Okay? All right. Have a good night. Bye, Pinball Land.
    101:03
    Wait. Hold on. Don't say anything important. Hold on. Everyone. Hold on. How dare you? Stop.
    101:15
    you