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Scooby-Doo v2023.07.12.19 Code Gameplay (Super Shaggy Sandwich)

Spooky Pinball·video·23m 12s·analyzed·Jul 14, 2023
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TL;DR

Scooby-Doo code update adds Shaggy mode, three new music tracks, and ball-safe timers.

Summary

Bug from Spooky Pinball demonstrates the Super Shaggy Sandwich character mode in Scooby-Doo v2023.07.12.19, highlighting new gameplay mechanics, three replacement base gameplay songs by Matt Montgomery (Piggy D), and a ball-safe timer feature added to modes. The video showcases the risk-reward balance of stacking sandwich ingredients while managing a tilt meter, character-specific perks, and integration with Scooby Snack multiball.

Key Claims

  • Three new base gameplay songs created by Matt Montgomery replace the repetitive 'Ghouls on Parade' track to reduce fatigue during longer play sessions

    high confidence · Bug states the update includes three new base gameplay songs that are longer, more involved, and progress in intensity through the game

  • Super Shaggy Sandwich mode allows players to add ingredients via stand-up targets while managing a tilt meter; holding flippers controls meter direction, tapping has minimal effect

    high confidence · Bug explains the mechanics in detail during gameplay: 'You're hitting stand up targets Tee'd Off add ingredients...you have Tee'd Off be really mindful of how you're flipping...holding the flipper is the strategy'

  • Character selection provides gameplay bonuses; Shaggy's slings favor center meter position while other characters have random sling effects

    high confidence · Bug demonstrates: 'When you play as Shaggy, the slings always favor the meter Tee'd Off be back Tee'd Off the center. When you're playing as any of the other characters, it could throw it Papa Duke much any direction.'

  • Ball-safe timer added to the beginning of all modes to prevent early drains

    high confidence · Bug states: 'All the modes, when you start these modes now, they actually have a ball safe timer at the very beginning of them'

  • Daphne and Scooby character modes, wizard modes, and mystery monsters are upcoming content for Scooby-Doo

    high confidence · Bug: 'there's going Tee'd Off be a lot more coming. I mean, we're going Tee'd Off be getting Tee'd Off the Daphne and the Scooby mode next, The Wizard modes, mystery monsters, all sorts of fun things'

  • Matthew Lillard recorded all sandwich toppings, improvising additional ingredients during voice recording sessions

    high confidence · Bug describes the recording process: 'One of the funniest parts of this script when we were recording with Matthew Lillard was him recording all the toppings here because it was just like half a page of just...he actually started improv-ing some things as well too'

Notable Quotes

  • “So we have three new base gameplay songs. They're a lot longer. They're a lot more involved. They're super Spooky Pinball and they're super catchy.”

    Bug (Spooky Pinball)@ 1:03 — Confirms major music update addressing repetitive soundtrack complaint; highlights Piggy D's contribution

  • “So holding the flipper is the strategy. And I always try and keep it as in there the center as possible, mostly because when you have it locked in there the center there, you're getting 2x scoring”

    Bug@ 3:42 — Core mechanic teaching: flipper control directly affects scoring multiplier

  • “It's a very risk-reward. You can just collect a few ingredients and get out of this mode as quick as you like, really, but you're not going Tee'd Off get much of a benefit for doing that.”

    Bug@ 4:21 — Describes design philosophy of risk-reward balancing in the mode

  • “All the modes, when you start these modes now, they actually have a ball safe timer at the very beginning of them. That's something we didn't know if it was really needed or not, but we feel it's for the best”

    Bug@ 8:40 — Indicates design iteration based on internal play-testing uncertainty but ultimately committed to the feature

  • “I just really excited. I think the progression of this game has been going so darn well. I'm really, really loving it.”

    Bug@ 12:06 — Expresses developer confidence in game's progression and community engagement strategy

Entities

BugpersonSpooky PinballcompanyScooby-DoogameMatt MontgomerypersonMatthew LillardpersonWe Are PinballorganizationScooby-Doo v2023.07.12.19product

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Spooky Pinball actively soliciting community feedback on code updates and future content direction; developers reading and responding to player opinions online

    high · Bug: 'We Love Pinball getting the feedback online. We Love Pinball hearing your guys' opinions on what you want Tee'd Off see, what you like and don't like' and 'Keep letting us know your thoughts online. We're always reading that'

  • ?

    community_signal: Bug soliciting user-generated content: requests social media posts documenting sandwich stacking heights and point values achieved by players

    high · Bug: 'Let me know how tall you can stack your sandwich. I'd love Tee'd Off see some posts online of value of how much you get your sandwich Tee'd Off be worth'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Risk-reward balance in Shaggy mode: players can cash out early with minimal points or build tall sandwich with escalating topple risk and higher rewards; character selection provides mechanical advantages

    high · Bug demonstrates tilt meter control tied to flipper holding, 2x multiplier in center zone, character-specific sling effects, and ingredient collection on topple

  • ?

    product_strategy: Ball-safe timer feature added to all modes as quality-of-life improvement, though developers note internal uncertainty about necessity before implementation

    high · Bug: 'All the modes, when you start these modes now, they actually have a ball safe timer at the very beginning of them. That's something we didn't know if it was really needed or not, but we feel it's for the best'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Scooby-Doo development pipeline includes Daphne character mode, Scooby character mode, wizard modes, and mystery monster encounters still in development

Transcript

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0:00
How's it going everybody? It's Bug from Spooky Pinball here and we are back again for another code update video for Scooby Doo here. We are working our way through these character modes still. We started off with finding Velma's glasses, we went and we made Fred's plan. Today we are making ourselves a super shaggy sandwich. Yes, we are on to the shaggy character mode. It's definitely the goofiest and silliest mode we have in the game so far. You're making a super shaggy sandwich so you're adding ingredients to it, you're trying to keep it from toppling over, most importantly you're trying to eat it. So definitely the zaniest mode we have in the game so far. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it. Another really big feature about this update involves the music. So in the base gameplay, we used to have this track called Ghouls on Parade. And Ghouls on Parade really emulated the original show's music well. However, it was just a little bit too repetitive to be the song you hear for all three balls. And especially since for some people Scooby Doo is a longer playing game, it just gets to be a little bit too repetitive for most. So what we did was we had Mr. Matt Montgomery, Piggy D himself, he went through and made us three new songs. So we got three new base gameplay songs. They're a lot longer. They're a lot more involved. They're super spooky and they're super catchy. I really, really love them. I think you guys are going to as well. And I love how they progress through the game, which you'll kind of understand more as we start playing. So I'm going to go ahead. We're going to jump into this. I want to get to that Shaggy Sandwich mode right away. So today I'll be playing as Shaggy because I typically pick the character. whose mode we're playing that day, because there's usually a perk of some sort for picking them. So I'm going to be playing as Shaggy today, and we're going to get this thing rolling. All righty.
1:36
New music? It's so fun. It's so exciting. I really think you guys are going to love it. So, all right, we got our character skill shot lit. We're going to go for Shaggy, of course, since we want his mode today.

high · Bug: 'we're going Tee'd Off be getting Tee'd Off the Daphne and the Scooby mode next, The Wizard modes, mystery monsters, all sorts of fun things'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Three base gameplay tracks created to address music repetition fatigue issue identified during play-testing; songs designed to progress in intensity throughout game

    high · Bug: 'Ghouls on Parade...was just a little bit too repetitive Tee'd Off be the song you hear for all three balls...Mr. Matt Montgomery, Piggy D himself, he went through and made us three new songs...They're a lot longer. They're a lot more involved...they progress through the game'

    • 1:49
    Oh, I failed. Okay, so we just got to shoot Shaggy's orbit three times. We just gotta shoot it three times and then his mode will be lit over at the left VUK.
    2:02
    Alrighty. I anticipate a lot of people are going to start the Shaggy mode as frequently if not more than Fred, just because his orbit is kind of the easiest in the game to hit. So, yeah, I mean you'll have three character modes after this update, so a lot of the shots that you'll be hitting on the space playfield are going to be progressing something, Typically the characters. You'll either be finding clues, or you'll be progressing a character mode, or you'll be advancing your lock for your mystery. All sorts of good things going on down there. Super! So we did fill out the Shaggy Orbits there. We have his mode lit at the left VUK. I'd like to get us over there so we can start it. Let's get it started. Alright. Bouncer over. In we go. Nope, not in we go. Okay. La la la. The nerves are kicking in. Alright, here it is. There it goes. Come on. This Barbie wants to play the shaggy mode. See it. There we go. Alright, so the premise of the mode, pretty simple. You're hitting white stand up targets to add ingredients to your sandwich. You don't want your sandwich to topple over. The way that that will start to topple over back and forth is related to mostly your flippers. So when you hold a flipper, you see how it's moving left? That's because I'm holding the left flipper. If I hold my right flipper, it moves to the right. So you have to be really mindful of how you're flipping during this mode so that you don't topple your sandwich over. Now specifically, you have to hold the flippers to move that meter. If you tap it, it's not really going to make much of a difference at all. So holding the flipper is the strategy. And I always try and keep it as in the center as possible, mostly because when you have it locked in the center there, you're getting 2x scoring, or you're getting your bonus for collecting your sandwich will be 2x. So like I said, it's a simple mode, but there's actually quite a bit to it. So after you collect a few ingredients for your sandwich, you can cash out on the sandwich by eating it. You just hit the action button and I can eat my sandwich right now. I'll take my score and I'll run, essentially. The higher you stack your sandwich, the more points you're going to get. But also, the higher you stack your sandwich, the easier it's going to topple over. So it's a very risk-reward. You can just collect a few ingredients and get out of this mode as quick as you like, really, but you're not going to get much of a benefit for doing that. So what I'm doing, I'm just up here. I'm trying to get as many... Oh man, it's really tipping. Okay.
    4:37
    So, I mentioned earlier, when you play as certain characters, you'll get certain bonuses. the slings on the playfield will also affect your meter up top there. When you play as Shaggy, the slings always favor the meter to be back to the center. When you're playing as any of the other characters, it could throw it pretty much any direction. So, something else about this mode here. So we got the meter on screen, right? Looking up on the screen and looking down at the playfield, pretty tough to do. If you look in the center of the playfield here, you'll notice the lights over the characters, the villains and the gang. Those are also resembling the meter as well. You'll see as I tilt far right, they turn orange, and they always show me where the arrow is favoring. So you can kind of use that to keep track of your sandwich up above.
    5:22
    So, our sandwich is getting pretty tall here. We're doing pretty good. Like I said, I can hit the action button and cash out at any time. If the sandwich falls over, what you're going to be doing is you're going to try and catch and collect back as many ingredients as possible with the action button. button you only get half the value of the sandwich but you will get your value back You won just completely lose all of the value of the sandwich So I like to see how high I can stack it because it fun and why not
    5:55
    So as I said earlier, you'll notice when I get to the orange area, that 2x value goes away. So if you are going to cash out, make sure you cash out in the green in that center area so you get 2x value. Our sandwich is getting crazy tall. We got, what do we got on there? Mayonnaise. We got meatloaf on there, ketchup, onion. Yum. One of the funniest parts of this script when we were recording with Matthew Lillard was him recording all the toppings here because it was just like half a page of just, it might have been a full page of just like ketchup, onions, mustard, pickles, cheese, just everything under the sun and a bunch of weird stuff. And he actually started improv-ing some things as well too. So really fun time recording that for sure. Alright, so our sandwich is ridiculously tall. I think it would be really fun if we went... Oh boy, that was a close one. So something else that's really fun about this mode is you can get Scooby Snack multiball during it, so you'll be dealing with a multiball while you're stacking your sandwich as high as you can. I want to try and get our sandwich value to 750,000. That's the goal. We're going to try and get it to 750. We're looking pretty good right now, but our luck may run... Oh!
    7:20
    Okay, so I collected as many ingredients as I could there by hitting the action button. It actually shows you on screen how many there is to collect. You don't get much time to do it. You gotta spam that thing as fast as you possibly can. Gosh, that tipped so much faster than I was ready for. by the end of that mode. Oh my god. Okay, so I tried to collect as many ingredients as I could at the end there. But didn't collect nearly the amount that I had up there. So that's the super shaggy sandwich mode. Super fun. Like I said, you're just collecting as many ingredients as possible. And it's a mode that's very in the hands of the player. Like I said, I could have cashed out at any time there. Probably would have been a good idea because I failed at the end. But it's a mode that's, like I said, it's very in the hands of the player. you can kind of decide for yourself how you do it. So yeah, that's the super shaggy sandwich mode. Worth a decent amount of points too. We have 1.3 million and it was just from that one mode.
    8:18
    Now we got Velma's glasses lit over at the left of the UK. Alrighty, let's see. Uh, minor 49er, that sounds like fun. Let's get that. Ooh, that was close.
    8:31
    Alright. Oh boy. Okay, something else new that we added to this update. I think a lot of people are going to find this pretty helpful. All the modes, when you start these modes now, they actually have a ball safe timer at the very beginning of them. That's something we didn't know if it was really needed or not, but we feel it's for the best to have it there. So yeah, when you start your modes now, your cases, you will have a ball safe timer at the very beginning of it. So hopefully that helps.
    9:00
    Hopefully that helps like it just did. Oh, didn't help me much, though. So, yeah, there you go there. Oh, we didn't really get to focus on the song there too much. We'll definitely be on another game after this one. But, yeah, different song on each of these balls so far. And like I said earlier, they progress in intensity, mostly in, like, tempo, because that's the best way to show that. But they progress in intensity between each ball, so you can really feel where you're at progression-wise in the game. All right, so we got Velma or Fred lit right now. Something to clarify there is... Uh-oh, got it. Something to clarify there is whatever character shot you hit last will be the one that's lit at the VUK. So if I want to go back and get Velma ready at that VUK, I need to go and shoot the Velma orbit to do so.
    9:50
    All right. Ooh, that was cool. Okay. There we go. All right, let's play Fred. Ooh, we're going to immediately start... I believe we're going to immediately start Scooby Snack Multiball here because I think I had that lit when I went in there. So that'll make this mode either way harder or way easier. I'm not too sure which.
    10:12
    We played this mode in the previous update. So what do we get? Yeah, we do get it right away. Okay. Well, let's do it.
    10:20
    It should help with at least forming a bigger plan. I just hope that we can keep up with it once we hit the actual phase where you have to execute it.
    10:31
    All right. So, we got two going here right now. We are shooting our blue shots to form a plan. There we go. Got quite a few of them going so far. I kind of would like to stay away from that left orbit because I don't think I'm going to be able to do it with my multi-guy going at the same time. It just sounds pretty tough. Shoot.
    10:56
    How much time do we have left? 17 seconds left to keep forming our plan. All right. Let's start our plan. Yeah, we got a super jackpot just then.
    11:06
    All right, that's one. Oh, shoot. Okay, we're down to one. That makes it a little easier at least. Definitely, it definitely helped with formulating a larger plan. Get around. There we go. Right orbit now.
    11:23
    Oh, dear. Oh, man. Bounce and around Oh seven seconds That probably it for us we didn get it Oh well
    11:40
    We got a part of Fred's plan executed. It just makes me happy right now, like we're on ball three and we've been playing more than just cases. Like we already have two character modes in the bag, and we still have all these cases to go for. So, and we still have Velma's mode to go for. There's just a lot in the game these days, and there's going to be a lot more coming. I mean, we're going to be getting to the Daphne and the Scooby mode next, wizard modes, mystery monsters, all sorts of fun things. So I'm just really excited. I think the progression of this game has been going so darn well. I'm really, really loving it. And we love getting the feedback online. We love hearing your guys' opinions on what you want to see, what you like and don't like. It's all awesome. A whole experience, I'm sure. All righty.
    12:26
    We're in Captain Cutler mode right now. We're filling out all of our shots. What I love about the Scooby Snack multiball when it ends now too is it leaves all sorts of Scooby Snacks left on the play field so I can keep my bravery meter maxed out. Right now we're at 4x value over on that bravery meter. And it's just because I've been collecting so many Scooby Snacks from the leftovers of that mode.
    12:48
    Like that. Still collecting them. Oh, Gaffney says we're almost out of oxygen. Take my breath away. Oh, okay, okay, let's fill it back up. Last one. Oh, come on.
    13:08
    As Luke would say, give it the sauce. Alrighty, we got left orbit. I'd like to get so we can fill out that bravery meter again. Oh, boy. I really would like to beat this mode with the bravery meter maxed out. I don't think I've done that on stream yet. Oh, let's see. Okay, we are maxed out on bravery, so that's really good. We're gonna get quite the extra score for doing that. Um, could go for some bonus points by hitting Cutler right now. But I'm also, like, flailing, so... Okay, we're just gonna cash out with some big points here. Nice! Alrighty. Now let's see who our mystery ghost rider really is. Captain Cutler! Awesome. That hair though, looks exactly like my grandpa. Alrighty. Racking up a pretty good score here considering we haven't even touched the multiball yet. Oh that's another thing we gotta do, we gotta keep progressing towards our super jackpot mystery machine multiball, which someday I'm gonna do on camera. I swear I do it all the time in the line. Alrighty, we're definitely gonna do another game, I wanna keep playing some more Shaggy, I'll play them as some different characters just so we can get a little variation going. But yeah, we're going to take a quick break here. We're going to jump straight into the next game. And I got my name up.
    14:32
    All righty. Catch up with you guys in just a second. Mysterious and spooky. All righty. Let's get back to it. We're going to get back to our super shaggy sandwich mode. I feel like I haven't played a Scooby nearly enough. So we're going to play a Scooby this time around. And we're also gonna nail this on the first try, just like that. Awesome, alright. Let's get over to our...
    15:02
    Let's get over to our VUK so we can start the sandwich mode. I'd like to get to... Man, I really want to get to like 700,000, 750,000, because that would be a crazy tall sandwich. I do want to cash out this time. I don't want to have to frantically try and collect as many toppings as I can when it falls. So we can get all that money. No! Okay.
    15:26
    This is what happens in videos where I'm specifically going for one thing. Just all falls apart. Here's that second song. We didn't really get to hear it too much in the last time.
    15:39
    There's two of them. Except the rest of them obviously got fall save. Always the scratch. Oh, it's not.
    15:47
    Alrighty. I'll do it. One, two, and three. Okay, perfect. Meant to do that. Alrighty, we're going to try and get to like 700,000 hopefully in value, but that's a really tall sandwich so we'll see what we can do. Alright. Something I didn't really mention or get to talk about in the first time around was you see those multicolored shots in the upper playfield there? Those are special ingredients. They're weird ingredients like bat wings, moon beans, things like that. Werewolf snacks, exactly like that. Those are just worth a whole bunch of extra points. They're definitely worth your time to go get, especially if you're on the upper playfield, because why not? It's very low risk to go after them. You just have to keep an eye on your meter when you do it.
    16:28
    Alrighty. Oh, I thought I was going to sneak around the backside there for a special snack. Alright.
    16:36
    Again, it's this white stand-up target, so it adds ingredients. So when I'm spamming Cutler there, I'm not hitting what I'm supposed to be hitting. Oh, dear. Pay attention. Pay attention!
    16:49
    What are we at right now? 100,000. 125. Obviously every ingredient you add increases that sandwich's value.
    17:00
    Oh, I feel nervous! It's just so scary on the lower playfield because, like, stand-up targets. Stand-up targets are always a risky thing to shoot for. It's a really high risk-reward mode. Like, you can build that sandwich as much as you want, but it could literally all fall in your face.
    17:19
    I feel like I was doing better the first time around when I was just focused on talking and not so much as like the actual stacking of a super high sandwich
    17:33
    We're a third of the way there, roughly. Okay, come on. That'll help a little. At least we're getting more points. every single shot is so scary that was really way closer than i realized to just up there right now and uh again so now that we're not playing as shaggy the slings on the play field will kind of throw that meter up top in a random direction Oh dear, come back, come back, thank you. Yeah, the slings will be throwing that meter in a random direction, not always towards the center like it does for Shaggy. I'd really like to... Man, do I want Scooby Snack Multimole? Like, how hard is that gonna be? Again, so like right there when that one animation pops up on screen, I was using the center playfield lights to kind of keep track of where my sandwich balance is.
    18:50
    Okay, so we got the VUK about open for Scooby Snack multiball. I'd really like to collect another Scooby Snack. And... oh, I need one more. Okay, I need one more Scooby Snack and then it's lit. That ice cream looks yummy. As a person who stress eats, working on this mode is just kind of torturous. Because it just makes you hungry. He's just up there listing these delicious ingredients. Not necessarily together, but delicious ingredients. Oh, boy.
    19:19
    This is getting out of hand. Ruh-roh ball save. Oh, baby scoop. That was a close one. Come on now. And in you go. No. My dog's trying to get in here. Oh wow, that was close. I'm like... I don't know if not paying like super close attention is helping or making it worse for myself right now. Yes, perfect. Perfect, okay. Who knows how this is gonna go.
    19:48
    Just light taps the whole time. No holding the flippers. No holding the flippers. Oh dear. This is so scary. I'm draining so much. That ball save is putting in work right now. We almost got to 750,000. That was a close one. Almost. Ah.
    20:13
    Oh, my goodness. We're so close. Come on. We're almost there, guys. Oh. Sorry if I'm not talking. Oh, come on. One more. One more! AHHHH! We have to be at the 2x-word to be worth $7.50 though. One more. Good job! No! I hit it outside of the 2x! Good job! No! Good job! Okay, so... Good job! I tapped that like right as it hit the orange. It maybe was right as it hit. It was probably like almost red and I stopped it. Good job! Okay, well we still got it up to that value. I feel great about that super tall sandwich, so... Good job!
    20:58
    Well, that was absolutely adrenaline pumping. Holy crap. All right, I'd love to get Mystery Machine multiball now if we could. We haven't really made any progress towards it, so it's time to go ahead and do that.
    21:13
    I'm sweating. I can feel, like, I feel hot. I should have turned a fan on before hitting record. I love the cool solos in this song. This is the longest of the three songs, the song of the ball too. Again, I really think you guys are going to love those. They're a great time. Great time. Everything look good over there? I didn't even nail it. All right. Let's relight our lock here real quick and go get ourselves a mode started as well as some progress for Mystery Machine Multi-Ball. might not get to it. I'm like shaking right now. Come on. Ball save. I did turn my Captain Cutler song, or my, yeah, my Captain Cutler multiball song back to monster song, just because it's my personal favorite and I want it to be that way. All right, I am probably going to call it there. That was a really good run on that second round of Shaggy. So thank you guys again so much for joining us. We're having an absolute blast working through all these character modes still. Really excited to get to the Daphne and the Scooby mode. They're both gonna be super fun. I'm excited. It just feels so great having all of these shots progressing towards something at all times. Like this game, it's really coming together nicely. We're very very happy with it. Keep letting us know your thoughts online. We're always reading that, always seeing what you guys want. So again, thank you so much for joining me. Absolute blast playing this. I hope you guys enjoy the new songs. I hope you enjoy the new mode. And let me know how tall you can stack your sandwich. I'd love to see some posts online of value of how much you get your sandwich to be worth. So thank you guys again so much for joining me and I'll see you in the next one. Have a good one.