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Halloween: The Night He Came Home Wizard Mode Gameplay/Tutorial (Bug's Scream N' Stream)

Spooky Pinball·video·36m 2s·analyzed·Nov 3, 2023
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TL;DR

Halloween wizard mode tutorial showing progression through eight locations with 2x multipliers and final frenzy.

Summary

Bug (streamer) plays through Halloween: The Night He Came Home wizard mode on Spooky Pinball's Halloween machine, demonstrating the final end-game challenge. The wizard mode requires progressing through eight locations (Sanitarium, Bates Garage, Cemetery, Nichols Hardware Store, gas refuel segments, and Doyle House) by hitting progressively harder shot sequences, with a final 60-second frenzy at the Art Myers house. The streamer praises the code quality, crediting designer Matt Kemp and Luke Albin Peters for the game's execution, and successfully completes the wizard mode with a high score.

Key Claims

  • Matt Kemp and Luke Albin Peters designed/coded the Halloween game

    high confidence · Bug credits both by name multiple times, saying 'Matt Kemp for a second and the miracles he did on this freaking game. It's come together so nicely.' and later 'Matt Kemp, Luke Albin Peters, you guys are heroes.'

  • Ball save/generosity timer was extended in the game

    high confidence · Bug states early: 'We did extend the ball save, what do you call it, generosity timer quite a bit. That should help you with, uh...' and references it multiple times during play

  • The wizard mode has eight or nine locations to progress through

    medium confidence · Bug states: 'I think there is eight or nine locations. I can't remember right now' while playing through the mode

  • The wizard mode ends with a 60-second frenzy at the Art Myers house

    high confidence · Bug announces while playing: 'We are Pinball home... It's a frenzy for, I think, 60 seconds. Just seven balls, hit all the shit you can.'

  • Shots have 2x value multipliers when hit twice at each location

    high confidence · Bug explains: 'When you hit a shot, it is lit for a little bit longer after you hit it the first time. The second time around that you hit it, you're getting 2x value.'

Notable Quotes

  • “Can we please talk about Matt Kemp for a second and the miracles he did on this freaking game. It's come together so nicely. I absolutely love, love where Halloween is.”

    Bug@ 7:29 — Strong praise for code quality and designer performance; indicates high development standards on recent Spooky release

  • “Absolutely freaking fantastic. This game kicks ass. I think we should kick off Michael, we'll be there forever. Matt Kemp, Luke Albin Peters, you guys are heroes.”

    Bug@ 32:43 — Post-wizard-mode completion assessment; confirms satisfaction with game design and acknowledges developer contribution

  • “Some cool things to note here. When you hit a shot, it is lit for a little bit longer after you hit it the first time. The second time around that you hit it, you're getting 2x value.”

    Bug@ 24:52 — Explains core wizard mode mechanic that creates strategic depth and scoring potential

  • “You're Michael Myers. You're trying to get home to Halloween. It starts off right from leaving the sanitarium. As Loomis said, he is coming home tonight.”

    Bug@ 24:08 — Thematic framing of wizard mode aligned with Halloween (1978) film narrative

  • “Michael has gone home. Let's take a look at the times. And then, yes, so it saves your times, too, at each of the locations. So now you can go back and you can try speedrunning it to beat those times.”

    Bug@ 32:19 — Indicates speedrun/time-attack replayability feature built into wizard mode design

Entities

Matt KemppersonLuke Albin PeterspersonBugpersonHalloween: The Night He Came HomegameSpooky PinballcompanyMichael MyerspersonDonald PleasancepersonJohn Watersperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Spooky Pinball is using streaming content (Bug's 'Scream N' Stream') as official tutorial/gameplay showcase for new releases; interactive chat participation during play

    high · Content framed as 'tutorial' in title; Bug addresses chat frequently, reads guesses/comments, thanks viewers, and provides educational commentary on mechanics throughout

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Strong positive community response to Halloween game code quality and wizard mode design; Bug's enthusiasm is echoed in chat participation and viewer engagement

    high · Bug repeatedly acknowledges chat participation ('Good point, Luke Albin Peters,' 'Thanks for the guess,' viewers 'guessing Papa Duke high'), suggesting active community engagement and support

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Halloween wizard mode employs progressive difficulty scaling (more shots required at each location as player advances) combined with time-pressure mechanics (gas countdown, timer windows) to create escalating challenge

    high · Bug explains: 'As you get to each of these locations, they are progressively going to get harder to get through. I mean, you just have to shoot more shots to get through these locations' and discusses gas management and time windows

  • ?

    design_innovation: Wizard mode includes speedrun/time-attack replay feature allowing players to compete against their own location completion times, stored and displayed during subsequent mode plays

    high · Bug discovers during play: 'So now what, right? So we have another wizard mode we can try and go for... so it saves your times, too, at each of the locations. So now you can go back and you can try speedrunning it to beat those times.'

  • ?

Transcript

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0:00
Sweet. Alright, round two. Warm-up game down, which is what we call it if it doesn't immediately go as planned. Alright. Let's catch that. That was not a good catch. The ball won struggles this night, holy cow. I mean the good news is we don't have to get there through this way. I'm just really wanting to.
0:32
Because maybe people think I'm cool or something like that. I guess it doesn't really matter. We should probably just work our way in order through it.
0:44
Or should we try and get the hard ones out of the way first kind of thing? I don't know. One. Two. Three. You're not supposed to go up there. Yes, I am. Something worth mentioning tonight, too. We did extend the ball save, what do you call it, generosity timer quite a bit. That should help you with, uh... What should help? Me, really. But that should help you with, um... Some of that. There we go. One down.
1:34
Yeah, good point, Luke Peters. Uh, don't shoot aimlessly. Have a plan. Have a plan, dude. Totally just shifted the game. Whoopsies.
1:49

product_strategy: Ball save/generosity timer was extended post-release or in development to improve gameplay accessibility and reduce drain frustration during wizard mode attempts

high · Bug explicitly states: 'We did extend the ball save, what do you call it, generosity timer quite a bit. That should help you with...' suggesting a deliberate tuning adjustment

  • ?

    product_concern: Ball physics/routing issues during gameplay requiring skill/compensation (difficult catch angles, center drain threats, sling interaction management), though not presented as a design flaw

    medium · Bug repeatedly struggles with catches and ball control: 'That was not a good catch... ball struggles this night,' 'I hate slings,' 'I'm paranoid about raining every single second,' but frames these as challenges to overcome, not mechanical problems

    • Ten seconds. Okay, I think we got the left order tuned in. I'm going to use the multiballs, hopefully, to, like, aid me, kind of get, to help aid me get through some of the modes.
    2:04
    Mystery is lit. All right. Ugh, dirty. Do it the safe way. I like that guess. Play better pinball. Now we're talking.
    2:19
    That's a good guess. I want to save that one for a multi-ball. Sure. That target, well, we still got ball save.
    2:40
    Oh, good. Let me shoot the green. No red. My heart's pumping. I got chills. They're multiplying. Watched, um, that reminds me I watched the movie Crybaby For the first time last night Johnny Depp, I think his name's John Waters movie And that movie Was grease on a lot of Crack cocaine And I freaking loved it, holy cow Nobody ever told me How good of a movie Crybaby was And that I needed it all my life Those last two targets have me nervous. I wouldn't mind multi-balling. So, something strategic to do if you're just trying to speedrun your way to getting Nike came home wizard mode, when you get the multi-balls, don't collect super jackpots so that you can keep going back to those multi-balls to help aid you to get through the modes.
    3:48
    I could just risk it and hit those two targets, but I'm feeling skittish. There is no maximum limit, I don't believe, but you might as well start spending it eventually. Aniline jackpot.
    4:16
    There we go. Alright, so counting bodies is down. That gives us two jack-o-lantern boats. Did I lose a ball? Oh my god, I'm an idiot, it was in the scoop! I was scoring points! Dummy! I thought I had a ball trap or something, I forgot I put it in the scoop. I'm sure it says that up there too. I think I got extra ball with it as well right now. Sure. There we go. Alright. Alright, we don't really care about this whole multiball thing right now.
    5:10
    Can I... I can't remember, can I relight... Can I raise the drop targets hitting the orbits during multiball? I don't remember off the top of my head.
    5:23
    Let's see... Like I said, we're not collecting super jackpots. We don't want to do that tonight. I don't think we can. Well now would be a good time to maybe hit that Judith target to try and get first kill all set up. Well, maybe not.
    5:42
    We are safe. For now, alright. Well, are we still on for tonight? I wouldn't want to get you in deep trouble, Linda. Oh come on Annie! I love the callouts from the movie. Like pulling audio clips.
    6:11
    That's one... Two... Oh my goodness! Tonight's gonna be a lot of me doing like deep breathing and... We're not fortunate. We need all the help we can get.
    6:32
    Center drop turn. Not risky at all. Not a risky shot at all. We should get the right ramp backhand down. Yeah, there we go.
    6:43
    Number three. Let's go ahead and try and get this one. This one's the most shots, so I want to get this one out of the way using hedge multiball, I'm hoping. Like that!
    6:59
    Woo! I set mine at seven. Seven degrees. Hope everybody's doing great in the chat. I love you all. It means the world to me that you guys are here. I'm excited to be doing this. If I'm not, I'm sorry if I don't interact with you as much as I normally do tonight. I'm just really focused on trying to get this freaking wizard mode in.
    7:21
    You guys are awesome. I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. I hope you're enjoying the code. And gosh, can we please talk about Matt Kemp for a second and the miracles he did on this freaking game. It's come together so nicely. I absolutely love, love where Halloween is. He did an insanely good job. And we're not quite finished with it either.
    7:52
    There we go. We're going to not hit the booby shot. There we go. Oh, that's right. The finishing shot's at the scoop if you have hedge multi-ball going. That makes it a lot easier to beat.
    8:14
    I need to collect those orange shots from Judith. Collect all the blood, we want to buy those extra balls. I want that orange shot. Give me that orange shot. Please! Yes. How many was that? Was that the third one? I don't remember. I'll collect another one just to be safe. I don't remember. We could stack them again. I'll collect another one just to be safe. I'll go with another ant. Yeah, OK. I think we can let this multi go now Here the pumpkin No Don really feel like it Oh my gosh
    9:06
    Alright. Whoo! Awesome. Alright. We're still rollin'. Uh, let's see. Uh, yeah. Oh. I forgot, we're not gonna do that.
    9:32
    We gotta get to the second silent portion of this video for those watching on YouTube. Let it go. We're getting there folks. We're working our way.
    9:55
    How's that sound? At least in this one we can breathe like we can be comfortable just enjoy it I'm paranoid about raining every single second
    10:25
    That was almost catastrophic. I don't know if you guys saw what I saw there, but they were all heading their way down the center. Oh my goodness, how scary was that?
    10:47
    Jeez. Ten seconds! Whew. Five seconds left! Oh, please. Mystery is lit. She was the focus of his evil. Get to her grave.
    11:25
    Oh yeah, let's buy that extra ball. 20 after this one, right? Yeah. Yeah, 20 after this one. Alright.
    11:43
    We're getting there, folks. Let's get this one out of the way. It's pretty tough mode, so... I got all over my mustache.
    12:08
    All right. Start here. This is my favorite one. This is my favorite of all the combo sequences. Hitting the drop targets the whole way down. utilizing all three play fields. It's fun.
    12:29
    Oh! Oh, shit! Alright, well, we don't have to go back to it, so who cares? Who cares? He's killed you, and he's come for you. Alright.
    12:48
    We're still rockin'. Rockin' with Dokken. Any Dokken fans out there? Love Dokken. Probably one of my favorite 80s hair bands.
    13:06
    Another one down! Oh yeah, I slammed it really hard, that's why. If only for Dream Warriors. Um, what do we want? Let's get stocker mode done here.
    13:30
    Dokken has my all-time favorite live album. I think it's called Beast from the East. I have it on cassette, of all things, and it is my favorite live album. I just, I think the energy on it is so good.
    13:49
    Just barely escaped him there, that was good. Oh my god! The two expert modes pieced me up. Destroyed me.
    14:01
    Destroyed me. Fifteen years ago he killed his sister. Now he wants you. Get through those drop targets while I got pulse aim. The usual thing that I've said every time I've played this probably.
    14:21
    Just about. Man, those expert modes. five seconds left the blood will lead us to him i'm losing it there we go all right Matt and Luke just talking about code in the chat, like, planning new stuff together. So cute. You guys are adorable.
    15:05
    Let's do this. Let's try and get some balls locked while we're beating it. And then I want to take hedge multiball with, like, escape the kitchen or something along those lines.
    15:18
    Okay. There we go. One down. Oh, I can see there's something there. Yeah. Stay right there. Sorry. Stay right there.
    15:44
    Ah! You guys can see the way my legs cartoon run when I do that. Like... Okay. A second. There we go. He must be close.
    16:14
    Okay. Keep hitting that until it moves there. Of course. No. And then I missed. Okay, how many... You're not supposed to go up there. Yes I am. Calm down dude. Okay. Wait for the ramp.
    17:05
    Yes. I don't even care about that. Okay. Pass. Orbit. Not quite. Sorry, guys. I'm probably not being terribly entertaining right now. I'm very sorry, but... Oh, we're locked in.
    17:46
    The blood will lead up to him. I think we got it. We're going to be okay. He's not dead. He's just being really funny on me tonight. I don know what happened There lies nothing but death What happened
    18:15
    No way. Two modes left, right? I think we just got two. Oh man, I almost think we should do this one with multiball.
    18:33
    How do you decide? They're both hard modes. They're both risky modes, is the thing. Let's do... Let's do this one. I think it's smarter. Oh, I need the top hedge too, that's rough.
    18:51
    Never mind. See, he's alive. up. Shoot her! Classic. Okay, let's go ahead and... Yo, wait! Oh, you're saying shoot the... Oh, you're just I should! Slower next time. Oh, we're right there. All three balls are left.
    19:44
    Okay, that boat's done. That's good. That's really good. Where are we even at right now? I don't even know.
    20:00
    Okay. Right. Alright. Ten seconds! We're getting there guys. Shoot the pumpkin. Now! I'm not shooting the pumpkin. There's no way. I'm not doing it. You can't make me.
    20:26
    You're absolutely right. I need to go lock a ball at that Judith. That would be the smart thing to do right now.
    20:40
    God, the slings. I hate slings. I don't want them. The blood will lead up to him. It's just so scary to hit those drop targets, man.
    21:02
    That's why it's scary. We're not failing. We got this. We got this. We're totally fine. coming to your little town.
    21:25
    Get a pumpkin! Ten seconds! Good, we want that for sure. Whew. That was a good catch. All one is locked is near. Oh, dang. I almost need to, like, scoop my flipper up during that. if you hit it fast enough.
    22:11
    Alright, last mode. And we picked the doozy of a last mode, didn't we? Alright. Right off the bat. More of it.
    22:31
    Close. Don't hit that. Whatever you do, don't release the Junith ball! Oh my god, it kissed it. It kissed it so softly.
    22:48
    Alright, we got this. We're fine. We're almost fine. We just need to hit the orbit so it resets the drops again. I want to take you out tonight.
    23:29
    You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's a type of one that's scared of. Oh, we made it, guys. Oh my god. Night he came home wizard night. Wizard night. Oh, I can't even speak. Okay, you're Michael Myers. You're trying to get home to Halloween. It starts off right from leaving the sanitarium. As Loomis said, he is coming home tonight. Okay, so what you need to do is every time you hit one of these new locations, there's a spot where you need to lock in your value there. So right now I'm locking in my jackpot value. It's lit at the sanitarium scoop. If I don't hit it, it'll just time down to nothing, basically, and it'll lock itself in at a lower point. So like, it does that, right? Okay, now, all the shots are lit. You're advancing your way home with every single shot. So, some cool things to note. Ball save, thank the Lord. Some cool things to note here. when you hit a shot, it is lit for a little bit longer after you hit it the first time. The second time around that you hit it, you're getting 2x value. So that was 1.6 mil. If I hit it again, you'll see that I get 2x value on that, and it, of course, advances me to my next location. Now we've also got red targets lit all over the playfield.
    25:15
    You collect, I believe, six of them. collect six of those targets and you can collect an item from it's essentially one of the items that Michael steals from the hardware store and those various items have different parts to them so we just need like one more shot here I think maybe like two I still got a bunch of red I'm sorry orange shots lit. Up top here, if you... Oh hey, that got me to 100%, so we're good there. Okay, so that was the first location. We're on to the next location, which looks like Belp's Garage. So every single location you get to, more shots will be lit. I'm sorry, every single location you get to, you get the chance to lock in a new jackpot value, per se. So, I locked in my value much higher this time around so I got yeah I mean nine freaking mil for that so while the shot's still red you have the opportunity to get in there for 2x so I just got 18 million for that shot which is freaking awesome and then yeah all of these orange shots that I'm collecting here are of course increasing my value uh what was I gonna say something really cool really important per se. You can relight shots that you've collected. Okay, we made it anyway. You can relight shots that you've already collected if you shoot the crossover on that upper plate. Where am I going? Oh, the tombstone, yes. That's funny, that's why it's released I missed that ball. I was wondering that Yes so okay we locked in a tombstone Now we at the cemetery Okay I think there is eight or nine locations. I can't remember right now, but we still got a long way to go. So we're going to try and get all the way home. And I still have my idol at the scoop as well. We're getting crazy good points right now, guys. Really crazy good points. Whoever guessed, I hope there was some pretty high guesses is what I'm trying to say.
    27:38
    Let's see. OK, it's going to lock it in at the scoop there. Nichols Hardware Store. OK. As you get to each of these locations, they are progressively going to get harder to get through. I mean, you just have to shoot more shots to get through these locations.
    28:01
    Okay, so I should be collecting my item there, it looks like. So I stole the knife from the hardware store, so all my jackpots are doubled for the next 30 seconds. So we can score some really freaking crazy points here. Like that shot there was just 30 million for that shot.
    28:17
    Oh man, what else am I missing here? Gas! Gas! You are obviously, since you're going to Hadfield, you're in Michael's car. Oh, I just locked in that jackpot at 9 mil. Dude. Yes. That means it's actually, yeah, everything's doubled or whatever. Yeah. Oh my goodness. It's getting crazy. Gas! You're trying to get home. You're driving Michael's car. You have gas. You have to refill that gas. If that gas gets too low and you run out of gas, you will get kicked out of the mode. The drop targets will pop up to refill gas. Otherwise, I believe also collectible at the spinners on the uppermost playfield. You can get yourself more gas. Luke Peters, correct me in the chat if I'm totally wrong.
    28:58
    The Judith Tombstone shot over there is a super jackpot that is also lit. That you can go and collect. Like that. 65 mil. Come on. I'm trying to get 666 for play more pinball because I love you. And I appreciate that you believe in me. Okay, Doyle House, Doyle House. Where's this one? Where's this one? I hit it already. Doesn't matter. Okay.
    29:25
    Just keep shooting shots. It'll keep adding balls every location you get, then you get that wicked ball save, which is a huge help.
    29:33
    Let's see. Keep hitting stuff, keep hitting stuff. Keep doing your thing. If I could shoot that crossover, that would be super beneficial. So you really do want to hit the 2x value shot because once that 2x value shot goes away, it takes away your opportunity to hit it a second time as well. So it's more than just, oh you're getting a whole bunch of extra points. Oh god it's the crossover shot, that's going to be really hard. Um, ah, trying, trying, trying, ah! Okay, we'll just, it'll probably just rain down, that's fine. So we won't get too much points on this one, but, you know, whatever. I'd say we're already doing fine. There we go. Yes, that's gas there. You can hear it refilling.
    30:40
    That crossover, please. Oh, yes! Great. So that relights our shots, making that much easier to get through. It takes a lot more shots to get through these locations as you go. So the more of a multiball you have going, the better.
    30:59
    I'm so happy right now, guys. We made it. We're not home yet, though. Literally. I think. You have reached the Myers now. Oh! Frenzy. We are home. I was wrong. I made it!
    31:16
    It's a frenzy for, I think, 60 seconds. Just seven balls, hit all the shit you can. Oh my god, we might crack a billion? No way.
    31:36
    We're getting there. We've got to hit more stuff. Keep going! Must keep running. Whatever. Halloween jackpot. Give me all the Loomis callouts. Shove Loomis in my face. Kiss that Donald Pleasant's beard. Evil jackpot. Oh, we only have three seconds left. Come on. Push as you can. Halloween jackpot. One. Oh, it's stuck at one. That's good. Oh, because of the subway stuff. That's funny. Halloween jackpot. You have done well. Michael has gone home. Let's take a look at the times. And then, yes, so it saves your times, too, at each of the locations. So now you can go back and you can try speedrunning it to beat those times. We've won this battle. On ball three.
    32:33
    How? What more could you want? Oh, man. I didn't feel the momentum. Oh, I had extra ball. These small towns are all the same, but one calls one of them home. Rock on guys. Absolutely freaking fantastic. This game kicks ass. I think we should kick off Michael, we'll be there forever. Matt Kemp, Luke Peters, you guys are heroes. This game is fantastic and you guys are absolutely, you guys are everything to that. We don't have time for this. Yeah, so now what, right? So we have another wizard mode we can try and go for, I guess.
    33:15
    Whew! Awesome. Well, I doubt anybody guessed this high for score. There has to be a winner, right? Do we know who the winner is? Let's get going. What's the closest? Yeah, we got winner. Rock on.
    33:31
    Wow. Whew! Well, that feels pretty good. This accomplishes nothing. Don't you gonna hug everybody in chat right now?
    33:46
    What's funny in all of that craziness never started a sanitary alone All right, let's go for boogeyman
    34:04
    Before it's too late Oh my goodness. So yeah, now if, it's a bad if, if you were to make your way back to the night he came home wizard mode, you could try and beat all your times, and during the mode it'll actually display the times that you had up there the first time around.
    34:27
    So you can now try and break a second high score, of sorts. All right, let's go get that super. I'm playing jackpot.
    34:53
    Okay, well, maybe not. Good luck. We can always go back. Wow, my brain is jello right now, guys. Yes, I am. I'm so glad you all could be here. Hey, I love doing it. You've got to drive him back.
    35:16
    Confound him, man! Get away from him! Ah, well, we'll call it a game. There will be more bodies than this. We're entering those initials. We care about that one. That's a good game there.
    35:35
    A new grand champion. Thank God for that. Wow. Alright. What more can be done? Woo! We did it. Did we match, too? Oh, no, we didn't. Ha ha ha!
    35:53
    That was a game. That was a game and a half. Wow.