Hello. I am going to show you how to make a Google Drive with the help of the Google Drive application. I am going to use the Google Drive application to create a Google Drive application. I am going to use the Google Drive What's going on ladies and jelly spoons? Let's test the audio. Audio coming in good? I would assume that we've got audio. It looks like we've got video because I'm watching the stream right here. Sounds good. Okay, so let me, yay, let me cause this chat to pop out. At least I've got the chat now. Thank you very much to Acker. You guys can say thank you to him because he was texting me the questions that were being asked during that tour. Okay, so can't do that. All right. so only bring David in here he's a we probably got maybe 15 20 minutes with him and then he's got a call with a license holder so get your questions ready David is more than likely on his way over here Should be. Got this chair ready for him. Think so, huh? Roger Rabbit. By all means or 100% which is a better saying? install a sneaky mic up there it's cracker barrel what are what better theme for barrels of fun yeah well maybe they'll have to change up the logo oh you think so huh well you should see what they've got around here on these other posters you know what I guess I could show you guys while we wait looks Looks like it's Dracula, Ready Player One, Tomorrowland, Frighteners, and Death Till Dawn. Make sure that we're centered up here. clues no not that I'm aware of at least all right here he is you got your mic I got you a chair pulled up right here I got you a soda but I got you got makeup no there's no makeup man it was just raw and hard that's all we're gonna be doing in here so guys feel free to ask them anything and anything you want to right here he can see the chat I can see the chat doesn't mean I can read it okay how many people we've got going currently 33 we have about a hundred people during the tour Oh any questions from the tour someone's asking new topper ready new topper is in progress so we deal with obviously outside vendors on that however I did say we've got a container coming tomorrow and we We do have accessories for that. And I think I got one of them over here. I think we've teased this before, but this is actually the finished product. He's getting into a little cupboard over here, Janos Kiss. And he's breaking stuff. I'm breaking stuff. So the slings are not in here. Is that what it comes in when people buy it? It will come in a cardboard box right there. There you go. So with what you get for one price, we haven't determined the price yet, we've got to figure out tariffs and everything else that comes in, is the Crystal Knife Shooter Rod. So you get that, plus you'll get 3D sculpted in-lanes and slingshots with it. So for the price of what the shooter rod is, you will also be getting the sculpted slings and in-lanes. Did we have this called this? I think they're actually on the game out there that you'll get to play. Oh, okay. So that will come in a nice little cardboard box. Branded as well. Shooter Rod looks great. It does look great. They're asking, can we get a 1990 movie TMNT pinball machine, being it's the 35th anniversary? Dude, I'd love that. Love that. Question, what else will Barrels of Fun make besides pinball? If you can't say, can you give us a date? Ha ha! Yeah, so we have a whole line of refrigerators coming out. So lucky enough, because I get to work in the space with the licenses, that we can expand our contracts into toys. So ideally what we want to do is take a lot of the sculpts that we do, like our topper and that, and figure out how we can actually make that for other fans of the IP. so you know could we turn say the labyrinth topper into a stupidly giant alarm clock that talks to you um i say yes um but you know there are things that we're working on that hopefully we'll bring to market probably within the next 18 months um the other thing is we'd love to give one-off prints of the cabinet work so a lot of our cabinet work we don't actually do it to the side well we We obviously trim it to the side of the cabinet, but traditionally they're actually done as a full-size painting. So we want to offer that as an actual painting on a canvas print. As I say, you've got movie posters, why not have a movie-style poster of your games? Correct. So those are the things that we're working on, and it comes down to the artists that we're working with and how we can make that happen with them. It might be a little far away, but for Pinball Expo Chicago, how many games are you anticipating to take with you to play on? I love to play Dune. You love to play Dune? We will have a minimum of four games at Chicago. Actually, I shouldn't have said that. I just took my bargaining chips away from Rob. So, yeah, ideally we will have at least four games there, depending on what distributors we're working with. I like to play games and not wait in lines I understand that What are your feelings on video game themes Oh dude, I think there's a great opportunity. I grew up playing Duke Nukem and Commander Keen, like, Doom, Quake, you know, Rise of the Triad. I mean, I don't know if anyone knows that, but like, I was playing video games as soon as I got my, Well, actually, I had an Amiga, then a Commodore 64. Sorry, let me back up. Commodore 64, then got an Amiga, then got a 386DX40. So I've always been playing video games my whole life. I think we're ripe for a video game pinball machine, mainly because our demographic now are old enough to buy games, unless you start a pinball company. So it's one of those things of I absolutely do think there's a great opportunity for video games out there. But the question is, video games have become so complex. Like, you know, if you went and did Call of Duty, for example, like, how do you integrate all the accessories that you do to that? Or Assassin's Creed? Or, you know, I mean, you can go back to Doom. You know, I'm a big fan of Doom. That would be pretty simple. But a lot of these more complicated games is like, How do you make sure you make the game that touches all the nostalgic points of the fans of that IP? And then it depends on also what the license holders are willing to do. So like those teams, Call of Duty and Duke Nukem, there's guns in it. And so for all you know... I would hope they're okay with that. I mean, that is a legit concern because there are companies out there that, you know, when you do a license and deal for a pinball machine, that's classed as a toy category. if it's classed as a toy category then nine out of ten times you're not allowed to put guns on that game um so that's you know that's a technical problem yeah a legal ease problem um but you know yeah i just oh man what what are some of your favorite video game pinball machines you guys would like to see let's let's talk about that like bruno's asking right here about dune he's like Does the license for Dune allow for the inclusion of the third movie and new modes? We have an amazing relationship with them, and we will continue to work with them for a very, very long time. That's all I can say. How far along are you on your next title? We're far along on multiple titles. Oh. Let's see here. Someone's saying Wolfenstein 3D. Yes. A World of Warcraft, Vanilla. it out. Rotate-o! Rotate-o! Pac-Man, Tetris, Crash Bandicoot, Mario. Mario is one of those, why has that not been snatched up yet? So trying to get through the barrier, Nintendo have greatly looked after their IPs and the control of their IPs. So they are very particular who they work with. It is very hard to have a conversation with them, just in general period. They very much have a lot of creative control on that. Let's see here. Another person says World of Warcraft. Tomb Raider, Gears of War, Resident Evil, Killer Instinct, World of Warcraft. So obviously the movie didn't do well, right? So you'd do it on the video game. I'm just wondering, because that's a world-building game, do you tackle that like D&D? I think you would kind of have to. You would kind of have to, I mean, if you want to make it as close to the game as possible, I mean, you have to level up in order to go into different zones. It was a good portion of my life during Wrath of the Lich King. That was a lot. But Bioshock. Bioshock would be amazing. That's one that I'm... Steampunk? Oh, dude. Did you see the new one that they're going to come out with? I think, is it Netflix has got a series or a movie coming out? I'm all about that. It's like, I think in order for you to do a Bioshock, you have to have a big daddy on the play field somewhere. 100%. Or at least half of them. And they have to have the drill hand that spins. It's just certain things that you have to have. You have to have the drill hand coming out of the apron. Yeah, it'd be kind of cool to have a little bit of a narrator. Like, would you kindly hit the left ramp? Or something like that, you know? And it's like, oh, yeah. It's over there. British accent. And then you have to choose if you want to harvest the little sister or save him. Choosing paths. I think that would be really... That's pinball. Yeah. We'll start drawing up in the prototype. Will the next game release with code further along than Dune on release? All right. Let's set the record straight. It says great progress on Dune now, but initial impressions of lack of code have stuck with some people. It certainly has stuck. It's funny. We quite often see people say, you know, there's very little code on it. When we actually launched, we technically had six levels of Harvester. we had two prophecies and we had a multiball, a Desert Power multiball. So I wouldn't say that there was lack of code. It was shallow, absolutely. But, you know, we're very proud of where we have gotten it to. And, you know, there were some things that we had to take care of on the launch week behind the scenes. But going back to it, I think we've got a great amount of code. So now again, we have six Harvester modes, we have six Prophecy modes, we have Desert Power, we have Fideicom Multiball, we have two mini Wizard modes in there already, two are coming along plus a Wizard mode. So we're a long way. Something people don't understand is we actually had to get everything approved before we actually launched the game. Now I'm not talking about modes, I'm talking about asset-wise. So I think this is the first time I've ever experienced this where we actually had to get every single clip, person likeness, all approved before even launching this game. Hence why you've seen there's a massive leap from when we launched this game to where we are now. It's because we actually don't have to ask for approval on any of the assets anymore. How we put them into the game, yes we've got to get approval for. But that's why you see in this game take a lot of jumps moving forward. forward. In fact, now going through this experience, I may actually start changing how we structure our future games to kind of do that as well because it forced us to think differently than we have in the past. We got Don from Don's Pinball Podcast here. Oh my goodness. He's saying what's up in Texas and he says he knows what your theme should be. I know you do. He's like, he would love peewee. He wants the insane clown posse. He's like, he would love peewee, but they must first do the Muppet Show. The Muppet Show. I'd love to do the Muppet Show. You've already got a relationship. I do have a relationship with Henson, absolutely. It's just too bad that Henson doesn't own the Muppets. We'll see. There's information that not everybody knows. Including myself right there, guys. Shit. They still have involvement, but they don't own it. Let's see here. Willow. I never even got to watch the sequel to Willow. They took that off. Because it was so bad. It was? Yeah, it was bad. Okay. I don't even recommend doing the original Willow, but that was a movie I remember watching when I was a kid, and I loved it. Then I watched it when I got older. I was like, oh, God. Brian you are correct Disney does earn the Muppets now Oh man Muppet Show would be amazing Malky Jackson thriller I don disagree with that But the question is would you do just the thriller album or do you want to do the whole 90s where you go to black and white and so forth? What would you do? That's what I wanted to know. I mean, could you have inserts? You know, the white light up and you shoot it and you're slowly progressing towards the middle of the jeans. yeah that i think that's an excellent yeah that means a lot of great songs in there and it's like yeah but i'm a huge fan of smooth criminal you gotta have that that that was like my favorite and everything and i remember showing my daughters the movie moonwalker and i remember we got to the smooth criminal portion and i was waiting for the reaction to the whole leaning over thing and i was like i want to watch this and then just watching them go what and i was like try it so that i watched my daughter fall on her face but like it was great oh I remember chasing down the video game oh let's see here um when like someone else was talking about Willow with like an Ewok Adventure pinball now you're just crazy Ozzy Osbourne not just a music Michael Jackson Moonwalkers yes I would agree it would have to be the album can't be just one song not just a music pin album alright you got Purple Rain would you rather do Purple Rain or Thriller? I'm I mean, I would probably lean more towards Michael Jackson than Prince, but that's a tough one though, because they're both really good, but I think I enjoy Michael Jackson's music better than I do Prince's though. Yeah, they're all like Thriller, Thriller, Thriller, but you got the the color purple. The color purple, alright, there you go, we're done. Sticking to one tier, absolutely one tier. There's no point in doing multiple versions. I want to give you guys the best version of that one theme or license game. You shouldn't have to worry about if you can afford the pro or the premium. We want to give you the best version of it for the best value and stay in business. It's always number one priority. My number one priority is my business kind of thing. Well, you got to remember the amount of time and effort I put into training my employees is like I don't want them to ever have to worry about where they're going to find work you know and they do such a good job out there and at the end of the day it's just like my my whole goal is a obviously work with amazing people to make amazing games but I don't want anyone out there to be worried about where their next paycheck's coming from so that is my number one process this whole thing I'm kind of curious if there was anything that you could tell the layman folks or the enthusiasts out there about the pinball industry to give them a better understanding. Run. Run when you can. No, just a better understanding when it comes to manufacturing that a lot of us tend to just not know this information. What kind of bit of information could you bestow upon us to give us a better idea of, you know, I guess the... The process? Yeah. So, you know, you think about it's just making the game and getting it to market is the only thing you have to do, right? So that's what we did. and we thought about all the things that as collectors ourselves what did we want to do different to everyone else you know our number one goal was to make sure we had all the parts for the game so when we launched we could build games okay like we weren't using pre-order money to pay for games because if you do if that happens you end up at the risk of if they go under you get nothing i got burnt on predator i've been burnt on other games that is something that i did not want to burden people that love our product if i say we have a product available i want to make sure that we can do that okay that was one reason we started the company that we could do differently the other thing is one version of a game you shouldn't have to pick like do i really want this feature in the game or do i because i can't afford it i need to get the cheaper version like our goal was to create a product that is pays tribute really really well to whatever game we're theme in it too, but it really pleases the fan. They shouldn't have to choose between if they get the lower version or the high end version. So that was kind of the whole reason and plus obviously the business plan that we laid out made sense at the time. Now with the success of Labyrinth, the demand for Labyrinth is higher than we anticipated. We set numbers where we think that we can get to. But when you start from one person two person, five, ten people, that's pretty easy to manage. But when you have all these orders coming in, because we also don't want you guys to wait 18 months for a game, which we end up having to do on Labyrinth because we had to ramp up. That doesn't include all of the technical problems that you have regarding vendors or your employees breaking things or just a hurricane comes through. So from, yes, a successful launch, and then all of a sudden you start doing the math, he's like this vendor falls off and then this doesn't turn up on time and then you've got to hire more people and let's just talk about the HR side of hiring people like I individually interview all the people which took so much time out of my life that took me away from the production took me away from development and then I brought in a agency now we're getting into the weeds but like bringing I thought bringing in an agent's like when I was doing it myself background checks you name it was it would take away my time everywhere else so I decided to get an agency agency was really good about a month into it then you realize they weren't doing half the work they said they were doing regarding background checks and stuff like that so then it was like all came back in house so like I was prepared to be able to get people into manufacture games I was not prepared with the day-to-day operations of dealing with a company of this size i mean we are over 30 people now and that building the facility from my dining room to uh 13 000 square feet and then to an additional no no 13 19 000 square feet now additional 13 like the ramp up over the last 12 months has been insane like that has pulled me in so many different directions so i love every minute of it don't get me wrong i wouldn't change anything for the world but i totally underestimated the day-to-day side of it and i didn't realize the partnerships and contracts really important to get contracts people is making sure that the logistics are in place so when something does go wrong and this is probably i think worked in our favor is like film production when you get the first day of production when something goes wrong it's not just give up, it's like, pivot. What can I do to make this different? How can I move my people around? That's why we cross-train all our employees. They can work in sub-assembly, playfields, cabinets, and so forth. So if something does get bottlenecked because we didn't get something, we can now push our people around to different areas. And not to mention if someone gets sick, they've got to be able to do another task and stuff like that. Someone asked here also, I thought that was a pretty good question, is like, what are the chances on your next game that the accessories will release the same time the game does, like you did with Labyrinth? So it won happen That is just straight up won happen due to the economic crisis we having across the globe right now But with anything we are learning from the events of this year is they call it vertical integration. We have started doing that like 110%. I mean, you can't get 100, but we've basically, you know, we slowly were planning to start doing a lot of stuff ourselves. And then like when everything changed, we virtually just, again, like virtual integration we literally went vertical so like you saw on the factory tour we have a fiber laser we have a cnc brake press we have our own router now and it's mainly out of necessity because we it's not that our vendors hold us hostage it's just the vendors can't control their back end and not due to because they don't know how to do their business it's just you can't predict what's going to happen in the world economic environment so what we're trying to do is position ourselves where we can be more nimble. So if I need to make 50 pieces of an apron, I can do that in-house now. So that's the business side of things. Wait, guys, I've got like four minutes, and then I'm going to release him to do his meeting. So if you've got any other hard-hitting, dying questions, ask them now. ET, do you want the pinball machine bared out in the Arizona desert? No, Nevada desert? I've got a cartridge at the house on the shelf. Nice. Yeah. Thank you for being... Because I'll just keep talking, so thank you for watching the time. Yeah, I don't want you to get in trouble, man. I don't know what the license is that you're working on, but I don't want you to be... I don't want you to be... Planet of the Apes, that would be awesome. Planet of the Apes, original or the new series? Because the new movie series is pretty awesome. Chances of a future original thing. Never say never. I so original themes nine out of ten times people say they want an original theme and when it happens no one buys it doesn't mean it can't be done well um so yeah never say never on an original IP Don's like don't do original themes why not it's a I think that uh it's like like like he states things are doable i just don't see them being like a day one and you don't want day one sellouts anyways nope but it's one of those that would have to highly depend like rely on word of mouth word of mouth get out there and play it just like everyone keeps saying there's no code on dune go out and play it and see how much code's in there barbecue that's why barbecue didn't have anything in it also you don't grill barbecue Thunder Cats would also be good yeah people are talking about the Goonies Goonies would be great Thunder Cats would be great Bloodsport you bring the shrimp Brian I'll barbecue it for you buddy hey any of you all in Texas make sure you come and swing by I'll let anyone in obviously Rocky 80's rock and roll 80s rock and roll. 80s action. Commando should be in there too. Futurama. I mean, that's a lot. Barbecue was just a poorly made game. Unfair example. Hey, John, have you played the First Blood video game out there? It's pretty cool. Kindergarten Cop. Might as well do Twins at the same time. Yeah. It's not a tumor. Is any place better than Texas? The answer is no. Well, I don't know. It depends on what the Carl Weathers's like. Andy, thank you for playing at the UK Pimp Fest Dune. I heard there were lions for it the whole weekend. I heard there was a couple little snafus with the flippers, which is an industry-wide problem, but we're on top of it. And someone else also mentioned it earlier. I guess they played Dune with you in Austria a few weeks ago? Was that Roy? Is Roy in the house? Yeah, Roy W. Roy W. There he is. Do another Star Trek, the next generation. How many Star Trek games have we had so far? I don't know. I think at least the... Original, the Bailey Riot, Dead or East. And then the next generation. Next generation. And then you had the Stern one. And then the Stern. So that's four. Yeah. Austria was fun. Oh, Don, you were even in Austria at the time? He was in Austria. He came and played Dune. He put his mitts on it. Pinball 2000 style game, baseball theme. What? Baseball? They've tried a sports game. Didn't do that well. Yeah. Running Man. Dude. I will be going to see that in the theaters when it comes out. I don't think it's going to be as good as Arnie's though. Sega Star Wars. Come on, Kerry. I did forget to mention Sega Star Wars on the whole Star Wars discussion a while back. I forgot about that one, the trilogy. alright guys it's 1220 I'm going to let him get to his meeting I don't want him getting in trouble and then we're going to go for lunch yeah and then we got to eat anyone go on his Patreon and tell him where we should go and eat in Houston somewhere that's got steak probably meat there's a Korean there's a Michelin style Korean BBQ place around the road it's in a gas station I don't know about that I'll take your word for it but also for those that are not on Patreon They actually just today activated the ability for me to go live on Patreon only. So I don't have to utilize YouTube or unlisted links or anything like that. It's just a real quick way for me to go live. I may do that on the factory floor here, but I think I'm going to get some time on Dune, get some more footage. Do you think I might be able to fly my drone around since everybody's at lunch? Hell yeah. Okay, sweet. Absolutely. Also, I saw Daft Punk being mentioned. We have a good... That'd be a hell of a good soundtrack. right there. There you go. You can see it back there, guys. We love our posters. You're going to draw some questions about what you got in the corner right there. Oh, you're going to show them. All right. Things we do for fun. Anybody can guess what that game is in the corner? Get you a T-shirt. Roy's like, I know what that is. So, Roy, can I put that in the container? Because I'm not paying for the shipping. All righty. Well, we'll come back this afternoon and do something. Yeah, sure. I'm here for the rest of the day, essentially. Then off to San Antonio tomorrow. Go see the Alamo. Go see Pee Wee's bike, dude. It's down there now. Oh, at the Alamo? Yeah. They just bought it. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's the great home of Texas now. Why is it every time I visit San Antonio, it's always in August and it's so hot? It's like the worst time to go. Well, have fun. All right, guys. Thank you very much, and we'll see you this afternoon. Yeah. All right, guys. Thanks for tuning in. Give my microphone back. Let's see if you want everybody to hear your meeting. How much do you all pay me to do that? I'm cheap. All right, guys. Thanks for tuning in. I will catch you all later. Love you a long time. Bye.