Rocket Skates Multiball/New Episode Code Update Tutorial!

Bug's Scream and Stream·video·27m 58s·analyzed·Oct 4, 2024

Analysis

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TL;DR

Bug demos Looney Tunes code update: Rocket Skates Multiball, Satan's Waiting mode, menu customization.

Summary

Bug from Spooky Pinball provides an in-depth code update tutorial for Looney Tunes pinball, covering the new Rocket Skates Multiball mode, Satan's Waiting mode mechanics, and extensive menu customization options. The stream showcases creative rule design philosophy, risk-reward gameplay mechanics, and demonstrates how Spooky's modes draw inspiration from board game elements while offering customization to suit different player preferences.

Key Claims

Looney Tunes already has more modes than any other Spooky game
medium confidence · Bug states during gameplay: 'this game is going to have a lot of modes it already does I think it already has more modes than any game we have I I believe that it's got a ton'
Working with Ben Heck for one hour is equivalent to losing about one day of mental capacity
low confidence · Bug explains fatigue: 'we've decided in the nicest way possible working with Ben heck for every hour you work at Ben heck that is about a day of your life and your brain gone'
Many of Rocket Skates multiball rules were designed by Bug
high confidence · Bug states: 'I would say in fact I think it's safe to say that most of these rules are are mine'
Most Spooky modes are inspired by board game elements
medium confidence · Bug explains: 'a lot of my modes are actually based on some board game elements' and cites Risk as inspiration for mode design
Looney Tunes is a first-time game for multiple buyers
medium confidence · Bug mentions: 'we have a lot of people who buy our games as their first time game I've noticed and uh that's always a really cool thing'

Notable Quotes

“I like when you immediately go okay no don't do that cuz it's like wait but that's the exact opposite of how I'm always supposed to play”
Bug @ early_gameplay — Describes appreciation for Satan's Waiting mode which subverts normal pinball strategy by requiring shot avoidance rather than hit accumulation
“this multiball and the rules behind it because how many times do you get a multiball where you're building your jackpots and it lights the Super Jackpot shot which is super basic pinball 101... but when you hit the Super Jackpot it's going to end the multi ball”
Bug @ multiball_explanation — Articulates core design philosophy of Rocket Skates: inverting standard multiball risk-reward by making the goal to delay the Super Jackpot
“I'm smart enough to realize I'm not going to be able to think of every possible combo um that might you know stack ex so I I like to leave the creativity out there that others are will discover something”
Bug @ gameplay — Reveals intentional design strategy of leaving rule space for community discovery and creative stacking
“you can literally FaceTime us and we show you how to work your game and everything like that which good luck FaceTime in owners of other companies”
Bug @ endgame_chat — Emphasizes Spooky's customer service philosophy and contrasts with industry competitors on support
“this is the hardest job I've ever done by a mile man”
Bug @ mid_stream — Expresses difficulty of balancing rule design complexity while maintaining player accessibility

Entities

BugpersonEric BowapersonBen HeckpersonDylanpersonSpooky PinballcompanyLooney TunesgameRocket Skates MultiballgameSatan's Waiting ModegameGiant Rocket Multiballgame

Signals

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community_signal: Spooky Pinball emphasizes customer support differentiation, claiming ability to provide FaceTime support and direct relationship with buyers versus competitors
high · Bug states: 'you can literally FaceTime us and we show you how to work your game... which good luck FaceTime in owners of other companies'
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design_philosophy: Bug intentionally leaves rule space for community discovery and undocumented combos rather than fully engineering all stacking possibilities
high · Bug: 'I'm smart enough to realize I'm not going to be able to think of every possible combo... I like to leave the creativity out there that others are will discover something'
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design_philosophy: Spooky Pinball intentionally inverts standard pinball strategies in modes (Satan's Waiting shot avoidance, Rocket Skates Super Jackpot delay) to create novel risk-reward dynamics
high · Bug explicitly praises subverting normal 'hit all shots' strategy and describes Rocket Skates as flipping standard multiball jackpot collection on its head
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personnel_signal: Ben Heck collaboration significantly impacts Spooky team's cognitive capacity; multiple team members working intensively this week on unspecified project
medium · Bug reports three days straight in 12x12 office with Ben Heck, claims one hour work = one day mental loss, describes 'a lot of voices' and being 'a bit looney'
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product_strategy: Code update adds extensive menu customization options: episode select toggle, multiball order selection, Satan's Waiting fire hit limits and spawn delays, Taz meter light adjustment

Topics

Mode design philosophy and mechanicsprimaryCode update features and customization menuprimaryRisk-reward gameplay balancingprimaryMultiball shot sequencing and jackpot buildingprimaryBoard game-inspired rule designsecondaryCustomer support and first-time buyer experiencesecondarySpooky Pinball production process and team dynamicssecondaryWizard mode design and playabilitysecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Bug and co-host express pride in game design complexity, creativity, and customer focus. Playful banter and self-deprecating humor about gameplay mistakes. Genuine enthusiasm about mode mechanics and wizard modes. Only mild frustration expressed about difficulty during live play.

Transcript

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let's see what you got new members you know how hard in the script it was to write that cuz like you don't know when you're writing and if you need to write the stuttering or not in most cases you don't Eric Bowa knows what he's doing cuz he's a pro all right can't drein if you never start valid points all right here we go uh we can go ahead we can jump straight to the Satan's waiting mode cuz that won't too tough to get to uh so for the giant rocket skates you may be wondering how do I get the giant rocket skates going turn this down just a little bit and the answer is very simple uh it's the exact same way that you get the giant rocket multiball you hit the captive ball to light lock and then you lock balls at the right orbit Tweety and San's waiting it was pulled up for me it's ready to go uh we'll talk more about giant rocket skates later intro a ain't that nice the py T brought my Fe py all right Sho the blue shots Satan's waiting so in this mode you drain immediately that's what you do my ball got stuck you drain immediately no so you have the blue shots lit on the Playfield you need to collect the blue shots and avoid the burning shots so as not to burn through your nine lives now it's not actually Nine Lives cuz that's a heck of a lot of shots uh it's just five so don't burn through your five lives I should say so like I just hit a burning shot there so that burns sester you don't want to hit those but we need our blue shots which are basically set up like combos you don't per se need to combo them but they're set up that you could play it as a combo so hit blue shots avoid burning shots it starts out with like basically no burning shots on the Playfield and then they slowly get added increasing the difficulty of you know that shot in that mode yeah the music RS I love this song Blue shot okay so we got right ramp so yeah every time you finish out that combo it kind of resets the burning shots avoid theing shot it's filling up fast [Music] too there we go okay right orbit right orbit don't hit burning shots I love a mode where you have to avoid shots I find them just really interesting like once you start I like when you change the dynamic of how you're supposed to play a game when it's like excuse me when it's like oh in pinball you want to hit as many shots in a row as you can and hit the blinking lights I like when you immediately go okay no don't do that cuz it's like wait but that's the exact opposite of how I'm always supposed to play also this is pretty tough I got to set up my inner loop shot here but I can't hit that ramp that's going to be really tough see if we can like catch a backhand off of it oh no that was close oh boy how am I going to pull this off I got an idea we try and get through the crate we get through the crate we catch the ball and then we backhand it this is how we're going to do this every shot is burning right now oh no don't hit that we got to get that ball up there somehow oh boy I keep getting close I'm real close to getting it set up ah I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that on this one I might have to burn a shot I think we got to burn a shot [Music] ah oh oh it resets the whole sequence I forgot oh man okay so now I got to hit all those shots again okay well learn from our mistakes and let's go get that inner loop shot taken care of like ASAP cuz uh that was a real problem yes so you have to complete four sequences that's the fourth sequence there you walked in just as I I beat it have money just got done explaining your microphone's right there if you want come on Doc not much time left solo 138 says amazing mode who chooses the music to go along with each mode you pretty much chose every song yeah for for it which like quite a few of them were um featured in the episode to some extent when they were featured in episode obviously chose those ones but uh that one why is that one funny because it's called something hell yeah inferno Gallery Inferno so most people just know it as the can can song but it's actually from an opera where the person goes am I on yeah yeah just where the uh person descends into hell so that is the infernal Gallop song I can still Ed you in you want in um sure yeah no I can't that's fine guess not never mind there you go I don't know I'm just stupid Taz somebody hey they reminded me to talk about t so you'll have to forgive me and I I'll position myself on camera better um so my brain is fried we worked with Ben heck this week and we've decided in the nicest way possible working with Ben heck for every hour you work at Ben heck that is about a day of your life and your brain gone and it's partially just because Ben's brain is going so fast so um I think it's a compliment but his brain works very different than mine it's it's AB normal it's very AB normal so our brains are fried from a week of working with Ben I've spent 3 days straight in an office what do you think 12 by 12 yeah with Ben it's a lot a lot of voices a lot of voices so we're a bit Looney um but anyway with Taz the reason I am going to be a little unsure is because my fried brain and sometimes I work on code well in advance of when everyone sees it so I don't always remember what is in every update um but I have uh added a menu option for adjusting the amount of uh those red lights that fall as you are uh uh collecting the red shots um so that's going to make it so you can essentially make it you know three shots to get to Taz if you really want to after this game we'll have to show them the menu cuz I was going to tell them about this feature about how you can select which mode you want to start first for your multiball whether it's giant rocket or rocket skates multiball you go into the menu and you can set which one will start first by getting up here because uh now the rule is that so after you play one of them so let's say it's giant rocket cuz that's the standard uh you go you hit the captive ball you relock the three balls now it goes to the next multiball instead of repeating the same same one so you can select which one goes first and we'll show you how to adjust that in the menu and that'll be a good opportunity for you to show them the Taz thing too yeah so I don't think it was ever 18 shots it was probably nine always I believe uh there's maybe maybe it's wrong you might know better than I do at this point I well nine but you got to it's two shots technically cuz you have to get you have to light the red shot then you have to collect it yeah it it really as I'm working on different games and there's a lot really what games my brain my brain takes a little bit sometimes to adjust between games I think it is n shot oh sorry yeah you are absolutely correct so shots to light those shots and then collecting those shots yep perfect so yeah all right let's do giant I I'm going to keep accidentally calling it giant rocket and it's not it's rocket skates it's all rocket themed so I I I'm primar on the rules on this game I would say in fact I think it's safe to say that most of these rules are are mine um this one's your is you keep it to uh giant rocket first and Rocket skates second uh rocket skates was always designed to be the second phase of this but I put it in there as a menu setting for people that want to you're up all right people like their menu settings they do and this game has a lot cuz I like them too let's get my skill shot you see how your game is set up different than mine yeah it's slightly tilted to the left right now Luke Peters you are awesome at listening and coming through listening and coming through listening toest compliment yes like you listen to people and you come through on your promises usually do man it this is the hardest job I've ever done by a mile man should I death save I probably shouldn't don't death save okay big fan of the secret skill shot I'll tell you what I'm a big fan of the Scooby-Doo Where Are You wizard mode I'm a big fan of that we played uh each of us Dylan's also made it all the way to it right so I actually didn't I uh on my first playthrough I got to are we're talking about the how to get there now yeah don't don't tell them how to do it but we've all played up to Scooby-Doo Where Are You without cheating right I just did where are you yes [Music] yes I was just trying to say like it's a really I'm really excited for you guys to see that live stream uh for more reasons than you may think uh but the wizard mode is really really awesome it's really fun to play to I played to it today just so we could all test to see that it's like feasible to actually play up to it and uh I played up to it you've played up to it I think Dylan's played up to it so it's definitely feasible it's a really fun fun strategy to get to it it's it adds a whole new dimension to the game which is amazing it's it's really a great mode it's going to be a nice little bow on the top of those three wizard modes all it's it's good stuff um so I was actually for short um on my first attempt at it [Music] um which I I was my best game ever I will say that cuz I did make it to other wizard modes as well um which I often fail to do in fact normally fail to do technically my first attempt I got seven oh I won't say technically in my first attempt I made no progress whatsoever and then the second attempt I got it the other reason I'm not going to start talking about that cuz I'm about to hit this shot and then we got to explain this mode which since you're here I'm going to make you explain the mode can do I don't some I can't read your name it's too dark on his screen but uh the darker uh music in uh Satan's wait and I can definitely understand in the Hall of the Mountain King was certainly always going to go into a spooky mode um like uh the porky Sylvester mode um I don't know I find it super funny that's an infernal Gallop but perhaps not everyone will find that as funny I love the song though it's a really really fun song for a mode dude I got to hit this orbit Billy D yes I just responded to you uh before coming here I think I don't always know everyone's username versus real names and so forgive me if that's not correct they've been watching me for a full three minutes trying and hit one shot there we go all right rocket skates multiball all right so I will explain this mode well let's get it started so the multiball doesn't start right away so in this first phase you have oh that count as one yeah counts as one balls okay you only have so many balls that you are able to lock um that was weird did that count as two it might have oh sh oh one remaining no you got one remaining sorry a lot yeah you're right you're right so you have up to three additional balls that you can lock whether you drain those balls or not um counts as an attempt to uh to uh lock that ball so essentially it's either going to be it's anywhere from a three to a six ball multiball since you've drained one ball you're already going to be down to a five ball maximum at this point and the lock shots were blinking green you had the left ramp which is the one I have so my Ball's sitting on that rocket I've got the center crate I've got my under the right flipper shot so when I drained right away that's why I was like no yes corre cuz I wanted that so this is my my last ball that's left to be locked so once I hit this green arrow I will get the multiball correct right away yep or in 30 seconds or when you drain yes cuz there is a a timer on this phase as well which we had to do just in case the ball rolls reverse into the crate um at a timer because there's no way of detecting if there's already a ball lock there now this part this part of the mode is really important to understand um so what's happening now is everything is lit forward a jackpot as soon as you hit a jackpot uh that shot will be lit for a double jackpot so the color changes to red and yellow for the double jackpots talking about so start out red then red and yellow for double jackpots and then as soon as you collect a certain number of double jackpots the crate is going to open um get back out there the crate is actually where all your points are going to be there a huge risk reward here because the more of those double jackpots you collect the higher that's going to be worth but as soon as you hit the crate mode is over um so balls drain it's a little bit different than the traditional multiball which is why I recommend missile on second um trying to trap up here yep but your crate shot is also multiplied by so again the number of double jackpots you collect and the number of balls in play so if you can keep six balls in play and collect all your doubles it is going to be absolutely massive so this is what I absolutely love this multiball and the rules behind it because how many times do you get a multiball where you're building your jackpots and it lights the Super Jackpot shot which is super basic pinball 101 you know shoot your jackpots it adds the value of a Super Jackpot but when you hit the Super Jackpot it's going to end the multiball so you want to build up as many of them as possible and keep as many balls in play as possible while you do it because there's a multiplier in those too that to me is really great just when you take a very base simple pinball thing like jackpot building a super and then flip it on its head and add a little detail to it that just completely changes how you would play it I think it's genius typically when I write modes I often start with what assets are available um or what assets do we have the ability to create um so with a with a game like lumy Tunes it's very asset driven because we're often telling a very specific story um so I mean rocket skates is probably a 30 seconds moments from the F from a an episode um so but we're stretching that into an entire you know multiball I'm trying to build up my my doubles here as much as I can which is super risky cuz if I drain I won't get my super and that super oh oh that would have been worth a lot too it's okay we'll try and get back there someday yeah again there's there a lot of risk reward because of the balls and play aspect of it spooky modes are super creative yeah I think that's really gotten to shine through uh in the most recent years I mean Halloween has some incredible modes Ultraman Scooby they all have modes that feel like things that have never been done in other pinball machines before so a lot of my modes are actually based on some board game elements actually um so this is obviously and true board game players are going to make fun of me referencing risk but any any uh asset collection or uh area collection game um so this one you are essentially playing risk against wow that was quick I dominated risk against never gotten through that that well yeah most of the time it times out and you just have to make be sure you're ahead but essentially if you control the entire planet you win so all the shots represent Planet X that was great uh Marvin lights them red you are lighting them blue I do like this mode I haven't I haven't been playing it as much lately what's your go-to modes on the factory line when you're working on games so I actually go for what's Opera do often lately um just because there is a stack where you can absolutely blow up the score um I think the most I've ever had in that mode is close to 800 million um but you need to get your multiplier U your shot X multiplier and then it also helps if you can get something like your uh uh rocket powered pogo stick um and stacking those two in act two of the Opera um so you're building up your Opera your act two value um with it multiplied but then those points carry over to act three for your final shot so you're able to kind of double dip and you can actually double dip the multiplier so it just gets insane oh that's what I get for that I'm doing ter I'm doing terrible anyway so which is okay there go black I'm hitting that point on the production line where we've been playing these so much that it's like oh my gosh it's just getting really nasty with the feel of all the shots and everything it's oh you were holding your left flipper you meant to hit the action button me yeah for the super skill I I think uh or is that just your tick of like it is Attack From Mars has taught me to just hold my left flipper um so I often do it even on games that oh boy even on games where it's not required so as I'm hitting that advanced item shot that uh thing in the middle I am paying attention to what items are on the conveyor belt to see which items I want to collect next um so I can see the next item is going to be Iron carrot um so I can kind of set up which item I'll unlock as I drink is there a limit to how many items you can have collected no you just have a whole row there might be somewhere in the code but uh not that I wrote the it's been a long time since like I've just never been yeah it's been a long time sorry I'm doing more talking than I am playing apparently you missed all right the red shot I also play better after like two drinks so I have plenty of drinks if you need one oh what do I want I want you know I don't know if I ever beat this mode last last time I kept getting I kept screwing it up like last second I knew I should have taken that left kinded Al so take while it's playing take a look at what uh items you have and see if anything makes sense not really so yeah cap your ball would make a lot of sense with your uh giant rocket multiball super ja yeah it would slings will make sense later which mode future one ah what are I trying to do it's not plugged in yet I'm going to do slings now though you still can do it I mean during a multiball you're still getting I say I'm going to do my my ball here and I'm going to do my slings with that cuz why not why not those little things they add up throughout a game so hit the door there closure Pez some items I create even though I don't have a definite plan for them um because I'm I'm smart enough to realize I'm not going to be able to think of every possible combo um that might you know stack ex so I I like to leave the creativity out there that others are will discover something what's up board game night dang this game is going to have a lot of modes it already does I think it already has more modes than any game we have I I believe that it's got a ton oh I missed that was way early well it gets faster and faster each time so but yeah yes I'll just say say yes can I do anything let's start a mode and we might as well show oh this seeing this pinball a few weeks ago has gotten me into a deep dark hole thanks guys thinking of getting this as my first ever pinball love it oh wow um you know we we have a lot of people who buy our games as their first time game I've noticed and uh that's always a really cool thing we love being a part of that experience for someone being their first time game cuz like we're we really make sure to take care of people and it's not going to be a very arms length relationship separated like you will have with other companies it's like you can't even talk to anybody at the company so we like bringing in like the newbies in the hobby because we're we're there to help them every single step of the way if anything goes on with their game you know you can literally FaceTime us and we show you how to work your game and everything like that which good luck FaceTime in owners of other companies oh there we go so so no pressure If you do decide to go with us uh we'll take good carries we'll take very good car of you and uh Looney tun is a great game so bug actually misspoke a little bit on this mode you are actually trying to get through his Nine Lives cuz in the episode you do go through his nine lives so the going through the lives is good the burning is oh the bad you know I only misspeak if someone points it out that's correct which I'm happy to do um the other thing I was going to point out in there is you did block yourself off on the shot but the code is smart enough that it will any shot that is needed to set up another shot is always going to be the last shot that will get set up to uh by me hitting that right ramp I opened it up to be a lit burning shot later which blocked me off but it's only going to be if it's if it's as the last option is it safe to put my initials in yeah thank you that's very nice to you woo that was a good [Music] game I'm excited this will be first and excited to arrive Monday awesome Andy doing my research first I read the whole PDF manual and all very tempting wow match shall we he remembers how I programmed in the special I I don't even remember how I how I I that's better they take better notes than you that sounds like something I would do they've got your rules organized better on their computer have special in the game let uh uh you want let's show them the menu features real quick here I might do this so they can see it better one second let me um I'll pull this up oh hang on no I gotta I got to reveal some of the future games there we go ah but Daffy get out of there there you go all right so inside feature settings um first of all I I had a I'll just go through some of the calls I get so I had someone say they're uh they were unable to select their episode they've kept trying to hit the action but never worked um this episode select method is where you uh turn that on or off um all right so your first rocket multiball this is where you can change whether it is going to be rocket skates or giant rocket you'll see giant rocket in green because that is the recommended setting we knew we weren't going to play good today and we were right so we set it up to be first um there's also an option here for Rocket skates for the double jackpots to light super so this is if you are finding yourself like hey you get to that and then you accidentally hit the crate too too often too early um and you just want to be in that mode longer you can can set this to a higher number so that you actually have to collect all of the um double jackpots before you can light the uh super now let's look for did I add there's so many options in this game now yep all right some new options for Satan in terms of the uh Fire Hits allowed the fire spawn delay um the sequence timeout make your Satan suitable for you Max sorry I'm actually looking I'm Legit looking if we added if we didn't I'm sure Eric could very quickly Phil rate right there there you go so there is your setting to change the number that you can change the Tasmania fil meter so that's how many spots on the light that that's how many lights it spots right so right now it spots two of them so you could set it to spot five of them yep so five fills your meter faster correct yeah so it's the the default was at two the default was at two yep and they're always in green the defaults um so you can always go back and check what we recommended although quite honestly some of them have probably changed um so let's turn that up um and give it a go anything else we want to go over uh if they have any questions any quick questions so we can get back to some more gameplay any quick questions questions on menu settings stuff while we have the guy who definitely knows the second most about it next to Eric here to talk about it all right we had a question on the um so one is the amount of time how often the fire is going to spawn to a new shot so as you are have a combo sequence up um as you have a combo sequence up um a new fire shot will spawn right now every 5 Seconds um the Fire Hits allowed is essentially the amount of times you can hit this the fire before you're kicked out of the mode does that answer that question I think it should well there's a long enough delay that it'll be really awkward if we wait sounds like a all right I wow you crushed me that game