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Pizza Time Preview (Scotty Wic 2020)

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 12m·analyzed·Nov 18, 2020
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TL;DR

Scotty Wick debuts Pizza Time VPX table with Orbital framework on Mystery Pinball Theater.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 hosts a premiere of Pizza Time, an original virtual pinball table created by Scotty Wick. The stream features gameplay demonstration, design philosophy discussion, and reveals the Orbital framework—a custom development system Wick built to streamline VPX table creation with integrated online scoring. The game centers around pizza-themed gameplay mechanics inspired by Denver's pizza culture and arcade nostalgia.

Key Claims

  • Pizza Time was inspired by visiting pizza parlors in San Francisco and frustration with the Diner machine's repetitive order mechanics

    high confidence · Scotty Wick explaining the table's origin on the stream

  • Scotty built the Orbital framework containing 3,000-4,000 lines of code to help VPX creators manage core game systems without starting from scratch

    high confidence · Scotty Wick describing the framework development and its purpose

  • Scotty created an online scoring API that posts VPX scores to a database, enabling country-by-country leaderboards and competitive scoring before Scorebit existed for physical tables

    high confidence · Scotty Wick and host discussing the Orbital scoreboard system and its precedence over Scorebit

  • The Pizza Time song is performed by a local Denver band and plays during multiball as the game's signature audio moment

    high confidence · Scotty Wick explaining the song's origin and role in gameplay

  • Scotty Wick's Stranger Things VPX table is considered superior to Stern's official Stranger Things machine due to more immersive thematic integration

    medium confidence · Host saying 'your Stranger Things kind of is a lot better than another one that exists right now'; Scotty agreeing and critiquing Stern's approach

  • Pizza Time will be available for download within the week following the premiere stream

    high confidence · Scotty Wick stating 'Probably within the week' when asked about availability

  • Scotty's first collaborative project was a team-up with Diablo on a Jurassic Park table where he learned from an experienced VPX creator

    high confidence · Scotty Wick describing his initial VPX training through the Jurassic Park/Diablo collaboration

  • The Pizza Time character animator (Crust) was created using Adobe Character Animator with lip-sync functionality

    high confidence · Scotty Wick confirming animation tool and method

Notable Quotes

  • “It's like someone made a whitewood and then they threw a couple toys on it and called it a theme.”

    Scotty Wick@ 6:29 — Core criticism of Stern's design philosophy—thematic integration seen as superficial rather than holistic

  • “Did you even watch the show? Like would you guys not even care? Like obviously you would make an underplay field.”

    Scotty Wick@ 6:41 — Specific example of design frustration with Stern's Stranger Things omitting the Upside Down

  • “A multiball where like Pizza Time song kicks in. I mean, that's that's that's the fanfare. That's the dream.”

    Scotty Wick@ 12:13 — Design intent: using memorable audio moments as multiball triggers for emotional impact

  • “Why is there not a pinball table about pizza? Like pizza's fantastic.”

    Scotty Wick@ 11:06 — Origin moment of Pizza Time concept during San Francisco pizza parlor visits

  • “It's kind of what I like. It won't shoot it directly down the gut. You always have a chance, but it can be Papa Duke mean.”

    Scotty Wick@ 24:45 — Design philosophy: challenging but fair playfield behavior that punishes poor shot selection

  • “Well, okay, what am I going to do? Like open this up and just beat my own high score again? That's not very fun...if I could crush Rick's score and rub it in his face, that's the fun part.”

    Scotty Wick@ 33:12 — Rationale for online leaderboard integration: competitive social engagement extends game longevity

Entities

Scotty WickpersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationPizza TimegameStern PinballcompanyOrbital FrameworkproductOrbital ScoreboardproductFrankie BrackpersonScorebitproduct

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: VPX creator Scotty Wick describes pinball mechanics/design work as personal passion project rather than professional income source

    medium · Scotty: 'This isn't what I get to really do for a living, but it is what I end up sketching all over everything'

  • ?

    community_signal: Mystery Pinball Theater operates as active streaming and premiere platform with strong community participation in chat during live gameplay

    high · Host managing 47+ concurrent chat participants; multiple community members acknowledged by name (Terry, Nailbuster, Don Panic Flip, etc.)

  • ?

    community_signal: Denver emerging as pinball hub with local pizza-themed table inspiration and active band collaboration (Pizza Time song partnership)

    medium · Scotty mentioning local Denver band, frequent San Francisco arcade visits, and community-driven design inspiration

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Stern's Stranger Things criticized for superficial thematic execution (no Upside Down), suggesting whitewood-first design methodology limits immersion

    high · Scotty Wick: 'there was no actual Upside Down on Stern's table...Did you even watch the show?'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Scotty Wick's approach prioritizes integrated thematic design over post-hoc whitewood-plus-graphics methodology used by commercial manufacturers

    high · Multiple quotes critiquing 'traditional pinball method' and Stern's Stranger Things lacking Upside Down integration

Transcript

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0:00
Oh my god, Don't Panic Flip ruined my open with his freaking... And I forgot, I still... I still forgot to change that open! But we got pinballs on.
0:30
Hello everyone, welcome, MPT3K here. We got a premiere that we got to show. What's that? We have a guest. Ladies and gentlemen, live and direct. We got Scotty Wick here with us. What's up, Scott?
1:04
Or should I say Scotty? Can you hear me, bud? Wait, I lost your audio. Let's see. I think I lost your sound for a second. We got Ring on Crust, Pizza Time.
1:24
Hi, Scotty. Scotty in the house. Hello everybody There's Harlan Not Harlan What's up John Hey Scotty Say something I want to see if I can hear you I hope that's Let me see Let me check what's going on Maybe it's on my end Oh no I think it's going now There you are There he is Hey guys Wow Okay We gotta wait for all the people to pile in We had to do a hot swap Oh okay Oh we got Hawkeye's in the house Don't Panic Flip is in the house Captain 12 is in the house We've got VP Fiends What's up Fiends in the house Flipstream, Flipper Freak Freak, Dr. Warpzone I think you were first Gotta install Popper to hear Scotty Wick Scotty How's it going man? Going great Who's that in the room with you? That is my son He heard that pizza time was going to be on And he loves pizza time He wants to speak into this microphone Actually is what he wants to do Because whenever we were doing all the voiceovers here We made him do them as well And so, see, there he goes. You want to say pizza time? Yeah, let's do it. Pizza time.

  • Stern's Stranger Things table lacks an Underworld/Upside Down playfield despite the show prominently featuring that location

    high confidence · Scotty Wick critiquing the design: 'there was no actual Upside Down on Stern's table'

  • Scotty constantly sketches mechanical designs and lock concepts at his desk but does not do this professionally for a living

    high confidence · Scotty Wick showing sketches and discussing his personal design work

  • “The traditional pinball method of build a Dick White wood and then put graphics on it just doesn't work for me.”

    Scotty Wick@ 6:09 — Fundamental design philosophy: theme and mechanics should be integrated from conception, not added post-hoc

  • “Orbital is essentially trying to be somewhat of the Mission Pinball Framework of just some way that at least takes some of the just monotonous heavy lifting off the shelf.”

    Scotty Wick@ 30:54 — Explains Orbital framework's role in democratizing VPX table creation by reducing boilerplate code

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    market_signal: VPX creator ecosystem showing sophistication comparable to commercial table development with custom frameworks, online integration, and professional production quality

    medium · Orbital framework's complexity, professional camera setup for VPX capture, PUP integration, and online leaderboard infrastructure

  • ?

    community_signal: Scotty Wick continuously sketches mechanical designs and lock concepts as personal creative practice despite not doing it professionally for a living

    high · Scotty showing sketches: 'The papers next to my desk look like this...they all essentially look like me sketching out ramps or locks'

  • ?

    announcement: Pizza Time VPX table officially premiering on Mystery Pinball Theater with availability within one week

    high · Scotty Wick: 'Probably within the week' regarding release; full gameplay demonstration provided

  • ?

    product_strategy: Pizza Time designed as intentional improvement on Diner's repetitive mechanics by randomizing order ingredients each pizza

    high · Scotty explaining: 'it would be really cool if the table changed every time you got a new order...it'd be really cool if there's a pinball table about pizza'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Orbital framework represents significant innovation in VPX development tooling; predates and parallels Scorebit for physical table online scoring

    high · Scotty explaining 3,000-4,000 lines of code framework and integrated online scoring API; host noting this was done before Scorebit existed

    • 3:02
    Yeah, we can say it. This is my son. Oh, hey, buddy. What's up? Can you say hi? Hi. How old is he? He's two and a half. Two and a half, wow. And he loves pizza time. Well, I have a four-year-old who loves to lie on the floor next to me, and I have to get a Pizza Time multiball so he could sing the song also.
    3:33
    I mean, that's the key. That's it. I mean, it's infectious. You will be left with that song running in your head for the rest of the evening, whether you like it or not. It is definitely an earworm. and earworm just to let everybody know what's going on um you know this is mr pinball theater three mr pinball theater 3000 mbt3k uh we stream or rather i stream virtual pinball on tuesdays always and then some real pinball on thursdays uh and fridays uh today is a big premiere because it's really difficult first of all it's difficult to put together like an emulation uh you know to take a ROM from a current game and then build a table around it, and then maybe build a pup pack around that. It's a huge task to do what Scotty Wick has done many times over and create fully original tables. And this here, what we're debuting today, is the next in line of Scotty Wick creations called Pizza Time. Now, if you remember, Scotty created some really amazing tables, Harry Potter, Leprechaun King. He did a – didn't you do – you did like a team-up with JP for Diablo, correct? Yeah, that was actually the first one that I did. And I had contacted him just to be like, this guy is – you know, he's the master. So if I'm going to learn from anybody, I learn from JP. So I contacted him and said, hey, is there anything that you've had on the back burner for a while that I could just come in and shuffle my way through and have him kind of coach me on how he does it. So, yeah, that was really my training, if you will.
    5:34
    Yeah, JP Talos is a legend. Doesn't get any better than JP. Well, no, true, but somebody on the stream gets close and it ain't me. VP Fiends, of course, mentioned Stranger Things, which, you know, between you and me, Scotty, your Stranger Things kind of is a lot better than another one that exists right now, I would say. yeah i think you know and i think not to dive too much into the into how that all works but the the traditional pinball method of build a white wood and then put graphics on it just doesn't work for me it doesn't make sense you know the the dream should happen with the theme and so i think you know a lot of these tables exchange of things it's it ends up being what the table feels like it feels like someone made a whitewood and then they threw a couple toys on it and called it a theme and that's you know like the fact that there was no actual upside down on stern's table right like would you guys not even care like obviously you would make an underplay field like did you even watch the show and so i think some of that frustrates me that it's like that's just the way and i get it it's a business it's a different way of doing things they don't have the luxury of just being like well i'll do whatever the hell i want um but it also sometimes gets these tables that feel so uninspired it's just i don't know that's my problem yeah with the way that stuff goes well uh scotty i gotta say you definitely have just before the stream guys Scotty was showing me he probably doesn't want to show it but he was showing me some sketchings and stuff that he was doing of some really amazing things that I think he should patent I think he should run off and just patent and then make a whole lot of money making pinball machines I don't know if that's an actual thing if you can make a whole lot of money making pinball machines but there I said it I don't think so all the papers next to my desk look like this so let's see how do we get this on here but yeah they all essentially look like me sketching out ramps or yeah me sketching out ideas i have on the way that locks are going to work um the snake circle locks uh yeah that's kind of what my desk ends up looking like this isn't what i get to really do for a living but it is what i end up sketching all over everything Ooh, snakes. What's up, Snivy? So let's jump to what we got here. By the way, people always ask, this is a virtual pinball machine. All right. but people think i'm trying to fool them with vpx but i just happen to set the cameras and everything up i shoot virtual the same way i shoot you know physical tables i shoot it the same way so that's why it might look like it's a physical table because we use the same equipment there's no no different equipment i am capturing the back glass um uh what we like to affectionately call pup packs because a guy named nail buster created the whole system where we can have the interactive screens and stuff um and uh so talk to me about pizza time before we start flipping because we're gonna let a couple more people jump in terry is in the house and nail buster oh my god all my homies yeah all my homies in the house scotty i don't know if you noticed i'm wearing the shirt that i'm wearing Very nice. This is a pinball wizard, Ari.
    9:24
    Nice. That's awesome. That's fantastic. All right. So tell us a little bit about how this table came about Pizza Time.
    9:38
    Yeah, it's actually a great question. This one, well, it kind of started with the song, honestly. Me and friends loved this song. It was a local Denver band.
    9:54
    And back in the pre-COVID life where you could go to crusty concerts, beer-soaked floor concerts, you know, we would be around, that band to be around and we just really enjoyed that um that song a whole ton and we got sitting around one evening thinking about talking about pizza parlors and and uh it was actually one trip that we were in san francisco because we would go there and go to free gold watch free gold watch beer and uh and then we go to the church key um which is my other favorite spot it's fantastic and then we uh we go down to the to the shops where they have the kind of shotgun window pizza spots yep you know like super crusty it's late at night you can only order from the window and uh and then they just slide you a piece of pizza through the window and uh and so we were there playing pinball and eating pizza and drinking a lot of beer and going why is there not a why is there not a pinball table about pizza like pizza's fantastic and then we got on this whole this whole thought process of you know like how it makes so much sense because diner which yeah diners are like the closest one i love diner but diner is so dumb that every order you get you collect the same things this is not fun at all like why would you say okay well you just got an order up so go get the same things you did on the exact last right like it's it makes no sense yeah they change the lights the hot dog becomes like nachos or something but you hit the same exact target. So we're like, well, it'd be really cool if there's, you know, if you like actually the table changed every time you got a new order. So it's kind of that idea of diner, but like what if diner had actually been done correctly and in an intelligent, fun way. And so, yeah, that was really where it came from. It's just, and then we were, you know, we love the song pizza time. And I was like, you got it. And, you know, in my head, I'm like, dude, a multi ball. where like pizza time song kicks in i mean that's that's that's the fanfare that's the dream you know because you got that just super memorable experience and you got the blood flowing and so yeah that was kind of where it all came from i i love uh flipstream says yeah i played my first table at at pizza parlor wow that's cool um that's where mine all worked growing up it was always at pizza parlors wow yeah actually me too i i played my first nip it it was nip it i told the story on this uh on the uh what's up good grief i told the story on the stream before my first pinball machine i ever played was a nipple which is an incredibly old machine um so let's i'm gonna i'm gonna start this puppy up i think we've got a bunch of people we've got about 47 people in the chat right now uh i want to point out something that scotty didn't mention uh the unique thing about this is yeah there there's a great ingredients all over the table um who who did the artwork for this i'm just gonna start this the music up a little bit uh it was it was myself and um an art an artist named frankie brack who worked with the band pizza time um so it's a little bit of i took his direction and i kind of went from there thank you for the follow pickles my friends call me crust and i'll be your guide into the pizza vortex of beats but i did all the i i did all the character animation and stuff so that was all yeah and it's all lip sync too i'm i'm like
    13:44
    yeah that was actually yeah that was actually done with adobe character animator yeah yeah that's great okay so uh the follows are coming in everything's coming in all right thank you for the follow oh terry thank you for the follow wow terry you're an absolute legend but you already know that all right so let's so i'm gonna try for you scotty and whenever i whenever i make a horrible horrible rule mistake you let me know okay deal all right so i'll just sit over here you'd be you'd be in judgment of me the entire time um i will say this though i did manage to put up a 30 million game it's better than i put up all right here we go so i'm gonna go for the skill shot which i failed okay um so i'll let you guys know the object of the game is to eat pizza and how do you do that how do you do that well okay let's take a look at the back glass right now the back glass up there the back glass is telling me that i have a pizza order which you guys probably didn't hear because the people are still uh coming into the stream um i got a pizza order ready for a seaside pizza there's a spinner there's a wheel in the back that randomly rotates to see which pizza order you get it's right up here all right notice personal pizza is lit so i have to get the ingredients for this personal pizza you've got olives you've got sardines and Is that peppers?
    15:19
    That's peppers right there, right? See, olives flashing. Yeah, you got peppers. Yeah. Peppers and it says anchovies. Oh, it's anchovies, not sardines. Anchovies. Okay. So I'm going to make some shots on my olives.
    15:36
    If I can get it. I can shoot up to the anchovies, which are the in lanes, which I can control with the flippers.
    15:44
    Oh, fathom. Yeah. the lanes are are influenced by fathom if you don't know like that yeah but you get a nice call out when you death save on these so i don't know the stream can hear those there's a lot of homaging to uh game you know arcade games of our of our youth on this yeah it's awesome okay so i've I've collected everything Personals lit Notice the pizza Has opened a nice hot pizza For me to post pass And get And once I get that pizza Now this is me This is not how I normally play this game Of course I would go for some extra cheese Scotty's looking at me like You didn't go for no cheese You didn't even touch the tip jar I didn't touch the tip jar care now once i learned about extra cheese and tip jar my score started going up but i'm gonna go for pizza time right now just so that people can see something um and i can i cannot hit it you can hit it from either this lane here not that that's the extra cheese so i did get a little extra cheese or i can hit it from the top ramp right we're in the pepperoni pops again And let's see Uh oh Gotta let it settle Try again Post And Boom Oh And Boom Oh It's nice Then you get your mode lit And double up Oh I do have my mode lit So Pizza time What do I do during pizza time I have a multi ball What do you want to do Is you want to score jackpots Each jackpot Eats a slice of pizza What's up Pensomniac Don't worry Scotty Those musics will go away after people join in Oh no You did stack your super jackpot though So I give you that Did I collect it Yeah I think I thought I saw you collect it up there yeah So when you get when you start pizza time jackpots equals eating a slice of that pizza Once you've eaten all of the pizza, you have to shoot the pizza up there to get the super jackpot. So you've eaten the entire pizza. And that's kind of what you want to do with that. Now.
    18:19
    Scotty mentioned to me that I had modes lit during that pizza time, so I could have stacked my mode in there. To start a mode, I think it's switch hits, right?
    18:32
    Spinners. So how many spinners do I need to start a mode? Apparently it's set at 25 and it doesn't stack, so modes are generally pretty quick to get into. A good way to Keep things kind of moving And you will get the selector here for your modes Okay so I have Not only do I have a new order That's already come up But I'm selecting the mode I'm going to do bust up the bumpers Bust up the bumpers means I'm going to To finish this mode Oops No I didn't select it yet Got it Okay I selected it I want to hit pepperoni pop bumpers.
    19:19
    So the arrows are flashing to say these are the best ways to get to those pop bumpers right now. Through the anchovies, into the pepperonis. Go.
    19:28
    How many pops do I need to complete this? I think it's 100 on the bumpers, and I think it takes... It pays pretty well if you can get it. If you pull this one into a multi-ball, you get it without even thinking about it. But on a single ball, it's a little work to get the first one. Oh, I see. So this is probably not the best way to do this mode.
    19:59
    I mean, if you can fill up that pizza pretty quickly, but you got seven more slices to... Seven more ingredients to collect before you get there. If you could have stacked it with, like, a pepperoni pizza... That would have been good. ...you'd be lucky enough, then you would have been... Oh, here we go. Oh, I got minigame. If I can get 5,000, I can get extra ball.
    20:21
    This game is super hard. Oh my god. See, I'm getting killed by the... Rick will tell you it's super easy. Oh, really? I find it also very hard. Those stupid pizza pugs, man. Those pizza pugs will just nail you with those pizza cutters. Yeah, those pizza cutters are coming in for me.
    20:46
    Oh my god, this is the best I've ever done. No, no, don't die. Don't die. Oh! I saw!
    20:58
    It was not bad. You can get back there. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. Did you guys hear that? You gotta focus on the pizza puns. Okay.
    21:08
    That's two. oh okay kawabunga what's up bumper nugget all right that was good mpt thank you so here's what i want to do now okay so check it out i'm on the next pizza all right i gotta get my veggies i gotta get her listed up there the number of veggies i gotta get her up there um you guys see the guest check the guest check is cool you can so you Normally you have like, you hold the flipper down to see instant info. The guest chest check actually lists everything that's happening. I could scroll back through that list to see if I missed something or if I needed something to add or something like that. Very cool feature. Now I don't have to turn off the whole, you know, back glass to see what was happening. Once I flip, it goes back to the current, you know, things that I'm doing on the check. I want to talk a little bit about extra cheese and tip jar.
    22:11
    So you can go after pizza slices, right? I'm going after ingredients right now. I'm going after ingredients. Once you've built your pizza, though, you don't want to just eat it. There's always room for extra cheese, right? For me to get extra cheese, there's a loop up there. And by the way, Scotty, have you ever seen this table in VR?
    22:33
    No, I've heard it's good. I've never done VR on any of my tables. So I need to find someone who has that. It's amazing. It's amazing. So if you have VP VR and you want to play this in full VR, it will blow your mind. It is so well, like, everything looks beautiful. That loop looks like, everything looks great. So let me get back to this. There's a cheese meter, right? So every time I hit that, it gives me a little extra cheese.
    23:06
    Okay. I'm going to hit it again. You've got full extra cheese now. I'm full. I'm extra cheesed out. So you can see the little dot on the left of the pizza you're working on. Yep. In the little yellow-orange half circle. That'll let you know that you got that pizza cheesed out. I think Crest also told me that I got all extra pizza. All extra cheese. Yeah. All right. Terry says, VR changes how you see and make tables. Yeah, that is very true I'm missing all of chat, I'm sorry guys I'm here with Scotty Wick, come on I'm trying to jump over to chat Alright, cool Scotty's going to check out chat So, I have my extra cheese Notice the medium is lit I have my extra cheese I want the tip jar too Now what the extra cheese does is it gives you higher jackpots Is that correct? For your pizza time So if you get one of the two Then you get a bonus ball In multi-ball If you get both of them Then you get a bonus ball and jackpot multiplier Okay so Since I got extra cheese My pizza time will be four balls Instead of three And if I can get tip jar Which is the Illuminati little thing Check this out guys This is pretty wicked When I hit it it sounds like X-Files It's awesome That was pretty clutch To just queue it up like it was no big deal Oh yeah of course that's how i roll baby scotty that that scoop kick out could be nasty yeah again for the conversation we had a little bit earlier a mean table is uh it's kind of what i like it won't shoot it directly down the gut you always have a chance but it can be pretty mean you're not wrong about that no the tip was ready do i get to keep it though yeah it'll still be ready it'll still be okay all right ball all right so here's the deal right here's what i want people i want to collect that tip jar so So every time you hit the Illuminati target, tip jar gets filled up. T-I-P-J-A-R. Then the next time you shoot it, a magnet will pull the ball in. That'll light tip jar. So extra cheese and tip jar will be ready. This is a part where you want to... What I like about this game is that you can just flip, flip, flip, flip, flip and have fun. But if you know where to go and you rave...
    25:43
    All right, here we go. There we go. no no use that ball safe ball save is a as a five second rule look it's not grabbing it we might have a bug on our hands oh it's supposed to grab it there yeah they should have should have snagged it we might have a bug on our hands okay well then I'm gonna go into I'm gonna go into time I'm gonna go into pizza time baby I'm doing some pizza time with four balls ready Pizza time You got slices to collect Wait I got slices to collect?
    26:29
    Yeah You're on a medium man You only have three slices I'm nowhere near pizza time You got work to do See I completely forgot about Getting slices for the pizza Um These shots are dangerous bro Yeah The uh veggies Veggies might be the hardest Do work son Alright good grief I'm doing work I like that I like Yeah veggies might be the hardest It's uh You know Sometimes you just don't get the right pizzas I thought I had a thought when I was out at XD any chance of creating custom pizzas oh interesting who's the last person who did something I don't have my activity feed up I'm going to go grab another beer I'll be right back All right, Scottie, you go get a beer.
    27:49
    Evil? Evil Bling? Evil Bong. Evil Bong, thank you for the bitties. Evil Bong, what are your initials?
    27:59
    I did. Ken Swift. Oh, no. Ken Swift, you know I got $30 million. I showed you the video. Where are we now? We're at... We're at 830. I'm just going to go EVL. There you go. E. Boom.
    28:18
    Oh, there's numbers in here. Thank you. And there's symbols. Thank you, Scotty. Thank you, Scotty, for putting numbers and symbols back in.
    28:29
    Also, guys, I'll tell you something. While Scotty's going to get a beer, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the orbital framework that Scotty also built.
    28:41
    Pin Bot, open internet. Oh boy, that was great. Pin Bot, open internet. I think it's because now my voice sounds like a chipmunk and I can't open the internet. Pin Bot, open internet.
    29:00
    Affirmative. That doesn't look like the internet. It looks like a blank screen. you almost saw my facebook for a minute so yeah i can't see chat too but i couldn't see it while i was downstairs grabbing another beer so this is um tell us a little bit about the orbital framework real real quick and the orbital scores because my score just got sent in yeah so well there's two things is the orbital framework and then there's the orbital scoreboard so the orbital framework was after coding um my original stranger things which was like the super simple one and then later i decided to do the stranger things stranger edition where I did all of the fanciness.
    30:06
    So, yeah, I'm sorry, I was reading chat. I'm not good at this reading chat and talking thing. I think that required another deal. We'll talk about custom pizzas, though. I do like the idea of that.
    30:19
    But the framework is essentially a set of a bunch of items to help you hopefully get a table off the ground faster. So when you open up a table in VPX because it was made mostly for ROMs, that doesn't help a guy making an original table at all. Because you don't have anything to manage four players. You don't have anything to manage how many balls are in a game. You literally have nothing. It has got zero ability. It's not like Mission Pinball Framework or some of these others where you have all this stuff off the shelf. so orbital is essentially trying to be somewhat of the mission pinball framework of um just some way that at least takes some of the just monotonous heavy lifting off the shelf so it's three or four thousand lines of code out of a table um so it's quite a bit and it combines a lot of stuff that super cool dudes from all the years have been doing so right a lot of stuff that I worked on with JP and different stuff that like Flutbird does to make the flashers so banging. And, you know, there's a whole bunch of stuff mixed in there. And then so we got to the point of saying, well, everybody was always wanting to have their scores online because that makes it more fun. We're all COVID 2020 sitting at home wishing we could hang out with our friends. But at least if I can post a score to show them I just crushed their score. you know that helps and so we a while back just said i said okay well my daily life and my daily work i do a lot of api um and interconnectivity of things so this is kind of my um regular life and so built an api so the vpx can send all your scores directly to an online database and then that database can also communicate back with the tables um so that was really cool to be able to say okay well now post your scores get posted online your friends can see them they'll download you see the top 20 um and just something that i think i kind of wished you go to like a jjp game in an arcade and it's like here are the top five scores today you're like who cares the top it's like one small bar like that's so annoying like why can't i see how many points that the u.s has put up against england or something you know whoever we're competing with and so that's the thing we started doing with uh with harry potter is saying okay well let's do this a country by country and then split it up how many players there are and like just the interconnectivity with online it's like that's just kind of a thing that was like i don't know why more people aren't doing this because uh it builds longevity into a game you know you're You're like, well, okay, what am I going to do? Like open this up and just beat my own high score again? That's not very fun. You know, Rick posted a high score, and I'm going to go crush it. That's why I will never crush it. But if I could, I would rub it in his face, and then I would say, go check the scoreboard because you just got hammered.
    33:33
    Well, that's the thing. You're always going to be the GC of your own table, right? Pinbot, close internet. sure alright so check it out because that's really cool Scotty kind of did what before Scorebit even came around because Scorebit is a system that will do that for physical tables now Scotty has already been there he's already kind of done that I'm going to do a quick station break and come back we're just going to put up some games and talk a little bit more about pizza time which isn't available yet but it will be and I'm going to leave that up to Scotty. Probably within the week. That's the hope. All right. Probably within the week. Pinbot, go to commercial. Stay with us, folks. Mystery Pinball Theater will return in just a moment.
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    the pinball network is here for you for all your pinball needs. Uh, we got coming up next. We have don't panic flip. We're always roll over to after. Um, I always roll over for, for don't panic flip. I don't know. That sounds dirty. Um, straight down the middle, flipping out. Uh, make sure you call Zach's cell phone, please. Yeah, that did come out wrong. Um,
    37:04
    uh, And yeah, that's about it. That's about it So I'm here with Scotty wick who is a developer creator of
    37:16
    Pizza time there's a bunch of other people who helped out with this You can see their names in the back glass when you when you download this when it's available
    37:25
    One eight hundred buy buy buy Do what do does who have any to excel shirts Spencer Did someone redeem a shirt? No, please don't say it Nobody redeems a shirt Me? Yeah Pinbot, open merch store She won't do it Pinbot, open merch store Nope, she's ignoring me Pinbot, pull out shirt cannon Does this work? yeah i mean i think i think you can do it too there's that church cannon well you got both and i is hell on words what's up turkey wolfman is here all right let's go back and oh thank you for the bitties who's that hawkeyes just oh three three thousand one hundred twelve bits hawkeyes much much appreciated much appreciated you're a legend you know that There are so many legends in here. Scotty, I'm going to blow this game up now. Do it. I have to. I'm sorry. Let's do this.
    38:35
    Oh, jeez. Hello, this is Van. Uh-huh. Can I get one for a gold? Manhattan. She went to Manhattan. Whoa, that was crazy.
    38:52
    Oh, my God. I've never done that before. Alright, we need sausage. We always need tip jar. Sometimes I work on the tip jar while the ball save is happening. Not a bad plan. Yeah that's a nice save time. Alright, here we go. Let's get some extra cheese. Let's work on the cheese. The first pizza is always really easy to get. Thank you for the follow. Hood Lumber. And guys just in case you didn't know, I tilt that, that's Scotty right? What don't I have? I need more cheese Scotty I love the mechanic that you have in there of The I guess it's the What's Oh That never happens yeah you got the conveyor belt over there yeah the conveyor belt i remember there was uh i think it was i think it was dead flip he was he was trying to build a machine and there was a uh maybe a ramp that couldn't get hit or something like that or whatever so scotty has a conveyor belt that guarantees that that loop will get hit which is i think you could actually build that i mean i think you'd have to supplement it from what we've i had a me and a friend were just noodling around with this in real world and the ball is so slick it doesn't want to grip on that right on that very well so you know you know what you know you could do like they do in getaway instead of having the bottom of it grab it just the sides will like spin it You know what I mean? Like, push it.
    41:11
    Yeah, totally. Alright, I'm in pizza time right now. Let's see if we can collect... Whoa, that was a weird collection of balls just dancing around me. Okay, that was also weird. One! Was that three? That was one.
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    Two. Three. I still got two balls. It's okay. Stay up there with the pepperoni from me for a minute, okay?
    41:42
    That was heartbreaking Four Here's the super Now one thing you can do Before you shoot the super You can crank up the super by hitting extra cheese again And I'm going to try that Because I'm greedy Okay, let's just do this
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    And if you look at the scorecard up there, the guest check. Oh, damn it. I'm doing this in front of Scotty. This is terrible.
    42:20
    So while Super is lit and the pizza is open, if you hit that extra cheese more, you'll see the multiplier for that jackpot go up and up and up. There's another one of those risk-reward things where I was joking with Scotty earlier. He studies under the rules set of Lime and Sheets, where there's lots of risk-reward.
    42:43
    I think there's a right time for the risk-reward. There's those moments on specific tables, say Preach from the Black Lagoon or whatever else, when you have the chance to go huge.
    42:58
    Most players are not going to. But I like the option that you could If you feel like going huge Well that would be like The situation where you would really want that Is like say you're playing Against somebody and you're really low Well then It might be worth it to just Risk it To come up and score I think someone asked if you could burn your pizza No I don't think you can burn your pizza No you can't burn your pizza Though I like the idea. I guess you just get stale as pizza if you let it sit up there for a long time
    43:37
    I'm not in the hot you got it under the heat lamp and you don't get it. It's just not gonna be very good
    43:44
    4000 I didn't see that that was three nine Something man, you'll get I know I'll get it someday. All right, let's get another pizza order going
    43:59
    Let's do Clear the Table. I'm doing Clear the Table. Clear the Table is a good one. You're always a winner there. You get a lot of light show.
    44:08
    I've never done it, though. I've never finished any of the modes. Cleared it? Yeah, clearing the modes is real hard. There is a wizard mode at the end if you can clear all modes. I think that's the one I haven't seen anyone get to yet. Is that Supreme or Illuminati? That's Supreme. Illuminati comes if you clear Supreme and you eat the whole belly buster so Illuminati is going to be pretty tough for anyone to get I'm sure someone will probably on their third game or something obnoxious like that but it's pretty hard you were thinking about being the Illuminati I got you off conscious well this this pop bumper here i already mentioned it scotty that this pop bumper feels like the pop bumper that's in rick and morty i was actually meant to mimic the pop bumper from tna tna yeah it was my own my homage because when i started this I started it and then I saw Denise's table TNA getting started and he was kind of on this same idea of old school pin and I was like that's awesome I'm going to bring in a death bumper too just to be like you know what I'm in this plan with you I like that death bumper idea let me bring up something that we didn't talk about it's not bush light but I like that someone thought I was drinking bush light it is melvin pilsner it does kind of look like bush light I kind of wish it was bush light so here's something we didn't talk about there are these pizza stand ups right 1,2,3,4 5, I think there's 5 of them right five pizza stand-ups. You hit all five pizza stand-ups, and you light a lock for what's it called? Inter... Intergalactic multiball? Intergalactic multiball. Very, very Beastie Boys sounding-ish. Oh, crap. Okay. I know. They probably shouldn't have had some Beastie on here. It really would have fit.
    46:35
    So, I'm going to try and get that started because that is... That's one of those... Okay, I'll admit. I asked Scotty, I was like, okay, I don't see any reason to shoot that because that's not really lucrative. And he goes, oh yeah, the points are there.
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    And it was so succinct, I was like, maybe there is something that I'm not looking at. The first time I was able to do it. So first you have to hit stand-ups. Finally got that super jackpot. H Now get these sandals, which you'll probably do just by mistake
    47:17
    That's a nice guitar to argue I'm sure what's his name? Hawkeyes Is with me Alright I'm losing my headphones My headphones keep messing with me Alright here we go Yeah I'll blame it on the headphones I'll blame my terrible play on the headphones Can I still get that? Nope Can't get it He won't give it to me He won't give me the super Like a moment after the super is done Have you found the super secret skill shot? I've been looking Trust me, I did all kinds of crazy shit I don't want you to tell me I want to find it There's a super secret skill shot There's also an ultra combo Alright Which will be very satisfying if you ever played Killer Instinct and you get it. Oh my god. Okay.
    48:39
    Yeah, don't tell me. I think you may have said too much. No, you'll figure it out. Damn. What a bummer.
    48:48
    What a bummer. Are we getting... How are you doing in the chat? Are we getting a lot of questions? I'm working through them, yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, guys, this is probably the last time you're going to get access to Scotty, so you better go for it.
    49:08
    The man is busy. I was actually, Scotty, I'm really, really, really honored to have you on the stream.
    49:17
    I think, but outside of Little Bubblegum, you're the only one who's ever been on the stream with me. Well, that's not true, but on Zoom. Official release date? It'll probably be within a week. if you don't have an actual release date yet, but we're pretty dang close.
    49:32
    I've only seen that one bug here while we've been playing tonight, so that's good. But there was a question here about table multipliers.
    49:46
    Playfield multipliers. Right? There are playfield multipliers. Is that the beer and stuff? Yeah, sorry, my internet was going bad. But there is, on the game, there's going to be beer frenzy, and there's also flippin' mad.
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    And so beer frenzy is going to happen when you get to 6x table multiplier, so the bottom. So you see the two beers on the table next to the lower, yeah. when you fill those up you get a table and so you'll get those by orbits or targets so as you hit things which similar to like my leprechaun table every every every target shot and every or get shots orbit shots value is based on those multipliers so like the more multipliers you get the more each shot goes up in value on the table for all your kind of less meaningful shots they're all gonna run off that value but if you're able to fill up your beers you'll get 2x and that will put a frame around your you'll know because well the table will freak out, the press will tell you, but also you get a cool frame around your score value on the back glass and one of the eyeballs inside the Melting Pizza face guy will light up. So there's a 2X and a 3X light on the Melting Pizza guy. Oh, does it? I didn't know that. Yeah, and if you're able to then get another multiplier, say that either be you have both extra cheese and tip jar, and you go into a pizza time, that would be a multiplier. Or you can get Flippin' Mad, which is 20 loop-de-loops. So if you're able to stack all of those, you can find yourself into a 3x table score for everything for 40 seconds. So you can really stack if you find your way into kind of lining up those dots. Those obviously are more the super advanced because lining all those up can be pretty damn tough. But it's doable. It's definitely doable. I was playing, when we were testing this Originally I was playing with my Playing at the cabinet at the office And my brother was playing And he locked up at 3x During a pizza time And just handled him Nice, that was a great save This guy is not giving away No play field multipliers Basically is what he's saying You can find your way to them They're there I'm not letting you hit one shot And then you're getting 2x No there's no There's no little fuel ramp on the side You're going to have to work for it All the things All the huge scoring on this table Which there is a lot of huge scoring options Are going to be things you're going to need to play for a while I mean that's the hope Is that the game is fun for a new person But that there are really deep point and rule systems for those who want to you know who want to dig in and find a way into those giant scores it's there but change is going to happen upon it not most likely you're going to have to learn the table can I start the mode after pizza time or do I need to do pizza time then the mode it doesn't matter either or if you well if you do the mode first you get to choose if you hit a mode during it going to give you a random because there no time to select So Let me try People want to hear an ultra combo I don know why you haven found that one yet A what?
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    We're getting requests For an ultra combo A combo? Ultra combo Oh no I'm not doing that mode Okay I'll do it No the ultra combo is on the table. It's a hidden thing. Oh, well, come on, guys. Give me a freaking break. I just got this game. Definitely a Killer Instinct reference, Terry. And the call-out is Killer Instinct.
    54:22
    Alright. I'm doing the pop-pumpers and I'm... It's not the one where he stutters like 12 times, though I do like that one. I think that's like a combo breaker. Something that'd be kind of nice to work in. There it is. I stacked it with the pop bumper one.
    54:41
    One. You shouldn't make it. I think I should make it, but I'm not really sure. Is that coming back? That's not coming back. Oh, it is coming back. It has the kind of stern friendly delay. Damn it!
    55:05
    You got the elbow kick out from the kicker. That's the one. That's the worst one. Gosh. I suck at pinball.
    55:19
    I did get $30 million. I do have proof. Philip is here. Also, the fishbowl in the chat. This game would not be possible without his help at all. The fishbowl is a legend. He's awesome.
    55:50
    Coding and coding rules and everything on these games, it is brutal. It is so much work. It is so much work to have help, to try to do all this stuff on your own, it's damn near impossible. It's not even worth trying.
    56:11
    And yeah, this game was kind of stagnant. By the way, Scotty, do you know I finished the pop bumpers?
    56:24
    I finished it most. You did finish it. Yeah, it's filled up. I told you if you stacked it. Yep, I finished it. I think it put me over the million point for that. Just that moment. I think I figure what it awards you. It's I think it's closing in like half a million for the thing or not. It's it's substantial I think it's I'm not sure I have to go back and check it depends on the mode man You gotta start getting that extra ball. I know I suck
    56:57
    So I managed to I'm a little beep sounds like like Guardian of the Galaxy galaxy countdown you can thank the fishbowl for that um yeah get uh similar uh similar folks there so no sound effects in here that that um you know just show up from time to time that when we're coding they're like we need a sound effect for that let's go find what we've done in the past and then you're like oh right was i gonna replace that nah it sounds good yeah the toast the toasty call out is probably one of my favorites but i guess i was just mainly into the uh fighting games i got pizza time ready with another mode let's do clear clear table clear table Oh yeah, if you can get that Pizza Time in this mode, that one will go nuts. So at this point I don't care about extra cheese, I just want to see if I can finish the mode. There you go. You should be able to finish this one. I feel like you should be able to stack it in the two finish. If you did have a fourth ball, you'd be... Oh, you're right! If I had a fourth ball! God damn it. But, I don't know, you could still knock this out for sure. So the scoring on all of the Super Jackpots and pizzas is a multiplier.
    58:33
    Oh! Thanks for joining. But that, yeah, so like, I was asked that a lot. Does the, you know, do the Jackpots stack or get bigger? I just don't know. That's the main difference. So. Flipstream, I hate you.
    58:53
    You know why? yeah the uh the modes the mode images are tattoos um it was kind of hard because honestly if you show the the chest nipples because it's a it's a chest piece you know it's a chest piece tattoo and and i kept scrunching it down but then once the nipples got in the frame it was just awkward so it is kind of undescripted to tell that it's a man's chest that those are tattoos on um what are you talking about but it was better than showing the nipples djx lunchbox i'm gonna put djx lunchboxes and this initials in here uh if you're in the chat throw your initials in there so we can throw that into it actually goes to orbital it actually goes to orbital framework so everybody can see it if you're not here i'm just gonna put djx i'll wait for a minute there's actually there's actually not i'll take the pepperoni nipples um there's actually not a uh a tilt call out uh there are tilt flashes and it can tilt out but there's not a uh healthy rust tilt call out that's uh That's a pretty big miss on my part, honestly.
    60:21
    How do you go back? I like that. Okay. LBX. Sorry about that, Scotty. Go ahead. No, Savory, you're right. It's a miss. It's a very big miss.
    60:39
    Scotty, thank you for putting numbers and a few symbols in your thing. because I never get numbers. I can't ever go MP3 or M3K or anything.
    60:51
    I like that. Rob, you get on some fresh call-outs for Crust. I think Rob, so Rob Avery, who's also in the chat, I think it should, like, so this game is going to be released in conjunction and sponsorship with AtGames, who helped fund and sponsor this being made. got me help to get some of the things done that require. And I'll put out a release about that, so I'm not going to go fully into that. But all to say that they are pretty amazingly awesome dudes they're allowing.
    61:29
    The simple of it is they said, can we help you put this out? And I said, well, I like my games to be released for free for everyone to be able to play. And they said, yeah. and I was like wait you're going to chip in money to this and then still allow it to be given away for free they're like sure if that's what you'd like and I was like okay let's talk um because so I mean we'll talk about that more later another time I don't have the prepared statement kind of thing but um but in general there's just a lot that it takes to put something like this together and so it will have um this will have as you hear the soundtrack in the background and that has all been recorded from scratch every track on this table has been recorded from scratch by rob um and he who also did crust uh call outs um and that's awesome i mean if you think about the amount of work just alone just getting the soundtrack done and the voiceovers done i and we'd have to go back and look at the number of call outs um that go into this and if you look at i mean so every pizza of every size has four different vocal call out options too so personal pepperoni can be one of four different characters that calls in and asks for it so you just do the math there that's a crap load of call outs and that's not even to consider all the stuff that crust says and everything like all the different call outs that crust does there's going to be variations on all of those so they don't get old you have like seven or eight jackpot call outs you have three or four call outs that he's going to do when you take too long the ball sitting in the ball launcher and so yeah it's um so much work so much work but yeah you do you sometimes miss doing a tilt call out and uh we gotta work on and getting a uh a warning we probably need a warning and a tilt call out so we'll have to put that into the mix but thanks for for rob for being here and helping um with this you know late nights working on working on this stuff and and dealing with dealing with me which is it can not always be terribly easy because you know because uh you have a pretty specific vision and on some of this stuff it's pretty hard to to explain but rob pretty much just picked up and hammered out the tracks in an in an unbelievable fashion so yeah it's it's pretty cool pretty cool this community the vpx community has some just mad talented people in it um it's it's always surprising i always think like now i don't want to ask people to get in this trench with me because it's a deep trench and you know i'm not asking for a couple hours like people are putting in real time people are putting in 20 to you know 40 hours doing this stuff and there's no money you know as i say we're just doing this because it's fun and we love it. But I mean, yeah, so it's always a little awkward, but I'm always surprised. And I know Jamie was on here, Jamie Hopwood, who did the spaceship, as well as the ramps, I don't think did crab cheese on here because he's in another time zone, but he did the melty cheese on top of, yeah, don't you love that wiggle? I mean, we need some, I know we need some, we need some like little some little plush print out 3Ds I think if this was a cab that would have to be a topper of some sort you know like you can't see it if you zoomed in real close you'd see that that alien has a doobie in his hand I don't know if you've got 4K on there you might be able to see he's got a doobie but that's why he's got the space munchies and he's down here laughing so yeah I mean there's just There's a lot of funds. I mean, tons. I mean, obviously it's built on the back of Pin Up and without David, none of that would have been even possible. I think I probably would have crapped out and not done any more tables after Diablo and dealing with Ultra DMD.
    66:07
    If I had to do another table on Ultra DMD, I never would have done another table. By the way, here's a weird flex. I broke Ultra DMD playing Diablo because I think I circled the villain so many times you got into the billions yeah I got into the billions yeah there is on the plans to do a revitalization of Diablo I swapped it for Flex I don't think Flex DMD will make that happen Flex DMD won't but there just needs to be some updates to that so it'll probably go pin up at some point if I find time because there were so many awesome videos that had to be 128 pixels wide. That was so sad.
    66:51
    Oh, man, this thing would have just been so impactful. But, I mean, the backlash and everything on that, it's all pretty great. I'm happy with where it ended up with, but the Ultra DMV made me want to die. Yeah.
    67:05
    Well, hey, Scott, thank you so much for coming on. I'm afraid we're going to have to jump off. Guys Everyone in the chat has been amazing Oh What is that? Stop it Scott Or Scotty Am I making a mistake by calling you Scott?
    67:31
    No I just want to make sure I'm not Thank you Blipstream for the bitties By the way SBSB Spencer congratulations on the redemption of the custom sound i will get working on that as soon as i can everybody thank you scotty wick dr warp zone collect a call out scotty i want to say thank you so much once again this was really last minute and i said scotty please come on with me let's talk about this game because this is amazing this is a shit ton of work So much work and so much love goes into these tables I can't wait for you guys To get this and play it And beat my score 30 million It's not You know either it's on OSB Or it didn't happen So I'm just saying Come here you We're gonna go This is my reason for having to leave Pizza time! Pizza time! Pizza time! Pizza time! Pizza time! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Scotty, thank you so much! Yeah, thanks everyone. It's nice having so many of the group that helped me make this thing also here in the chat. I definitely don't, uh, yeah, this game wouldn't have happened without the help from so many, so... It's cool to see it coming around. Alright. So look forward to it guys. I'm going to post the link in the description when this goes up on YouTube. Monsters! Monsters. No, it's the pizza guy. And we'll see you next time. We're going to hang out. Go jump over and see what Don't Panic Flip is doing. So, I'll see you guys later. Oh. It's time to go to bed.
    69:35
    All right, guys. Yeah, thank you, Scotty. It's awesome. Guys, if you want to stick around, join me. We're going to go see what Don't Panic Flip is doing. And once again, thanks a lot. See you later.
    70:35
    Thank you.