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Children and pinball

By gstellenberg

7 years ago


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#1 7 years ago

Being a multi-game capable platform, the P3 can deliver games with complex shot layouts and deep rulesets that traditional pinball players typically enjoy. With the addition of technology to which today's consumers can easily relate, it can also deliver varying gameplay styles, complexities, and rule difficulties to make pinball an experience that everybody can enjoy.

Most of you already know about Lexy Lightspeed - Escape From Earth, the first game we developed for the P3, with a concept and playfield layout by Dennis Nordman, audio by David Thiel, game graphics by Rory Cernuda, and artwork by Scott Gullicks. Shown below are two videos showcasing young kids enjoying different games on the P3: Cannon Lagoon and Barnyard.

The game library for the P3 will continue to grow as we work through our own roadmap of games and as more 3rd party developers take advantage of our open platform paradigm. While delivering traditional-style games is of huge importance to us, we're also doing our best to create content that can help foster growth in the community and bring new people to the hobby. If the reactions by these kids is any indication, we're on the right path.

(Note - Videos posted with permission from the parents)

We're always open to comments, suggestions, and criticisms. Feel free to reply here or PM me. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver a platform and games that everybody can enjoy. The uniquely modular and multi-game capabilities of the P3 platform make that possible.

- Gerry
http://www.multimorphic.com

3 months later
#11 7 years ago
Quoted from jungle:

Trouble is children don't have the money to buy one.

Agreed, but we're not marketing to children. We're marketing to adults. Some adults have kids. Most kids enjoy games designed for kids. Some kids enjoy games designed for adults. Some adults enjoy games designed for adults. Some adults enjoy games designed for kids. Most adults with kids would like to buy products both they and the kids can enjoy. With the P3 and a variety of games, everybody can find something they enjoy, and hopefully most will enjoy a wide range of P3 games.

This industry has never experienced a modular, physical pinball platform, and I completely understand that it'll be compared to single-themed games in pricing and perceived value by a majority of the market until we're shipping both machines and multiple enticing games.

Quoted from jungle:

I don't think it's possible to sell many in the near future at anywhere near the price i've seen mentioned. Yes you can get extra games but the initial cost is way too high imo.

You can argue that you don't like the platform or you don't like the games we've developed so far, but it's difficult to argue that the cost of the P3 with multiple games doesn't represent the best per-game value in the pinball industry. Further, at the rate the industry is going, P3 machines will soon be one of the least expensive machines on the market. When we reach production, P3 games (ie. game kits) will be the least expensive games in the industry by far. P3 machine owners will be able to build their game libraries at a fraction of the cost of traditional games, and our recently issued patents will make it very difficult for anybody else to sell anything similar.

- Gerry
http://www.multimorphic.com

#12 7 years ago
Quoted from jungle:

Pinheads buy pinball machines.

Agreed. Pinheads buy today's pinball machines because they're designed for pinheads (because that's the known/existing market). Intricate layouts and confusing deep rulesets... things pinheads love but things that confuse general consumers. Today's manufacturers largely ignore other demographics. It's a risk to design games for an unknown market.

We're designing games for pinheads too, but we're also designing games for non-pinheads. Pinheads will likely scoff at some of the ideas we're exploring, and that's fine. They can stick with the games we design specifically for them, or they can give new ideas a chance. They might be surprised at how fun certain new ideas can be.

- Gerry
http://www.multimorphic.com

1 week later
#14 7 years ago
Quoted from jungle:

Nearly EVERYONE in the outside world thinks 10k for a pinball machine is totally insane.

Then I guess it's a good thing we don't need everyone to buy one in order to build our business and deliver a compelling product to those who can afford it and choose to buy one

- Gerry
http://www.multimorphic.com

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