America's Most Haunted
Spooky Pinball, 2014Quoted from kmoore88:Very nice looking playfield. My only criticism so far concerns the voice call outs. I hope he reconsiders using professional voice overs or perhaps with sound editing software they can be "tweaked"?
do you want this to become a $7500 pin? professional voice overs don't work for free.
the callouts are lacking. I know they ran long and needed to be edited, but I don't know if that alone will make up for what is lacking. I look forward to seeing (and hearing) what will be shown at expo.
The cost of some studio people (few hundred bucks each) won't push the price to $7500. I know they are cameos and it is sort of an inside thing, but you have to look at the final product.
From what I have seen/heard in the recent videos, the voice work is great!
I also LOVE that they are voices of pinball people!
Also hoping the price is somewhere in the 4k's (ok ok, Low 5k), that would make it a must-buy for me. I think the whole package will come together very nicely (including the voices e.t.c.) and if ya don't like them then just replace them in the software since it will be open-source. Easy enough to replace a few sound clips 
Won't be under $5000, but BOM willing, not Premium/LE price either.
Voices: Yes they're just WAV files on an SD card. I'm also going to make the code public. Almost every line of code is commented so it's really obvious what does what. It's in C and programs just like Arduino. The A/V is on a co-processor and has a lot of assembly but you shouldn't have to touch that.
We'll have a download section on Chuck's site for:
1) DMD SD card files
2) Music/SFX SD card files (there are 2 SD cards in the game)
3) Game kernel (HEX file and source code)
4) A/V kernel (there's a port to flash that, or we can send you the EEPROM which is socketed on the PCB for that reason)
We'll have to add a legal disclaimer that modifying the code is at your own risk as you could, for instance, activate coils long enough to burn them out, or drive a servo past its mechanical limits ignored the limit switches.
We may also sell the PCB as a single-board game building solution, but that's not a priority at the moment.
I agree the game has a lot of dialog, my next one will have less! Deal?
Shit, the fact alone that this is open source might make this an "insta-buy" for me.
Is this going to be a limited run? Or if say, a year from now I want to buy one, will I run into any issues?
Quoted from KingPinGames:do you want this to become a $7500 pin? professional voice overs don't work for free.
Professional doesn't mean it has to be james earle jones. I'm not the only one seeing this as a weak point in an otherwise very promising pin. Given it's open source I'm sure someone will end up making changes in this area.
Will you guys have support for downloading other people's modifications to the code? I guess they could just post links to their version of the code on here? I can see some cool sound and dmd modifications being made to this leading to a constantly updating and changing game which is really cool.
Can't wait to see this at expo.
Quoted from boo32:Will you guys have support for downloading other people's modifications to the code? I guess they could just post links to their version of the code on here? I can see some cool sound and dmd modifications being made to this leading to a constantly updating and changing game which is really cool.
Can't wait to see this at expo.
That's a good point. Might be fun to have a "hacker's" forum for tweaks, new rulesets, etc.
I think the open source code is cool, but will be weird playing the game and different rules for each one of these games at the same time.
i realy enjoy to be "on the list"
maybe the only one in france ?
about pinball's parts, you will use bally parts or some specific parts ?
any idea of art of the cab ?
green dmd ?
take all the time you need to make a nice looking and playing game.
sorry for my frog'eater english but pinball love had no frontier..
yann
Charlie, please reply to my PM.
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Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com
Quoted from whatchapopo:i realy enjoy to be "on the list"
maybe the only one in france ?
about pinball's parts, you will use bally parts or some specific parts ?
any idea of art of the cab ?
green dmd ?
take all the time you need to make a nice looking and playing game.
sorry for my frog'eater english but pinball love had no frontier..
yann
your English is fine and frog legs are yummy.
Quoted from mrgone:your English is fine and frog legs are yummy.
ahah thanks but in fact i'm like elvira.... i hate frogs !
AMH update:
Batch of 10 test PCB's "pinHeck" system in from China. Hand stuffing a few for the Expo demo machines. Once they've been all checked out we'll do a larger pre-stuffed order.
Chuck, Bryan F'ing Kelly Blue Shirt and friends put together the first production prototype over the weekend. It's looking really good, we're still deciding on some final touches. Excited for Chuck to finally release some pics. PF art is almost identical from MGC, but now has plastics, flashers, GI, etc.
This coming weekend we'll test the new PCB's in the production game.
Between now and Expo I'll be working on code to flesh it out with as much animation as I can, and Chuck will refine the prototypes.
We may sell the boards for game builders but that's not a priority at the moment. We also don't have a DMD conversion GUI yet (it's still command line!)
AMH update:
Batch of 10 test PCB's "pinHeck" system in from China. Hand stuffing a few for the Expo demo machines. Once they've been all checked out we'll do a larger pre-stuffed order.
Chuck, Bryan F'ing Kelly Blue Shirt and friends put together the first production prototype over the weekend. It's looking really good, we're still deciding on some final touches. Excited for Chuck to finally release some pics. PF art is almost identical from MGC, but now has plastics, flashers, GI, etc.
This coming weekend we'll test the new PCB's in the production game.
Between now and Expo I'll be working on code to flesh it out with as much animation as I can, and Chuck will refine the prototypes.
We may sell the boards for game builders but that's not a priority at the moment. We also don't have a DMD conversion GUI yet (it's still command line!)
sounds awesome, I would eventually like to get a builders set of boards
I also saw on Spooky facebook the progress shots of the Expo machines, lol
Why is this topic in the subforum ''modding''? Aint this just a new pin, build from the ground up?
Cant wait for the videos and more info.
Ben, I swear on Charlie's grave (yes, I killed him when I found out what he and Kayte had done on the couch I had to sleep on), those pics on Facebook were totally photo shopped.
I swear!!!!
Quoted from bradloy25:How can you guys work with all the beer bottles lying around?
The bottles were being used as reference points. Yeah, that's it, reference points.
Quoted from bradloy25:How can you guys work with all the beer bottles lying around?
It's all about focus.
If you look right down the center and squint they act as magnifying lenses for aligning the components to the play field. This is an old trick I learned from my Dad who learned it from his Dad- and here I thought it was some sorta family secret.
Quoted from jfh:So, is each game coming with a case of Blue Moon?
That was the plan.....until we drank it all.
Hello Ben,
please forgive me if this is a stupid question but I am curious about Ghost squads play-field, is it screen printed or is it a decal? It looks really nice and shiny in your update videos.
I thought the exact same thing. Since it seems Charlie and crew COMPLETELY ignore me though, seems kind of pointless to say anything.
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Rob Anthony
Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com
Chuck deliberately didn't lock the flippers down for as long as possible, just to drive me nuts. We completed a production prototype on Monday.
So there will certainly be a complete machine at Expo, possibly 2 if Chuck has the time.
Code-wise, all the modes are in but I've got debugging to do.
Ben, is this going to be a one time limited run, or do you forsee building them for a while once you are finished creating it?
Wait I'm lost. I thought there were 2 different ghost machines getting made.
Ben Hecks ghost machine
Spooky pinballs ghost machine
Did they merge to ghost squad?
Ben and Charlie are good friends. Ben designed Ghost Squad which was renamed "America's Most Haunted" to avoid any trademark problems with a past game named "Ghost Squad".
Ben designed the game and Spooky will be manufacturing the game Ben designed.
The Spooky designed game is a zombie game.
And yea, it can get confusing
Quoted from KingPinGames:professional voice overs don't work for free.
Yes I do. I use the term professional loosely.
Quoted from Whysnow:I also LOVE that they are voices of pinball people!
I also think this is a very cool thing. Was cool playing the prototype, hearing Alyson's voice and knowing she was hard at work on the show in the next room. Going to be a great game!
Ken>> did you do your recording session already? How did it go? Give us the low down!
Would love to hear about all the details.
Quoted from dkpinball:Ben and Charlie are good friends. Ben designed Ghost Squad which was renamed "America's Most Haunted" to avoid any trademark problems with a past game named "Ghost Squad".
Ben designed the game and Spooky will be manufacturing the game Ben designed.
The Spooky designed game is a zombie game.
And yea, it can get confusing
Then there's Ben Heck's Zombieland Adventure which was renamed to Retro Atomic Zombieland Adventure. But that's a Popadiuk game.
Quoted from ChadH:Then there's Ben Heck's Zombieland Adventure which was renamed to Retro Atomic Zombieland Adventure. But that's a Popadiuk game.
AKA Zidware is the company. All sorts of fun zombie / ghost themes coming to a head
Quoted from Whysnow:Ken>> did you do your recording session already?
Not yet. Went over to Ben's with my son to check out the prototype and see the shop. He didn't have lines written for me yet. Got some lines from him yesterday and going to head over next week and record. What a nice guy and a cool shop!
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