Take-a-leak hurry up mode

A crossover with National Lampoon's Vacation maybe?

Yeah! That's one of the callouts for sure.

Hehe.

Awesome! Thank you.

Sweet! I'll definitely check that out.

Yes!

Was hoping you'd get in on this again. Thinking about putting all of our discussion in this thread too, with our ideas so far.

RE: Mouse.... thinking about this as one of the two main toys in the game... the red van being the other, of course. Not sure how to do it... would love to get a small plastic beer bottle and put a toy mouse inside and maybe put it over one of the ramps or scoops? Haven't gotten to that yet.

But 1) Red van 2) mouse in bottle are my two first choices for the toys.

You're right... bullets in the nose, bleedin' nose

Hosehead will figure prominently. Looking for a small plastic black lab figurine (a fat black lab, natch) to paint on the skunk stripes. Oktoberfest will be the wizard mode with Hosehead saving the day! (Right now thinking that the juggler shot will be Hosehead, as it's the trickiest/tightest shot on the physical playfield).

Don't make me laugh! He's the one with the bleedin' nose!

Good ideas, all. Was just thinking that "Good day, eh!" would be another good end of game callout.

The castle will figure in for sure... not sure where yet.

I plan to have some more Utah people come over and help if they'd like. You'd be invited. Let's see how things look after TPF.

Thanks! Little by little we'll get it done!

Haha... yeah as others said it's 1983.... stereotypical Canadians. They say "eh" alot, eh? It's a great movie... and even if people don't know the movie I hope they'll like the game! Thanks Bas.

Sure, I'll sell it. For one billion dollars! *Dr. Evil*

Yeah I'd seen your avatar around and hoped you'd get a look at this. Hoping to do the movie justice!

That's such a great, obscure quote from the extended version of "Take off." I've heard that Geddy came up with that "10 bucks is 10 bucks" joke on his own. Is that right? Cuz if it is, that's awesome.

I do want to use "Take Off" at least (maybe for the wizard mode)... but the movie theme is cool, too. Definitely keeping some Rush in mind though.

Another great clip!

Hope it does the movie justice. Will be looking for your input!

Thanks Jady!

BTW just sourced a fairly cheap 3 1/2 inch fat black lab model, eh. Would be perfect... can substitute either a sausage or a beer can in his mouth. He looks kinda pissed off just like Hosehead

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Just listened to this... great work! Definitely got some ideas from it... and a few of our ideas are very similar

I really like the stuff at the beginning with the quarters/money/free play! The ramp shots will probably be the castle and loony bin, like you said--(nothing set in stone yet... gotta gather everything first)

"Beauty playin'" is a great callout for the initials routine.

The reveal of the Strange Brew pinball machine will probably be done with the machine draped in the Canadian flag, "O Canada" playing in the background and some Tim Horton's flown in for the occasion

Cool. I'll have to check that one out.

Was going over the movie lines/assets last night and I think "Dad" and "Mom" will figure in as playfield multiplier. "Dad's Beer" will crank up the playfield multiplier (after all the boys walk in on "Dad" and "Mom" "multiplying")

"Dad" definitely has lines in the game. Only thing I have to work out game wise (in terms of what to include) is how to fit in the "jail" and "court" scenes. "Steamroller" is in, though

I would post the rules but want to leave some of the stuff a surprise... and the rules will be subject to change of course. Gotta actually build the game (in FP) now. Then it's on to modeling custom parts, doing the art, physically ripping the assets, and putting everything together.

Awesome. Way to get the new generation into the hoser life

Mostly the existing stuff is being reused so as to take advantage of the shot geometry already worked out by Barry Oursler.

The "drop below the flippers" part of the ramp is being redesigned, fortunately/unfortunately depending on people's fondness for Hurricane. I just felt like that was too "Hurricane" for "Strange Brew". The ramp return will likely go directly to the left inlane.

The Juggler and Ferris Wheels are being removed and replaced with different mechs/toys. The hoser's red GMC van will be the main toy... haven't decided how to position it on the playfield whether over the Comet ramp (near the Juggler on Hurricane) or in the upper left where the ferris wheels were. Just have to position it in such a way that it can move up and down slightly (to simulate the "space ship" landing in the forbidden zone) and so that it can load two pinballs in the back (kegs) for the "no brakes" mode.

That's a fantastic tune and it will be the main theme tune for the pin. The verse part will likely be what you hear during all the main modes (base music). Thinking that we should save the "Stra-a-ange Brew-e-ew" chorus part for a multiball or special shot or something. It's a great rock track.

Hey Bas... not much to report this week. Was in Texas last weekend and have been super busy this week with work and prepping the house for a league visit in 2 weeks.

I did work on the virtual game a little last week before Texas and am doing some work on it today. Gotta do some spackle and paint in the basement and rent a carpet cleaner. Whatever time is left over will be spent on Strange Brew. Tomorrow more of the same. I'll update you guys on that progress.

Remembered I had a rough render from FP. (Obviously not finished art... just a placeholder).

Lamps and inserts in their positions (not correct colors).

Next step is to build the walls; then the plastics; then the mechs.

I'd love to build a shooting game that had decent physics. Anyone have hints about how to improve the flipper physics in FP?

Also got the movie poster for reference.

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Thanks! (sorry about the wall of text to come)

Thinking about switching to VPX because VP9 Hurricane exists--and the models can be switched over directly. However the graphics in VP are like wet cornflakes on s____. (It's why I used FP)

Also, the measurements in the VP9 version are off because the game was made using a skewed pic of a playfield--too short and too wide.

Thinking about how to put everything together on the physical game. Using the current physical ball guides from the "Ferris Wheel" shot would make the ball arrive too low for the hoser's red van, for instance.

Probably can't use existing physical ball guides because of that... which means I'll have to mock up some paper ones or something. Less emphasis on 3D models and more physical prototypes (in paper) is what it means. There's no such thing as a quick 3D model (for me!)

Maybe MPF Monitor is better for this than VP9/X or FP. Just a flat overhead view of the PF, but I can get started with placement and events. Then maybe physical paper guides/ramps would be a good way to go. Neither VP9/X nor FP are very good for modeling anything anyway.

Still a lot of unknowns here. This is why it's taking a while because when I get time to work on the game, it's difficult to know how to attack the layout problems.

May do VPX anyway... knowing that the measurements are off... just to get some of the game play going and to keep moving (and motivated!)

So it should play in "3B"? Nothing is off the table for this game... but I do want it to play like a normal game. We can try the banana flippers, but if it made game play too esoteric or weird, I'd take them back out. I like your thinking, though!