Unfortunately, yes, there is an option to turn vulgarity off

Of course! We didn't have it debugged yet in the whitewood video, but now when hunt activates all sounds on the machine are quieted except for that ominous 'clicking' voice sound. The sound system for the whitewood was on a separate table from the machine altogether, so the sound quality of the game in the video was pretty weak, but if you listen closely when hunt is activated you can hear it. Here at the shop, it is plain as day. Also, Predator battle noises are extremely prominent during "Tracking" mode, and of course (spoiler alert) during the wizard mode, as well.

Everyone in Michigan is a seasonal worker. Didn't you know Michigan is closed in winter??

Umm yeah +1 again for wicked idea.

This is where the flaming begins: I am sad to admit, as a man, that I have never seen an Alien(s) movie outside of Alien Vs Predator (just the first one). I'll attach my man card to this message if no one else has taken it from me already...

Watch the whitewood video again with the sound up. When we get ready to show the hunt mode, we have to hit a few outlane-drains to add stocks. If you listen closely while we're doing that (and, of course, talking), you can hear those exact sound effects a few times as the ball drains out the outlanes

This is something that has come up quite a few times during development, but we decided that we thought the virtual locks were a little more controlled and, to be honest, I have never really thought of 'stealing locks' as anything more of an unavoidable side effect of design. As candidly as possible, having my locks stolen has always really felt like I was getting screwed more than anything. Especially on something like Jokerz where multiball is your absolute focus and having it stolen can just ruin your game. Even on something that can handle the issue with software, like Shadow, having your physical locks stolen doesn't really screw you out of multiball itself, but having the balls come out of the shooter lane instead of the lock release robs you of invaluable Jackpot attempts with the upper flipper.
Admittedly it would be super cool to have all the balls launch out of those ejects directly into the bumpers all at once. Maybe we'll consider making this a setting or something? I can say right now that if it does get added into the game, having it set on tournament play will disable it automatically.

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned before. In production units, the game settings, high scores, user files, and even game code are going to be stored on a small flash memory device (most likely a microSD card or the like). If anything major comes up as far as bugs or software hiccups, or even certain updates to rules / scoring, code will be patched and we will just send out a new memory stick with the new software on it. When you get the chip in the mail, it's as easy as taking the old one out and swapping it with the new one and turning the game back on. If you don't want to wait and have a bit of tech skills, the option to update the card manually will most likely be offered, as well.

But, but...what if Arnold wants one???

You definitely saw that right. This leads me to the next comment:

If I explained the system in full, it would take up like 4 paragraphs and get extremely wordy, so here's the abridged version:
The game will save virtually infinite users, limited only by the amount of flash memory that the game comes on. The files are SUPER small, so it really is spit-in-a-river in the grand scheme of things. Without doing any real math, I can tell you it would take about 2 million user files to fill the game up and cause an issue. To log in, you simply hold the login button (pretty much in the placement of your usual buy-in button) while you press start. If you don't have a user on the game already, you just pick "NEW USER" and enter your initials as if you were entering a high score, then pick your newly created user name. Users can be removed individually from the settings menus, or you can keep the file and simply clear out the stored data or Wizard Points information.
The game stores a ridiculous amount of information about you as a player; way too much to list here. The point is, the data goes very deep. Think of it as something of an expanded 'audits' file that is personalized to the player, with even more information than your standard audits file would care about. Some examples:
Tracks how many times you've attempted each mode,
Games played, extra balls, avg ball time, avg game time, etc,
Your personal highest and lowest completed game scores, along with an average score,
Tilts, warnings, left drains, right drains and center drains,
Hunts stocked, hunts attempted, hunts completed,
Game also remembers how many times you've made each individual shot, such as left & right ramps, left & right loops, "jungle hole" scoop shots, how many times you've advanced your multipliers, total pops hit and total successful skill shots. There is quite a bit more, but that is the really important stuff that I think people will be wanting to check up on.
The user file also stores info for the "Wizard Points" you can achieve. If you haven't already guessed by the context, Wizard Points are akin to achievements or table goals, if you will. There are three brackets of Wizard Points, cleverly categorized as Easy, Medium and Hard. You guessed it, the easy ones are entry-level achievements, medium ones will challenge an average player fairly well, and the hard ones are, for the most part, extremely difficult to pull off. I would be extremely surprised if someone (with the glass on!) could complete all of the Wizard Point goals within their first year of owning the machine. Here are just a few examples of the goals:

Ramp Redemption - Easy - Collect an Extra Ball earned by completing a set amount of ramp shots.
Big Money, No Whammy! - Easy - Collect your first multiball jackpot.
What's In The Box? - Medium - Collect all available mystery awards in a single game.
Money In The Bank - Medium - Collect over 100,000,000 in bonus.
Good To See You, Major - Play 250 games.
Stocked For The Winter - Complete 75 successful hunts.

Many of the hard goals are collected over time. No one could be reasonably expected to complete 75 successful hunts in one game, obviously. These are just examples of a few of the Wizard Points in the game; there are of course many more that you'll just have to earn to figure out This post is now officially too long, so I'm going to willfully make a dbl post after this one to answer another couple of elaborate questions that were recently asked. Bad etiquette, I know, but so is an 8 paragraph post

There is. The name has been with me for a LONG time, and has been used for lots of different things in its days. Used it as my Flash "Studio" name for awhile when I was much younger and made Flash animations out of boredom. It was also my company name when I used to buy/sell/trade new and used video games, arcade coin op stuff and pins. While we were in the process of making the Predator and it came to our thoughts that we were going to need to become a company of some sort to make it happen, Skit-B was the obvious choice simply based on the idea that we think it's neat, based on its history within our small group here in Mid-Michigan, and the fact that coming up with a new and flashy company name would only slow us down. Oh, and as for the meaning, it's an acronym. Skit-B literally stands for "Some Kids In The - Basement." We are oh, so clever, I know

Company info / background is pretty straight-forward, if you're looking for our "employees'" connection to coin-op / pinball. You know what? I just typed out an entire story here, so I'm just going to move it to my Pinside Pinball Story in my profile. Please check there to read up on our history as pinheads I'll just link it, below.

http://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/skitbpinball/stories/background-of-skit-b-pinball

There are a ton of different sayings the game uses when you start a game, and I believe this is one of them. Others include Jesse Ventura's "You lose it here...you're in a world of hurt," Billy's "There's something out there waiting for us...and it ain't no man," and Dillon's "We need the best. That's why you're here." I believe my personal favorite is Dutch, saying "We are assets, Dillon. Expendable assets."

I really don't want to give out an exact number here, but I can build the scenario for you guys. Pinside is the ONLY place we've opened up pre-orders to in the world. Barring friends-of-friends or whatnot that were clued in BY pinsiders, I can tell you that over 10% of the production run will end up with pinside members. One more reason why we just love you guys

Did I mention we just love you guys? Nothing gets past anybody here. You can't see it on the whitewood because...well...it's a whitewood, but that has been the plan all along. UV-only colors are applied over the existing playfield art to turn all the leaves blue and all of the characters different shades of red. One thing we're thinking about changing is allowing the two closest red GI lights to the flippers to stay on during hunt/hunt multiball, just to help you keep an eye down on the flippers. Thoughts on this?
People have mentioned use of a laser device to "target" the player a few times, as well. We researched this a while back, and we are left with two major points, and a potential solution.
Point # 1: Using a class one laser device makes our game a 'potential household hazard.' Based on the different heights of potential players, there is just no way we could get an OK to install these in the game out-of-the-box.
Point # 2: The concept is just too awesome to ignore, so we really need to figure out a way to make this work.
Potential solution: The game could ship with a "kit" that the end-buyer would have to install themselves. The most likely scenario would be a topper with the cannon itself housing the laser device. You could set it at your own angle, and for legal reasons, it would be one of those "by installing this item on your machine you are aware of the risks, bla bla bla" kind of stories. Thoughts on this, as well?

EDIT: I must be in quite a mood to give away spoilers and info tonight... No, I haven't been drinking or anything, but Happy Easter to those who are

Wow, lots of stuff to answer this afternoon! I guess that's what happens after writing the amount of stuff I wrote last night

It is a cool idea, for sure, but I can tell you that there isn't anything like this in the game right now. There is a unique hurry-up mode in the game, but it's not based on the armcpu nuke; it's based on catching the girl as she runs through the forest. The armcpu countdown in used in a few places as far as animations, and the Super Jackpot animation is from when the nuke goes off at the end. Recovering from a tilt is a pretty wild concept, to me, but it is interesting as hell... I wonder if something like this could be executed properly? Might take some really off-the-wall thinking to accomplish.

Talking sound bytes is so much fun This one is exactly how you stated it. Oh, I mean, "Check!"

Do you think this would have the same effect? Needs some testing, I guess.

Lasers act really strange when sandwiched between a mirror-polished clear-coat and tempered glass. The light hits the target, then just goes all over the place. It's unfortunate, but if you can't control it, you certainly can't use it in a precision environment like a pinball playfield. If someone could personally get me in touch with Stephen Hawking and some kind of gas that can slow the speed of light, we might be on to something

We're working on that. There are a few vendors/manufacturers we've been speaking with to try and get our stuff made or at least sourced from existing parts. Don't quote me on this, but I'm sure the simple stuff, like light housings, will be pretty standard, so changing bulbs in and out shouldn't be an issue.

We like to think of it as "it's a community, not a contest," but we do enjoy seeing posts like this

I don't really know, honestly. If people can get UV tattoos that last forever, I'm sure paint can come close Production-wise, the normal artwork goes on first, then gets clear-coated, then the UV paint, then one more clear-coat to protect that, as well. Hopefully that will keep it as protected as possible.

This is very likely, I like the idea. +1 for assistance on covering our legal butts

We will be toying with this over the next few weeks. As there will be potentially thousands of people coming to play the game, we should garner enough thoughts and opinions to make an educated decision.

All I'm going to say to this is "agreed."

This is probably the case. It's more of an account of what got us into pinball than your usual 'company profile.' If the info you're looking for is related to if we have worked for Bally/Midway/Williams/Gottlieb/Stern in the past, you won't be finding anything like that. We're all fresh to this particular side of the industry spectrum, but we've been in it both commercially and as hobbyists since before I started Kindergarten, if that helps.