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Dirty Pool Podcast - Ep31 - Raymond Davidson - Player to Programmer
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Dirty Pool Podcast - Ep31 - Raymond Davidson - Player to Programmer
▶ Full Dirty Pool Podcast Playlist It's podcast time with RAYDAY! Raymond Davidson of Stern Pinball known...
Highlights
- Raymond was hired at Stern in 2020 and moved from Seattle to Chicago
- The Seattle pinball scene was in a 'dark age' around 2011-2012 before the renaissance started
- Raymond won second place at Northwest Pinball Championships with a $2,500 payout in cash, including a brick of $2 bills
- Raymond worked on Elwin's game (likely Infinity Quest) upon joining Stern in 2020
- Raymond worked closely with John Borg on Rush after an initial awkward first meeting in the Stern lab
- Tim Sexton lowered the number of record shots needed to light time machine in Rush from two to one for accessibility
- Stern received push back on Star Wars code where hitting the Hoth lock shot lit all three locks, which Raymond initially defended
- Raymond found a bug in Metallica's Blackened mode where draining and hitting an unlit add-a-ball button would secretly grant an add ball
- Raymond considers Foo Fighters his favorite final code and Rush his second favorite, though Rush feels overwhelming in retrospect
- Raymond regrets not making multiball objectives matter more in Led Zeppelin, as players skip them while pursuing wizard mode
Notable quotes
“You can't have it. So it made me want to do it more.”
“I walked into the lab and saw John Borg working on Rush and I was like, 'Ah, the genius at work.' And he just looked at me like, 'Who the hell is this guy?'”
“You really won't know how fun it is until you actually try to hit those shots and play with them.”
“Watching on stream. So if you ever are in Twitch chat and you see a Raid game on, I'll probably be in chat watching.”
“If I see either of those [modes being avoided or played too much], then I'm jacking up or lowering points.”
“Hitting lit shots, you're getting millions and it just kind of naturally led to like the billion being the baseline.”
“I think Foo Fighters is probably my favorite Final Code just cuz everything is pretty darn balanced.”
“Sometimes there's a lot of noise that you have to filter out where either it's like no, I'm pretty confident like this is actually how I envision it.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Northwest Pinball Championships· event
- Papa (Professional and Amateur Pinball Association)· event
- Avengers· game
- Fall of the Empire· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Infinity Quest· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Metallica· game
- Rush· game
- Simpsons Pinball Party· game
- Star Wars· game
- Chicago· organization
- Dirtypool Pinball· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Seattle· organization
- John Borg· person
- Keith (last name not provided)· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Tim Sexton· person
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