Episode 158 - Rush Those Stats
The episode starts with a summary of the 2021 podcast statistics, as part of our annual tradition. In pinball discussion focuses on three companies Dennis missed in the year-end review, a...
Highlights
- Eclectic Gamers Podcast achieved 37,000+ plays in 2021, a 39% increase from 2020
- Boardman, Oregon is the #1 city by listens due to Amazon AWS S3 server infrastructure located there
- Balarama is an Australian startup planning to fund pinball manufacturing via Kickstarter with minimal concrete plans
- John Norris from Premiere (formerly Deep Root working on Merlin's Arcade) offered design services to Balarama
- Pinball community is becoming more cautious about funding startup games via Kickstarter after learning lessons from past failures
Notable quotes
“We're in the pro plan, so we can do that. [about accessing city-level analytics]”
“I don't believe doing a pinball bounty segment will let you sell more games. Most sane people wouldn't equate those two.”
“Pinballers are sometimes a little slow on the uptake and don't learn a lesson very well until you teach them two or three times. But they're very leery about funding startups.”
“It's basically low skill stuff. And it's just, and I don't care. I get it. Yes, if you work hard and you hustle, you can make more money than if you don't work hard and don't hustle. What a shock.”
“Episode 149... was really meaty. So I guess I probably shouldn't be surprised that it was the top episode.”
Entities
- Balarama· company
- Deep Root· company
- Home Pin· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Premiere· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Cactus Canyon Remake· game
- Godzilla· game
- Sorcerer's Apprentice· game
- Spinal Tap· game
- Eclectic Gamers Podcast· organization
- Pinball Network· organization
- Pinside· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Guinness· person
- Jeff· person
- John Norris· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tony· person
- Zach· person
- Insider Connected· product
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