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Stephen Silver with Multimorphic - Episode 18

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 18 – Stephen Silver, the Creative Designer at Multimorphic, came to the wormhole to sit down and discuss their newest title for the P3 – The Princess Bride. Stephen...

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Highlights

  • The Princess Bride will debut at Texas Pinball Festival (TBF) with playable machines at a Multimorphic booth
  • Stephen Silver has worked with two dream themes in a row (Weird Al and The Princess Bride)
  • The Princess Bride license was secured during Weird Al production, with roughly one and a half years of development time
  • The P3 platform is the only third-party development platform in pinball where independent developers can create games
  • Multimorphic has eight playfield modules available for the P3 system at this point
  • The Princess Bride features a Cliffs of Insanity mechanism with a real ball lift similar to but actually functional compared to Pinball Magic's fake version
  • Stephen Silver founded and owned a local broadcast station in Texas
  • Stephen Silver met Jerry Stellenberg at Texas Pinball Festival 2012 after reading a Pinball News article about Multimorphic's P-Rock boards prototype

Notable quotes

“We are the only third party platform available in pinball where third party individuals are able to make awesome, creative pinball experiences that you can't get anywhere else”
Stephen Silver
“You should never have to take your eyes off the screen. We want you to be able to get all the information you need on the screen down below you in front of your eyes.”
Stephen Silver
“Our mantra is that you should never have to take your eyes off the screen... The backbox LCD is for your friends. That's for everybody else around you watching.”
Stephen Silver
“T.J. Weaver is one of the most brilliant engineers in pinball... this mechanism that will attach the ball to this crane and lift it up and drop it off at the top of the cliffs is amazing”
Stephen Silver
“I think there's two types of people in this world that are Gen X like us, right? There's those that are addicted to The Princess Bride and those that don't get it.”
Jamie
“I know where that's going, and I can see where that's going. I can definitely see the potential of that.”
Stephen Silver

Entities

  • Multimorphic· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Dungeon Door Defender· game
  • Final Resistance· game
  • Heist· game
  • Lexi Lightspeed· game
  • The Princess Bride· game
  • Weird Al· game
  • Buffalo Pinball· organization
  • Greg Goldie· person
  • Jamie Burchill· person
  • Jerry Stellenberg· person
  • Jose Fernandez· person
  • Josh Kugler· person
  • Michael Oshin· person
  • Scott Denise· person
  • Stephen Silver· person
  • Steve Scheuer· person
  • T.J. Weaver· person
  • P3 Platform· product

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