Stern Pinball - The Making of Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye; Pinball Brothers Shares New Predator Video; Pinburgh Games Revealed; Game(s) of the Day
By knapparcade
Here's something that I've been waiting on for a while, as an owner of the game. This afternoon, Stern Pinball released one of its great "Making Of" series of videos on Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye. The amount of work that Stern is putting into this game is truly astonishing. They used double the normal number of artists, 14, to create the animations. They used tons of different famous voice actors for the callouts. Everything about the code for D&D is completely over-the-top. D&D can be a tough shooter if you're not on your game, but the theme integration and code are absolutely amazing. I'm glad that I got mine.
D&D Whitewood
Prototype #1 for the game's Dragon mech
Prototype #2 for the game's Dragon mech
Flowchart that was used during the creation of the original Tyrant's Eye story for the game
The final, more simplified story flowchart for the game
This morning, Pinball Brothers shared a new video of its upcoming (I say upcoming because no games have shipped yet) Predator pinball machine. Specifically, the video showed off the game's "Jungle Blast Multiball."
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For those of you who are into competitive pinball, perhaps the most famous tournament in the world, Pinburgh - which came back in 2024 after a several year hiatus, has begun announcing the games in this year's event. So far they have announced three Groups of games. They will continue to reveal games on the PAPA Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/papaorg). This year's tournament will take place from July 23rd through the 27th at at Rezzanine Esports in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. It will feature a whopping $42,000 in prizes. https://pinburgh.com/2025/main.html Below is my article from last year about the return of Pinburgh: The Famous Pinburgh Pinball Tournament is Back https://www.knapparcade.org/post/the-famous-pinburgh-pinball-tournament-is-back Here's the games so far:
Game(s) of the Day: 1984 Centuri Circus Charlie arcade cabinet. Designed by Michael Barnard. Circus Charlie was created by Konami and licensed to Centuri for distribution in the United States. The arcade version of the game has six levels: 1. Riding a lion and jumping through flaming hoops 2. Tightrope walking and jumping over monkeys 3. Jumping between trampolines while avoiding flying knives 4. Jumping from ball to ball 5. Riding a Horse and jumping over obstacles 6. Swinging on the trapeze from rope to rope
2024 Stern Pinball The Uncanny X-Men Pro pinball machine.
Designed by Jack Danger with art by Zombie Yeti.
As seen at Rock Fantasy in Middletown, New York.
