TPAF Audio Interview With Bobby King (Round 1)

Jeff Strong · Mar 12, 2013

Earlier today, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bobby King, Lead Designer from Farsight Studios.

Here's the audio...

Youtube version:

MP3 Download:

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I apologize that I sound a bit under the weather. It doesn't help that I was out too late last night too

. Plus I tend to mumble anyway...I never claimed to have a good radio voice, heh.

Pinballwiz45b · Mar 12, 2013

Thank you!

Bass Mummy · Mar 13, 2013

Really looking forward to this. Thanks, Jeff, for conducting the interview, and thanks Bobby, for taking the time to answer the community's questions.

infernogott · Mar 13, 2013

Thanks a lot!

Jeff Strong · Mar 13, 2013

Great news on Black Knight, as well as Gottlieb emulation, eh?

Bass Mummy · Mar 13, 2013

So far I'm about 8 minutes in and this is all excellent news. Sounds like the PC (Steam) version may be coming before too long!

Edit:

Just finished listening. Lots and lots of great news in this interview. From the sound of it, it seems we need to be perhaps more organized in our logging of bugs, art issues and sound issues on a per table basis so that the guys at Farsight can just reference one thread rather than having to dig through the forums. Maybe we should have a master bug/art issue list for each table in that table's respective forum? I've noticed lots of minute issues (for example, the missing nut on the upper end of the right slingshot in TZ for mobile) that I've never bothered to report because it always seems like there's bigger fish to fry.

The news about Black Knight and Gottlieb emulation is fantastic. Really looking forward to that. Also looking forward to the new polls.

It's great that Bobby is willing to be so open and forthcoming. Thanks a lot.

Heretic · Mar 13, 2013

Nice work dude

Lord Boron · Mar 13, 2013

That was great. A lot of good news to look forward to!

Gordon · Mar 13, 2013

Many thanks for the inteview

Crush3d_Turtle · Mar 13, 2013

Thank-you to everyone involved in making this interview happen.

Butterkins · Mar 13, 2013

Thanks for putting together this interview.

Looks like Steam is pretty much a done deal. Now I just need a SteamBox. (It won't be a Piston!)

Very sad news for console owners, but then nothing we really didn't expect. Short version: don't expect too many updates or fixes.

It'll be interesting to see if the PC version does use a much better lighting model (i.e. point lighting), same as the "hypothetical" next-gen consoles.

Also, I wonder if the Mac version will ever be brought up to speed, to use the PC codebase? Right now, the Mac version is a low-effort port of the iOS code.

Carl Spiby · Mar 13, 2013

Re: Sound

The knocker sound in its current iteration is awful. I've always hated it. I would prefer the knocker sound you get on Visual Pinball.

Jeff Strong · Mar 13, 2013

Crush3d_Turtle said:
Thank-you to everyone involved in making this interview happen. I was a bit disappoint to hear more about systems that aren't even official yet when there are numerous problems on the PS Vita, but that can be a question for next time.

I ordered the questions by the number of votes they received, plus I kept Bobby past the allotted time (he originally said 15-20 minutes), so it's the best I could do.

Carl Spiby · Mar 13, 2013

Oh and would it be possible to change my kick starter from Xbox to PC?

karl · Mar 13, 2013

Way beyond cool Jeff!
The most chocking news: There actually might be hope regarding Steam

Lots and lots of other promising news also.
Great Interview and you did an excellent job on using the right words on hard to ask questions.
Big thanks to Bobby for agreeing on doing this and being as straight forward as he was.
Really hope this can be done again soonish.

Pop Sergeant · Mar 13, 2013

Thank you, Jeff. Well done and much appreciated.

Crush3d_Turtle · Mar 13, 2013

Jeff Strong said:
I ordered the questions by the number of votes they received, plus I kept Bobby past the allotted time, so it's the best I could do.

Please don't think I was being critical of what you have done here as I am very appreciative that you took the time to do all these poll topics and especially this interview. The questions with the most votes certainly do deserve to be asked first.

jaredmorgs · Mar 13, 2013

It's great to hear what you doing like Jeff. Great interview and great reveals.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk HD

PiN WiZ · Mar 13, 2013

Excellent interview and informative insight on what we can expect for The Pinball Arcade in the near future. Thanks goes out to both Jeff and Bobby for taking the time to put this together.

Also, thanks for the shout out!

News article upcoming...

fenderbendr · Mar 13, 2013

Thanks for hosting this interview, Jeff, it was much appreciated.

Good news about ball spin and that they have tried to implement it. Hopefully they'll be able to fine tune it enough to work it in to the new tables eventually.

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