OK, maybe not soon, but tonight I heard something very interesting about a possible pinball machine based on the characters “Jay and Silent Bob.”
Many of you will be familiar with the director / actor Kevin Smith. His big debut came in 1994 with the movie Clerks. He went on to create a number of movies, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and others.
He is also known for his love of comic books and Dungeons and Dragons. The latter is how he came to voice a character in Stern Pinball’s latest game Dungeons & Dragons The Tyrant’s Eye.
Kevin appeared on the “Aimless Pinball” Twitch channel live from On Tilt pinball in California earlier today. They were streaming Stern’s D&D when the subject of how he became a voice actor in the game came up. This is where it got really interesting:
“How did you get involved in the voice of this game?”
Kevin: “What a great question. It was actually a fairly confused thesis.
There’s a guy named Stuart who sets up all of our licensing deals. So at one point I was like, Stuart can we get a pinball game. Like I’ve seen other people have pinball games, can we get a Jay and Silent Bob pinball game. And he goes, I’ll look into it.
And so Stuart generally delivers. I got an e-mail from the reps and they said the good folks at Stern want you to do a voice in a pinball game. And I conflated those two things. So in my head, I was like ‘Oh those are the people who are making our pinball machine” by all means…“
So Kevin went in and did the voice for D&D, a whopping 1,400 lines of dialog.
“And afterwards, I’m like, I’m so glad we’re working together and shit. And they looked a little confused because they were like well we workED together, you’re done. Go home. But in my head I was like we’re making a pinball game together.
Then I found out, the people that are making our pinball game, they’re not the Stern people. So it’s another company making a pinball game, which they haven’t even announced yet and shit.
So I probably shouldn’t, but you heard it here.
I remember Stuart was like, they want you involved in the writing of the game and I was like what writing? Like it’s a pinball game. Now I understand. They want a whole world under the glass.”
Pretty interesting stuff. Below is a link to the broadcast for anyone who wants to check it out. This portion of it happened at a little before the 20 minute mark.
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