ALIEN : 2e flipper Heighway Pinball par Dennis Nordman

[chatramses]

pas accrocher pour le Full Throttle,je ne trouve pas le flipper féerique,magique si vous préférez en faite il ne donne pas envie,bon après les gouts et les couleurs,pour le alien,il y a moyen de faire un truc super sympa,j aime la science fiction,oui je sais je suis un grand enfant et pour ce qui est de film ça c est cool,je ne savait pas,vivement la sortie aussi bien pour le film que pour le flip

[jlm33]

Andrew a posté ça sur Pinside et les forums Anglais et Canadiens.
Pour ceux que la langue de Shakespeare rebute, retenez que, concernant Alien :
- la validation définitive par Fox du plateau, side-art, etc... est en cours. Ca prend du temps, et ça n'est pas simple. Accords de principe pour l'instant.
- la présentation officielle (Launch Party) aura lieu pendant la UK Pinball Party, les 21-23 Aout 2015, dans l'usine Heighway, au Pays de Galles, UK.
- prochain update d'ici un mois, deuxième whitewood en cours de réalisation.

Bref, tout n'est pas simple mais ça avance !
(et le meilleur allié de Heighway va devenir le cours du $ qui rend ses concurrents hors de prix !)

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As promised, we are giving you an update on the progress of our ‘Alien Pinball’ game.

We admit that we certainly underestimated the approvals process with the licensors that we are working with on our current games in development. We are not criticising any of the licensors we are working with, but clearly there are many departments that deal with all aspects of a license – and it can take a lot of time to get the approvals and direction from a number of key people – particularly at the conceptual stages

Also, with the ‘Alien’ license it is clearly one of the biggest licenses in existence – and 36 years after the first film was released, it is still very current – with Alien 5 and Prometheus 2 both in development. Therefore, it is to be expected that FOX would want to take their time with such a prized asset.

After a number of delays, we are definitely back on track again. Here is an update on the individual elements of this game:

• Backglass Artwork – approved in principle for the SE edition. Being amended for officlal approval
• Sideart Artwork – approved in principle for the SE edition. Being amended for official approval
• Playfield 3-D models – work begins on models this week and will be submitted week-by-week for approval
• Playfield Artwork – overview and elements approved in principle – high res versions being drawn now, and will be submitted for approval accordingly
• Playfield Toys – a lot of work has been spent on this over the last few months. We felt that the current toys did not do enough justice to the license and so we have reviewed this. New toys are being worked on now. In particular, we have a very exciting xenomorph toy that is intended to become the main toy for this game
• Playfield layout – with the lessons learnt from the first whitewood, the playfield is now being re-worked and the next version will be much closer to the finished game. We expect to be making the second whitewood within the next 2-3 weeks

Now that most of the conceptual issues have been approved, and many of the draft element concepts too, from this point onwards we are expecting the approvals process to be much faster. We also expect to be able to show you substantial developments on a much more regular basis from now – including key artwork elements.

We are hoping to show you some of these key developments in our next major update – which is planned for a month from now.

Clearly we have learnt some lessons about the licensing process. So what does this mean for the timeline of this game? Everyone involved with this game is in agreement that we are going to target the UK Pinball Party, on 21st-23rd August 2015 (at Heighway Pinball’s factory in Merthyr Tydfil, UK) as the global launch of this game.

We have some exciting new additions to our team that will be announced very shortly.

To anyone who was expecting artwork or specific reveals in this update, then we apologise that this has not happened. We must make sure that we only reveal elements of this game when our licensor has approved them. Please believe us that the minute we are able to show them to you, we will do so.

Everyone involved with this game is determined to make this the best possible ‘Alien’ licensed game that it is possible to make and we thank you for your patience.

Thanks for reading,

Andrew Heighway
MD/CEO

[chatramses]

cool du moment que ça avance c est déjà ça
j ai hate de voir le plateau

[chatramses]

alors,alors,des news ?

[RipleYYY]

pour avoir croisé Andrew au buffet du petit dej' le dimanche matin, je peux juste dire que l'humour Belge (à 3 sous) doit être pire que l'Anglais

alors qu'il était devant les oeufs, je lui dit de se méfier et de ne pas s'approcher, on ne sait jamais ce qu'il pourrait y avoir dedans...
il lui faut qq secondes pour comprendre et rire, me disant qu'elle était bonne (par politesse ?), et qu'il était fatigué

bref

[Papo06]

Pas mal la blague

On a hâte de voir ce flip, autant le thème de la moto, bon, moi ça me fait autant d'effet qu'un match de foot, autant un Alien ça me parle carrément plus !

Pascal

[jlm33]

Images révélées lors du séminaire d'Andrew pendant la pinball expo (je n'y étais pas, mais en regardant le reportage de Martin Ayub sur pinball news, c'est comme si vous y étiez ! :-) )http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/expo2015/index.html

[Whatchapopo]

mouarf ça ce de l'exclu

[Crrispy]

Euhh... nan, rien

[vFelix]

Cette histoire de fox fait un peu peur.

Fox awaiting approval

Cela rappelle la triste histoire de "license gate" avec Predator. Il a fallu des années pour découvrir que ce "awaiting approval" était bidon.
On croise les doigts pour que cette fois l'histoire ne se reproduise pas avec Alien. Surtout qu'une licence de ce niveau, c'est assez incroyable, avec au moins deux films en cours de production. Ce serait un coup de maître pour ce petit mais sympathique industriel du flipper.