10:00 Learn to play better pinball, with Eric Stone and a volunteer student

Later seminars on Friday include game repair, homebrew game development, and altering code for older manufactured games. Sequencing of seminars is not yet settled.

11:00 Dick Hamill is changing code on old Williams games now, and we get a play-demo

12:30 Paul Patti of our Tech Team presents What to Do With This EM Pinball Machine? (for those who inherited one or picked one up cheap)

2:00 Homebrew Developers Panel

3:30 “Lin” Manuelian discusses his approach to game deevlopment

5:00 Todd Tuckey, Frank Lindenmuth and the TNT gang present Pinball Restoration Scenarios: Is It REALLY Worth It?

7:00 Documentary producers discuss Pinball: The American Game

9:00 Late-breaking news…start time could be later, depending on how much we have to cover

10:00 Deep Dive Into Portal, with Michael Ocean (co-designer and software lead for Multimorphic on this title)

11:00 Michael Grant of Stern Pinball explains the Stern Army and Stern’s campaign to promote pinball on location

The autograph session will be at Noon, out in the Foyer.

Sessions on Saturday will include fireside chats with Raymond Davidson and Steve Ritchie. Check back later for which one is in each time slot.

12:30 Fireside chat with Raymond Davidson

2:00 Musical Style in Pinball History: Influences from Early Cinema, Video Games, Rock, and Even J.S. Bach

3:00 Fireside chat with Steve Ritchie

4:00 Mark Seiden and Lea Faske talk about Avatar: The Battle for Pandora, and how it is a career milestone for both of them

6:30 Jersey Jack Pinball Update, with pizza and dessert