{"id":11158,"date":"2018-03-18T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:38:09","slug":"brian-eddy-returns-to-pinball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2018\/03\/18\/brian-eddy-returns-to-pinball\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIAN EDDY RETURNS TO PINBALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an announcement today at the Texas Pinball Festival, Stern Pinball’s Chief Creative Office George Gomez announced that Brian Eddy has joined the company as a Senior Game Designer.<\/p>\n

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George Gomez making the announcement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian Eddy designed three games for Williams in the mid-’90s – The Shadow, Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness – but was also the programmer on several earlier games such as Black Rose, Bride of Pinbot and Indiana Jones.<\/p>\n

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Brian Eddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He left pinball after Medieval Madness, working on slot machines and on-line games, and has been the frequent subject of requests to return to pinball.\u00a0 Until now he has always rejected the possibility of making a return, but now Stern Pinball has employed his to work alongside Steve Ritchie, John Borg, Keith Elwin and George himself in designing games.<\/p>\n

George said Brian’s first title for the company is scheduled for release in 2019.<\/p>\n

Stern subsequently released the following press statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Accomplished Game Designer Brian Eddy Joins Stern\u00a0Pinball\u2019s Game Design Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Designed iconic pinball games \u201cAttack From Mars\u201d and \u201cMedieval\u00a0Madness\u201d<\/p>\n

Elk Grove Village, IL \u2013 March 19, 2018<\/strong> \u2013 Stern Pinball, Inc., the world\u2019s oldest and largest maker of arcade-quality pinball machines, today announced the hiring of Brian\u00a0Eddy in the role of Senior Game Designer. Brian is best known for the design of two of\u00a0the most iconic games in the history of pinball, \u201cAttack From Mars\u201d and \u201cMedieval\u00a0Madness\u201d.<\/p>\n

Brian brings a unique and diverse experience to Stern Pinball. He started his career as\u00a0a game programmer prior to focusing on game design. Over the course of his career\u00a0Brian has worked on games for a variety of platforms and markets. Under the Midway\u00a0Games brand, Brian developed coin-operated video games such as \u201cArtic Thunder\u201d and\u00a0modern-day console games for the Xbox and PlayStation. Most recently, Brian led a\u00a0studio at Zynga that designed Facebook and mobile social media games.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian is an incredibly talented designer with strong creative leadership skills. He has\u00a0had consistent success in a variety of diverse entertainment design environments. We\u00a0are very excited to add his talents to our studio as we continue to grow our unique\u00a0lifestyle entertainment brand,\u201d said George Gomez, EVP and Chief Creative Officer.<\/p>\n

About Stern Pinball, Inc.<\/p>\n

Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun\u00a0modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare\u00a0International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs,\u00a0engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced\u00a0terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. The\u00a0Company serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the\u00a0globe.<\/p>\n

Recent Stern Pinball titles include Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith,\u00a0Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek,\u00a0AC\/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball\u2019s\u00a0games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes international\u00a0competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit\u00a0www.sternpinball.com.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an announcement today at the Texas Pinball Festival, Stern Pinball’s Chief Creative Office George Gomez announced that Brian Eddy has joined the company as a Senior Game Designer. Brian Eddy designed three games for Williams in the mid-’90s – The Shadow, Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness – but was also the programmer on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[587,588,589],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brian","tag-eddy","tag-stern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}