Stephen Silver, Creative Director on The Princess Bride for Multimorphic, is coming back to TPF this year!If you had your heart set on rubbing elbows with a D-list Pinball celebrity, time to lower your expectations, because those guys were booked, and we got Stephen instead! Stephen has been in the pinball hobby since 2010, when he came in 4th in a 4 person pinball tournament, finishing right behind a 7 year old who, frankly, could have shown a little more sportsmanship and a little less victory dancing. While Stephen did not, in fact, learn how to Dougie that day, he did rediscover the fascinating, physical, mechanical world under glass that is pinball, and he couldn’t get enough!
Fast forward 2 years and Stephen was visiting his first TPF, where he laid eyes on the very first P3 prototype. It was love at first flip, and he knew this was going to be something special. After offering his video production, animation and design skills to Multimorphic Founder Gerry Stellenberg, he soon began working with the company in all manner of promotions and development, which eventually led to him being named Creative Director on the Company’s 4th full game release, Heist. Since then, Stephen has been Co-Creative Director on Weird Al’s Museum of Natural Hilarity as well as Creative Director on their most recent release, The Princess Bride.
“I feel incredibly fortunate to have worked on 3 really special games, 2 of which are absolutely dream themes for me, with some of the smartest people I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. With the P3 platform, that team has the tools to do some really incredible, fun, new experiences in pinball, and I can’t wait for people to get their hands on The Princess Bride!”
Come hang out with Stephen at the Multimorphic booth, but he advises he hasn’t gotten any better at actual pinball or dancing in the last 14 years, so please keep any challenge expectations tempered.