Ben Heck leaving Spooky Pinball

[mwong168]

It appears it was a clean parting of ways as Charlie posted this on pinside:


https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ben-heck-leaving-spooky#post-4229863

Ben replied a few hours later:


https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ben-heck-leaving-spooky/page/2#post-4230800

Here is a recent interview with Ben Heck from last week:

Not sure what this means for the pinball community but Ben is a great engineer and always enjoyed watching his show along with all his neat projects/creations.

 

[Chris Bardon]

What does "until the deeproot announcement" mean? I thought they were dealing with all the leftover jpop crap-does that actually have anything to do with Ben?

In any case, it's too bad that the game didn't make it out there, but if you're designing for a license that you don't have yet, I suppose you always run that risk. They probably couldn't have anticipated TNA doing as well as it seems to be either.

 

[Luckydogg420]

What does "until the deeproot announcement" mean? I thought they were dealing with all the leftover jpop crap-does that actually have anything to do with Ben?

Apparently deeproot “came up” with a bible adventure pin idea (even though ben’s been working on the idea for years) and deeproot is prepared to sue anyone else that builds that machine. The rumor is that deeproot has deep pockets and is prepared to lawyer up and come after whom ever “infringes on his idea”.

In my humble opinion: deeproot sounds like a dick that you don’t want to cross. It would be costly and a waste of time.

 

[atariaction]

From the recent interview it appears Heck has non pinball things on his horizon. That is sad for pinball