Me and the Questball team decided that the best course of action would be to showcase our Questball Machines at Imagine/The Strong as opposed to our digital versions, since they highlighted the ‘character select’ aspect better than the digital ones.
I don’t have any photos of my setup at both places, but man, what fun events. The fact that so many kids came up and had so much fun fighting their siblings or even in some cases their parents. It was a little annoying having to rapid fire fix the machines since some of the kids were manhandling those machines. But Jacob had them up and working in under five minutes.
One of the best parts of the Strong Museum Experience specifically was the fact that we got to meet the inventor of Pinbox 3000 and he got to tell us PERSONALLY how cool he thought it was that we designed Questball the way that we did. I felt really proud and felt like our hard work was being properly recognized. I also loved seeing all the kids play our machine at The Strong and then instantly go to the workshop and try and make their own. It felt like a really good full circle of the creative process. Just like how we joined this class because we liked Pinball and got to make our own with Professor Jacobs, those kids were then further inspired by OUR work and wanted to make their own. That’s just straight up beautiful.
Thank you Professor Jacobs and I really hope Retirement treats you well!