# Exploring the Winchester Mystery House – A Haunted Pinball Machine from Barrels of Fun

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Published: 2025-10-13T18:13:00+00:00
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For months, we’ve been quietly building something inside the walls of Barrels of Fun. The doors are finally open.Introducing Winchester Mystery House Pinball, the next major release from Barrels of Fun, designed by Karl DeAngelo in his debut as a pinball designer. This behind-the-scenes feature pulls back the curtain on the months of development that went into the game’s haunting atmosphere, from the music and sound design I created to directing the voice-over sessions that bring the house’s ghostly history to life.Karl and I sit down Talking Heads style to share how the project came together, with exclusive footage, production notes, and some of the surprises we built into the final game.This game is a true labor of love from the entire team at Barrels of Fun — artists, programmers, and engineers all pushing to create something that isn’t safe or formulaic. It’s a bold step into a world that doesn’t rely on a major IP, and instead builds its own haunted legend from the ground up. People have been asking for a non-IP based pinball game, and this one delivers. Winchester Mystery House is everything we love about the genre — strange, atmospheric, unpredictable — and proof of what can happen when a small license gives us the room to get weird and make something special.The machine will make its public debut at Pinball Expo on October 16, and this is your first look inside.00:00 - Intro00:22 - Barrels of Fun Game 3 - The Winchester Mystery House01:00 - My role as the composer and sound designer01:17 - Minchester01:25 - Why did you make this IP instead of *insert rumored game*.02:11 - Karl DeAngelo made a seriously fun game.02:34 - Karl loves haunted houses. 03:34 - Brief overview of the 2 main mechs.03:58 - Rotating Halls turntable (Mech 1)04:36 - Cool Sound04:40 - Dirty P…

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