KOTH started when my daughter was born. I was home with a newborn and couldn't exactly go out and play pinball whenever I wanted anymore, so I started learning how to code, working on playfield layouts, and seeing if I could actually build my own pinball machine.

That little idea got out of hand pretty quickly. I came up with the theme, layout and rules, learned to cut my own playfields and 3D model parts, wired and built the machine, and programmed the entire game. Along the way I made a bunch of friends in the homebrew community who helped me figure things out and bring some of my ideas to life, including the grill mech.

Somewhere in all of that I realized this is what I want to be doing. I started helping other people with their games, programming games and features for other builders, making Godot tutorials, and getting involved wherever I could. That eventually turned into the idea for Houseball Amusements, a way for me to keep making my own games while also helping more people build games.

KOTH is where all of this started. Now I want to get it out to Pinball Expo, share it with the community that helped me get here, and then come home and start building the next one.