{"id":4202,"date":"2021-01-04T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T14:09:33","slug":"american-pinball-hires-pinball-designer-dennis-nordman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"American Pinball hires pinball designer Dennis Nordman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Pinball announced they hired <strong>Dennis Nordman<\/strong>\u00a0as a new Senior Game Designer.\u00a0 In his position, Dennis will be able to mentor the American Pinball design staff as well. Dennis is no stranger to this profession, having designed many pinball games for Bally, Williams, Stern, Whizbang, Multimorphic,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Heighway and Deeproot Pinball. Games designed by Dennis Nordman include <em>White Water<\/em>, <em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> (Stern), <em>Demolition Man, Wheel of Fortune, Dr. Dude, The Party Zone,<\/em> and many more. Dennis&#8217; career in pinball has been documented in-depth in <strong><em>Pinball Magazine No. 2<\/em><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Dave Fix,\u00a0<\/span>Director of Operations and Marketing at<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0American Pinball, says, &#8220;Dennis is an asset during our new reboot of American Pinball. We look forward to his creative style on both licensed and non-licensed games.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman-126x148.jpg 126w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman-26x31.jpg 26w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman-32x38.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dennis-Nordman-183x215.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Joe Balcer, American Pinball&#8217;s main designer on their first three games, will continue working for the company, albeit in the form of a contract designer instead of being an employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Pinball announced they hired Dennis Nordman\u00a0as a new Senior Game Designer.\u00a0 In his position, Dennis will be able to mentor the American Pinball design staff as well. Dennis is no stranger to this profession, having designed many pinball games for Bally, Williams, Stern, Whizbang, Multimorphic,\u00a0Heighway and Deeproot Pinball. Games designed by Dennis Nordman include White Water, Pirates of the Caribbean (Stern), Demolition Man, Wheel of Fortune, Dr. Dude, The Party Zone, and many more. Dennis&#8217; career in pinball has been documented in-depth in Pinball Magazine No. 2. Dave Fix,\u00a0Director of Operations and Marketing at\u00a0American Pinball, says, &#8220;Dennis is an asset during our new reboot of American Pinball. We look forward to his creative style on both licensed and non-licensed games.&#8221; Joe Balcer, American&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[466,42,213,13,5],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","tag-american-pinball","tag-dennis-nordman","tag-joe-balcer","tag-pinball","tag-pinball-magazine","post_format-post-format-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}