thanks for the comments

Star Gazer did kindly reach out to me but I will be looking after SG for his efforts as I really appreciate it so much.

eg he did some very cool concepts for Ghostbusters and of one of them I got his permission to make and in return will give him a finished set of PKE flipper bats once the design is final and tested (so far at a few hundred plays and going well) out of respect and something he can use or display.

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As for bringing the game overseas.

- currently my biggest and most challenging goal is building a playable game that is fun and challenging,
- my dream goal would be to bring it to the US and it that case I would build a second one and leave it there while one stays at my place in Aus
- my ultimate dream goal would to get it produced but at the moment that is nothing but a dream - I am just excited that I have started and will be stoked to finish it as so many hurdles to jump along the way or should that be bridge gaps to jump.

I have also been thinking about fonts for the inserts and luckily there is a Dukes of Hazzard font which I will most likely use for the inserts details as it captures the era of the show - Hobo BT

http://fontzone.net/font-details/Hobo+BT/?preview=THE+DUKES+OF+HAZZARD

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lol,

aiming for a 3 ball system storage and launch between the flippers with a timed 10 second control and shoot skill shot

or if my first idea does not work

a ball launch from the mid rhs barn which will feed the outer rhs crossover return lane for a 10 second control and shoot skill shot.

the playfield has been updated now with fast feed cross over ramp feeds. The difference is this game will have ramps feed the ball to behind the mid section buildings and speed feed the flippers. LHS mid section will be Cooters Garage with a petrol pump target and RHS mid section will be the Dukes Farm / Barn.

was re-thinking the arrow inserts to be in the gap of the drain lane to be triangle - yellow road closed signs so players know that the gate won't drop down - thoughts?

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checked out all the episodes and compared with features that are important in the game and roughed out 9 modes that are suggestive enough but named loose enough to mix it up through the game for variety as their could be a number of different races that can be specifically names on the dmd, same as the moonshine run can be a day run or a night run with most lights out so the police lights flashing will really stand out.

also went for the Dukes of Hazzard style font - Hobo and think it fits in nicely and captures that classic look. In time this will be made to look fancier but this is more for the mode names to zero in on the game features.

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the safe is in there for sure

my goal is the bottom 8 are randomised but each row of 3 or 2 is activated when some targets are hit and then 2-3 paths light up and once you shot a particular path it locks in that mode. But if caught by the law in possibly 3 modes (The Chase, The Heist, Moonshine Run) you go to jail and a escape is a important mode - this might change or what needs to be performed to complete "Jail Break" might be different each time? Though it did make me consider the location of those missions all being at the top of each stack closest to the police lights.

nice ideas toyotaboy - really like the car bonnet one...

Does anyone know where I can find a toy diecast / metal vault like this or similar can be found? Need a similar one for my Dukes of Hazzard custom pinball and not sure what the search name is for the US safe, vault or something else?

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found one and bought one

hand sketched a couple of small things but no new cad as yet, had a short holiday and started a new job, but hopefully soon

Forgot to add bought some parts for the play field, spinner for barn idea, 2 x pop up post mechs lots of inserts, pinball life have some cool ones.

Been a little while and finishing up a lot of little projects so I can concentrate on this game design. I went to the Gosford Classic Car Museum today and saw the Aussie version Valiant Charger which is a little different in some ways but a great motivator.

https://www.facebook.com/gosfordclassiccarmuseum/…

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cheers mate, went quiet for a little while, mojo tank was low

Working on a concept idea to have some mail boxes on the lhs linked to a spinner off the triangle lane divider. Lighting up each mail box as the "Mail Box Mow" feature awards improved driving skills as you get better at power sliding around the country side clipping mail boxes. 1st box needs 25 spins, 2nd box needs 75 spins and 3rd box needs 150 spins (totals to be determined later). Improving your driving skills extends the countdown before police start chasing (multi ball) on a getaway or moonshine run.

Also a fun award for the most destructive driver as one of the records to beat.

When the ball goes down the out lane you might only get one spin but a high speed ramp feed could give you 5 or more spins.

just a concept to place a spinner in a different location.

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@ toyotaboy - thanks for the advice

great point, thanks for the tip - that is a great one

love the ideas chadderack - thanks for the suggestions and I think I will be adopting of few of them.

project has taken a break but will be starting for another season soon, but have had lots of ideas floating in my head.

was toying with the idea of before launching the first ball that you pick the tv series or the movie with you left or right flipper button. Tv series gives you the music and objectives based on that and movie gives you more modern music and slightly different objectives.

found a good podcast (muscle car and dukes of hazzard related) that talk cars and then on to a particular episode - with lots of show sound bites.
The Kibbe and Finnegan Show

also really want to have a set of air horns in the cabinet for the getting a Match and achieving and wizard mod - would scare the crap out of people.

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thanks for chimming in, I am almost done the last batch of CFTBL snackbar mods so any mods from here on in are just for fun

yeah agree with you re the decibels and would play around with muffling so doesn't give people heart attacks.

my biggest challenge is going to be programming (any volunteers ), and then art but have alot of ideas but lacked the time recently, so am happy to post and build up the steam again.

got some motivation coming tomorrow - share soon

as for the jump ramp, I had thought of a left to right but recently been thinking a end of playfield one which the ball launches into a multi switched vertical panel that the higher you power up the further the car would travel (car jump distance) and the lower the chance of hitting the lowest which would be a creek landing. Admittedly this is a take on the idea that Elwin did on his proto Archer but with ideas to fashion differently and the highest shot connects to a landing ramp.

also thinking of a kilometres / miles travelled bonus at the end of game giving 10 or 100 points for every switch hit, with each switch = 1 km or mile = 10 or 100 points.

nothing from the last week to add, except had a birthday a week ago and got the full box set to go with the rest of the collection for some serious inspiration, ideas, call outs etc

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and wanted to update my logo for this year as the woodie version is 16 years old, gb version is for a few GB mods, surf ones is because swinks was once a registered surf furniture business and want to a surf retheme game one day, might have to do a hotrod version graphic car of dukes for this game

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beautiful car, how I wish I could get one...

I am hoping Dodge bring the Charger to Aus one day and add some details

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as for the DoH game, not alot to report, finished a few coin door parts and one is a replacement modded panel that can be backlight with a game name instead of coin mechs for home use. Another version will have buttons and then a backlit decal that will show a old school stero / 8 track player and game music can be shuffled around or tv series or movie game rules selected????

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Yes had been talking to the Kibbe and Finnegan guys via email a while back and just got the mention the other day probably before I switched officially to my other game. I still have my note book and constantly making notes and sketches for the game but not actively 3d modelling the game as decided to jump on my other game first due to no programming or dmd animations required to build up my experience and then come back to the Dukes of Hazzard as still a dream theme for me. Kibbe and Finnegan Podcast is a good inspiration and lots of ideas for modes etc.

So the delay is a bad thing but in a way a good thing for many reasons.

Here is my other design which is moving along and working on ramps now. Some of the fatures of this game will be going into the DoH game so they will be beneficial.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tube-time-custom-surfing-pin

well it has been a long time and rebooting this thread / game.

I almost game my ideas / concepts and rules to commercial project and whisky product and then something didn't seem right, alot of changes wanted to be made without letting me to fully cement the design and felt it was going to go a very different direction to what I wanted to go.

I have finished mods now for a while and have a new job which is not creative so I want to do some creative things when I get home so rebooting a custom pinball which will involve this game and the custom surf game.

This element is - playfield tiles

I just designed this playfield tile that will sit into a machined recess into the playfield. This tile is a ball diverter that uses no motors and just physical ball interaction in which I took the idea from The Shadow pinball from the ramp but adding it to the playfield. I intend to do a few different tiles so a game design can be changed quickly with just 3 bolts or mix it up by rotating the tile to face one of 6 directions. With this tile the entry could be facing the flippers so to enter hit the ball from the flippers into the entry location and the ball can go into one of 2 directions then you could rotate 180 degrees so the ball enters from the top say from the pop bumpers and can go one of 2 directions. Allows for play variety or game customisation say in a commercial game.
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That would of been an awesome experience and one I would like to do one day.

And thank you for the offer of ideas and art which I may seriously consider when the time comes - gotta pull my finger out and extract the ideas in my head and put it to design & build. I am going to merge some features of the surf pin like the reverse feed lanes to the flippers with a regular ball launch and scrap the centre ball launch.

thanks for waiting and sorry for my distraction & delays