Congratulations! Looking forward to the stream tonight!

Looking forward to streaming this tonight!

http://www.twitch.tv/buffalopinball

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I love tower defense games! Combining this with pinball has potential. What is the price the game? Will the stream eventually make it to youtube?

$199

Pending the stream I'm probably in. I bought the P3 for Weird Al, got Heist and CCR to mix up the playfields. CCR isn't for me but I've really been enjoying Heist. Am genuinely interested to see what other games would work on that module. $199 for a new pinball experience can't be beat.

I will upload the stream to our YouTube channel, and the VOD will be available on Twitch immediately after the stream

Congrats man

In! Now if I could just get home to install and play it. Stupid work getting in the way of fun again.. lol

Congrats!

An hour to go, right? If my time zone skills are on point.

Streaming now!
https://www.twitch.tv/buffalopinball

I’m not sure what a tower defense game is, but I guess I’ll find out when I check out the stream. Congratulations Michael!

Is there any sort of shorter "trailer" available? I'm not super interested in watching an hour+ long video (although I started to), but I'd love to see a summary of what the game is like.

Defend the Dungeon Doors, now on YouTube. Feel free to watch as much or as little as you like!

Super excited and just ordered the module on the multimorphic website. However... now that I've ordered I cannot figure out how to get it on my machine. I have Heist installed and don't see a place for it in the menu or in the app menu. Is there someplace specific I should be looking for it? Thanks!

Someone from Multimorphic has to do something on their end I'm pretty sure. Since it's after business hours you might be waiting until tomorrow. But, it will be in the system manager to download when they approve it.

As jtgribble says, if connected to WiFi on your P3, it will appear in System Manager->Install Applications->From multimorphic.com . Once selected, you will need to build the application for your P3. This can take up to 15 minutes. The word 'build' will change to 'install', at which point you will be able to download and install.

If you would like to install manually via USB, this is also an option. Log onto multimorphic.com, click the Software link on the left side of the page displayed when you log in, then scroll to find Dungeon Door Defender in the list of software specific to your P3. Click the Build link. Again, this may take up to 15 minutes. Once the package is built, click "download" and then save to the root of a USB drive.

Once it is on the USB drive, plug into the USB port on the left side when your coin door is open, then go to System Manager->Install Applications->From USB. This will allow you to select the DDD package that you downloaded, and install.

The game does need to be linked to your account to show up in the list of applications. This is usually a quick process, but sometimes can take a bit longer.

Got it!

There was an application to download in my system manager this morning. Installing now. Thanks!

Very early review/synopsis of Dungeon Door Defender based on exactly 20 minutes of gameplay from someone who likes most (but not all P3 stuff).

I like it! It is pinballish, but does not feel like real pinball. It is a game that works very well on the platform.

Basically it works like this: You are defending a door to a dungeon. At the beginning of every level, monsters spawn and walk towards your dungeon door, represented roughly by the Heist prison door. If a monster reaches the door, it will attack it. The door has hit points, and each second the monster is at the dungeon door the dungeon door loses some health. If the health bar reaches 0, you die and the game is over. If you drain a ball the dungeon door loses some health.

Monsters can be defeated by attacking them (hitting them with a ball... these are virtual monsters on the screen), or by summoning a mage/knight/rougue by hitting a ramp. These heroes can be summoned by hitting specific spots in the Heist playfield (mostly ramps). While summoned these heroes continuously attack the monsters, and can be healed by hitting the ramps or targets that summoned them.

Each round has a certain number of monsters you must defend against. Monsters are different and become progressively harder in further waves. Inbetween each round you get the opportunity to spend gold you earned from defeating monsters to upgrade your heroes, attack power, or repair the door.

There is a risk reward element as you can save up your money in earlier rounds to upgrade your characters more, but doing so leaves you vulnerable during earlier rounds. Different monsters behave differently. There is a magic system and some other things like rotating lanes I'm still learning about, but in my first 3 games this is what I've discovered.

I'm digging this game. It would be nice if there were some options to adjust difficulty. The ghost is brutal for my kids. Being able to adjust the damage caused by the ghost would be nice a nice adjustment.

How many waves are there in the game? I've made it to 8 so far.

I just bought the game and plan on downloading and playing tonight. One possible way to address this would be to have the last room unavailable on the easy mode and instead it would just go back to the start in normal mode.

Please please *please* take note of this in general: My kid's friends come over a *lot* to play pinball, and they are always intrigued by the new P3 game I have just gotten, and almost without fail, they play it, declare it's "too hard" and don't go back to it. This occurs on EVERY P3 game except ROCs. This isn't a pinball vs video games thing, it's specific to the P3. The kids are about 12-14

I have not figured out what it is but I'm wondering if there's something to do with the light show and fanfare on other games where you can start a multiball or have a little light show play fairly easily. I think this new game will draw some attention because I know they all play stuff on the iPad like Plants and Zombies (I had to learn that "Tower Defense" games are a lot like one of my old favorites, Rampart). I'm curious to see the reaction on this one.

Adjust the outlanes and/or put the center post in when the kids come over?

I'm a lurker of p3 System by monitoring what gets released and tracking its progress. I still have yet to play one in the wild and still looking.
Seeing Kevin's stream about this game has got me further interested in p3.

This games gives me a feeling of a glorified iPad game, but the controls are integrated well with pinball. This statement is not meant to be received as negative, rather myself trying to relate to what I am observing. Digital games often resemble other games and that is what I am reminded of when I watched the stream.

However, there are plenty of great things I see about this game. It's awesome to see the game react as the ball rolls over the characters, how making ramp shots impacts your game. Bridging the gap between pinball/gaming was thoughtfully considered and glad it was executed.

So, depending on the players accuracy this game has limitless experiences which is a good thing.

Incorporating character/item inventory system adds new elements to this game that p3 was designed for. It creates a new adventure that has strategic methods to play the game differently each time.

To me... this would allow replayability factor that peeks my interest compared to other digital games p3 offers.

At least this is my observations based on the stream. I cannot wait to get ahold of a p3 system in the future.

Awful video and walk through of complete amateur game with less than 10 games in. I think it's worth it.

I downloaded it last night and played for about an hour. I really enjoyed it. It makes use of some of the unique capabilities of the P3 and it is also completely different from anything else out there. My only complaints:

1) Would benefit from callouts

2) Would love to play this multiplayer. I understand this can't be done like a traditional pinball game where it goes to the next player after a ball is played. That said, it could go to the next player after a level is completed.

I agree, these would be great features for this game.

It was between Heist, Drained, and Final Resistance with my P3. This just put Heist as the one.

What are you using to record? I have some mic stands I converted to phone for some streaming I did for work but don’t want to drop money on a full setup, but I like this one camera and commentary. I think that could be helpful for a ton of p3 games. Specially D^3 for strategy etc

I'm about $20 in using my phone on a flexible mount attached to the backbox. Something similar to this. https://www.amazon.com/Cell-Phone-Clip-Stand-Holder/dp/B079QY6RFQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_4

Phone is a nice S23 ultra.

I mean, sure - but really no I’m not going to do that.

I think there’s more to it than that, it’s multiballs balls ending IMMEDIATELY on a drain where another ball in motion may be going up a ramp, but the shot isn’t counted, a lesser grace period to accommodate errant bouncing around. I’m of course comparing to Stern code -
But I think there is some merit since there is so much more to these games Nowadays, if it’s hard to get something started, there should be a little more time to engage in/enjoy it. I’m bummed the kids don’t get to see as much of the P3 stuff - im starting to think they gravitate to the Stern games because of the light integration. Anyway, Im not trying to bring the thread down, it’s just direct observable behavior and I’m not suggesting P3 games should be more like Stern, but I mean we WANT more interest, right ?

I would be quite happy to offer my VO services !

You’re right - this is off topic, and even more so because I want to make it clear I did not mean to apply this rather broad brush to DDD, and should have put it elsewhere.

I do agree with you about CL - it’s pretty clear what’s going on in that game. That said, the teenagers are very much NOT interested in that game any long

I’ll take this elsewhere, it’s not appropriate to lay this down here - I’m super impressed with this game and FR and the other work you’re doing.

What I would ask for is the ability to adjust the drain penalty from something like 0-5. Not change it for the entire game, but for it to be a setting.

Once in wave 6 I had 2 balls in play. I wasn't sure how I did this and I wasn't streaming that game so I can't go back and look. At the time I thought maybe it was a feature, but now it sounds like it was some kind of a bug.

When playing on stream Thursday night I would get this bug where a weak shot to the inner loop would cause the ball to end up i the scoop and get lost. It would do a ball search but would mostly just mess around with the scoops just below the playfield module and would take a long time to actually eject the ball. The monsters would keep attacking during ball search which wasn't ideal. After restarting the game everything seemed to register OK and I didn't have the issue.

One thing I like on this game is code seems to support the speaker lights and Weird Al topper lights. It would be great if this support could be extended to Heist.

I agree with this. I realize that we can adjust the out lanes, but it really isn't practical when you have a system that supports different games to also adjust out lane settings between games. There should be some software settings to adjust difficulty also.

Had a lot of great games last night on DDD; I was thinking it would be a bit like Scoot n Shoot but it is definitely not at all! Still learning about when the game ends, I have not quite picked up on that!

What’s the best way players have found to get more money? I’m curious about the best upgrades - have been going mostly for the ball upgrades

Well said. There are definitely different settings depending on the games - and because some games have a kickback/extra ball (Lexy) and others don’t (say, Heist), there are so many variables. I agree adjusting the outlane width is not practical for every game. Just to get TO the nut to adjust, you have to loosen and move or remove the return wireform. It’s easy of course but totally impractical for each game IMO

Anyway, enjoying DDD quite and bit and glad to have 2 new reasons to put Heist back in!

I tend to build up my door when I can as the game ends when the door gets to zero and each drained ball takes off 3. You can collect coins on the in lanes by moving them around (anterior flipper button) so the ball runs over sliver coils (the gold ones are previously collected and not worth anything which is a little counter intuitive).

At the end of the wave I'm still not sure if it is better to hit the gate right away to get the bonus gold or to use extra time to hit stand ups and try to get more gold.

There are some features on the playfield that don't seem to do anything (e.g. spinner, pops). That is partly the nature of using a playfield module that was designed for a different game but could be cool if these could be used also.

The inlanes seem to be the best way so far - I focused on that last night and was able to build up quite a bit. I wouldn’t mind if the spinner did something eventually but I was kind of glad it didn’t have a major focus in the game, since that’s more of a Silver Falls strategy - I.E. rip the spinner, buy stuff, repeat. Good choice going another route, IMO.

I do think I must need to check my LED grid though, there are certain areas of the playfield that don’t seem to register rollovers. I need to figure out how to get those ribbon cables pulled more taut

Well, crap.

Give the game time to settle in, it will start to make more sense as more people play it longer, and what the ideal change might be.. might change!

There are two adjustments that can be made around the outlanes. One is to pivot the rubber rings at the base of the side target to open or close the access to the outlanes, but there are also posts at the top of the inlane guides on the flipper assembly that can be adjusted to a few different locations. Posts closer to the inlane guides will open the outlanes more, or the posts could be removed completely as well if you want to be a little more brutal.

Does anyone know how to get an official pinside entry for Dungeon Door Defender? Do we rate one?

Still enjoying things.

As a suggestion to improve an excellent game, I would recommend changing the side targets from shooting arrows to shooting rocks, fire, ice... anything else. I can't see them flying across the screen and it was only when watching a recording that I could see them. The animations are just too small.

Thanks!