For Offer:

My son is offering advanced pinball design consulting services. Portfolio below. PayPal accepted.

Thanks,
-Jason

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PS--train & garbage truck design services also available.

Pretty sure they're normal trains. Hard to tell. Artistic license & such.

Garbage trucks atop, trains below:
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Today's pinball machine design--looks another 6-flipper table with 5-ball multiball--note the correct placement of the flipper buttons, detailed plunger, accurate shooter lane, & all 4 cabinet legs sticking out the bottom, not to mention the isometric depth of the backbox--brilliant (not to mention that it's dated tomorrow--he appears to have mastered time travel as well as pinball machine design):
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At the train station/comic shop/arcade last month:
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He still has some extra bandwidth to take on some more design jobs--sign up before he's booked!

-Jason

Pinbox 3000 = an amazing kit! We finished building the kit Saturday. Even with only an empty playfield & 2 gobble holes at the back corners, it's a blast. The flippers are stout, the whole combination of the marbles for balls, flippers, playfield angle, playfield size, etc. just *feels* really nice. It feels much nicer than I thought it would. Good balance with the geometry & dynamics & such.
Added bonus: the kit comes with 2 extra cardboard panels to build a whole separate playfield/flippers/shooter rod, so you can get 2 different games into the same cabinet! Just like a SWEP1 & RFM swap. :]

Anyway, Train Pinball is well underway.

Need to move this to a custom project thread or something...

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/9ARZE4ps20uDsNhJ2

https://photos.app.goo.gl/r2XeYTpYrBn8aJNv1

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NpveryTHxNey9c202

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Playfield complete!
Code update complete: rules deepened!
Units ready for shipment!
Taking preorders for second production run!

-Jason

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Mac & cheese boxes cut down to train car size! :]

Thanks,
-Jason

Study time with Alex now includes pinball math: sketch up a machine with points assigned to targets, have him trace the ball & add up the score. Tricked into doing arithmetic!
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Previous exercises: Ms. Pac-Math & Jr. Pac-Math:
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-Jason

Alexander will be 5 soon. Birthday gift: a whole lotta LEGO DUPLO train stuff!

Gameplay footage, so you can see how deep the modes are & how fast the flow is:

https://goo.gl/photos/TCbzuu2uX74PzS6UA

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Bonus designs:

This weekend's pinball math exercise: Signs (which looks like one of those stumpy kiddie Gottliebs). I got carried away & spent too much time coloring something that was just going to get scribbled on...
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...but not as much time as I spent on the epic Steam machine from June.
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Thanks,
-Jason

If anybody needs help with their color-by-numbers, Alex is also available on a consulting basis, with very reasonable hourly rates.

-Jason

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