Hey Pinside!
As you may or may not know, I’m building a pinball machine from scratch with zero knowledge on how to do so.
I’ve been streaming every single bit of the process so you can follow along, and I’ll have footage to cut into a small doc later.

Keep in mind that I knew/know nothing about this process so we are learning CAD and Programming live on stream together.

So far we have done:
-Come up with a design idea
-Build it virtually to test
-Refine said idea
-Print playfield layout
-Cut several test playfield
-Concept rules and inserts
-Theme and art concept
-Populate a playfield to hand-test shots
-Use Mission Pinball to set some base code

All hardware was graciously supplied from Stern Pinball.

We are getting a set of P3roc boards from the awesome folks over at Multimorphic to use as the brains for the game.

Scott Danesi has cut all of our playfiled thus far, and is a great kisser.

We recently joined a local hackerspace to have access to industrial tools, CNC, laser cutters, etc so we can make this game right!

Our next steps coming up.
-Work with Ed whom made the Ghost in the Shell homebrew. He will be showing us live how to make our ball guides, wiring harnesses, and explaining what all the P3roc boards do!

-Live stream a tutorial from George Gomez himself, showing how he approaches a new table design, and how to use foam core to layout your game.

An impossible task for myself is, I’d love to bring this game, flipping, to TPF. No serious code or anything, just something to shoot on. Not tooooo far fetched but I’m fricken busy 100% of the time.

A question I have for you folks is, would you like this doc cut into two parts? I can start editing what footage I have right now to give everyone a lead to go start building their own game. That, or I can wait till it flips and call it there. LMK!

Fingers crossed and thanks to everyone who has been following along.

You all rock,
Jack
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Couple of vids of the game so far.
Throwing balls.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6iEGHFsM9/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1q8uqojmn3oo3

Throwing balls PT2.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6jpqqlCzr/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1qfz83gon5e8q

Quick digital test.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoAAM6albRs/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=7vvvq30feqc4

That WOULD be pretty rad actually...

I’ll sleep when I’m dead. ❤️

The rails on the actual game were temporary to prove to people the shot actually works.
Actual rail guides like in the digital video will be used for sure! We’ll cut little notches out of the guides for GI to come through!

I think of it as a fun way to gauge how fast the game EFFED you, and use that as a gimmick in the code. Ha

As pointed out above, I’m making this Doc as a 101 to help inspire more designers. EVERYONE has ideas, and if a ding dong like me can make a pin with no knowledge, so can you. ❤️

Wow thanks for the feedback!
❤️❤️

So the idea of the right orbit lock is, it’s a wide open orbit until you hit a “light lock” shot enough, upon which those drops come up.
The first shot to the drops will trap a ball behind the “avatar-esq” prongs. You then have to hit that ball several times to knock it out of that area, prongs and drops go away, you have a multiball and your orbit back.

The theme, if I had to generalize quickly, is... think “The Warriors” for underground arcades if Pinball was never made legal again, and that learched into the realm of all arcade games. Gang/league fights while avoiding the authorities.

‪It’s here!‬

‪Our P-Roc boards have arrived! We now have the means to make our game an ACTUAL pinball machine.‬

‪We’ll be doing a stream soon explaining what everything does, so stay tuned!‬

‪Fricken Hyped! Shout out to Gerry at Multimorphic!

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Haha cheers to that!

PROC/MISSION

We should have a "close to final" playfield cut this up-coming week.

It's a video, and it's going to be free for all.

That's what i'm hoping! No promises though, just wishing out loud!

We did a bit of MPF on stream already, all I have to say about that is... the tutorial will take you from nothing to a flipping game in literally one sitting.

Thanks for the kind words all!
We should be cutting another playfield soon!
Stream this Saturday about making the ball guides and getting it flipping!

Note on out-lane spinners.
I's pretty much impossible without opening up the outlanes to comfortably fit a regular spinner in there.
We'll have to modify the spinner bracket, rail, and replace the spinner itself for the longer/skinnier apollo 13 spinner.
If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but we'll give it our best shot!

Hmmm. I may have to snag one to see.

Yeah yesterday's stream was a looong one.
I'll for sure keep updates here!
Ed is a dang BEAST!

I've already begun tweaking shots, but now is where we begin to start editing.
We just needed to get from an idea to a flipping game for the doc.
I ironed out the mini orbits geometry, and added an extra target to shoot at!

For those of you that don't know, we spent VERY little time on designing this layout.
The idea was, that each part of each phase, you can spend as much or little time as you want ala layout, design, code, etc.
We just wanted something to build, and happened upon a fun, quirky shot!

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For sure not everything was answered on stream, but ALL will be covered when we edit the doc together!

Twitch deletes video after a while so not everything is there sadly.

YUP! I'm saving everything!

Damn. This hit me in the feels a bit. Thank you so much for the kind words.
I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't running around with my head spinning, so if it looks easy, then the illusion is working. Haha
Honestly, thank you.

Haha I love seeing parents play with their kids "Attached" to them.