Wait so like 3 days ago there's supposed to be a court case nobody got invited to, and today Magic Girl is apparently a thing??

I feel like we're missing some steps in the middle.

... also, any pics?

Holy shit dude, I just remembered that and I'm not gonna lie - I thought you were giving away $25 at the time. What are the odds.

Sorry to double-post but that is a CRAZY ramp. Does anyone have a link to some concept pictures (if any exist)? It's sort of hard to see what the game was supposed to look like from those two pictures (or does look like).

Wait until you have the games before making any decisions. In fact, wait until they have a decent number of plays too. Would suck to drop the case and find out they all fall apart at 100 plays.

Facebook is full of bullshit, trolls, and idiots. Just go read any political post by a major news source. You'll see idiots on both sides.

There also ARE pinball forums that slant positive and don't have in-fighting. They're just not active. So more or less not worth using, at least not on the sub-hourly basis that Pinside is. There rarely goes an hour here where there's not *something* worth looking at.

There are several homebrew projects on THIS SITE, working off pocket money, that play better than this. I have to admit MG LOOKS pretty, but that does very little for me.

I'm not sure a week is going to cut it. You're probably looking at several months to finish the code.

I suppose a week might be enough if you put him in a hole and lower l̶o̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ food down to him in a basket.

Because code development takes much, much more time than the layman assumes. Read the Mythical Man Month if you really care. Otherwise just know "it'll be easy to code <blank>" is a sentence non-programmers use far, far too often.

Edit: Not to mention, the majority of project timeline estimates are far undershot. So commonly so there's a field of jokes about it: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1658:_Estimating_Time

As do I. You should know as well as anyone that deadlines are rarely met, 70-80 hour weeks are not unheard of, and "easy" is a word that should never be used without a deep and intimate knowledge of the code base.

Excellent additional points. A week might be possible to add some modes if you're not interested in testing them, developing any lightshows, including call outs etc. but I wouldn't call that "finished".

It's a safe statement for more or less any project in a questionable stage of development. Even small projects with few requirements are rarely fully finished and tested in a week. Big projects? Never.

I see there's a wanted ad for a Magic Girl already. So I guess there's still demand for them, at least at a niche level.

I don't disagree with you, I just want to see it done.

Pick your favorite of WWE or Pabst.

I gotta say my expectations for how Q1 in pinball would play out literally happened in the opposite. I expected TBL to ship out to the owners and MG to just never exist.

^ owes $20 to Pinside

Wow, what a jackass.

IF the game were magically guaranteed to make it to largescale production. IF the game were magically guaranteed to have complete code. IF the game were somehow adjusted so the many, many, many geometry problems (and apparently missing entrances to playfields), etc were fixed.

I could see there being solid demand. On paper, the idea is good. The reality that came out? Well I mean we've all been watching the trainwreck. So basically, if the large numbers game were more or less none of the things the boutique game ended up being, yeah, sure I see demand.