Hello to everyone, let me present a different way to create Pinball machines. With the power of Unreal Engine and Arduino.

Description:
It is a new way to do Pinball. Homebrew Machine. The Hardware is not the traditional and the software are completely different. The sound have a speaker amplifier box and also have a integrated inside Topper in the center on the back box. Everything is control by Arduino and unreal engine with gaming window PC, it have a separate amplifier that it can be connected with Bluetooth and with a 27" screen. It have 5 bumper , 3 spinner, 2 scoop, 8 target,1 kinetic ball target, 8 ball roll switch,4 obt switch, 1 hidden ball pass way, 4 drop targets , 1 diverter to the hidden ball pass and 4 flippers, It also has a shaker motor. The game have 6 different mission that lead you to the main mission objective , also have 5 games mode. The game can be play with 2 players at the same time in WITH HELP mod with a Xbox controller.(MODE; Classic, CO-OP,WITH HELP,CAREER and BOSS FIGHT)

Game Description: Your primary objective is to destroy the 16 mech enemies that are in the 5 different factions with your mech Cataphract. Each mission takes you to a battle. When you complete a mission you can enter the Mechlab to equip your mech to your liking, you are going to buy what you want according to the C-Bill that you can collect. Yes Your Point Is Your C-Bills and you can choose whether to spend them to be stronger or save them to keep the highest score.

The game has to create up to 5 profile for when you play in Freeplay continue the Career Mode. The game can be played up to 4 players per shift. And as mentioned in the video you can play two players at the same time, a player with the Flipper below and the other controlling the Flipper from above with the Xbox Controller.

Missions:

#1 War Contract, every 15 seconds the target are changing positions, and your duty is to destroy each of them before they destroy your mech.

# 2 Protect the Factories, your duty is to defend the Farmers and their factories, time is against you, in 10 seconds the enemy begins to destroy the factories you should defend. Your duty is to destroy all the target, looking for the target where the enemy is assigned, then you destroy them by sticking to the Kinetic Ball and other target assigned to destroy.

# 3 Industrial Complex, your duty is to break the balance of war. You have to push to make the enemy retract. You will achieve this following a sequence of AIM and Kill. But if you fail, the enemy pushed recovering the land you had won.

# 4 Demolition Contract, destroy enemy base, you are exposed with your mech to the enemy base your first object is to demolish the entire base at 100%.

# 5 Idle Mode. This is a stage between missions or battles. According to your AIM here you can choose what to do. You can try to light the 4 Drop lights and then enter your dropship and prepare your mech for a battle against the mech chosen for you. You can also complete the word Attack to start a Random battle. You can also recharge the reactor using the Spinner to choose a new mission.

Remember to keep the mech in good condition so you can resist all your opponents. Each player will have 3 mech in the dropship to try to destroy all the enemies.

Here is the video description:

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With God willing I will go to the festival in Texas I already signed up!!

https://texaspinball.com/tpf/show-info/

Thanks for your feedback, well my favorite game on PC is this and as always I love pinball so here is the result!

Thank you for your feedback, the gameplay footage is coming soon.

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Yeah! In each battle, according to the level you are in, it is played in multiball but the balls come out according to the level of difficulty. Every time you give the enemy a Fire power target, you give him damage according to the weapons that you put on your mech. Also every time 30 seconds pass without hitting the enemy mech you receive damage with the maximum fire power that the enemy mech has, also in each ball that you drain, the enemy hits you with the maximum fire power. In other words, the better you prepare your mech, the more damage you can withstand.

In the image, is an example of what you will see on the screen when you are in battle.

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Thanks for your feedback.

Well I've been so focused on completing everything on my own that I didn't even have time to post anything. but I did manage to take some photos of the process.

Here is some picture.

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It would be great to be added to that list. Thanks for the invitation.

Thank you for the feedback!

Hello everyone again, here I made a short video showing a little more detail how this machine is created.

I hope you like it

Hello Clermont,

it use a Plugin on unreal engine to read ports on PC. I made a system on unreal to check what port have the Arduino and connected to the rights configuration to receive and send what is requested by unreal. I program all the Arduino to not have any delay and immediately send what is reading to the serial port.

Hello everyone.

Thank you for your bump up! Well, here I prepared a Game play video to teach you more or less how to play and the things it has. Excuse the sound, I had to improvise with what I have! I hope you like it. let me know if you have any questions Thanks!

The Game Play video is ready!! take a look!!

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Hi everyone,

Just want to say thank you to all the amazing feedback and input that you guys are tell about this project. Also to does that meet me on the Texas festival.

Everyone love the machine and love all the potential that have and what now pinball machine can evolve to a next level.

God bless to everyone
Thank you.

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Thank you for the feedback,

How can I do that? I don't know much about Pinside.

Here I want to share the data collected by the great Unreal Engine programming. All the games that the machine achieved in this great Texas pinball festival. The machine had no rest and achieved its goal and returned home with a great prize! Thank you all for your excellent comments.

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Hi Shopguy, Thanks for your feedback.
Well the design is very simple but there are some details that you have to take into account to be able to do it. acrylic is 1/8, and has 1/2 wood altogether. I'm thinking of helping everyone who wants to make a machine the way I engineer it. Later I will give more details of everything. Yes, my nickname has ''pr'' because I'm from Puerto Rico, but I've been in Oklahoma for 12 years!

hi everyone again,
please check out my new channel for a new way to create homebrew pinball machine.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-way-to-make-homebrew-pinball-machine#post-7526345

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It's funny I love my freedom! LOL

Thanks for your feedback,

well, yes, all of that can be done. but since I'm the only one working with this machine, I had to make the missions as simple as possible. however the gameplay gives you the sense that you are in a Cataphract and has all the functions of equipping the Mech almost like the original game. But if I had a team of people develop some components of the machine while I write the game code it could become as complex as the game itself.

Hello everyone,

Here in this video I explain how to avoid using insert and demonstrate a way to simplify the construction of the playfield.

Hello Davegauth,
Thank you for the feedback,
YES! you absolutely understand and the best news is you don't need to spend on your own printer or, probably pay about $650 to have just the playfield printed on traditional print. The printing company cuts of different dimensions, this is my measurements and how much it cost me without shipping only the acrylic piece: 1/8 of 1 x Acrylic Photo Print (20.25" x 48") $118.12

hello everyone,

please check this new video. It is another way of how to start making a homebrew machine

Thank you for the feedback,
Exactly, it is a very good implementation. The difference is very minimal to the traditional playfield in terms of how it plays or feels when playing. Among those differences is (it dissolves the sound, I feel that the ball has more grip on the playfield, and it feels that the ball does not have any obstruction, that is, it is softer and smoother. I thought about doing the vinyl behind it, but I analyzed reality of the installation, that to install the vinyl that is aligned perfectly and exactly, it can be difficult and more when you depend on the accuracy or perfection, it can cause many problems. That's why I decided to do what I tell you in this video. https://

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I think there is a Homebrew forum here on Pinside. I have also found several groups on homebrew facebook, this is one of them that I was invited to (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1148598398602739)