iPad Air 2 support please. I really like this idea, and the design looks nice. Well done. When can I get a copy? Is it easy to attach a backglass image to new games in the app?

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That's freaking awesome!

It would be awesome if it could display 6 games in landscape mode, or have the ability to scroll left and right through a larger collection.

I don't think you could sell an app with all the game pictures pre installed, but even allowing the user to add their own picture to any game name would be awesome. That way it could be used for any game in the room. You could add pictures for Skeeball, arcades, darts, pool; whatever you'd like to rank and keep track of.

Awesome, super awesome idea

This would be really great if I was cool enough where people wanted to come over and play my games.....Not everyone can be as cool as DaveH! Heck ever I cannot wait to go to his house and play his games!

Another idea to consider is having a picture of the player with their initials under it. Date and time when high score was achieved. Then hook to a small projector from the ipad/phone to display on the wall behind all the pins?

-Dan

I have a dry erase board and markers in my gameroom, and while I like the simplicity, there are a few problems.

1. Keeping the scores in order is a pain. Someone gets a score that beats one on the board, and you have to move everything down.
2. The markers are always dried up.
3. The writing on the board dries up, and it's difficult to erase. Plus, I'm trying to keep the adjacent scores intact.

I've thought about the digital approach a few times, but never got motivated enough to do it. I'd like to try yours. I'm not sure if it will work out, mostly because it will need to be on all the time, and I don't really want to just leave it on. I really like the idea, though.

I might go low tech and do a chalk board.

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I'm in. How hard would it be for you to port this to a Kindle? I only ask because you can pick one up for $50, as opposed to a pile of cash for a dedicated iPad.

I'm envisioning this as a wall mounted device powered with PoE for an always on kind of thing.

Very cool!

You mean a Fire 7? If so, that's kinda what I was thinking as well. I got one for my son for $33 on a lightning deal last year. I would just use WiFi if needed and a microUSB for power rather than PoE. 7" might be a bit small, though. Keep it clean, this is Pez's thread.

Yes. I should have been more specific.

Man, looks great! I'd love to put something like this up on location, on a decently sized wall-mounted touch-screen of some sort.

You wouldn't have to worry about providing or even sourcing the backglass/translite images for each of the games. Most people's tablets/iPads already have cameras, they could just take a picture of it and place it in there themselves.

Copyrights infringement averted.

This is great! Wow! I have a 46" touch screen in the game room for kids to play PC games but during pinball parties it would be cool to have this running. I'd love to try it out!

Super cool!

Again thought about support for iPad? How are the fonts for STTNG sourced? Same with WOZ? App looks fantastic btw. Is it up in the Microsoft or google store?

That is awesome! I have an original iPad sitting in my drawer in the basement that I could plug in and leave on the bar so people could check scores and such. Awesome idea, looks great, I cannot wait to try it out.

Can multiple devices share a database? I guess what I'm wondering is if I had it on a screen that was not easily accessible, could I use my phone to make score updates?

I'm in for sure. This is a great idea.

To lower the barrier to entry, it would be great if the screen could display a QR code which when scanned would lead to being logged in automatically and ready to submit/change scores.

Nice work Pez! This might actually get my kids excited to play. Might. Ok probably not,...but nice work anyway!

At this point:

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Great idea. Would be awesome if you rotate your collection to keep the highscores you put on that machine. I would say I'm interested but I'm also thinking I might just try to make it myself since I wanted to make an app for a while now and this looks like a great starting project. Thanks for sharing

Great solution, I look forward to trying it out!

Wow. What a great idea. I love the idea of the large, mounted touchscreen TV to somehow run this. Would be killer at parties.

I'd pay actual dollars for this.

I agree, and I want to extend that trust to visitors in our public bar/arcade. What I was thinking for that kind of on-location use, was to save money on the setup by being able to use just a big regular screen on the wall. Big touchscreens are pretty expensive, and everyone has smartphones, so...

Does that imply that the back-end will run on a publicly accessible server? That would make it easier to set up, but it also requires that you have constant internet access. Not a big deal, I'm just curious. I've done just enough web development to know that I don't know what I'm doing with it.

Very nice, Pez. And running on various sized screens allows for people to go as big (or small) as fits their room.

Fantastic! Commenting here so I can follow along and hopefully download it myself soon.

Great idea Pez!

I'd definitely consider buy a cheap dedicated tablet to run this in my gameroom.

Not only is this great for pinball, but it might be really helpful for someone who has a MAME or Arcade machine that doesn't store high scores. I have to use a spiral notebook & a pencil to track high scores on my pacman machine during parties, so your app would solve everything!

Looking forward to how this turns out

EDIT: It would also be nice if you could enter more than 3 characters for your name

This would be awesome to have on location and have an HDMI going to a TV screen.

Send me the code please! Great job PEZ!

CuJo gives it "Two Paws Up!!!"

This is a great idea. We may even use it to keep track of other games we play. Board games, cards, sports....

Might be kind of fun to develop this as a Raspberry Pi image with a web server & mysql. Set it up as such that you could go to http://(some unique hostname) on the local network and it would show up in any browser.

RPi's are cheap. Then it'd just be "put this image on an SD card, setup your games, and go"

Hmmmmm...

Beat me too it!

Pez, this idea is awesome, great stuff here!

This would be awesome. And on league night keeping track and posting those scores would be cool as well!

This would be cool.

pretty bad ass, nice work!

Once you had a fully running server, you'd just clone the SD card to an image that people download and flash to a card -- but I get what you mean. It's not for everybody. But if it catches on, hosting it yourself will get into actual costs.