Looks like there's another update! This time some really sweet hats are involved! Actually, its a really good story. Definitely worth a read.

http://www.circusmaximusgames.com/faith-in-pinball.html

Agreed! Flippie looks great and the game is really something to be admired. It is the real "essence" of mechanical pinball, and I could just watch the ball fly through those wireforms all day long.

Anyone coming by SFGE or even THINKING of it, please stop by and check this game out!

P.S. - Sorry for blowing up your power strip, Paul. You're right, the mini-bar should've NEVER been that close.

Correct, the snake is on this game and is what Python wanted. The ball is launched from a kicker just to the right of the snake. The snake will also move its head forward and backward to alter the gap between the flippers.

The upper playfields are accessed via the left ramp, which feeds the left upper playfield. The ramp on that playfield feeds Pinbo the Elephant's head, which then lifts and places the ball on a wireform to the right upper playfield. The ramp on that playfield feeds the elevator which lifts the ball to the top Flippie playfield.

Seconded. Alana loves hers!

Thanks Joe

It has been a lot of fun doing the software on this game and working alongside the other members of the team. Its a new platform to program on, and surely programming the mechanisms on a "traditional" single/double level pinball machine makes you take different things into consideration compared to when you program for four layers. Its like inception with pinball.

As others like yourself here have stated, we're simply keeping a promise. I'm quite fortunate in the sense that this has been so much fun, rather than work, along the way. The best part about the entire thing isn't even getting to work on pinball, or that feeling you get when you ship a bunch of new code to the game, fire it up and it all just works (mostly).... its the Python stories we all share with one another while we're in the shop working. When thinking about the memories, stories and what we as a team are ultimately getting out of this project, I take pride in the fact that we have something that no other pinball company in the world has.

For Python,

Jimmy

Alright gents, I do have to interject here.

The members at CMG have a LOT of history with Python, to the tune of years getting his insights on what he saw for the game. I think its invalid to look at these types of things as black and white. We're doing everything possible to hold to the original vision of the game in the sense of its theatrics and thematic elements. As Paul stated, Python trusts the team to make changes just as he (and his team) would've had to have made back in the heyday as deemed in the best interests of the game. So, if we think that a pelvic thrust powered snake ball save-o-matic toy isn't in the best interests of the game, then okay, we'll revise as needed.

These things are very much in flux. We take Python's broad strokes and refine them as the process moves along. Everyone here has the game's best interests in mind. We're leveraging "fun" factors with the original vision and what makes the most sense as a game that people would love to play more than once or twice. We're confident that Python would've wanted the same simply because he's told us so.

Its not all black and white, we're doing the best we can with the information we have.

(Besides, if what we make is a complete pile of dogshit, Bear, a respected member of CMGs executive board, will tell us we're "doing it wrong")

-- Jimmy

Damn you guys find things out quickly!

Stay tuned. Exciting things are happening here.