Looks awesome and best of luck tapping into a potential low cost pinball market!

Out of curiosity, what was the price difference between using off the shelf cheap components and software frameworks instead of trying to vertically integrate everything yourself?

Cool, love the risk taking and will keep an eye on this as you go.

Thanks for sharing your presentation dpadam450 and awesome work on the AAA games.

Do you ever see the need for a more sophisticated graphics engine in pinball? For example, instead of using a priority queue to queue up canned animations based on the player's behavior, the game uses the graphics engine to dynamically render real time graphics in response to what's happening. Or will there always be a disconnect between what the ball is doing and what's rendered on the screen because the lack of control in pinball?

Scorbit does have a server component that is used to correlate devices and players to scores, live stream and operator maintenance messages.

Agreed, but also not a patent lawyer just an engineer that's gone through the process a bunch of times. Usually, these broad based patents are used as a defensive deterrent rather than offensive litigation, besides patent trolls. I'm actually listed on the patent for "RFID" and "network" from awhile back. The engineering team building the product went to our patent lawyers with specific novel (for the time) methods and claims and the business and lawyers wanted to go more generic to build a defensive IP around the product and business. So, very similarly the patent ended up being a hodgepodge of the detailed description being our high level product's implementation as the example and the claims and method being very generic.

Unfortunately, I can't say what Stern's motivation is in patenting connectivity though but that should come to light after JJP formally announces or goes live with their connectivity.

Tough crowd. Keep on building and I look forward to your beta video.