Round Rock, TX
Quoted from EvanDickson:I wouldn't see it as "put in your money, choose a rule set, press start." I see it as the venue or home owner opens the coin door, navigates into settings, updates the setting, then closes the coin door.
That's how it works on the P3, which has exactly what's being discussed here: many different game rules for the same hardware (it also has swappable hardware kits which provides even more variety). With the Lexy Lightspeed playfield module installed, you can run LL-EE, LL-SAS, ROCs, and Barnyard. With the Cannon Lagoon playfield installed, you can run CL, ROCs, Barnyard, and the forthcoming Grand Slam Rally, Wizard, and HeadsUp games.
Quoted from rubberducks:If they or someone else put out an API to the public, I can see that really helping games take off. There are some pretty creative people in the hobby, and a bunch of coders (or people capable of writing basic scripts).
There are a bunch of people currently writing games for the P3 using our development kit. It's a similar model to Apple and Android, where developers create game content and can make it available through our web store. Then they earn the profit. People can develop new software for existing game kits, or they can even make their own game kits (upper playfield modules, etc), as we provide all of the mechanical and electrical interface specs.
Then there are of course additional game rules for existing machines that run through the P-ROC, like BoP2, CCC, JD, IJ, etc.
- Gerry
https://www.multimorphic.com
