Avon, OH
Looks great! What did you do to get the ramps made that nicely?
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Quoted from Tsskinne:First thing I played at Pinball Life yesterday. Very cool layout. Shot well. Thanks for sharing it!
You know, this pretty well sums up how frickin awesome this hobby is. You had to attend the PBL party in order to play this one of a kind game that turned out to be pretty great. That is so UNLIKELY you know? Good time to be around. Wish I could be there, but I am in spirit!!
Merthyr Tydfil
Quoted from benheck:It actually gave me chills!
I've been called a hipster for saying my favourite classic CV theme is Battle Of The Holy rather than Vampire Killer. :p
Quoted from WaddleJrJr:Looks great! What did you do to get the ramps made that nicely?
Quoted from Jeewiz13:Left ramp is Iron Man. Right is Star Trek.
Couldn't go to PBL party because of the tourney, but got to check this thing out Saturday night, absolutely loved everything about it! My favorite part was how the lights dimmed in the same way as Simon's Quest nighttime transition when the MB started up!
Paris
This is awesome. Kind of have to say I'm disappointed that it won't have that classic intro voice line from SOTN though. Maybe sneak it in somewhere as an easter egg...like 1-in-100 tilts, you get Dracula going "WHAT IS A MAN? A miserable little pile of secrets!"
Hey Justin! You did an amazing job on the layout and the pin played great. It felt like a production ready design. Nice mix of drop targets, scoop, loops and ramps. I also enjoy 3 flipper games-Very impressed- awesome meeting you at expo
I’ll get with Ken and send him some artwork ideas.
Quoted from InfiniteLives:is that caucasian2step playing in the clip?
Has to be. Probably already articulating a well thought out review.
The Pros:
A cool layout with a difficult multi-ball start from the upper right hand flipper. Great use of Star trek and i-ron mang ramps. The sounds are true to the theme. The inline drop targets to the standup at the top right hand side of the pf that feed the ball back to the upper flipper are way sweet.
The Cons:
Only one, so far. Project is deep in beta.
The Takeaway:
An industry first! Laser etched woooden backglasses are the new thing that all the cool pinball kids want to play. Code is rough, expect more from this talented young creator soon!
Caucasian2Step needs to work on his aim...
Quoted from Caucasian2Step:The Pros:
A cool layout with a difficult multi-ball start from the upper right hand flipper. Great use of Star trek and i-ron mang ramps. The sounds are true to the theme. The inline drop targets to the standup at the top right hand side of the pf that feed the ball back to the upper flipper are way sweet.
The Cons:
Only one, so far. Project is deep in beta.
The Takeaway:
An industry first! Laser etched woooden backglasses are the new thing that all the cool pinball kids want to play. Code is rough, expect more from this talented young creator soon!
Caucasian2Step needs to work on his aim...
Ahhhh weve been expecting your review,i dont see a number tho....
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I want to start showing my progress for making my game. I took some photos along the way.
I started with a bare cabinet. It war ironically a BSD cabinet. All the bits were transferred to a new cabinet. I had to buy everything to fill it back up.
I started with a blank playfield with an Italian bottom.
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IMG_20180228_074829 (resized).jpgIMG_20180305_195538 (resized).jpgIMG_20180322_191500 (resized).jpgIMG_20180325_214505 (resized).jpgThere was going to be a captive ball in the back right corner and I wanted it to be like Nightmare on Elm Street mixed with Centaur. I didn't have the clearance for it to be effective. I took out the captive ball in the corner and went with the straight inline drops only. The inline drops are from Metallica. I changed the drop targets to black. I had to add a white sticker for the opto blocker on the target for it to work.
IMG_20180701_131640 (resized).jpgI needed to draw my playfield at this point in Solidworks. I had a layout I was mostly happy with. It was time to take everything off. I scanned the playfield in bits and combined it all into a single image. I'm not an engineer and if I were to do it off of measurements, I don't think my holes would have lined up very well.
IMG_20180829_201126 (resized).jpgI drew it up with a few tweaks and had it cut at TheNoTrashCougar's house. It took a couple tries because I messed up the G-code. I had an insert cut on the outside of the line as opposed to the inside. This made it too large. Maybe you can spot it in the picture.
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I made more tweaks and updated the drawing. Here are drawings for its current form. I originally was going to have the ball go around the right orbit from the launch. It seemed too finicky. I adjusted it to be an across the playfield launch. This also makes more opportunities for skill shots. I would ideally like this game to have a plunger. The cabinet has me locked into a button launch at the moment.
cv alternate (resized).jpgcv closeup (resized).jpgcv done full (resized).jpgcv playfield done 2 (resized).jpgcv playfield done 3 (resized).jpgcv playfield done1 (resized).jpgAnother playfield cut. 1st try this time. Reassembled with custom boards I made for lamps. All in time for Expo.
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This is 2 years of work. I'm very happy how it turned out so far. A couple tweaks have been made since expo. Right now it mostly comes down to software.
Quoted from kevinleedrum:I live for these types of posts. Incredible work!
Thank you. I'm glad I took some pictures along the way. Usually I'm not much of a picture taker and live in the moment.
Sorry if I missed it somewhere - what software did you use to design the PF layout? The 3D rendering is rather slick.
Excellent work man!
Quoted from mbwalker:Sorry if I missed it somewhere - what software did you use to design the PF layout? The 3D rendering is rather slick.
That would be Solidworks. Best on in my opinion.
Quoted from Jeewiz13:Part of me wishes I logged the hours. I don't know if it would have made me more proud or depressed.
Understand that feeling. It’s passion because if some knew the amount of hours dedicated to this kind of things, a lot of project would have never been started... and sometimes not easy to deal with other projects and family. A lot of unfinished project out there so we need to keep faith. The software is also a big deal. Good luck!
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"You now 'Prossess' Dracula's rib" bump.
Amazing work Justin! After reviewing all the home brews from this year, I voted for yours to win a TWIPY. Good luck, I hope you win!
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Was super cool seeing this game back at MGC this year with it's upgraded sound system! Nice work Justin!
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