Years ago I started and maintained a thread for homebrews - like a index of the homebrews and offered it up to Twippy's and asked for a homebrew section to be added to the Twippy's which they added but each year there choices were of homebrews not of the year, or did not match the criteria they set. In the end I don't vote for the twippy's anymore due to their inconsistent approach. I also lost interest in the thread sadly.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/homebrew-pinball-games-released-2016-to-current#post-4197288
I wish this category stayed consistent - one year they say that re-themes are not a true homebrew and next year they are and we still haven't seen Jack Dangers winning game played from a few years ago.
How about next year have 2 homebrew sections:
- Best Re-theme Homebrew (modified pinball - new sounds, art, rules but keeping the original playfield layout)
- Best Custom Homebrew (with original playfield layout)
Conditions of Entry - game must be flippable and able to have a good game on it, with art, sounds and a good chunk of the rules in place (yes we know that a game is never finished but at least a good chunk of the rules) and the year that the conditions of Entry were achieved is the year that it can enter and not the next year.
As for committee for the homebrew section of the next Twippy I was given excuses from we don't have knowledge to hearing committee members voting in mates and preferred options in over actual. Maybe next year have a homebrew committee made up of homebrew makers that are not entry people for that year that appreciate the design and skill needed to create a homebrew pinball. Conditions of entry should be a series of photos supplied by the builder from set angles and record a full game video to make it into the selection batch.
Jack Dangers win over Spaceballs and Led Zepplin etc a few years ago was a real disappoint with the Twippy's and each year reached out to Jeff, this year sadly lost all interest in the Twippy's.