Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle
Spooky Pinball, 2017
Total Nuclear Annihilation
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It's not just co-op the complete lack of any online functionality is crazy in this day and age. Stern doesn't so much as have a companion app. It would be so simple to build a super fun online mode into pinball. You wouldn't even need the online connectivity to be synchronous. I swear when I'm in a position to write my own code again I'll reach out to a pinball company and do it for free.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Sounds like an awful lot of work for the coders, and a horrendous waste of resources for a feature that won't be used much and will be of value for very few. Unless I've missed all the threads where people complain that code updates happen way too often in pinball, I don't think there's much demand for that process to become even slower and more laborious.
if Pinside ran a pinball company it would be out of business in a month.
It's not a lot of work at all. There are so many low hanging fruit in pinball right now its crazy. This is literally stuff you throw at a co-op.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Great! You are a pro. You should volunteer to do it for free, I'm sure you can bang it all out in an afternoon.
You've been going on for years about how simple and easy pinball coding is. Why not prove it?
There's plenty of folks, like treyboy, who desperately want to believe it.
Like I already posted in this thread, if I was allowed to write code outside the company that pays me I would happily help a pinball company interested in this for free. I'm still about 10 years from retirement though so can't happen anytime soon.
P.S. I have never worked on pinball so I don't know how hard that is to do. I'm fairly confident I could handle it. I have however implemented all of the stuff we are talking about in video games so adding it in to a pin would not be difficult at all.
Cheating could easily be handled by the community in pinball. Player rating and DNF (Pinball equivalent of DNF) would weed them out so quickly. Everyone knows who the legit players are in pinball, if complete nobodies start dominating leaderboards its not going to be hard to figure out if its legit.
Quoted from jwilson:You’re a slave? I mean, someone with zero free time and whose every move is dictated by an owner?
Because I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for a company to prevent you from doing things in your free time.
It is 100% legal and common, a company has every right to restrict you from using the knowledge and resources attained from them at anything they consider related or competitive. So long as I work where I do they are perfectly justified in firing me if I write any kind of software that is gaming related. Also any software I was to write on my own time they have rights to ownership. So if I was to write code for say Stern the company I work for would claim ownership. I did get legal release to color a title for ColorDMD but it was very clear that I was not to so much as look at a line of code or make any code related suggestions to them. Lots of guys at work get released to write code for hobby projects but those projects must be completely unrelated to anything they do at work. It's the same in any business if an employees takes money away from the business they are completely justified in firing them. Lots of working guys do side jobs that are to small or inconvenient for the company but they sure as shit do not under bid their employer.
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