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An overview of the freshly cut prototype playfield.

A close up of the upper 1/3rd of the playfield.

A close up of the right hand side of the lower 1/3rd of the playfield.

Picked up the first full prototype playfield for Voyager today!

No inserts or general illumination just yet, this one only has all of the holes cut for the major play mechanisms.
#pinball #indiedev

Well, that track's lookin' alright. At least alright enough to toss gameplay bullshit at it, I suppose. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine

man, you'd think with how ubiquitous splines are more care would be put into the editors for them, but it's always the same basic annoying to use gizmos and giant raw list of every node crammed into the inspector ;_;

It is cold, Lucky has assumed direct control of the blankets on my lap.

Lap Lad™

Yeeeah, it's definitely not a skilled player's machine. Good for beginners and casuals though, I think. The captured ball in the middle is kinda like bash toy and the rules can be explained in a single sentence.

'Couldn't pass it up for the theme though. It'll look great next to Shuttle!

Happy birthday, Sydney! 🎂🎉🎈

A William's Skylab pinball machine from 1974. It's currently being cleaned and prepared for public play at my arcade.

The backglass for William's Skylab.

The playfield for William's Skylab.

Picked up a William's 1974 Skylab yesterday!
#pinball

Lucky sleeps.

Lucky disturbed.

Lucky restored.

mood

A second iteration of the playfield for my homebrew electromechanical pinball, Voyager.

It needs some adjustments here and there, but Voyager's new playfield is shaping up quite nicely!

The center of the figure 8 will be a hole. When the ball goes in, it'll normally be kicked out around the left orbit. If jackpot is lit, it becomes a gobble hole.
#pinball #indiedev

Potential leak of Stern's new Pokemon pinball. Straight-forward fan layout, only way to do a 2 flipper game. Nostalgic choices for included Pokemon. Ramps look like they correspond with types. If this is a 5 modes & 2 multiballs game I think it will do well with the intended audience.

Yeah, this is an excellent layout for newer players- which as an operator, is exactly what I wanted out of Pokémon.

Backglass art is a little "eh" from me, but that ain't a concern. This game will set the record for the number of custom translites lol

Oh boy, discord wants facial scans and government IDs next month

@everyone ready for another social media fracturing and mass migration?

Voyager's new playfield being assembled

The digital "blueprint" for Voyager's new playfield.

Reworking Voyager's playfield... well more so starting from scratch again.

I fell out of love with the initial design and wanted something that made better use of the limited space available.
#pinball #indiedev

A reproduction of a Super StarFox Weekend cartridge with "3rd Place" and my final score of 113,374.

My first score of 95,715, qualifying for the top 20.

My second score of 110,424, qualifying for the top 10.

My finally score of 113,374. I flubbed the second stage and missed the 20k bonus.

I competed in a #StarFox Weekend Tournament and got 3rd! Not too shabby for doing zero practice; one player had been grinding since the start of the week! lol

It was a really close competition, everyone played phenomenally well! Hats off to 2nd and 1st!
#retrogaming

This line read invades my mind whenever hearing about King's Quest lol

Pokémon Pinball Teaser Trailer YouTube video by Stern Pinball

It's official - Stern's next game will be Pokemon. Glad to see a pinball theme not aimed at the AARP demographic! I think there's some cool stuff they could do with insider connect on this one. Now if the IFPA will just stop pissing off the younger demographic. 🙄

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gotta say, my favorite part about trying to hash out trade deals is how the other party's stuff always seems to be solid gold while mine just so happens to be worthless junk :^)

Iron Lung was a lot of fun! Especially getting to see it on the big screen. Only issue was the sound mixing, which seems to be a theater to theater thing.

Happy birthday! 🎉🎂🎈

An electromechanical pinball relay resting on a work bench, surrounded by other parts and tools.

One of the limiting factors of designing relay modules isn't just the strength of the solenoid vs the number of switches, but also the availability of screw lengths.

For instance: I'd love to put 6x2 mini-switches on this yellow relay, but no one sells a #3-48 screw that is long enough.
#pinball

A Vietnam dông and a handful of English coins found while cleaning a Bally Captain Fantastic pinball.

one of the lesser known fun aspects of the #arcade business is cleaning out an old machine and sometimes finding currency from other countries

man, the shit i find behind the games lmao

Testing a new part in my custom #pinball machine! YouTube video by Leeezard

It's ShowTime!
#pinball #indiedev #electronics

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furrowing my brow whenever I have to switch the calipers from metric to imperial

After a month of work, I'm finally getting to test out Voyager's ShowTime Unit!

This quick 'n dirty setup allows the module to play a chasing pattern on player 1's score by reading a hand wired program. The playback isn't perfect since I have to operate it by hand for now. #pinball #indiedev

A mess of jumpers being used to test the custom designed "ShowTime Unit" in Voyager; my homebrew electromechanical pinball machine.

my #pinball has irl spaghetti code

Abolish ICE

The ShowTime Unit with the return PCB installed and the program PCB set aside.

Multiple contact cartridges in various stages of assembly. To the left is a strip of brass contacts. In the center is a cartridge with a spring loaded contact installed. To the right is a completed cartridge, ready to be installed.

Two contact cartridges installed onto a prototype slice of the carousel. This is to test the "fit" and make sure that can snap into place. The final carousel assembly will hold 20 cartridges.

Parts arrived for Voyager's ShowTime Unit this week; the return and program PCBs, plus the brass contacts.

I'm currently redesigning the carousel that goes between the PCBs to better hold the contacts; leading to this little snap in cartridge.
#pinball #indiedev #electronics

I guess I'll try to speak to everyone else who's feeling pretty helpless as I do right now.

The only thing that really motivates me to stay optimistic and get out of bed in the morning is because I know this isn't going to be forever.