a thing about the ps1 aesthetic that is often forgotten in certain spaces is that the coveted ps1 vibe often comes from stellar art direction and artists, and not making your geometry and textures ugly.

Something I noticed on older #pinball is that they almost exclusively used wire forms for the return lanes. Laser cut sheet metal returns didn't appear until way later! Wanting to keep Voyager as period accurate as I can, its return lanes have been reworked into wire forms. #indiedev

I hope Stern takes notice of how selling a theme that's not aimed at retirees can actually be good for business.

Bought my first ever new-in-box #pinball, Pokémon Premium!

the mario galaxy movie is fun until the very end. it's sorta like climbing into a really fast car. things are zipping by and your just enjoying the spectacle, but suddenly the driver slams on the breaks and says the ride is over idk if they ran out of budget or runtime, it's hilariously jarring.

"agentic" "atproto" "making building on the protocol more accessible" dog, I understand zoomer lingo better than this techbro nonsense

Got some time to install a bunch of playfield mechanisms in Voyager today! I'm still waiting on a 5 bank drop for the left side, another jet bumper, and a kick out for the hole near the jet bumpers. The last mechanism will be custom built! #pinball #indiedev

Thoughts on TADC and episode 8. This has been a wonderful series and I'm thoroughly looking forward to the grand finale.

Cleaning and working on the #Nintendo machines tonight! #arcade

Finally gotbthe shooter lane cut for Voyager's playfield! I designed and 3Dprinted a guide for the router, then used a 1" diameter round bit. The deflection is a little too deep, I must've gotten it off by 1 degree, but it works just fine. #pinball #indiedev

when it comes time to dust the arcade, I just let my fluffy boy Lucky wonder around for a bit lol

Dang, none of the rollover "hit" switches in this Gottlieb's PlayBall are working... ...oh, that's why.

Guess who just found out the⚡️fun⚡️way that the flipper button's paper insulator on her Gottlieb's PlayBall has a hole in it! the flipper buttons on this game are metal btw

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

Lap Lad™

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

mood

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.

Oh boy, discord wants facial scans and government IDs next month @everyone ready for another social media fracturing and mass migration?

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

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

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. 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJms...

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.

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

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

It's ShowTime! #pinball #indiedev #electronics youtube.com/shorts/tP4EY...

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

my #pinball has irl spaghetti code

Abolish ICE

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.

cracked open this file from last year to play around with as the desire to get back into character modeling continues to grow #blender

slogging through the programing on my game so I can one day get to the fun character design and 3D modeling part

got an alert on the #arcade 's security camera that someone was in there playing after hours I drove over and caught a pic of the perpetrator before they spat at me and fled

Bit more refinement on controls, now with 100% more ratchet turning! And yeah, road texturing's important too I suppose. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Traded my Gottlieb's Rescue911 for a Data East's Lethal Weapon 3 today! #pinball

It's one thing to test controls in the vaccuum of an empty area, it's another to have a track to go through. This'll do for now. Shoutout to the iffy collisions on the overpass lol #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Finally got the charge shot implemented in my little StarFox-like! It supports 2 firing modes, toggled by pressing d-pad right. - Homing: Locks onto a target an chases it. - Buster: Faster Charge, bigger splash, no lock-on. #godot #indiedev

Progress continues on the custom stepper unit for Voyager, my electromechanical #pinball project. The metal frame arrived from the fabricator. After some screw tapping, the ABS motor mount and mode select assembly were installed. Waiting on the PCBs for the business end now.

Justice for Renée. We must stop ICE for Good.

it always fun reading posts insisting that a Pokémon #pinball will do poorly because the op's grandkids aren't into it or something meanwhile I struggle to keep Pokémon merch in stock at my arcade. people will drop $20+ into the claw to get their favorite eeveelution so yeah, i think it'll do fine