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

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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

Wrapping up development of this custom stepper unit for the Voyager #pinball. This is a redesign from the initial version that greatly reduces circuit complexity at the cost of a few features.

Setting that heightmap terrain aside and refining them car controls a bit more. Yeah, this is feeling alright! #gamedev #indiedev #godot

late night electromechanical circuit design. the goal is to animate the score lamps of the player who's turn it is during gameplay. During attract mode though, both player's score lamps should be solidly lit.

Back in March of last year I challenged myself to work on my #indiegame by making some small incremental progress a day for an entire week, which turned into a month, and now nearly a year. This little trick has kept me motivated and I hope to continue it into 2026!

I wanted to add an animated light show to Voyager's attract mode, similar to what you'd see on a modern #pinball. So for the last few days I've been designing an electromechanical device to do just that! First step is being able to swap up to 80 lamps from their gameplay elements.

Trying to add a video to a post crashes Bluesky on android :^)

I really hope Godot's AnimationPlayer node gets some attention in the near future it'll flood the log with errors as you're trying to work and flat out crash the editor on occasion

oh my god netflix really do be just dragging out the ending to stranger things lmao

john kellogg spinning in his grave

I have been gifted a 1970's Sankyo #Pachinko machine! dear god help I can feel myself getting sucked into another silver ball related hobby

If you saw that heightmap test I recently did... come on, you know it was but a matter of time till I threw the Ferrero in there, right? While busy with other stuff to actually work on BUAD2, this'll do for now even if it's not exactly "canon". Not yet at least, I dunno. #godot #indiedev #gamedev

Got some insert samples in yesterday for Voyager! I really wanted to use the lighting bolts for the R.A.D.I.O targets, but they were a little too big. #pinball #indiedev

damn I need like, 100 little 4mm springs for this project and all of these vendors are really expensive! they want like a whole dollar per spring! where da heck am I gonna get that many for cheap? ... *notices the humble clicky ball point pen on her desk*

There were far more delays than I would have liked, but the latest level Ethuna is finally playable in the latest update to #exzodiac! The game is also currently 60% off in the Steam Winter sale - store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/...

My beloved Fire Queen #pinball went down today, but I got her fixed back up! [Symptoms]🤒 - A 1 player game would instead play a 2 player game. - A true 2 player game would soft lock after player 1 drains; looping player 1 ball 1.

Voyager's playfield is nearly done! I'm wanting on two more playfield parts to arrive (spinner and vertical-up-kick). In the meantime I've begun plotting out the inserts. Starting with the circular ones, since they're easy to draw up. Other shaped inserts will be coming up next. #pinball #indiedev