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yugffuts:


--- Quote ---I have no plans at this time to build my own, and if I were going to do it, I'd probably use existing boards and just design a playfield layout that matches an existing ruleset.
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That's how the original futurama pin was done, correct?  Strip the PF, design your own, and shuffle the parts around to suit your theme.  Sure to be a fun project, but limiting in your choice of direction.

RayB:

I'd imagine shuffling parts is not as easy as it seems. Pinball tables have "rules". Like, hit A, first, then hit B, C, and that opens access to D and E... etc...

You'd have to keep track of what the rules are and shuffle things in a way that still makes sense in terms of gameplay.



ChadTower:


Yep, that's about right, and that would be why you would probably design your desired ruleset based on the basic capability of the hardware system you chose, then find the game with the closest ruleset, and compromise to the closest match.

MYX:


--- Quote from: RayB on March 09, 2006, 01:06:13 pm ---I'd imagine shuffling parts is not as easy as it seems. Pinball tables have "rules". Like, hit A, first, then hit B, C, and that opens access to D and E... etc...

You'd have to keep track of what the rules are and shuffle things in a way that still makes sense in terms of gameplay.

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exactly. this is why the programming side scares me. the reason the greats were the greats was the actual design gimikery as well as the game program creating the challenge. 

ChadTower:


The programming part is the easiest part.  Once the rules are designed and the hardware is laid out, all you have to do is write the code.

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