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JonnyBoy:
Here's a quick render of the maze.

SavannahLion:
Holy crap! Is that my idea?

OK, I want royalties. 3% for the first year and 1% thereafter on gross sales. International sales can be negotiated.  ;D

That inner gear is a good idea. I see how you can swap gears out for different mazes. But wouldn't it make the total usable area compared to the actual handling area kind of on the small size? The initial rendering seems to make the maze about 1/6th the size of the total game. Are you intending to have it be a kind of stationary "screen" the player views?

How does the ball return mechanism work? If you miss the track, wouldn't the ball get caught up in the gear teeth?

JonnyBoy:
Hahahaha.

The new version has a bigger maze gear. The reason that the drive gears are so big is because I want the gear ratio to be 2:1, so two turns of the crank make for one turn of the big wheel. There is going to be a hopper that will hold the ball, and has a hole in it. When the hole lines up with the hole in the plexiglass, the ball will drop into the maze (hopefully). It's all kind of theoretical and stuff. This is a bit more properly scaled model, the maze is going to be 10 inches round, and the entire inches round. It'll be pretty cool once it gets built, should be done around the middle of next week. I'll upload some pictures. It's not going to be painted though, unfortunately. I just don't have time.

JonnyBoy:
Dope, forgot the new render.


JonnyBoy:
Bah, got some artifacts on that render. Well, you get the idea.

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