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I've been building my own pinball machine from scratch on and off for the last several years. What I love about pinball design is that it combines so many disci

I've been building my own pinball machine from scratch on and off for the last several years. What I love about pinball design is that it combines so many disciplines: woodworking, metalworking, CAD, electronics, low level & high level software, game design, storytelling, blinking lights, and competitive fast action play. I've got some old photos of my build progress here: https://jherrman.com/gravity-pinball-public-build-log https://jherrman.com/gravity-pinball-public-build-log

relwin 3y ago
Neat! Building your own pinball game is 90% mechanical, 90% electrical, 90% artwork, 90% software, 100% labor intensive! Good luck in completing it, and maybe take it to a pinball show that features home-brew games. I got to help building this one: https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8 https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8
- JeremyHerrman 3y ago
  Hey Randy! Love your work on Archer and wish Stern could have kept that theme instead of Iron Maiden. I was able to play Archer at some festival (maybe Pin-a-go-go?) and could tell it was something special right away. Tell your brother to stop being so good at pinball :-) I guess it's okay though since he keeps on popping out amazing designs, especially with Jurassic Park.
  - relwin 3y ago
    Lol! I'm reminiscing about Archer on Twitch this Saturday ( https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/archer-homebrew-table-randy-elwin-interview https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/archer-homebrew-tabl... ) with some obscure video and other crap. I taught KME all I know about pinball, right around his 10th birthday! All hail the GOAT!
    - JeremyHerrman 3y ago
      Nice, I’ll check it out!
phreezie 3y ago
Hey, I didn't know somebody was actually using vpx-js. That's awesome!
- JeremyHerrman 3y ago
  Hey freezy! I'm amazed at what you've been able to build with VPE and appreciate the consistent push to bring Visual Pinball into a modern era. Seriously great job with untangling that legacy codebase and keeping the good bits (physics, existing tables), and replacing everything else. I also appreciate how you interact with the community. Every time I see a new post from someone announcing a new project to replace VP, you're there to gently point out all of the details they haven't encountered yet and why VPE is solving them a certain way already. Nice! I do think there's a big need for vpx-js to make visual pinball more shareable in a browser, even if Unity offers a webgl export. Hopefully I can help with that soon!
  - phreezie 3y ago
    Thanks! :) I still want to bring vpx-js to a level where people can actually play a WPC table in the browser. That'd be really awesome and hasn't been done yet, at least not that I know of. Well, maybe one day.
c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
Does you blog have an RSS or atom feed?

relwin 3y ago

Neat! Building your own pinball game is 90% mechanical, 90% electrical, 90% artwork, 90% software, 100% labor intensive! Good luck in completing it, and maybe take it to a pinball show that features home-brew games. I got to help building this one: https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8 https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8

JeremyHerrman 3y ago
Hey Randy! Love your work on Archer and wish Stern could have kept that theme instead of Iron Maiden. I was able to play Archer at some festival (maybe Pin-a-go-go?) and could tell it was something special right away. Tell your brother to stop being so good at pinball :-) I guess it's okay though since he keeps on popping out amazing designs, especially with Jurassic Park.
- relwin 3y ago
  Lol! I'm reminiscing about Archer on Twitch this Saturday ( https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/archer-homebrew-table-randy-elwin-interview https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/archer-homebrew-tabl... ) with some obscure video and other crap. I taught KME all I know about pinball, right around his 10th birthday! All hail the GOAT!
  - JeremyHerrman 3y ago
    Nice, I’ll check it out!

phreezie 3y ago

Hey, I didn't know somebody was actually using vpx-js. That's awesome!

JeremyHerrman 3y ago
Hey freezy! I'm amazed at what you've been able to build with VPE and appreciate the consistent push to bring Visual Pinball into a modern era. Seriously great job with untangling that legacy codebase and keeping the good bits (physics, existing tables), and replacing everything else. I also appreciate how you interact with the community. Every time I see a new post from someone announcing a new project to replace VP, you're there to gently point out all of the details they haven't encountered yet and why VPE is solving them a certain way already. Nice! I do think there's a big need for vpx-js to make visual pinball more shareable in a browser, even if Unity offers a webgl export. Hopefully I can help with that soon!
- phreezie 3y ago
  Thanks! :) I still want to bring vpx-js to a level where people can actually play a WPC table in the browser. That'd be really awesome and hasn't been done yet, at least not that I know of. Well, maybe one day.

c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago

Does you blog have an RSS or atom feed?