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I can understand that point of view and used to think the same. All these people need to eat and pay rent in order for the game to exist, and it's a hard sell to get people to pay $40+ for a pinball game when the platonic ideal has existed from the 90s. A modern AAA game has artists specialized down to making materials that other artists can then put onto geometry. A 3D game is significantly more complex than a 2D game.

#PINBALL GAMES 3D PC#

Adding more 3D gimmicks or raytracing BS does not improve the core pinball experience (and is more likely to detract, truth be told).Ģ) The market for a 'high-fidelity PC pinball' game is not large enough to justify development costs. The fact that a ball is a sphere means that it can be rendered as a circle, and the fact a pinball machine can be rendered entirely without the need for 3D processing means that you can build a large degree of fidelity into that physical simulation. The reason PC pinball games emerged early is because the physics of a solid, heavy sphere of uniform density are pretty well known from classical mechanics. You could turn a dial and see what it would be like to play pinball on the moon! I hope someone sees this and makes it!ġ) PC Pinball games have basically been done to the platonic ideal, unless you're intent on recreating something in like VR which would truly change the experience. Imagine bumping the machine hard to cheat? Or being able to smash the glass with a hammer and then put objects in the case and see what happens to them while you play? Could also be an amazing physics education thing if you could see real-time free-body diagrams overlaid on the ball that you could freeze in time and study showing all the forces acting on it. I know I'd love to see it just because it would be such a great showcase for the power of modern machines, especially the integration of super realistic physics. Why do you think that is? Would it really be so hard to do? Wouldn't that be popular? I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but after doing a quick search on Steam, I don't see anything like that on the market. You could probably end up with something that truly looks and feels like the real thing.

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Then it occured to me that modern GPUs like the nVidia 4090 would be incredible for simulating a pinball machine with insane fidelity using RTX ray tracing and the optimized physics simulator (PhysX) they have.

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Feedback is best coordinated via our Steam Forums or our Facebook page.I recall games like Full Tilt! Pinball and the 3D pinball game included in Windows were pretty popular and good showcases for the speed and quality of computer graphics back in the 90s. “We always welcome input from our friends in the pinball community with respect to the building options available in the game (playfield components, machine types, etc) and any suggestions or requests for changes to the way the game works. How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “The price for the game will remain the same when it leaves Early Access.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? You can build and play countless pinball playfield layouts with complete customization.” You can save your tables locally to your PC add your own graphics and sounds for them if you want to. You can play the pinball tables that ship with the game and you can customize them to your liking or create completely new tables of your own design. “The current state of the game is a fully functional pinball machine builder and simulator. What is the current state of the Early Access version?

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“We would like the full version to integrate with the Steam Workshop which would allow users to share their PinBuilder pinball creations with the Steam Community.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? Our target release date is November 2023, but depending on the community's feedback, the timeline could be extended into 2024.” “We wish we could say for sure how long Early Access will be. Since the game will feature user-created content to be shared with other players (playfield designs, components, decals, sounds, etc), it is important that we involve the community from the beginning.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access? “PinBuilder is being developed by a small team and considering that one of the game's most important features is the Playfield Editor we want to make sure its functionality and feel works well for users.

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