https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=47254 <p>What I'm thinking is a true crossover of the greatest DIY gaming projects. Have you ever heard of the Pinbox 3000? It's a kit that you customize to create your own compact pinball machine. It's made from cardboard and is completely analog. Last time I checked, the creators did have some videos about possible projects for rigging up an electronic score system.</p> <p>What I was thinking of is maybe using a Pi to run PICO-8 underneath the playfield. You could map the traditional player 1 and player 2 controller inputs to various targets and bumpers, as well as to the bottom of the table for triggering a ball loss event.</p> <p>You could hook up your Pi to a TFT to run animations triggered by combos, plus to track scores and balls remaining.</p> <p>Does this sound like a cool project idea? Has anyone done something similar before?</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39895 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39895 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:01:55 UTC <p>Hey, all. I picked up PICO-8 in the Itch bundle a couple months ago. Finally got around to poking at the PICO-8 and I love what I'm seeing. The idea of the picture being the cartridge is just something that brings back the feels.</p> <p>Reminds me of the old days, manually typing in games from a book. A whole weekend spent programming Star Trek only to find out that I had the wrong version of BASIC.</p> <p>Anyway, I hope to get going with game design soon. My history in that field is in the tabletop space, so going digital is a whole new thing for me.</p> <p>Quick question, but is there a way to make map screens connect to one another to simulate a cube? I am thinking about doing a pseudo-3D space shooter.</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39875 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39875 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:56:01 UTC