Posts in 2023
I made a game for Scream Jam 2023 | Consignment
Saturday, November 04, 2023 in Blog
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An old hobby It’s been over a decade since I last made a game solo (made in Flash CS5 if that’s any indication) and I haven’t used a proper game engine in years but with all the recent talk about Godot, it finally felt like the …
Building a Test Stand | Half Scale Pinball
Friday, March 17, 2023 in Half Scale Pinball
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On my way to a playable machine These past months, I’ve been working to get the lower-third of the machine in a playable state so I can finally playtest. Thankfully, I’m nearly done as all I have left is the redesign of the flipper mech. …
Posts in 2022
A fiberoptic DMD?! | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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…but why You, being a sane and reasonable individual, are probably wondering how I could possibly think it was a good idea to build a fiberoptic panel for my pinball machine’s DMD. Frankly, I don’t even have a great answer to that …
Replacement Score Camwheels
Monday, October 31, 2022 in Blog
How it all started About a year ago, Joe’s Classic Video Games uploaded a video showcasing a cracked Chicago Coin score camwheel and their workaround to fix it. They mentioned how these camwheels crack over time and that nobody makes …
Ball Trough | Half Scale Pinball
Sunday, August 07, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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It’s working! (finally) I know it’s been a while since my last post but I have a good reason… Borderlands 2 is a lot longer than I remembered. No but seriously I’ve actually made a lot good progress since my last post and now …
LOD-ing in OpenSCAD
Monday, April 11, 2022 in Blog
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The burden of complex assemblies in OpenSCAD Nothing quite kills a workflow like having to wait 3s for your rendering to update every time you want to pan the viewport around your work. OpenSCAD’s Boolean geometry functions are great for rapid …
Mapping the Ishimura
Thursday, March 03, 2022 in Blog
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What’s an Ishimura and why am I mapping it? A few years ago, I decided I wanted to build a 1:1 replica of the USG Ishimura, a fictional deep space mining ship from the Dead Space video game franchise, in another game called Space Engineers. For …
Ball Ejector Testing | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Ball trough design On most pinball machines, a mechanism called the ball trough stores the balls not currently in play. Balls enter the trough through the playfield drain and are returned to play via a mechanism that ejects them back up to the …
Return Lane | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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The prototype I’ve completed a first draft of the return lane assembly; although, it’s not fully tested at this time. The problem is I can’t really test the lane without having the side wall and slingshot on either side to verify …
Slingshots | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 09, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Testing Last post I said I’d be working on the in/out-lanes next but I finally got all the parts in to run a full test on my slingshot assembly and just couldn’t wait. The video below demonstrates the assembly with a few different general …