Glowy Pinball Project

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Hey folks, I’m making some Glowy Pinball! Think 2D pinball with an Asteroids Deluxe/Geometry Wars aesthetic (what’s sometimes known as “neo-retro” or “synthwave”).

I’m just starting to share my work as a solo-dev on an ongoing basis, and felt this one would make a good first.

A (very early) build is “playable” on itch.io:

There isn’t a game there yet, but you can check out the basic flipper physics and a first pass at the aesthetics.

I also did a write-up that goes into my motivations for releasing early, and provides a recap of my work so far on the aesthetics (in Godot):

Would love any feedback, esp. if you’ve worked on a similar aesthetic, or on pinball.

I’ll be posting progress updates in this thread as the game comes along.

Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with a short video capture:

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It’s nice to see a 2D pinball game pop up. In my opinion, 3D is one D more than pinball needs :slight_smile:

I’m looking forward to seeing what it turns into, for now I had fun just trying to shoot the ball back in the plunger lane.

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Thanks for giving it a try, and good to hear it ran well enough to shoot for the plunger lane :slight_smile:

There are some things in store I’m excited about beyond just the aesthetics, but starting out with this helped me kick off the work.

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It would be nice if you added a score board so that you can see how many times you bounced it. It would also be cool if you can more tiles. Overall, really nice game.

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Yeah, as a matter of fact, I am working on some score stuff right now :slight_smile: Hopefully won’t be too long before I can show it.

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Hey folks, been busy working on some game systems, but I just put out Release 0.2.0 on itch.io with a couple of small but fun updates:

Full details are in the release post, but here’s a quick overview:

You can now cycle through different looks for the ball:

Also, the plunger visuals have been improved:

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Well, that’s it for now. As always, if you have any feedback I’d love to hear it!

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It looks great, I really like the clean shapes.

You’ve moved me to do a 2D pinball game of my own, great fun, but I never realized how much work it is to lay out the table.

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Haha, yeah it can be a lot of work. That’s why, at least for my purposes, using the path2d approach I mentioned in an earlier post for creating the table elements helped simplify things a little.

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Oh cool!