I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

sysrpl

As the title says, I am working on a FOSS Linux Pinball Simulation Engine. It is based on my Pascal Tiny.Sim library which has been in github for many years. Tables are designed in parametric CAD (OnShape for now) and imported by my engine as 3D meshes. It simplifies many of the physics bodies into primitives and has options to configure how meshes are convert into a table. The logic for a table is written in Typescript. Users can also edit the table inside the game. The idea will be that users can use the engine to play and share pinball tables of their own designs. I am supporting Linux because I use Linux every day and it needs more support when it comes to playing good fun games. If you want to help Linux and are an artist, I plan make the initial source code release with 3 different tables and a guide for how to create your own pinball tables. I am looking for artwork to help with table artwork. My contact information is on the page linked to this submission.

Toynbeeidea

Does it pull or use anything from vPinMAME?

gavmor

Very slick!

flossly

good. we need some quality games that are not on Steam to show to new linux users. MsPinBall was very good at that for windows.

malbs

I love pinball, personally terrible at it, I always thought a some luck came into play depending on where the ball was dropping/heading, until I watched someone actually good at pinball play. He showed me there is a fine art in bumping the machine subtly enough to move the balls line so you can stop it from going straight down the middle or into one of the dead lanes... but not so much to trigger the sensors to shut the machine down. Watching him play pinball blew my mind. I've never been able to do what he could do, but it's definitely an art form... So, can you implement machine bumping? :-)

InsideOutSanta

The video demo looks great, the physics seem really close to a real pinball machine. I have a digital pinball machine at home, I hope this will support dual-screen machines!

larodi

Make it work with dualshock controllers, so that everyone can benefit from force feedback.

boredhedgehog

Is it compatible with Visual Pinball? Because that's where all the tables are.

Tade0

I'm interested in knowing how the physics are realized here. I've been working on a golf game to play with my friends and the first hurdle I had to go through was the fact that you can't just slap an off-the-shelf physics engine on it and call it a day, because over certain velocities the ball will tunnel through the walls.

berkes

I've been playing and loving Vector Pinball (Floss, on fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy... ) a lot. I can only applaud more options for pinball games in the FLOSS world. Thanks!

panki27

Make sure to also check out Visual Pinball, the community has built tons of tables for that.

joezydeco

IAAPA is a theme park trade show. I'm not sure that venue is going to be worth the travel and effort for you. I'd say Pinball Expo, Midwest Gaming Classic, or PAX would help you more.

Hitech-Redneck

Man, I used to tear up some Microsoft Pinball back in the day. This looks really cool!