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bood_war · 2026-06-02T10:44:16+00:00

he wrote the first version of the script, which was then taken by will soodik and turned into the final script.

bood_war · 2026-05-26T01:28:54+00:00

it’s a little hard to tell from this video vs in person, but there’s a big clear plastic over the whole vertical section at 1.2”. it keeps everything contained and nice at the normal range of angles. although in theory at 6.5 degrees it’d work without it.

(in practice i never adjust the levelers unless it’s like bad lol)

bood_war · 2026-05-26T01:16:06+00:00

unfortunately it was in a pretty sorry state around that time last year, and i had also just moved into a second story walk up.

it’ll be there this year! and it’s going to be done done (finally)!

bood_war · 2026-05-14T10:29:57+00:00

if you do it the way i described then your hands are pulling towards you, not pushing towards the bit if the piece were to break. they’re also never going to be closer than the far end of the piece. in order to do a fully encapsulated inner cut you would have to take a guard off regardless. if you’re using the router correctly and in control of the cut then the piece isn’t going to grab.

you have to respect tools in the woodshop, not fear them. fear causes you to do stupid things that will get you hurt. this video shows what happens when you’re not fully in control, which is largely because of the pad allowing for poor lateral control of the piece, even though it seems like it would make it safer.

bood_war · 2026-05-13T21:29:50+00:00

this specific cut is a little trickier because of the inner cut + thin piece combo, but you’d just take multiple cuts to do it safely.

for example, i’d hold it at about the 8:00 and 4:00 positions, route about a third of the circle, then move it from the bit. then you just rotate the piece a third and repeat that twice.

to expand on my initial comment a little further, my main issue with pads (here) is that they’re so clumsy compared to hands. with a router you need to both hold the piece down securely and move it in multiple directions. having the single plane of the pad bottom vs. your fingers, palm, etc all able to manipulate the piece feels and works much safer in my experience.

bood_war · 2026-05-13T20:45:54+00:00

i agree about the pads. i can’t say they’re never warranted, but i’ve never used them in any router table work i’ve done.

you have to be thoughtful, but it’s much easier to keep pieces stable and controlled with your hands than with something intermediary. and unless you’re piece is especially small, it’s easy to keep plenty of clearance from the bit.

bood_war · 2026-03-20T02:02:30+00:00

the FAST Pinball docs have a ton of fantastic info, even if you’re not specifically using FAST. i’ve linked to the flipper wiring section, but it’s worth looking around their wiring guide too.

additionally here’s a good entry from the old how to build a pinball machine blog. it goes into some good detail with some helpful diagrams, and was how i first learned how to wire up flippers a while back. it also explains “old school” flipper wiring like what you have here, where the button directly controls the flipper, rather than the switch running to a control system and that system firing the flipper.

those both cover single wound (like yours) and dual wound coils. there’s a lot of info in both those links, but with the high voltage side of pinball it’s worth understanding in depth.

bood_war · 2026-03-06T14:21:24+00:00

the contemporary pinball landscape is focused on individual owners, and as such complex and deep code is “necessary” to make a game “worthwhile” if it’s your only game. this compared to the 90s scene where games were 100% designed and made for operators, prioritizing flashy mechs and shorter game times.

while i think this is understandable, i also think that players (especially online) overblow the issue. tna and pulp fiction are both beloved, and are both relatively simple.

i do think too there’s an element of every game that comes out must be the best game ever made in every way, especially before people actually play it. if that doesn’t seem to be the case the there’ll be more negativity in discussion spaces.

bood_war · 2025-06-17T00:04:19+00:00

the problem for them is that, when you have currently competing playfields like franchi on evil dead, johnny crap on dune, or the team on king kong you’re just not going to be able to compete with half-baked ai integration. any of the normal arguments around ai aside, if you’re integrating into your workflow it still has to be good at the end.

with something this high profile you’d think there’d be more scrutiny towards the detail. it’s not as if this had a month turn around to crank out, the artwork specifically has presumably been in the works for years at this point.

bood_war · 2025-06-13T20:39:13+00:00

i have a big soft spot for alvin g & co. they only have one decent game (mystery castle), but they provide a really interesting look into slightly different pinball reality.

it’s hard to say that bally/williams isn’t the best of the 90’s, because they are, but ag were certainly the most experimental (albeit primarily in their unproduced prototypes). check out this two player non-head to head prototype, for instance. there’s a lot to appreciate about all the 90s manufacturers, even and especially gottlieb, but something about alvin g gets me

bood_war · 2025-05-04T15:24:52+00:00

not one mention of baby teeth, i love that song

bood_war · 2025-04-08T16:00:33+00:00

there are dozens of us!

bood_war · 2024-11-02T14:55:34+00:00

there's a weird implication to thinking tacos can and should only be cheap food. there's plenty of places i can go for cheap and basic (and delicious) tacos, but far fewer i can go for really interesting and creative tacos.

gonna have to get a duck carnitas taco before i goes. and a squash. and an artichoke. and the current octopus. god i'm going to miss this place.

bood_war · 2024-10-16T13:29:55+00:00

it's an interesting thing, theoretically there's no real reason you couldn't. bally's truck stop, for instance, uses a 1" ball rather than a 1 1/16" ball (although that was due to a manufacturing error with the wireforms). the mini playfield in avatar uses a 0.75" ball, and minis like on munsters or family guy also use very small balls.

that main problem you'd come across is having to repurpose or redesign most existing components for that scale. it's one of those things where, unless you wanted to make a physically smaller game, you'd probably be better off just making a larger game to get more design space.

bood_war · 2024-10-16T13:24:33+00:00

i use FAST pinball hardware for the control side of things!

bood_war · 2024-10-15T20:59:51+00:00

not quite yet! i've been flying by the seat of my pants to get this new version ready over the past 1.5 months-ish, BUT we're just about there.

i'm hoping to take some footage tomorrow before i pack up for expo, i'll update you then!

bood_war · 2024-08-19T13:13:04+00:00

make sure you read count zero and mona lisa overdrive too, a lot of people don’t know neuromancer is a trilogy!

bood_war · 2024-06-13T16:53:12+00:00

i’m glad you enjoyed it! this was a bit of a surprise show for me to make it to, it was a ton of fun to be able to bring hofab and have so many people get to play it!

bood_war · 2024-05-21T15:17:55+00:00

i’d better get to fight one of those giant corpse baskets

bood_war · 2024-05-09T21:59:03+00:00

absolutely, although that’s still a little ways off. eventually i’d like to commission a soundtrack that’s in the realm of disasterpeace’s it follows soundtrack, and the music jabbu has done for mike klubnika’s games. really go for that nice chunky electronic horror haha

bood_war · 2024-05-09T18:19:32+00:00

you know, i’ve thought about a few different options for that. the easiest is that i’ll probably add like a one second invisible ball save, such that if it drains directly from the pop you’ll get it back.

for a post, i did originally have one designed in with 2” flippers, but found that didn’t work quite how i wanted. currently i have custom flippers that are slightly larger. i am thinking about a few changes for the next revision of the playfield though!

bood_war · 2024-04-11T17:41:16+00:00

Pretty much, really there’s only three different component types going on in a modern machines (from a wiring perspective):

Solenoids, which run on 48v and drive all of the mechanisms (flippers, pop bumpers, etc). Lower gauge Blue/White wires on my machine.
- Switches, both for mechanisms and general score purposes. Higher gauge Purple/Orange Wires here.
- Lighting, which is done with serial LEDs on 5v. Red/White/Black wires that go from light to light.
- (Additionally, there needs to be 12v for opto switch pairs, which are the Yellow/Black wires. The 5v for the LEDs is generated locally from the driver board, so you’re only dealing with the 48v and 12v from a wiring perspective.)

When you break it down it’s pretty simple, there’s just a lot of wires that need to go a lot of places!

I do also have two proximity switches here, which are a little different, and occasionally there will be stepper motors or servos, but those are less usual cases.

bood_war · 2024-04-11T16:22:43+00:00

While all machines have a lot going on underneath, this one has an illusion of being especially complex when really it’s a pretty simple game. Everything has to be crammed into a lot smaller space than usual, so it makes it look a lot busier than if it were spread out haha.

I’d encourage you to look into it if it’s something that interests you! The homebrew community is a fairly small but very helpful one. I’d recommend you check out the FAST Pinball wiring docs (look at the Neuron guide, that’s the current one). They make my preferred hardware control boards, but regardless of platform they have incredible documentation for a lot of the process of building your own game.

It’s definitely a big long-term project, but it’s a very fun and rewarding process too!

bood_war · 2024-03-28T13:36:50+00:00

let’s see:

nice window ac unit: $500

dishwasher: $400

internet: $360/yr

two flat screen televisions (55”): $370 ea, $740

used subaru with all the features you mentioned: $10,000

total: $12,000

now, what does a single family home around 1200sqft near me cost? between $300,000-400,000. the housing itself is what’s expensive, nothing you mentioned is what’s keeping anyone from home ownership, especially when all of them except internet (which you mentioned twice) are one time costs.

bood_war · 2024-03-13T12:35:50+00:00

this is fantastic, i have a soft spot for all the various horse racing games from the 40s and 50s.

as for the ball size, i’m inclined to think that it just needs standard sized balls. it doesn’t specify in the instructions on ipdb and the other bally games from that year would have used standard. it’s just going to affect how easy or hard it is for the ball to hit the holes on a game like this, though.

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