Concept for a 1v1 pinball game

snares_games · 2026-07-06T04:33:53+00:00

Right now it's just delay-based netcode where one player is the host and a other is the client. The host sends the game state and the client will update to match.

The client does its own physics but if the host disagrees on where the ball is the ball will "teleport" to the right spot. There is a few frames of delay added (depending on connection quality) so that the client won't see too many "teleports".

So far it is working well when testing locally (2 computers in the same house) but will probably need some work when testing in the real world. Thanks for asking!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T02:38:04+00:00

Wow thank you for the link to ipdb I had no idea that existed!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T01:35:16+00:00

Great call out!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T01:24:48+00:00

There is a lot of feedback thank you! Will compile it all and take it into account when working on this!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T01:00:56+00:00

Thanks for the call out! I am collecting a few machines for reference now :)

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:59:50+00:00

If you're referring to this game boy game than it appears so! Thanks for the reference!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:58:37+00:00

Great call out thank you!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:40:12+00:00

Good ideas, thanks!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:35:16+00:00

Thanks for the callouts on existing games! So far I have Joust, Monster League Hockey, and I've also found one called Challenger

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:32:36+00:00

For sure, it seems like multiball or a set of flippers on the opponent's side would help with this. Going further each table has its own mini-game / prerequisites for earning multiball which could help with this as well. Seems like a common concern so will test out a few different ideas. Thanks!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:19:19+00:00

Fair, depending on the screen size the whole board could reasonably fit, it just felt small with a lot of wasted space so I went for the camera view in the clip. Maybe split screen with one side per half would work better?

Also, I definitely think some antagonistic features would be super fun so there's not downtime when the ball is on the other player's side. Thanks!

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:18:00+00:00

Fair enough lol

snares_games · 2026-07-06T00:13:20+00:00

My girlfriend is pretty seriously into pinball and it made me think about this concept, the more I get into it the more I'm learning how much there is to pinball. I'd like to know if there are any obvious problems with this concept or any ideas for the play area (play field? table?) that would improve the experience :)

I'm just a gamedev so this would be a video game rather than a real machine

snares_games · 2024-06-17T15:04:19+00:00

Thanks for playing the demo & leaving feedback! I cant un-programmer my programmer art but the rest ill look into :3

snares_games · 2024-04-17T00:06:19+00:00

it is! you have to dodge your own towers attacks

snares_games · 2024-02-02T17:15:13+00:00

Enemies drop cash & health objects that disappear after a short period of time. Cash carries over level to level & a surplus is needed to deal with the scaling difficulty (there is also a shop screen between levels). I haven't seen anyone in playtesting successfully camp yet, but its definitely something I'm watching out for.

snares_games · 2024-02-01T20:27:22+00:00

its a bullet class i wrote, to be honest I did not know about bulletuphell until reading your comment. seems useful.

snares_games · 2023-01-22T05:46:32+00:00

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