Everything got better when I became a green-haired 2D girl. I do fun and unusual things with video games and pinball.

cohost inspired me to do more. Thank you



arborelia
@arborelia

Download: Futurama VPX by Wizball

Futurama is another virtual-only pinball table brought to us by Wizball, a.k.a. DonkeyKlonk. Its design is similar to a modern table, with complex modes and an LCD backglass display.

That is a lot for a custom VPX to do, and many VPXes that aspire to it do it badly, and Futurama doesn't do it badly. This table layout is, in fact, a whole lot of fun, and I was frequently discovering new interactions between shots as I played it. There are all kinds of options for skill shots, including one that I now forget how to do (plunge into a drop target on the right).

I should emphasize: Futurama feels like it ought to be a real modern pinball table. It could be a Stern table in an alternate universe. The layout and code compare to machines made by a whole team who do this for a living.

Particularly nice features of the layout are the spinner that you shoot through horizontally to increase the playfield multiplier, and the Danesi lock in the upper right that progresses toward Bender Multiball. (A Danesi lock is a sequence of inline drop targets that lock balls between them, a very clever mechanism that was created by Scott Danesi for Total Nuclear Annihilation).


arborelia
@arborelia

Updated this writeup based on DonkeyKlonk's clarifications about where the ideas came from -- in particular, that the big tube originated in the concept art from JoePicasso.


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