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• Getting into Pinball
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023

  If there are any pinhead game devs out there, we're still working on the next generation of Visual Pinball, called VPE[1].

  However, given the current drama around Unity, we're currently looking into Godot to evaluate how much effort it would take to port, and how Godot will support our needs.

  [1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

• PinMAME vs MAME (2015+)
  3 projects | /r/MAME | 19 May 2023
• Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2023

  Pinball on computers is thriving too.

  Visual Pinball X ("VPX", see https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=51) runs community authored recreated tables with ROMs dumped from the hardware. The physics engine has good performance and authenticity.

  Another project, Visual Pinball Engine, ported the C++-based physics engine to Unity (https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine) through its DOTS & "HPC#" (C# with manual memory management extensions) approach. Unity adoption means you can play high fidelity tables right in your browser (https://appmana.com/watch/pinball).

  Then there's commercial platforms like Pinball FX and people building VPX rendering in VR.

  It's maybe the biggest simulation scene I know of. The community fills many niches. Rigs of Rods & Beam.ng for the idea, "Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for cars." XMage & Spellsource for "Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone but you write your own cards." Unreal Engine for Fortnite is a big entry for the open world community authored content dominated by Minecraft, with submarine stuff like Facepunch's S&box (think Garry's Mod 2.0) coming up.

• Pinball FX Steam Page is up
  1 project | /r/pcgaming | 4 Apr 2023

  No it's just a modernising of the engine and gfx for modern machines. a lot of the VPX devs and table makers are actively helping create VPE as it's an open source project on github. https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

• Visual Pinball Terminator 2 adapted to Unreal Engine 5.1
  1 project | /r/virtualpinball | 28 Dec 2022
• Sneak peek at a little personal project. (3D render)
  1 project | /r/pinball | 8 Nov 2022

  We're developing this: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/

• Future Pinball – A Real Time Pinball Development System
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022

  Shameless plug, we're working on a next-gen pinball simulator called Visual Pinball Engine[1]. It's free and open source, using Unity, and will eventually support importing FP's table format.

  It's still WIP, but we've put a lot of focus on tooling, so anyone can easily create tables.

  Quick video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CfZImFl1ME

  [1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

• Just another VPE video of Volley
  1 project | /r/virtualpinball | 23 Jul 2022
• I've been prototyping a Raccoon Pinball game in my spare time
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 14 Nov 2021

  We've been working on an open source pinball framework for Unity for a while now, in case you're interested: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

• Why are there no pinball games with level editors?
  1 project | /r/gamedesign | 22 Jun 2021

  Documentation: https://docs.visualpinball.org/ Repository: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine Screenshots: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/wiki/Unity-Screenshots

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