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Flippaper: Draw your own pinball in real time

by neo2001 on 4/8/16, 10:20 AM with 10 comments

  • by chipsy on 4/8/16, 11:00 PM

    This is a nicely polished-and-optimized hardware version of the UI in Stephen Lavelle's Plingpling. [0] I have a prototype sitting around of a directly inspired "draw-to-physics" thing myself.

    [0] http://www.plingpling.org/

  • by GFK_of_xmaspast on 4/8/16, 10:07 PM

    That's not working for me, but "Pinball Construction Set" was a hell of a thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set)

  • by Animats on 4/9/16, 12:18 AM

    This is an art project, not a product.[1] As an arcade machine, it's at least 20 years too late. But it has potential as a casual game for tablets or very fat phones.

    [1] http://sewergadget.tumblr.com/exhibition

  • by zharkov on 4/9/16, 7:08 AM

    Hey there, I'm Roman Miletitch, co creator of Flippaper with Jérémie Cortial. Glad to see us on hacker news! If you have any questions, I'm here to answer.

    Just one comment already. While the pinball was indeed the thematic, the point was to have a gameplay that would take drawing as an input (or any colored stuff actually), and output on top of it. While not new, the fact you're both the game designer and player is a fun & sometimes weird experience.

    And yeah, it's an art project indeed. While we're aiming later for an app on smartphone, we wanted first to keep the physical aspect. This spawned many new way of playing Flippaper (ending up with one guy playing his T shirt because it had the right colors).

  • by fiatjaf on 4/8/16, 9:05 PM

    I thought this was a finished game I could play right now in the browser!

  • by failrate on 4/9/16, 3:12 AM

    I was hoping that this was something I could buy for my son's tablet. That would be awesome.

  • by SixSigma on 4/8/16, 11:43 AM

    not exactly "realtime" if you press "scan" but still, I love the idea

  • by orbitingpluto on 4/9/16, 12:45 AM

    The 80s vibe of creating shitty useless junk to buy because we didn't have what we really wanted, smartphones and tablets, was a nice touch.