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Basic pinball game guts

by Terry Greenlaw · in Torque Game Builder · 04/06/2005 (8:26 pm) · 7 replies

Well, I got bit by a few too many bugs today to get this where I wanted, but I'll go ahead and post what I have so far.

There's a TON of stuff that needs to be added, but I was focusing on the paddle code and moving parameters into datablocks, so feel free to add away :-)

Just unzip it anywhere (everything is in a folder called pinball) and run the t2d.exe

www.tieros.com/pinball.zip


Things that need to be added:

Sound
Bumpers need to "pop" to exert additional force on the ball
More stuff to bump into
Gameboard graphics
Score display (it's being held in a global variable $score)
A ball launcher
Multiball
Ramps
etc. :-)

#1
04/06/2005 (10:40 pm)
Ok, so space shakes the table, and Enter resets the ball. Are there any other controls? I can't get the paddles to move.
#2
04/06/2005 (11:28 pm)
Arrow Keys
#3
04/06/2005 (11:56 pm)
Hahah, insane. I thought I went through every key. I guess I had numlock on when I went through the number pad. And somehow, I skipped the arrow keys. heh.

Neat demo. The paddles turned out nicely.
#4
04/07/2005 (7:14 am)
Typical developer. I forgot to add the documentation :-)

The key mapping is displayed on the background image I didn't include :-)

Enter = reset
Space = nudge (although it's only the camera currently)
Arrows = paddle

Plus the default mappings of
Escape = exit
~ = console
#5
01/16/2011 (5:48 am)
Link Broke or down, anyone with a mirror?

#6
01/16/2011 (9:27 am)
I'm checking through backups of my old computers, but haven't found it yet. The bad part is I didn't even remember writing this when I saw the email asking about it, and wondered why I was notified :-)

I hope someone can turn up a copy. I'd love to see it again.
#7
12/01/2011 (12:56 pm)
Ohh man, I wanted to see how you did this. Especially since people say the flippers were working nicely.