*Play here on itch!* Pinball Mechanic Mania is a pinball deckbuilder (bear with me) where your PINBALL MACHINE IS THE DECK (does that make sense?). Between rounds you'll have a chance to spend your coins on new components for your machine and upgrades to those components to set up a machine that can score hundreds of thousands of points! See how many rounds it takes you to hit 1,000,000 points and become a TRUE PINBALL WIZARD!!
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@play_space sorry the bug I was talking about earlier was actually a different one, but now you should be able to post more highscores with the same name I just tested myself with "Wizard" so I think its working?
Love the idea of a pinball deckbuilder: building your own table between runs is a great hook. A couple of things held me back. The game took quite a while to load, and the first screen drops you straight into the shop with 6 coins, so I didn't really know what I was buying or why. Letting the player launch a first ball right away and opening the shop after it would make the loop click much faster. The pixel art is clean and readable. Nice entry, good luck!
@b4ux1t3 thanks for playing! I *think* some of the issues with the global scoreboard are fixed now, but honestly not 100% as folks seems to be able to hit edge cases I foolishly did not account for.
@gevernus thanks for the feedback! Didn't know the game was taking a long time to load for some machines (seemed fine on mine?) but will look into and AFAIK the game should NOT start you in the shop so not sure what's going on there either?? Its supposed to be main menu -> new game -> play pinball with the base machine -> shop -> loop. Not sure what happened on your run but will investigate.
@alexey-kuzovkov thanks you! Maybe! Definitely if wanted to pursue a full release a LOT of balance tweaking would need to happen, but I do think the bones of the game are very fun
a pinball deckbuilder where the machine itself is the deck is such a strange and fun idea, and it somehow makes perfect sense once you see the component upgrades. i love that you can keep tuning the machine between rounds instead of just playing one static table, it gives every run a bit of personality. hitting a million points feels like a proper goal too. how did you balance the scoring so upgrades stay exciting without breaking the table? really clever fusion.
The concept of making the pinball machine itself the deck is brilliant. I really enjoy the strategic element of spending coins on components and upgrades between rounds to set up the perfect scoring run.
@david-fiattarone thank you! I also HAVE to imagine someone has tried this before but it does somehow seem like a novel idea and maybe even a good one? lol
@perrarancino thanks for playing! Lets be clear, the scoring is NOT balanced and I've already had a couple players manage to hit the 64 bit integer maximum value and overflow the value and end up with a negative number score by the end!
@eugenik thank you! I do think its pretty fun to design your own machine :)
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I wonder if anybody will beat my 1.6bil record in leaderboards
P.S. my current record -1,712,141,965,623,116,709 cannot be saved, leaderboard dont show up when i get negative numbers.
I’m a sucker for roguelites, and pinball, so this scratches every itch at once.
@gevernus thanks for the feedback! Didn't know the game was taking a long time to load for some machines (seemed fine on mine?) but will look into and AFAIK the game should NOT start you in the shop so not sure what's going on there either?? Its supposed to be main menu -> new game -> play pinball with the base machine -> shop -> loop. Not sure what happened on your run but will investigate.
@alexey-kuzovkov thanks you! Maybe! Definitely if wanted to pursue a full release a LOT of balance tweaking would need to happen, but I do think the bones of the game are very fun
Also true to the theme, pinball's been around quite a long time
@perrarancino thanks for playing! Lets be clear, the scoring is NOT balanced and I've already had a couple players manage to hit the 64 bit integer maximum value and overflow the value and end up with a negative number score by the end!
@eugenik thank you! I do think its pretty fun to design your own machine :)