Non - Digital pinball game idea

The game mechanic might be a d20 , d100, d10, d6 for my new design.

The board will have a numbered path of 1 - 100 or 1 - 50. I haven't decided yet.

The player chooses a character which will be the ball in play. The player then rolls the dice to follow the path that combines upto the highest number of rolls or closest number path to hit a target or bumper or object task block for points.

The Encounter will have a number hit of 1 - 20, again, I haven't decided yet which is still in the early stages of development.

There will be tasks along the route for player (s) to complete through out game play. Abilities will be unlocked from points to allow the figure or character to do more damage. Once that Encounter is defeated, it goes into the discard pile and another card is draw and put in its place.

Digital Pinball though is a solo game, your playing against the AI of the computer, trying to gain the highest score from hitting the bumpers, trying not to get stuck from gravity of the ball to sticking in an odd position on the board.
Tilt cards will be limited probably to 3 per game. Not sure yet. When the tilt card is used, the figure is dropped at the bottom of the board and the game resets or just wipes off the points from the board probably wipes the points off the player card.

Cards will or can be drawn by a second player to replace the task cards, encounter cards onto the board as the AI so first player can play the game.

The other idea I have thought about is allowing 4 players with their own board ball mats or boards and play against the game as co-op all at the same time.

The ability cards can help the entire group get better attack, hinder attack from other players or the AI, or a whole slew of things.

Board ball will play moderate fast and slow depending on combat from encounters and going against the BBEG or main objective.

Players start with 3 figures and can gain upto 5 figures during game play.

I'm still working on other details to keep it simple but tactical.

Creator of Dymino Monsters;
Jesse

I just put a partial edited picture in the prototype album here on the forum. I don't remember how to upload a larger picture of the board to the post. But I assure you it's nearly complete.

What is next to add?:

I need to add a few more bumper drawings, add targets and the dice movement for for the player / character.

Why a space theme?

I chose the space theme for the first phase of this design project to take a hold of the ability to jump around the board as if your playing a digital pinball game. I could of chosen others but for starters the black hole mechanics seemed the best place to start and work from there.

Dice mechanics for the game:

Well, in the beginning I had alot of ideas to choose from by selecting the dice to perform the actions and abilities. I did choose the d30 because there were 24 circles already imprinted on the cardboard slat. So, I took in count by or will be using some or nearly all of those circles on the card board as some sort of target or bumper.

No cards have been written or drawn out for characters, abilities or tilt situations. That will take place during the week.

Jesse

Thank you Let of Studios, Kris and everyone for the interest and support.

The idea came to me Sunday evening while watching a couple (Unfiltered Gamer) demo play Merchants Cove.

As I scanned the board, I noticed a similar pattern of pinball to the Merchant Cove layout. You all may or may not see the resemblance, but to me it did.

More than a few years back, I vaguely had an idea for a pinball board game but I seemed to have put it out of my mind due to life , work etc, but seeing the board sparked a fascination of,"Can I design a non digital pinball tabletop game?"

I thought through the avenues of layout, game mechanic quite quickly. Then shared it with my game designers Facebook messenger group and then here at bgdf.

An hour ago I am thinking of a counter clock wise number pattern to see how the movement reacts when the dice is rolled for the figure (ball) to move along the numbers in 360 degrees.

There might be line of sight paths from bumpers to number path or no line of sight path (lines drawn across the board for directions where the figure (in this case a spaceship) may travel.

I just imagined imaginary lines from each flipper on the board and I can draw lines to the direction according to number path the figure will travel. In my mind, I think it will look elegant.

I've already decided that each line will go across the entire board path (spider web).

For this first prototype board, I'm thinking there will be 7 target positions to access more points. I also need to add the action and ability cards.

Combat will commence by rolling dice.
From there, re-read Kris' suggestions and read Grant's WayWard Traveler's 777 suggestions (an ex stuntman, voice over and board , card game and digital game designer) Christian brother and everyone else here.

Bows respectively;
Jesse

P.S.
Just trying something different that I know will work from my other designs. I can't wait to play my newest game design.
So excited.

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Thank you for your suggestions and feedback.

Why 192 squares?

I drew up a miniature scale drawing of the card board flat (the same size as a 6 pack can of 4 sits in, it's called a flat, at least I call it that) The sides of the box are broken down to add more room to the recycling bin.

These flats are great uses for play mats, prototype designs for a lot of , well anything. So, I use the card board flats. It's cheap and easy to get from my mom's carry out store next door.

When I drew all the areas for the parts for the out side of the pinball design, I thought of 2 different ways of putting numerical information on the board.

1: 3 circular patterns
2: squares

With the pre drawn idea of circular pattern on a 3 x 5 index card, the pattern looked messy.

So, for easy and simple lines, I went with squares. By counting out how many squares I had, I deduced that by using a d12 for movement around the path would give me a percentage of how many target icons I needed to lay out in the middle of the field.

192 divided 12 is 16. I was thinking of 192 divided by 10 by using a d10 but that would give me 19.2 target locations in the middle of the board or path way but I quickly realized by looking at the inward area of the layout was to small for 19.2 target circles. So I did my calculations and used the d12 input instead. 16 target locations is much better, cleaner and less cluttered on the board.

1: 13 circle targets are 3 spaces apart.

2: 2 circle targets is 12 spaces (squares apart)

3: 1 circle target is sitting 3 squares 2 right in front of the hyper gate.

192 squares was just telling you how much room there was for the token to "move around the board" like a pinball would move in all directions.

The launch ramp has 1 - 5 text. When the player rolls and lands on one of those numbers, there will be text on the outer edge of the board to tell the player what to do or the effect that will happen to their ship or figure or whatever they have chosen.

The Hyper Gate box has 1 - 3 for launch. If the player lands on one of these, the player picks up a card.

Across The Stars box (upper left hand corner of card board) has 1 - 5. The player who lands on one of these, the effect is read to the far left side of the board, the player must do according to what is on the card.

Black Hole/Draw A Card - Center of the board. 1: Tilt, Across the Stars, Hyper Gate, Power Loss, Enemy Approaching, and any number affects will happen and there (for right now will have 4 cards each) / still working on this feature.

Players can choose from 4 different space crafts with different affects. Speed, extra shield buffer, and other effects I haven't a clue yet. Still working on that feature.

I'm currently working on space craft names and affects. I've already have 4 Tilt cards (that was easy to write up).

For the link:
I tried and thought it could work. I will delete just that link post and edit a smaller picture and add it to the photo album as best as I can from my phone.

Jesse

Thank you for the bgg link.

Yes, I have checked out the 2 games for Super skill pinball games on bgg.

I am working on enemy target cards that will be drawn from the card pile.

For the point system, I haven't decided how the point system will work other than using dice for combat.

What the game has so far:

Tilt cards : 4

Across The Stars cards : 2

Solar Sail Repair Vessels Cards : 2 ( will be 4 cards )

Asteroid Cards : 0 ( will be 4 cards in total )

Comet Cards : 0 ( will be 4 in total )

Death Ray Cards : 0 (Will be 4 to 6 cards in total ) Death Ray's is an enemy encounter.

Character / hero vessels Cards : 3 ( will be 4 in total )

The Yaidy , The Baidy , The Lady , The Balthar are 4 enemy ship encounters. This encounter is the Ladybug race.

That is all I have so card and still a work in progress.

It's been super hot here and in those with 3 fans going and i don't do much during the extreme heat plus I've been working at our family pizza shop which takes time to.

So, with all that, I'll be slowly moving along to finishing this latest project.

Thank you for putting your input larienna and the advice for the flippers by using an extra dice for movement etc. I'll work on that to.

Stay tuned for more updates when the game has been updated.

Jesse