Stephen
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Stephen

@CliffClavin@mastodon.gamedev.place

Released STRAFE with Devolver. Have a passion for creative coding, experiential software / multimedia projects and I am currently working as a cloud solution architect. I like to learn, grow and try to be awesome to others. I am naturally somewhat private but I am working to be a little more digitally social. He/him.

May 10, 2023

One constant annoyance with bringing pins to expos is people starting a multi player game, playing a ball or two and then walking away. The next player gets a seemingly endless game, which they'll probably abandon too. Quick power cycles don't do favors for the game and pressing the slam tilt gently requires constantly opening the coin door, a thing that becomes problematic if the game is attended by the event's staff who don't have the keys.

So here's a prototype of a mod I made; a switch that can be slipped onto coin door structure to reset the game. It's actuated by the coin return's flap.

This mod was trialed this weekend in a game expo event and it worked perfectly! The game room attendants were quickly shown what to do if someone left a game running and I witnessed it being used multiple times successfully.

The mod can be removed or moved to another game with similar coin door easily and connected to the slam tilt switch with hook clips.

#pinball #mods #hacks #arcade

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