Topic awaiting preservation: Asylum Pinball

As those of you who ever visit the 3D Forum may or may not know, I'm currently undertaking a course of study in 3D Studio MAX 5. Once of the latest assignments I have recieved is it model, texture light and animate as realistically as possibly a pinball machine. The theme is left up to the student, and as such I have decided to try to do Asylum Pinball. I'm fresh outta ideas for goals that our 'player' can reach though...obstacles to get past and things like that. So I turn to you, my fellow asylumites...what would you want to see in Asylum Pinball?

Interesting. The first thing I would do is hit the local arcade. I think the most important thing to look for is the placement of the elements/obstacles. So, to begin with, just try to think element with out the theme. Know what I mean? Once you decide on a few, start sketching with an asylum theme.

On the playing field background, maybe an old building like Arkham with a full moon?

Or maybe you could do something along the lines of the interior of an asylum. You know, sick green with ugly doors and a checker floor. Then you could divide some of the playing field into shock therapy and what-not. Yeah, I'm liking this. Maybe have "follow the yellow" line things that go from element to element.

the 'local arcade' is a bad term for me...becuase the 'local arcade' is 60 Kms away

I can't remember 'who'... but someone stopped in the PS forum a few times with at least one pinball game he had a hand in developing...so maybe some help will come out from the shadows.

Hmmm... think it was a 'racing' theme... formula one... ???

NJ: This?:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum3/HTML/003650.html

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Target ideas:

Collecting pills... of course, the black one is the last/best one... collecting all pills gives the bonus: sugar rush / med rush...

Therapy: Drawing lessons, Gene therapy, Shock therapy, etc

Mental illnesses (delusion, psychosis, schizophrenia)

Final goal: escaping from the asylum?

Maybe you're playing as the doctor and you'll need to 'cure' as many patients as possible?

Just a li'l stream o' consciousness typing here...

Emps: No not that one.... this guy was looking for help with his graphics a few times and then later came back with a downloadable demo. I'm pretty sure it was a formula one pinball game.

Oh no! Someone's hit the breakers! All the cells have opened and the lights have gone out! Multiple balls scatter across the playing surface. How long can you keep them from heading out the front door?!

Of course, it sounds like this is just a still image you're working on, so I guess that concept would be difficult to carry out.

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Just so people understand fully...I'm not developing a game here...yet. This is an assignment to animate a pinball table, and have your 'player' get through it or whatever...I'm looking at about a 6-10 minute animation here...

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wow, skaarjj sounds awesome! well you should receive some pills if you hit the bumper!

Get a stabbin' in there!

you could have a point when all the 'inmates' (extra balls) come rolling out of their cells and you have to juggle all the additional balls

Ooh, and a "Trackball Artistry" timed mode, where the pinball represents DG's trackball and every ramp you hit fills in part of a painting on the LED. I mean, if it's about the Asylum as a whole, not just the insanity metaphor... DarkGarden and his Trackball o' Doom are pure examples of what makes the Asylum great.

edit: ooh, and a hurryup where someone says "how do I make a dog in Photoshop?" and you have to hit a certain target within 30 seconds to make DL-44 yell "Look at a dog, for god's sake, then draw what you see! Or were you looking for FILTERS >> ARTISTIC >> MAKE A DOG!?"

edit: And of course, you'd need a fish-slapping competition between a naked Emps and a naked Wakkos... you have to shoot alternate ramps, and the LED shows them flailing at each other with marlins.

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[This message has been edited by Perfect Thunder (edited 10-14-2003).]

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you could have a point when all the 'inmates' (extra balls) come rolling out of their cells and you have to juggle all the additional balls

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Hmmm ... That sounds familiar ...

Have targets spell to out D-O-C-O-Z-O-N-E ......

Get black pills from 'Wolfen's Guard Station' or 'Nurse's Office.'

'Free Consultation' would mean Extra Ball or a Free Game.

Have targets where you would have to hit the man in the straight jacket....

Or keep hitting the flippers to run faster so you would not get caught by the 'Wolfen the Security Guard.'

How about 'Run Naked Through the Corridors...' aka MULTIBALL!!!

(Just some ideas here...)

You've just seen inside THE BOX! 10,000 points!

Oh ... well, I guess there'd have to be a BOX ...




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You could have the table theme be trying to achieve the ultimate goal (multi-ball) where you can"Lose your Marbles" Use the drop target/flags to increase the voltage on the shock treatments (multiplier), I like the pills idea, you could have a tiered score structure where the more you get inside the "Box" the more points things you hit are worth (goes along with mahjqa's illnesses). I really like the DocOzone idea. if each letter was achieved by completing a mini-game/task then it would really be a table that would hold your attention. It requires a few more mini-game ideas, above and beyond the normal target kind of stuff. one of them could be a collect the spiders (to eat them) kind of a thing, one spider per ramp or whatever. Sound like a cool idea... now I need to load all my pinball games again. LOL