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Pinball Mechanic Mania

By adam-konig

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Comments

stefan-b 2026-10-18 09:06 ♥ 1

i love pinballsBildschirmfoto 2026-10-18 um 11.06.19.png

play-space 2026-10-18 12:00 ♥ 1

Great game! cannot enter my name in leaderbord twice

adam-konig 2026-10-18 19:56 ♥ 0

@play-space thanks for playing! Discovered that bug this morning and should be fixed now?

adam-konig 2026-10-18 19:56 ♥ 0

@stefan-b thanks for playing!! <3

play-space 2026-10-18 21:54 ♥ 1

@adam-konig sadly still not fixed, but gameplay is addicting.

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.

adam-konig 2026-10-18 23:32 ♥ 0

@play_space working on a fix now, post a screenshot of your negative numbers thats crazy!

adam-konig 2026-10-18 23:43 ♥ 0

@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?

b4ux1t3 2026-10-19 01:09 ♥ 1

Way too much fun, and a great idea to boot!

I’m a sucker for roguelites, and pinball, so this scratches every itch at once.

b4ux1t3 2026-10-19 01:36 ♥ 1

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Heck yeah! I broke it!

gevernus 2026-10-19 08:44 ♥ 1

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!

alexey-kuzovkov 2026-10-19 13:34 ♥ 1

Build your own pinball. Amazing! Could it be a new balatro-like?

adam-konig 2026-10-19 16:44 ♥ 0

@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

play-space 2026-10-19 23:23 ♥ 1

Did i finished the game ? Screenshot 2026-10-20 023244.png

david-fiattarone 2026-10-19 23:44 ♥ 1

That was awesome! We don't have enough pinball games, and I can't recall any that follow the deckbuilding format. Great job on coming up with this!

Also true to the theme, pinball's been around quite a long time

perrarancino 2026-10-20 12:34 ♥ 1

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.

eugenik 2026-10-21 01:27 ♥ 1

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.

adam-konig 2026-10-21 16:47 ♥ 0

@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 :)

adam-konig 2026-10-21 16:47 ♥ 0

@play-space haha yes I think you won, you can rest now!