Plummer is flat out wrong that his port enabled our game to ship with Windows -- we built it for Windows (and for Microsoft) from the start. He didn't enter the picture until we were already shipping with the popular…
That's correct. Mike needed it to test the physics, and I needed it to tune and balance the gameplay.
I noted this in another reply, but Mike had written a scripting model that let me adjust the physics and materials for each component separately. That allowed me to iterate rapidly when tuning the feel of the game. A…
I've been meaning to write up a history, but it's one of those things that's been on my to do list for years...Maybe someday, soon. Kevin
We played every table we could get our hands on. Also rented tables weekly to be brought into the office once we moved to Austin. I tried to dig as deeply into the history of pinball too, to understand why tables had…
Plummer is flat out wrong that his port enabled our game to ship with Windows -- we built it for Windows (and for Microsoft) from the start. He didn't enter the picture until we were already shipping with the popular…
That's correct. Mike needed it to test the physics, and I needed it to tune and balance the gameplay.
I noted this in another reply, but Mike had written a scripting model that let me adjust the physics and materials for each component separately. That allowed me to iterate rapidly when tuning the feel of the game. A…
I've been meaning to write up a history, but it's one of those things that's been on my to do list for years...Maybe someday, soon. Kevin
We played every table we could get our hands on. Also rented tables weekly to be brought into the office once we moved to Austin. I tried to dig as deeply into the history of pinball too, to understand why tables had…