Pinball Arcade now on Steam Greenlight!

[lettuce]

Essentially there are 2 tasks. Implement portrait, so you can rotate you monitor 90 degrees and play (like you would with an phone or tablet). And implement cabinet support. Both are on my list, cabinet is a little further down since getting it released for PC is a bigger priority.

Will we see 3 screen display?

Also will the portrait mode show the sidewalls, much like recent VP Fullscreen tables has started to implement, gives a better 'feeling' of depth??...

 

[Craig Booth]

For so many years video pinball was constrained by the now prehistoric bulky CRT televisions with their 4:3 ratio displays that weighed a ton. For years we had to put up with a scrolling displays or 3D views where the top half of the table was hardly visible. LCDs have changed the face of video pinball forever, we can now play as close to a feel cab as ever and VP users have been building cabs to make to most of LCD technology since 2009. It is now 2013 and we want the best commercial pinball product in the world to play in portrait! Pinball is made for portrait mode, like Lennon was made for McCartney, so please Farsight make it happen.

Very well put sir.

 

[ND3G]

It seems like a lifetime ago (May) that I started buying various components for my eventual Pinball Arcade cabinet build. It is a good thing I didn't pull the trigger on the monitor(s) yet. Obviously just getting the PC version released is going to be a huge milestone for Farsight but for me personally it will be but a minor footnote compared to cabinet support. I hope it doesn't take too long to implement after release.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

My next guess for Greenlight date: late February or early March, considering Valve greenlights games every 45 days.

 

[SilverBalls]

While on the subject of the much desired portrait mode, the Pro Pinball developers have just said on their Facebook page that the initial release of the new Timeshock will have a portrait mode and a special optimised view for cabinets. Awesome news. We should all head over there to give them some encouragement. I need to open a Facebook account first though

http://m.facebook.com/pro.pinball?v=timeline&filter=2&refid=17

 

[Biff]

My next guess for Greenlight date: late February or early March, considering Valve greenlights games every 45 days.

Well this is from the latest Newsletter:

PC - We are at #90 on Steam Greenlight! We need to get to the top 20 to be published. Please tell your friends, family, dentist, podiatrist, grocer etc. to vote for us using the link below! If we keep spreading the word, we will get there!

Rank 90! Seems like they are going backwards.

I suppose, someday a publisher, sponsor or powerful force will show up which has money and connections and then,
out of a sudden, tpa will be greenlit no matter what rank they are.

 

[Jeff Strong]

While on the subject of the much desired portrait mode, the Pro Pinball developers have just said on their Facebook page that the initial release of the new Timeshock will have a portrait mode and a special optimised view for cabinets. Awesome news. We should all head over there to give them some encouragement. I need to open a Facebook account first though

http://m.facebook.com/pro.pinball?v=timeline&filter=2&refid=17

That is really cool to hear.

 

[mortuus]

Sad to see it missed again,, is flipper really not that interesting for most? how odd.. people are just lazy today.. too much ask to sign in and click to vote for this

 

[Biff]

too much ask to sign in and click to vote for this

First they have to buy a steam game before they are allowed to vote.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Seriously, if each Like on TPA's Facebook spent $1 on Steam and voted, surely we would get the Greenlight.

 

[brakel]

Seriously, if each Like on TPA's Facebook spent $1 on Steam and voted, surely we would get the Greenlight.

I never play games on PC. Why would I or anyone else pay for a vote on a system that I'm not going to play it on?

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Should we start emailing Valve again? I'm tired of waiting it out.

 

[Crush3d_Turtle]

Should we start emailing Valve again? I'm tired of waiting it out.

I don't think it will be a much help. They must have some reason for not accepting the game into their service that we do not know about as there seems to be quite a bit of demand for it. Until these extraneous issues are dealt with, I think that the Greenlight program is the only way that we will have any influence or gain greater awareness.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Either that, or Farsight will let their publisher take a role in this madness. I hate waiting 1 year for games like this.

 

[SilverBalls]

Either that, or Farsight will let their publisher take a role in this madness. I hate waiting 1 year for games like this.

The whole Steam thing is a farce, and Valve are a joke. I have given up on them.now

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Looks like Valve might do away with Greenlight. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...re_democracy_less_Greenlight.php#.URQ7RGdZN8F

 

[jkonami]

Good riddance! I hope they make a change that will allow Farsight to publish there soon.

 

[Sinistar]

Ok so he said "we're going to get rid of the dictatorial policies" by getting rid of a democratic process they ignored anyways? Did I read that right?

Yeah um , so what's the change? That they aren't even going to pretend what the customer wants matters? Am I supposed to be happy ?

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

NEW DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 26!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95907686

I wonder if Farsight is offering a free table for the PC version, like they do on mobile devices?

 

[kimkom]

NEW DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 26!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95907686

I wonder if Farsight is offering a free table for the PC version, like they do on mobile devices?

Unfortunately I think if TPA was ever going to get Greenlit, that time has passed.

FarSight can't rely on getting the PC version onto Steam through the Greenlight process, hence why they are looking at the Windows 8 Marketplace.