Maybe you could team up with the guy who wanted the Burger World 3d asset - I've set up a couple of companies, it's easier with a team rather than 100% solo. Interesting stuff though, you have some good ideas :)
I don't have any issues with him, but it's a company built by me in my name. I want the outright recognition that I did stuff nobody ever did. Danger, Elwin, etc etc, these guys aren't building companies. They are homebrew designers and are being hired as employees as game designers. Someday I will have employees but the company will be outright mine, the tech will be mine. This is a completely different company than what is out there right now and I've been working towards this from the age of 16 day and night. I have to take 100% recognition at this point. No speed to market or money will tempt me. This is all getting very close to launching but it is my spare time and will come when it comes. Just today I will be working all Saturday for about 12 hours. No reason to share the wealth.
@@pawlowskipinball Fair enough mate, good luck with your vision, it's a great idea :) I briefly considered feasibility of doing something similar with UK-style slot machines, much smaller market though more based on nostalgia than pure playability, and I'm not not that passionate about it. Does feel like there would be a market there though for your custom pins. Heck I could imagine someone converting some of the most popular custom (original, not arcade recreations) Future Pinball / Visual Pinball tables to your software, tweaking physics, then building those! It's certainly a very interesting crossover back to physical from virtual anyway :)
@@johnparker007 Thanks man. I see people enter the industry after I started. The one company said $10k USD for unlicensed game. Other one sounds like it will be $8-$10k for unlicensed game. And even Ernie, he sells low-volume homebrew kits to make extra money for his family, but those are $2-$3k for some basic stripped down kits. My only interest in pinball is selling entire games in the $2-$3k range. Reasonably I think I will be just a tad out of that range with Pinball Eternal but have plans for some lower priced, simpler games. Pinball Eternal I went overboard.
@@pawlowskipinball It really is a fascinating endeavour :) So I just checked out your alpha gameplay preview video for your Pinball Eternal whitewood. Has a real one been built and 'battle tested', perhaps in a busy operator environment? Or are you only targeting the hobby market initially, where the purchaser of the machine would be reasonably expected to self-repair the machine, as some form of 'beta test'? Please don't take this as a criticism, I'm just trying to get my head around this kinda new model of a pinball manufacturing process! Kinda reminds me of early 3d printing... but if this could be made super reliable, there's some amazing potential - for around $2k I could imagine making myself a custom pin for you guys to manufacture (though I'm in UK). Again, very cool project this mate, and I suspect underrated, I really respect what you are trying to build here, it's certainly never existed before as a platform afaik.
As an example, I could imagine your team building this old but classic original Future Pinball table (tweaked so the physics work in reality of course): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bs1BEcmrZ2Y.html If there were some way to tap into all the original tables that have been made in these programs such as Future Pinball and Visual Pinball, perhaps with the permission of the original creators, you'd have some very cool templates to build... as a lot of people would love a cool pin for $2k, but don't want to learn how to design/build/test one in any kind of software. For info, I built this a couple of years back, I'm in 'the scene' as it were, but your project is very interesting :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dTWk4gIJCuM.html
