NOT A GAME, A GM8 REGISTERED PINBALL ENGINE -

I am no super coder, but thought this might be of interest to anyone trying to get a pinball game together in Game Maker. It is almost entirely D&D, although it needs GM 8 registered because it uses the image_angle function. It is solid, I think, without really obvious glitches.

The 'trick' is to rotate the flippers by one degree at a time (as in pixel perfect collision engines) and then handle the ball collision at that point. This means that the majority of information of interest rests in the obj_pinball object.

It can handle multiple flippers, and I have used it to make a pinball game that has no obvious flaws, so I hope people find it interesting and of use as a base on which to build pinball games.

Tags: gm8, registered, pinball, engine

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