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Good points; hadn't considered the convoluted licensing issues. Anyway, a balance has to be achieved between the various demands, and not all possibilities for new revenue have to be dependent on new tables. Meanwhile, for all its faults, this is a pretty danged cool gaming system, and a great...

However you slice it, releasing two new tables every month is unsustainable over the long haul. Sounds like there's something of a consensus amongst the faithful that releasing tables at, say, half that rate would be OK, in order to fix bugs and add functionality, and there are possibilities in...

Re shaken nudge - some things that might be true for both IOS and Android devices: Doing a hard quit on all other apps may help performance. On the iPad, double-click the button; recent apps pop up at the bottom. Touch and hold an icon; when they start twitching with a "-" in the corner, you...

I could live with that. What's the easiest way to reset everything? My high scores are nothing to write home about, anyway.

On the iPad, the yellow smiley-face is the most visible on most tables. Prefer leaving it silver on the Mac.

Agreed, and maybe this warrants discussion. Adding functions for backglass clearly have no more than a possible psychological advantage. Adding control functions gets into the area of aftermarket and third-party control devices, which have become a given in the rest of the gaming industry...

Great thread! If a n00b may add some thoughts: Other ways to add sales apart from new tables might be to add play functionality to Pro versions that doesn't preclude competitive scoring, and add functions to unite portables with consoles (thus another reason to buy games for more than one...

Adding a cannibalized iCade with side buttons now has my wife hooked on pinball (yay!!!!), so I need to clear local table scores so that she can enter her initials when due. I don't really want to clear all my table and wizard scores, so, is there a way to clear the table scores (preferably a...

Some observations about shake nudge with the latest release on iPad 2: Variable sensitivity via the angle of the device is most pronounced in landscape mode - still doesn't take much to tilt as the device approaches vertical. In portrait mode, this is at least tempered, or may have a fixed...

The point of the 13" iPad is related to the threads about building mini pinball tables with the aforementioned device and a cannibalized iCade. If you are interested in doing this, and are enough of a fanatic to build one, you might be enough of a fanatic to upgrade to a larger iPad for this...

So - the original topic was iPad specific, thus IOS. A larger iPad may be theoretical, but an existing iPad plus an iPad Mini as backglass could be current reality. Where's the bloody difficulty in that???

Newbie still figuring out this forum - why was this moved here from the IOS forum?

My bad - have not explored the newer touch-nudge capabilities, simply because it ain't natural! Shaken (not stirred), Samandor

1. Add support for using portable devices to control desktop devices. E.g. - I'd buy more Mac tables at the markup if I could use my iPad or (modified) iCade Core as a controller. 2. Improve performance of shake nudge for portable devices that have accelerometers. Make sensitivity...

With the iPad's capabilities, getting shake nudge right should be a priority, but other tablets/smartphones that are pale substitutes likely adds to the difficulty for a multiplatform release. I find that the iPad shake nudge works reasonably well, once you realize that the sensitivity is...

If this pans out, I hope FS makes plans for Bluetooth connection of two tablets so that an older, smaller unit can become the backglass! For now, the iPad Mini could be a testbed.

Yeah, my Core mod is the same arrangement as your original design. Having played with it, if I had to use buttons for nudge, I'd put a smaller set behind and below the flippers instead of in front (may add them in parallel). But - using buttons for nudge destroys the illusion! I'm finding...

Definitely - those are really cool, but I'm enjoying the minimalism of the Core, and figuring out how best to adapt it without a complete remake. Also, keeping it minimal likely yields better results if shaken nudge is a priority. Speaking of that - any thought of arranging adjustment of the...

So, I added the usual buttons to the sides of the iCade Core. The remaining piece for this scaled-down arcade simulacrum is the orientation of the iPad, which needs to be flatter. This has been temporarily accomplished with a graphite rod that exceeds the width of the iCade by about an inch...

As long as we're dreaming, who wouldn't like to see a "Game of Thrones" table incorporating clockwork map elements from the CGI intro?